Starbucks says incoming CEO Brian Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’s head office in Seattle on a corporate jet.

Starbucks says Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’ head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet

  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
    101·
    2 months ago

    So everyone that was going to take the plane has to drive now because it’s too expensive to take mass transport on a commercial plane?

    • Anarch157a@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

      Fuel rationing. You get a certain ammount of fuel per year with no extra taxes on it. If you use above that ammount, you’re charged a marginal environment tax.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Can’t we just mandate bio or syn fuel? It also costs more (which is they don’t use it) so will have the same discouragement factor, plus the carbon emissions are at least from currently active carbon, rather than carbon that’s been sequestered hundreds of millions of years

        • Anarch157a@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          That would require arable land, which would affect food production or require devastating wild areas to create new monoculture farms. Both options would come with horrible side-effects for society and/or environment.

          • AA5B@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            Certainly there is a scaling problem. However there are prototype fuels from several crops, and marine plants. There’s also synfuel which may not require crops.

            Then we have all that crop land currently dedicated to corn for ethanol. What will happen to tha land and those farmers as we transition to EVs? Maybe they could switch over to jet fuel

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      2 months ago

      Anybody that flies that many times a year should be sacrificed to the sun god. If the sun god doesn’t take us all before that.