<story><title>EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax</title><url>https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-private-jets-cargo-from-jet-fuel-tax</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>That and it&amp;#x27;s also the most wasteful use of fuel, because you&amp;#x27;re lifting an entire jet and crew for more than likely a single rich jerk who feels too special to fly passenger jets like everyone else. On a carbon-per-person metric, private jets are &lt;i&gt;literally the worst&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>BelenusMordred</author><text>&amp;gt; Private jets will enjoy an exemption through classification of &amp;quot;business aviation&amp;quot; as the use of aircraft by firms for carriage of passengers or goods as an &amp;quot;aid to the conduct of their business&amp;quot;, if generally considered not for public hire.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A further exemption is given for &amp;quot;pleasure&amp;quot; flights whereby an aircraft is used for &amp;quot;personal or recreational&amp;quot; purposes not associated with a business or professional use.&lt;p&gt;Surely they can afford it more than everyone else flying?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluGill</author><text>If the only ones allowed to emit net positive CO2 where those rich enough to afford private planes global warming wouldn&amp;#x27;t be an issue because there are not enough of them.&lt;p&gt;It is still a evil corrupt practice to except the rich like this though.  The same laws need to apply to everyone, which means my time on an airplane counts for as much as anyone else even though I can only afford to fly at all because I buy one seat on a commercial plane once in a while.  Either everyone can&amp;#x27;t fly, everyone can, or at least the same rules apply.</text></comment>
<story><title>EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax</title><url>https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-private-jets-cargo-from-jet-fuel-tax</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>That and it&amp;#x27;s also the most wasteful use of fuel, because you&amp;#x27;re lifting an entire jet and crew for more than likely a single rich jerk who feels too special to fly passenger jets like everyone else. On a carbon-per-person metric, private jets are &lt;i&gt;literally the worst&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>BelenusMordred</author><text>&amp;gt; Private jets will enjoy an exemption through classification of &amp;quot;business aviation&amp;quot; as the use of aircraft by firms for carriage of passengers or goods as an &amp;quot;aid to the conduct of their business&amp;quot;, if generally considered not for public hire.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A further exemption is given for &amp;quot;pleasure&amp;quot; flights whereby an aircraft is used for &amp;quot;personal or recreational&amp;quot; purposes not associated with a business or professional use.&lt;p&gt;Surely they can afford it more than everyone else flying?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avalys</author><text>Private jets are completely irrelevant to global warming because there are not enough of them.&lt;p&gt;They’re a convenient distraction from the problem that actually curbing global warming will require huge changes in the lifestyle of the global middle class. Not just the super-rich.</text></comment>