Womble

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[–] Womble@piefed.world 10 points 13 hours ago

If the tax is on fuel then it wouldnt matter where they are registered, they'd be getting refueled in the EU and so would pay the tax.

wouldn't this result in airlines dumping the extra cost on customers

yes, partially. If the increase in tax results in a particular flight being £50 more expensive for example they will rise prices by an amount. But it likely wont be the full 50 as airlines are already charging what they think the optimum price is, the price going up is likely to result in less sales.

It also incentivises the airlines to be more fuel efficient (and so less damaging to the climate), and punishes worse offenders like private jets more as the use more fuel per passenger mile.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 3 points 3 days ago

Yep, and when you click a button that liteally says "make this discoverable on search engines" which is off by defualt, its the later.

[–] Womble@piefed.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It would be nice to see a price/GWh of this (along with running costs, it says they save 1 Million per GWh, how much were the running costs before!?), but any improvement in battery tech is definitely a good thing.