Trump tariffs to reduce C02 emissions by 1 billion tons? Most since Covid 19?

Photo above - Did you know there are 45,000 THOUSAND commercial airline flights a day? That could change soon, however . . .

Do you remember how idyllic it was during the Covid 19 lockdowns? Bambi and Thumper gamboling in the front yard while everyone binge watches Netflix and pretends to work? Well, happy days are here again. All the major airlines are cutting flights, due to the imminent recession. See link below.

That will mean unimaginable amounts of airline carbon emissions are prevented. Unless people choose to drive instead. Which probably won’t happen if it’s a trans-Atlantic flight. Or cross country. And Canadians have completely stopped coming to Disneyworld here in Florida. My hometown could soon be like a ghost town if this continues. Anyway, I've had it up to here with those damn maple leaf bumper stickers anyway. I can see your license tag, you moron. I don't need a red maple leaf bumper sticker to know you drove 1,000 miles to get a photo op with Mickey and Minnie.

Of course this wasn’t Trump’s intent. The president was just trying to get more car factories and refrigerator assembly lines built in the USA. And that might still happen, if someone figures out how to reduce the average factory construction time (financing to architectural design to permitting to construction) to less than 3 years. Don’t laugh . . . it could happen.

Wait . . . stocks are back up? Did Trump suspend the tariffs again? Oops . . . no such luck. He just promised not to fire Fed Chairman Powell . . . at least not until his poll numbers recover. These are modern times. Our 401K accounts are at the mercy of takeoff and landing slots, government bureaucrats who brag that they can never be fired, and dysprosium embargos. Did Nostradamus predict any of this?

How much C02 is released by a typical commercial flight? 10,000 gallons of “Jet A1” fuel onboard an average flight, times 20 pounds of CO2 per gallon . . . that’s 100 tons per flight. And there are 45,000 flights daily, so that’s 4.5 million tons daily. Over a year that would be 10 billion tons. If even 10% of flights were cancelled . . . that would be a billion tons. The planet is saved! Or at least I don’t have to feel guilty when I pull up to the Exxon station to top off my tank.

This post is a satire, of course. But it’s also true. If someone posts a shrill anti-MAGA rant, thanks for proving that you don’t read posts before you reply.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Southwest Airlines joins rivals Delta, United in cutting flights, scrapping forecasts