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by pjc50 2365 days ago
> Airline industry: Heavily subsidized, fuel has almost no tax on it.

This desperately needs to be fixed, but because it's enshrined in a treaty that's very hard.
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dzhiurgis 2365 days ago
Why? Airport, security theater and airspace use taxes eat up most of your ticket costs anyway.
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pjc50 2365 days ago
Per parent: "Taking a plane is often way cheaper than a train, while the environmental impact is quite in favour of the train."

Until we get synthetic jet fuel, we need to impose some kind of carbon tax on it in order to correctly reflect the environmental impact of different modes of transport.

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