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Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating (www.cnbc.com)

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Starbucks says Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks' head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For private flights, correct?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

All flights, proportional to the income of the passenger.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not if you actually want to fix the environment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So everyone that was going to take the plane has to drive now because it's too expensive to take mass transport on a commercial plane?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuel rationing. You get a certain ammount of fuel per year with no extra taxes on it. If you use above that ammount, you're charged a marginal environment tax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can’t we just mandate bio or syn fuel? It also costs more (which is they don’t use it) so will have the same discouragement factor, plus the carbon emissions are at least from currently active carbon, rather than carbon that’s been sequestered hundreds of millions of years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That would require arable land, which would affect food production or require devastating wild areas to create new monoculture farms. Both options would come with horrible side-effects for society and/or environment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Certainly there is a scaling problem. However there are prototype fuels from several crops, and marine plants. There’s also synfuel which may not require crops.

Then we have all that crop land currently dedicated to corn for ethanol. What will happen to tha land and those farmers as we transition to EVs? Maybe they could switch over to jet fuel

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Anybody that flies that many times a year should be sacrificed to the sun god. If the sun god doesn't take us all before that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They will likely just travel less.