Posted on 11/07/2018 2:20:53 PM PST by Simon Green
The number of flights being taken by the average person is increasing dramatically and the arrival of LCCs mean flying is more affordable for more people. Between 2005 and 2018 global passenger numbers more than doubled from around two billion to four billion and forecasts suggest that it could double again over the next 20 years. Is this growth manageable? One Norwegian politician believes that a cap should be placed on travellers, a seemingly impractical suggestion, but one that is sure to have support.
Summary:
As global air travel demand continues to rise, one Norwegian politician recommends a cap of 10 air journeys per year per citizen;
Norway is at the forefront of environmental protection where air travel is concerned and his views have received limited backing;
However, the proposition seems impractical but it will have its supporters, everywhere, not just in Norway.
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If they REALLY want to "reduce carbon emissions", eliminate landing rights for private jets for the wealthy/corporate types. Introduce a minimum number of passengers, like 50, for jet aircraft.
I say ban everyone who is upset about “climate change” from using evil fossil fuels. The rest of us can continue on our merry path....
I entirely believe this measure has strong support in Norway and other European countries.
I’ve recently spent a good deal of time over there and they honestly believe they deserve to spend $8+ per gal (4 litres), happily pay a 25% VAT sales tax, and other obscenely high taxes in order for there to be a just society and healthy environment.
Norwegians love the idea needing to own ((CO2 free)) $75 K Tesla mobile crematorium vehicles because it fulfills their collective guilt over being ranked the #1 quality of life country ironically all because of the North Sea oil reserves they started exploiting in the 1970s.
These are the nice naïve people who threw themselves at Barack Obama in 2009 and gave him a Nobel Peace Prize after having been in office two+ months. Arayan dupes.
PS. Oslo is also very proud of it’s diverse muslim savage rapists too! <- personally saw them wilding at night at the train stations.
Sure it could be done... Track everybody and put a progressive mileage tax on airline tickets. The tax would create a soft limit on mileage. Better than limiting trips to airlines, or rationing their fuel.
The problem here is with the people who would joyfully use authority to act out their control fantasies.
+100
“Watch the TV show Occupation to get a glimpse into the Norwegian psyche.
They are earnest and nuts.”
If they decide to do something like this they should do it in the fashion of carbon credits.
Plenty of people like myself only fly when forced to do so; one trip every 5 or ten years.
Others need to fly on nearly a weekly basis. My niece had a job where she needed to fly sometimes twice a week.
If those who do not fly can sell there rights on an open market , okay.
Not really, I think it is a stupid idea.
The country that gave us the term “Quisling”
I know a traveling salesman who is responsible for millions of dollars in sales. He flies all over the country and is gone three out of five days every week. I presume he’d have to purchase unused travel from other citizens?
Expect the roads to Sweden to get crowded.
But people going to climate change conferences can fly all they want.
This sounds like a great plan to depopulate Norway, since you almost have to get a connecting flight from Oslo or Stavanger, to anywhere except London, Paris and Amsterdam. Maybe there’s a nonstop with return to Iceland.
Secondly, I wonder if this applies to all the weekly crew changes by helicopter for the oil platforms. It would be a shame if those oil workers could only work one week out of the year.
Dumb.
Some peeps have rowed across the Atlantic.
What is the point of going to HI exactly?
Sailboats are sorta renewable...
Bkmrk.
First let Norway's citizens absorb all of the lost air journeys for the rest of the world, based on Chairman Ketil Kjenseth's formula applied worldwide. Then maybe another country will volunteer to follow their lead.
U-Rope has trains, and car ferries.
Hmmm ... so, rowing from New York to France is faster than flying?
I smell a cousin to carbon credits. I don’t fly hardly at all so (theoretically) I could sell my unused flights to some “High Flying” user for good money. But wait, If I am already not flying, where does that decrease the usage? Hmmmm
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