Friends — We need to talk about private jets. ✈️
The climate crisis is here. It’s in our skies, our water, and our land – with record-shattering heat waves, increasingly severe wildfires, and flooding from superstorms and rising seas.
And yet, the top 1% of this country continues to fly private jets at their leisure, which consume more fossil fuels than any other form of transportation but are taxed considerably less than regular commercial flights.
That’s why last month, Ed introduced the Fueling Alternative Transportation with a Carbon Aviation Tax Act, or FATCAT Act, which would make the super-rich pay their fair share if they want to fly in their private jets day after day as our planet burns.
Not convinced? Get this: For each passenger, private jets pollute as much as 14 times more than commercial flights and 50 times more than trains.
And to put things in perspective, just one hour of flying private negates the climate benefits of driving an electric car for an entire year. That’s mind-boggling.
Ed’s legislation would increase fuel taxes for private jet travel from the current $0.22 to nearly $2 a gallon and remove existing fuel tax exemptions for private flight activities that worsen the climate crisis, like oil or gas exploration.
That money would be used to support air monitoring for environmental justice communities and long-term investments in clean, affordable public transportation across the country.
But we can’t make this important legislation a reality without the help of this grassroots campaign. So please:
In solidarity,
Team Markey
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