> There will be an economic cost for this - ensure it is carried by those most able to afford it. Meanwhile, in reality, the EU's jet fuel tax proposal seems t

> There will be an economic cost for this - ensure it is carried by those most able to afford it. Meanwhile, in reality, the EU's jet fuel tax proposal seems to have exemptions for private jets. The problem, though, is that the way we've designed our civilization is that many things require fossil fuels or some close substitute in order for things to remain habitable. Germany this winter (and the EU in general) will be ones to watch closely to see what happens when it's not a question of the price of natural gas, but the simpler is it available at any cost problems. Or you can point to Texas a couple winters ago - their power production required natural gas. Natural gas, in sufficient quantities, simply wasn't available at any price. And so the state largely went dark. One might hope the problems were fixed, but as record profits were made in a few days, it's unlikely anything will be fixed. Just like it wasn't fixed after the same rough issue happened a decade ago in... oh, 2011? Somewhere around there.