Posted on 08/02/2024 1:26:17 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Aviation’s move to net zero will cost $5 trillion according to the United Nations, and airlines are already raising prices to pay for it
The UK, the EU, and many other governments have pledged to achieve net zero by 2050. This means airlines must shift to SAF {"Sustainable Aviation Fuel" which costs drastically more}. In the UK, SAF must make up 2 per cent of all jet fuel volumes by next year, rising to 10 per cent in 2030 and 22 per cent by 2040. The EU’s targets are more ambitious still, committing to 70 per cent by 2050.
'We know that decarbonisation is going to be very expensive. It's going to cost trillions,' said Luis Gallego, the head of International Airlines Group, which owns British Airways
The International Air Travel Association (IATA) and The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a specialised agency of the United Nations, calculate that transitioning to net zero by 2050 will cost in excess of nearly $5 trillion.
Luis Gallego, the head of International Airlines Group (IAG), which owns British Airways, says that the switch to cleaner jet fuel will have a big impact on the cost of flying. “We know that decarbonisation is going to be very expensive. It’s going to cost trillions”
Sally Gethin, an aviation commentator, predicts that the transition to SAF could change the way we think about holidays: “In some markets it is likely that middle-income families will be priced out of the sky”
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If you remove the middle-class....then a airport at Edinburgh, Manchester City, Stuttgart, or Koln...will have no more than 10 flights a day, and has no need to be the size they are currently.
If the UN becomes the World Government before 2050 the planet will be one giant detention camp
Decarbonisation on a carbon based planet is insanity . The Paris Agreement 2015 LOL Paris again
And priced out of owning the car.
Hey, what’s the “death count” today, you miserable turd?
“They told us the plan.”
They DO NOT hide what they’re up to. For example, they wanted Trump dead, and they came within an inch of that.
The problem with our side is that we’re unable or unwilling to believe them - and if they win, we have only OUR SIDE to blame for it, as they simply do not have the votes to defeat us if we did bother to pay attention.
“Sustainable Aviation Fuel”
Rather pointless - it doesn’t result in lower CO2 emissions and there will be plenty of oil left when motor vehicles are solar-powered EVs.
Not to worry. Flying will be obsoleted by high speed rail in underground tunnels
THey need all those flights so they can bring in millions of ‘refugees’ to the heart of America to rape and kill your families.
At least I may not have to sit by the one grossly fat, unbathed, sandaled loser sitting next to me on every flight.
Shorter security lines.
Aviation’s move to net zero will cost $5 trillion according to the United Nations, and airlines are already raising prices to pay for it
Air traffic controllers hiring standards have been in the toilet since Obama was elected. I hate to fly because it’s been made unsafe by a practice that will not be corrected and can’t even be brought up due to political correctness. Wokeness is going to kill people.
With less of a workload, the DEIs might be able to do a wee little better maintenance.
You couldn’t pay me to get on a plane. 😆
stay away from Frontier ... frickin’ thieves ...
As Douglas Adams said.
Aldebaran’s great, OK,
Algol’s pretty neat,
Betelgeuse’s pretty girls
Will knock you off your feet.
They’ll do anything you like
Real fast and then real slow,
But if you have to take me apart to get me there
Then I don’t want to go.
Singing,
Take me apart, take me apart,
What a way to roam
And if you have to take me apart to get me there
I’d rather stay at home.
Sirius is paved with gold
So I’ve heard it said
By nuts who then go on to say
“See Tau before you’re dead.”
I’ll gladly take the high road
Or even take the low,
But if you have to take me apart to get me there
Then I, for one, won’t go.
Singing,
Take me apart, take me apart,
You must be off your head,
And if you try to take me apart to get me there
I’ll stay right here in bed.
...and so on. Another favorite song was much shorter:
I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie’s heart away
And I got Sidney’s leg.
LOL
FEWER FLYERS === FEWER AIRPLANES==FEWER JOBS==CRIPPLING ECONOMY.
you’re right about that!
If man was truly causing run away global warming these efforts are fruitless. India and China run on coal and are building more coal plants all the time. They are not cutting back and will not cut back because they are not stupid. Both nations suffer greatly from air pollution due to poor designs, but cheap, coal burning plants. Our coal burners in the USA are far superior.
CO2 is plant food.
Crop production and increasing greening of the earth is happening. Our earth has had multiple ice ages and warming between them. What is happening today is no different that what has happened in the past before man walked on earth. The icecaps may melt and the sea may rise. We do not know. If this happens man will slowly rebuild inland over 100s of years. This is not a crisis.
Oddly we could be at the very beginning of a new ice age if history repeats itself. Again, we do not know!
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