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That's fine. The point is that adding an airline co2 tax should be met with co2 taxes on all petrol. The last thing you want to incentivize is a 737 worth of p
by hueving 8y ago
That's fine. The point is that adding an airline co2 tax should be met with co2 taxes on all petrol.
The last thing you want to incentivize is a 737 worth of people all driving their own cars from LA to SF for the weekend instead of taking the flight.
- newnewpdro 8y ago> The last thing you want to incentivize is a 737 worth of people all driving their own cars from LA to SF for the weekend instead of taking the flight. This is totally bogus. The amount of time people spend traveling has been relatively constant since 1950 [1]. Generally speaking, people will simply travel shorter distances by slower methods (car, train) if travel by air is unavailable, having roughly the same available time budget to work with. The introduction of commercial air travel has substantially amplified the impact of time spent traveling. People travel further and using more fuel in the same unit of time than before. The emergence of air travel has not conserved fuel, and to imply such a thing is to be a shill for the air industry. It created a new class of travel that is a bulk consumer of fossil fuels enabling travel to farther distances than ever with the time available, period. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermobility_(travel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermobility_(travel)