Private jets should be required to burn biofuels or purchase carbon offsets.
If you can afford a private jet, you can easily afford to make it carbon neutral.
If you can afford a private jet, you can easily afford to make it carbon neutral.
Any violators will be held personally liable with a fine up to 150% of said corporation's global profits
It's not real money to these folks; I doubt he'd even notice.
Maybe there will be a point where it works out cheaper to fly to another country to fuel up though. I'm sure some tax policy folks could figure this out better than I.
Tax the ~~rich~~ ultra-wealthy, and their thoughtless damage to our environment. It's about as close to a victimless tax-rise as could ever exist.
Various attempts to work round this without rewriting the convention have been discussed, e.g. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn00... but I don't think they've got anywhere.
The US _might_ be able to tax fuel on domestic flights, but that would result in the California to Seattle flight going via Canada to avoid the tax.
And the opposite, they will skimp on fuel going inbound to there. Of course fuel qty is the captain's decision, however a lot of airlines already pressure those. As one example Ryanair had a "list of shame" of captains bringing too much safety fuel in their eyes.
The building of the jets, the material extraction, the maintenance, the work around growing the fuels, the processing, the transportation, most of that is not fully sustainable.
It's only "less bad" for the climate crisis, not better. Definitely not perfect.