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Here’s how many private jets besides Taylor Swift’s ride landed in Vegas for the Super Bowl (wapo.st)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

What's not listed was the twenty seven car private train the union pacific brought which is quite ironic since it's been twenty seven years since the last regularly scheduled passenger train to Las Vegas. It's also (not) funny that the largest hurdle everytime amtrak has attempted to restore service to Las Vegas has been the union pacific and their worries about congestion. Just goes to show that it's not a real issue if they can bring their rolling luxury mansion to town for the super bowl without any congestion issues.

Side note, usually the BNSF also brings their private train to the super bowl as well (going as far back as late 1990s) but I can't find any sources that they brought their train this year.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wendover describes the billionaires' social calendar

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

This should be divided by the number of Business jet flights to a given city on any other year, otherwise its just a map of where rich people go.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

882

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

B-b-b-but Taylor Swift bought carbon credits!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meme. Image shows travis kelce yelling at andy reid during super bowl. Text reads carbon offsets 90% fraudulent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A tax on the poor

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The poor who can merely afford a Gulfstream jet???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The cost is carried by the tax paying public buying goods and services.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Offsets are a trivial fraction of those costs. Even if fraudulent, they have little impact on prices.

The bigger issue is the unmitigated damage from emissions