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Shouldn't that money come from increased taxes on one of the primary causes of the climate change making it more expensive? E.g. gasoline automobile fuel?

• nephihaha 1mo ago
  One private jet flight produces more pollution than a car does in its entire lifetime. They spray their exhaust fumes thousands of feet up in the sky Yet private jets do not get anything like the same exemptions. I wonder why.
  • dotancohen 1mo ago
    How frequent are private jet flights? How frequent are car trips? And for that matter, I don't in fact know how much jet fuel is taxed. Do you?
    • nephihaha 1mo ago
      Yes, I do happen to know about jet fuel. There was a scandal at one of the COP summits when it was announced that private jets and private yachts would not have the same tax rates. Private jet flights are extremely frequent, and are used by wealthy or powerful people. They even use them to go climate conferences. They are used to go to the WEF at Davos in Switzerland, and there are supposed to be so many going there that they have to build extra hangar space. Even someone like Taylor Swift reportedly uses a private jet all the time to go to her fiancé's games. All of those exhaust fumes go straight into the upper atmosphere.