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45k gallons of fuel for 400 passengers vs 30k gallons of fuels for a hand full of "passengers". What am I missing? Seems space flight is a lot more polluting..
by cies 6y ago
45k gallons of fuel for 400 passengers vs 30k gallons of fuels for a hand full of "passengers".
What am I missing? Seems space flight is a lot more polluting...
My point being: I dont care how many flights of one type or the other is happening. I want to tax pollution fair and square. Same pollution tax on the petrol pump around the corner, as on the airport, as on the space center.
- colejohnson66 6y agoAnd many times, airplanes have 100 passengers or less. I’ve flown on flights with only two or three dozen sometimes. I think OPs point wasn’t that it’s ok, but that, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not out of the ordinary. Is it bad, sure, but we should also be fighting back against air travel in general then. Pollution taxes are one way to do that.
- cies 6y ago> we should also be fighting back against air travel in general then. I disagree. We should fight pollution, and air travel seems to evade all taxes on fuel mankind came up with... > Pollution taxes are one way to do that. It's about making pollution taxes fair and square. Not: tax this, don't tax that.
- colejohnson66 6y ago> It's about making pollution taxes fair and square. Not: tax this, don't tax that. Yes, I agree. My mind forgot to read your last sentence...
- redis_mlc 6y ago> in the grand scheme of things, it’s not out of the ordinary. No, just no.