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> WRT carbon tax in particular the rich do consume substantiall more with plane rides For perspective, US airlines' consumption of aviation fuel is 197 mln ga

• cosmie 6y ago
  That page is a bit misleading. That's total consumption of aviation gasoline, which is what powers aircraft with piston-based engines. Aircraft with jet engines use a distinctly different fuel aptly called jet fuel, which isn't accounted for on that gasoline page. If you go to this[1] page, it buckets all aviation into a category, and shows it accounts for 9.4% of US transportation energy consumption. Still significantly lower than the 54.5% that light-duty account for, but a substantially larger proportion than the gasoline page leads one to believe. One thing to keep in mind for [1] is that it doesn't differentiate between consumer and commercial usage. And there are a lot of non-consumer vehicles that'd fall into it. A few examples likely to be large contributors to that category due to sheer volume and time on the road: last mile delivery vehicles, taxis, and police cruisers. [1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/transportation-in-depth.php https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/use-of-energy/transporta...