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		namdnay on April 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Europe is investing heavily in trains The major subsidy to planes is that you don’t have to clean up the CO2 you spew out

emn13 on April 11, 2022 [–]

But even beyond that - fuel and other power sources have been taxed well before climate change was a political issue, and jet fuel is exempt from all of that. It smacks of regulatory capture.

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