Fuel rationing. You get a certain ammount of fuel per year with no extra taxes on it. If you use above that ammount, you’re charged a marginal environment tax.
So everyone that was going to take the plane has to drive now because it’s too expensive to take mass transport on a commercial plane?
Anarch157a@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can’t we just mandate bio or syn fuel? It also costs more (which is they don’t use it) so will have the same discouragement factor, plus the carbon emissions are at least from currently active carbon, rather than carbon that’s been sequestered hundreds of millions of years
Anarch157a@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That would require arable land, which would affect food production or require devastating wild areas to create new monoculture farms. Both options would come with horrible side-effects for society and/or environment.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Certainly there is a scaling problem. However there are prototype fuels from several crops, and marine plants. There’s also synfuel which may not require crops.
Then we have all that crop land currently dedicated to corn for ethanol. What will happen to tha land and those farmers as we transition to EVs? Maybe they could switch over to jet fuel
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
They will likely just travel less.
piccolo@ani.social 2 months ago
Maybe people will actually want good trains as an alternative then.
x00z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anybody that flies that many times a year should be sacrificed to the sun god. If the sun god doesn’t take us all before that.