Originally published at: NBAA Refutes 'Flawed' Environmental Study - AVweb
Association claims environmental group skewed flight trajectory data, ignored efficiency gains.
Do not open that can of worms…Some, if not most of those 40 year old aircraft are still flying… And if new engines on $40 million new business aircraft are 35% more fuel efficient, there has been an increase of well over 35% in the number of business aircraft.
Do not see private jet owners, be they personal or corporate, jumping up and down for SAV, or offering to build refineries to turn sunflower oil into jet fuel.
Better to accept the report and figure out a response to limit the tax hit which will follow, proposing rebates for investment in refineries maybe?
CO2 put in the atmosphere causes damage that costs money to repair or adapt to. It may be our kids and grandkids that pay for it but it costs none-the-less. The big bill that just passed should have included a carbon tax. It’s the fairest way to deal with this issue. Absent that, someday, when the other side gets power, we may see our flying arbitrarily and drastically curtailed. That will much worse for us than a tax.
I agree with a prior response. there a fights to win and ones to ignore. IF this is fought it will be seen as rich, spoiled business owners justifying the use of a resource that no one else get to use that inordinately pollutes, etc. NO MATTER WHAT THE TECHNICAL REASONS may be. Let it die. the news cycle will make this boring in 3 days. BTW a "carbon tax already exists it is called a fuel tax. why make a new name for the same thing.
“CO2 put in the atmosphere causes damage”
It also enables all life on Earth to exist.
Both and. Proportions matter.
280 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere give us the plants and climate we are used to. 600 parts per million changes the plants and climate drastically.
0.04% of the atmosphere is co2. People contribute about 2% of the annual co2. Aviation accounts for 2% of that 2%. Business jets account for 4% of the aviation 2% of the people caused 2%.
So 4% of the 2% of the 2% of the overall 0.04% is from business jets.
Excuse me but business jets are not impacting anything.