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I'm not sure about the accuracy of this data. It gives Taylor Swift's plane as N989TS, but N989TS is registered to a couple who live in Arizona: https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResul... and is a tiny single-prop aircraft. I don't think you could go cross-country in it.
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>Not sure why you're so deeply triggered by this; is your name on that list that you would be personally affected? Your only response to someone finding this a gross overreach is to try and strawman them by suggesting I'm personally on the list? I'm not defending billionaires any more than I'm defending an average person. Going down the road suggested (putting yearly or lifetime caps on how much CO2 you can produce)…
I think you can put a cap by taxing: tax fuel 100 billion dollars per litre, then offer a tax break for the x first litres :)
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I think you can put a cap by taxing: tax fuel 100 billion dollars per litre, then offer a tax break for the x first litres :)
I would immediately have x liters of jet fuel for sale at a price that would save them at least 99%.
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I would immediately have x liters of jet fuel for sale at a price that would save them at least 99%.
I envisioned something like VAT (at least in Europe) where only the end user pays ;)
What is the point of this? Why do people care? Do you expect these people to fly commercial like you and me? Hoping for that fateful day when you're sandwiched between Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos on a Ryanair flight, so you can give them your elevator speech with all three of your knees pressed up against your nostrils? Taylor Swift would be mobbed everywhere in the airport. Donald was a former president. The Secret Se…
No but back in the old days people with money had the justified fear and paranoia to keep quiet in order to avoid drawing attention to themselves and not be expropriated and/or executed.
They now not only don't hide but go out of their way to broadcast whatever opinion they have through the airwaves and especially on climate change the juxtaposition of talking about climate change while pumping into the atmosphere 1000 tons of CO2 per year is symptomatic of a sense of entitlement and not fearing any punishment or repercussion for their actions.
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I envisioned something like VAT (at least in Europe) where only the end user pays ;)
For $1 B/liter, I'll happily ride along if that's what's needed to make me the end user of it.