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Neato@ttrpg.network 10 months agoAll air travel should have fuel and emissions tax. Normalize them to commercial airliners. That’ll incentivize larger, more efficient plane designs. It’ll also punish private jets. Also charge a fee for any planes not at least X% full. Also give discounts and waive fees for planes over X size that service under-served airports.
A bunch of regulations like this should make private planes prohibitively expensive, like 10-20x their current cost. But that’s a lot of legislation that huge corporations and billionaires would oppose.
AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 10 months ago
Planes are already pretty fuel efficient per passenger. And larger planes are unlikely, because this would mean all runways they want to use must be extended so the can start and land there.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Commercial planes with high occupancy got somewhat efficient (until you compare to other modes of transportation), but private jets with 1 ego on board are incredibly fuel inefficient.
anlumo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a very big ego though, so of course it needs a lot of fuel.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
how much fuel would it take to burn the ego to the ground?
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Carbon emissions per km:-
Domestic flight: 240 g
Eurostar (train): 4 g
Source: ourworldindata.org/…/carbon-footprint-travel-mode
Womble@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s domestic flights in the UK which are stupidly short. Short and long haul flights are at 150g which is already less than ICE cars are ~170 and not far above the average bus at 100g. Though obviously no where near electrified rail.
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Eh… They’re similar to cars for a similar distance. But, that still means gobs of CO2 emitted if you’re traveling from NY to LA, which would be a massive trip in a car.