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> You can tax air travel to encourage travel by other means where applicable.

This would never happen in America because it would require Americans addressing their views on transit and addressing their pitiful consumer rail or even consumer bus industries.




Inflation and corporate profiteering re: oil prices are having much the same effect anyway.


Is it? I see one side blaming Biden and the other side blaming corporations but neither side is saying we need better public transit.




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