Jets destroying the climate: Now with extra tax-avoiding power!

View from airplane window

Image by Rob

As I write, I can hear the roar of military jet planes which daily shatter the peace of north west Wales where I live and farm. I've written to my MP to request information from the MOD on the amount of fuel used by these war machines... and, whaddya know, I got nowhere! But that's another story.

This post is to direct you to a Gristmill blog about frequent flyers:

"The airlines have built an enormous petard (a sort of landmine) beneath themselves; alas, they will not be the only ones hoisted when it explodes. 14 trillion miles of "free" flying outstanding ... man, that's a bunch of flying. OK, if only 1 percent are actually turned into flights, then it's only 140 billion miles of "free" jet travel.

"So goes the "frequent flyer" scheme, whereby rich people accrue a bunch of air miles on trips paid for by their employers or by using their various plasticash cards, and then use those miles to take long jet trips away from the worry about global heating and drowning polar bears."