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These celebrity-owned jets are the biggest CO2 polluters
KTLA ^ | Jul 30, 2022 | Travis Schlepp

Posted on 07/30/2022 7:38:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Owning a private jet is one of those far-fetched luxuries the average person can only dream about during a five-hour domestic flight cramped up in economy class.

For the uber-wealthy, a private jet is not just a luxury, but it can also be a pretty lucrative business. Celebrities can enjoy traveling anywhere on a moment’s notice, and when they themselves aren’t in the air, they can rent the jet out for others to use.

Experts estimate that an hour of flight time aboard a private jet introduces about two tonnes (also known as metric tons) of carbon dioxide into the air, meaning Jenner’s flight could’ve produced about a half tonne, or 500 kilograms, of CO2 during its brief flight. The average person, meanwhile, produces around 8 tonnes of CO2 — per year.

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TOPICS: Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: clickbait; climatechange; climatechangehoax; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greatreset; jennerwho; johnfnkerry; kerry; kyliejenner; learjet; privatejet
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To: BenLurkin

On a side note, most big name celebrities rent/lease jets from the super wealthy owners of big corporations and companies.


21 posted on 07/30/2022 8:34:58 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BenLurkin
Despite what Greta says, the elite really don't care how much CO2 gets released, they want to fly and yacht and limo anyway, and they can afford it.
The gov't really doesn't care how much CO2 is released either, except to collect a fee for every ounce.
And they've already given away their plan: make travel so expensive as to deny mobility to the masses.
Latest boondoggle: electric airplanes. You thought they haven't got electric cars perfected and practical yet? Try making a jet engine that runs on electricity. NONE EXIST. The few electric planes that exist are all propeller driven. The Pipistrel, the plane most quoted as the future of aviation, has a top speed of 113 mph, can only fly one hour before it must land and recharge, and can only carry one passenger (with NO luggage). Everything else is vaporware.
I think Hydrocarbon-fueled vehicles will continue to exist, you just can't afford to ride on them. But THEY can.
22 posted on 07/30/2022 8:47:42 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: lee martell

I feel the same. If I had as much money as these people, I would never fly commercial again. They just need to keep their mouths shut to us peons about “climate Change”. Some of them are too stupid to figure that out... DeCaprio, John Kerry, Harry and Me again etc..


23 posted on 07/30/2022 8:57:17 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: BenLurkin

They’re important and you’re not. That’s their rationale.


24 posted on 07/30/2022 9:08:24 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: LibWhacker

Well it looks like they backed up their claim.
So I will not pass it on.
Now, about volcanoes and particulates, the meme might be true.


25 posted on 07/30/2022 9:13:32 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: TigersEye

Who would’ve thought that movie to be prophetic?!


26 posted on 07/30/2022 9:35:56 PM PDT by GMThrust
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To: rlmorel

Agree


27 posted on 07/30/2022 9:45:56 PM PDT by The Mayor (“Love the Lord your God,” and “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:37–39))
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To: LibWhacker

Bttt.


28 posted on 07/30/2022 9:49:00 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: BenLurkin
As long as they're not using taxpayer money to go lecture us about climate change, I'm OK with it.

29 posted on 07/31/2022 2:52:19 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: ZOOKER

Catturd ™
@catturd2

I live in Florida - hurricanes are unpredictable until the last hours - imagine a million electric cars trying to flee, stuck on major hwys going north and running out of charge … thousands dead - months bringing gas powered generators to clear major highways. This is reality.
8:19 PM · Jul 30, 2022


30 posted on 07/31/2022 3:56:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: mewzilla

That Catturd tweet ought to be on billboards.


31 posted on 07/31/2022 4:02:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: lee martell

I don’t mind it either.

BUT

If they’re going to preach the gospel of Gaia and call for others to make real cuts in their standard of living, you bet I’m going to throw it back in their faces when they themselves do not live up to what they preach. Hell, I’m gonna do it with gusto.


32 posted on 07/31/2022 4:06:03 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Alas Babylon!

For much of Earth’s history the climate has been warmer, wetter, and had higher levels of CO2 (a trace gas). The planet would be better off with CO2 levels quite a bit higher than today’s. Climate change is driven by the Sun, variations in Earth’s orbit, and the wobbling of Earth on its axis.


33 posted on 07/31/2022 4:13:41 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: mewzilla

I was in the big Virginia snowstorm last winter. Spent ten hours sitting still and another 3 hours driving till I could get gas. I was well below half a tank when I hit the traffic jam. I finally pulled over and slept in a parking lot. Zero worries about running out of gas or freezing. (I also had some survival gear.) Can’t imagine the anxiety the self-Righteous EV drivers were feeling.


34 posted on 07/31/2022 5:16:47 AM PDT by cyclotic (Follow 1776Restorationmovement.com fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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To: NWFree

It’s like the movies and shows are starting to get boring because they use this medium to lecture us about everything. It’s either virtue-signaling boring or so action-packed with things blowing up and killing that you have a hard time watching.


35 posted on 07/31/2022 6:34:24 AM PDT by JoJo354 (Pray for our nation! It needs it!)
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To: BenLurkin

It is not the CO2 that deserves complaints, it’s the hypocrisy of the elites and their do as I say, not as I do mentality.


36 posted on 07/31/2022 6:52:57 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: BenLurkin

These important people need their jets to save the planet. And besides. They purchase carbon indulgences from The Holy Goreacle.


37 posted on 07/31/2022 11:08:14 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: GMThrust

Certainly not this fast or this extensive. In a lot of ways I think societies around the world have well surpassed the movie.


38 posted on 07/31/2022 2:11:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: BenLurkin

Some of these short flights were repositioning the aircraft for maintenance. Not all.


39 posted on 07/31/2022 2:24:44 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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