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by geysersam 1175 days ago
We're soo far from this though. Air fuel is taxed very little due to the Chicago convention.

How much should it be taxed to factor in the external cost?

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> How much should it be taxed to factor in the external cost?

I don't know. But that can be treated as a technical problem to figure out. (Problems being technical is good! Much more tractable than political or social problems.)

> Air fuel is taxed very little due to the Chicago convention.

I'm not quite sure how much the Chicago convention would hinder a clever law drafter. Judging by what I can see at Wikipedia on it, I would imagine you could technically tax not kerosene itself, but the burning of kerosene inside your airspace.