aviation fuels for domestic and international flights should be taxed to combat climate changes?

Question

guys n gals i hav a debate i do hav a bit of information but please help n give some more info for d motion ....also quote good lines n questions if u think dey go wid d topic....its urgent please answer fast..................thnks

Answer 1

Now that's a fix!
Raise taxes! What a brilliant idea!

Answer 2

Funny, I could read the title but the message became some sort of foreign language.

All I can do is answer the title then.

Passing more cost onto the consumer will not help. Problem is, for too many years the presidents of airlines and their cronies have made money hand over fist and invested little back into the business. Do you know how old those planes are flying over your head? Do you know how old the technology in the control towers are? So, fast forward to today when fuel prices are soaring, money is needed to keep these old heaps in the sky and not smashing into your house, and there's just not enough anymore. That's why a few airlines went bankrupt, why you have no leg space, why they rarely serve meals anymore, why the ticket prices are already expensive. So no, adding even more costs to the consumer is not the answer. What we need is a better fuel or a better engine or teleporters.

Answer 3

Didn't you ask that already? Or is this a newly popular question that everybody is asking now?

Anyway, I'll say it again. Aviation is a very small user of fuel. Most fuel is used in cars, trucks, ships, and electric generating plants. Aviation accounts for only something like 1% of the fuel used in the world.

So if the goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by making fuel expensive so the users will try hard to conserve, you are only attacking 1% of the problem if you limit the tax to aviation.

And if the goal is to raise money to spend on environmental causes, you are only getting 1% of the money you could have gotten if you taxed all fuels.

Answer 4

Taxing aviation fuel will accomplish absolutely nothing. The extra cost associated with it will just be pasted right on to the consumers of the commercial travel industry. Since it will be spread out among so many people, each person will see a small increase in cost of a plane ticket.

Answer 5

No, they should not be taxed, definitely not in the US or Britain. So how can they debate climate change? By using money for that, instead of using the money for US/UK occupation of iraq, or for financing the ("prosicution" of Serbian freedom fighters, and I assume that also the defense of real terrorists in the) ICTY.

Answer 6

Yes,they should be taxed then the usage will come down +it'll be a good source of revenue for the government and the state.

Answer 7

they already have a huge tax
u want to increase tax
go ahead
do you think air companies will reduce their flights because gas price increases
ya right
they gonna charge you more they dont care
thank you for bringing this
if in next 50 years if the avaiation tax changes , i will blame you

Answer 8

There is already tax on it. It should be left up to the people. If they raise the tax it will only cost them.

Answer 9

No new taxes. I repeat, no new taxes! In case you didn't hear me, NO NEW TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!

Who do you think would pay these taxes anyway?

Answer 10

No more taxes period