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Nobody (apart from the dolt who wrote this anyway) is arguing he or Swift or anyone else doesn't have a reason to travel. You don't need a reason. That said, in times such as ours when we're all being told via our media and legislation passed that we need to be more eco-friendly, it's a slap in the face (and I'll say, it's 2 slaps from Musk who's fortune has been greatly bolstered by AMPLE Federal subsidies for green industry!) that they can't take a regular goddamn airplane like anyone else. Planes are ATROCIOUS for emissions simply by virtue of how a jet engine works and, at least right now, it's pretty clear that public opinion leans towards it's unethical to use such machines so frivolously.


> Nobody's arguing he or Swift or anyone else doesn't have a reason to travel

The article literally says that Musk did not have a "pretty good reason to travel a lot last year":

> unlike someone like Musk, Swift actually had a pretty good reason to travel a lot last year


Fixed.


commercial planes are actually better per mile on emissions than most cars (around 100mpg per person). private jets of course are way worse though.




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