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The officials drawing up the document accepted this, writing that plane tickets are not expensive enough: “Ticket prices do not reflect the full social cost of flying and are not sufficiently incentivising the uptake of decarbonisation solutions such as SAF.”
🙈 UK contributes less than 1% of global emissions. Yet we tax ourselves to pay the highest energy costs on the planet. Our leaders have truly lost the marbles.
Because we are a service economy, not manufacturing.
Last thing I bought “made in the UK” was a coat few years ago.
Correct. As Aston says, we need to focus on reducing emissions in China and India through incentives or trade restrictions. Not make people here poorer.
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