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Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime. (www.oxfam.org)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (6 children)

If you check out elonjet on mastodon it shows his fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

Tons of co2 per flight. Thousands of gallons of fuel.

To go 15 minutes away.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

15 mile (13 NM) flight from KEDC to AUS

~ 85 gallons (322 liters). 
~ 571 lbs (259 kg) of jet fuel used. 
~ $477 cost of fuel. 
~ 0.8991 tons of CO2 emissions.