France bans short-haul flights to cut carbon emissions

Re:France bans short-haul flights to cut carbon emissions by belorn on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:42PM (#36051767)

A single trip between Paris and Nantes is calculated (using some random website) to be between 0.1-0.3 tons of Co2 per person on the plane.

Using some other random website, the same trip for one person on train is calculated to be 2kg.

So that makes it a factor of about 100x. How much could the tax be that would still make it distinguishable from a ban? How would people react if say the tax would be 1€ per kg?

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Re:France bans short-haul flights to cut carbon emissions by version_five on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:28PM (#36052127)

This is the wrong way of looking at it. What is the cost to offset or sequester that 0.1-0.3 tons? That should be the worst case premium.

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