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Re:The Airline Industry's Meltdown by devit on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:29AM (#24637222)
Often plane tickets are cheaper than any other means of transportation, even if you ignore travel time and convenience.

If such a carbon reduction is desirable, then taxes on air travel need to be raised.

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Re:The Airline Industry's Meltdown by perl4ever on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:00AM (#24637825)
Why would a pound of carbon from air travel be worse than a pound of carbon from something else? If it were taxed differently, wouldn't that provide an incentive to produce more CO2, against market forces?
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Re:The Airline Industry's Meltdown by devit on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:08AM (#24637894)
I mean taxes on all carbon emissions should be raised (if airlines already pay them, otherwise airlines should pay them - also "taxes" can be replaced with a cap-and-trade scheme).
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