Friend,

By 2025, plastic bags will no longer be legally provided in California
stores.(1) You’ve probably already become used to carrying reusable bags
to your grocery store, and hopefully you feel good about doing something
to stop climate change! After all, every time you avoid using 10 plastic
bags at the grocery store, you prevent 2 kilograms of CO2 from entering
the atmosphere.(2)

But when Elon Musk flies his private jet from San Francisco to Los
Angeles, his plane emits about 2,000 kilograms of global warming
emissions.(3) You have to use your cloth bags one thousand times to make
up for it!

Private jets are becoming one of the top polluters in the transportation
sector, and not only that, their owners pay the lowest aviation taxes --
just 22 cents on a gallon of fuel, less than you and I pay to fly
commercial. They aren’t paying their fair share to keep the TSA working,
the runways repaired, or the air clean.

[ [link removed] ]Congress has an easy fix for these polluters: A $1.95 per gallon tax on
private jet fuel. Will you sign on to tell Congress to pass the FATCAT Act
now?

[ [link removed] ]SIGN ON NOW

The median net worth of a private jet owner is $190 million, and we aren’t
exaggerating when we say these jets are destroying our planet.

The wealthiest 1% of air travelers are causing 50% of all passenger flight
carbon emissions.(4)

The transportation sector has surpassed coal and energy as the worst
polluter, and the climate is warming at an ever-rapid rate. These damaging
planes shouldn’t be able to be used to cheaply jaunt all over the country
while we pay the price.

We need to stop the ultra-wealthy from freely polluting, and their private
jets are a good place to start. Will you sign on to tell Congress to pass
the FATCAT Act today?

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I’ll sign now.

Thank you for joining the fight.

–Irene, along with Angela, Annie, Isidra, Jen, Sheena, and Lindsay (and
the rest of the Courage team)

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