When it comes to climate change, it’s rules for thee but not for me. That much is certain, especially after it was revealed that among those marine vessels exempt from the EU’s carbon tax are luxury yachts owned by the very billionaires pushing for climate change legislation.
As ZeroHedge reports, “According to a new report from Transport & Environment (T&E) titled Climate Impacts of Exemptions to EU’s Shipping Proposals:
Arbitrary exemptions undermine integrity of shipping laws“, more than half of Europe’s ships would be exempt from the European Commission’s carbon pricing plan for the sector. Among them: highly polluting if extremely desirable — for the Monte Carlo set — yachts.”
This should surprise no one, though. We’ve long known that elite globalist types are free from the consequences of their own policies, and getting caught up in their own hypocrisy means little.
As The Counter Signal reported in early November 2021 regarding the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), “What better way to reduce emissions in this dire scenario than by getting hundreds of private planes to all travel to one location? This also occurs as many countries globally face lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by COVID-19 policies. But if you are an elite, you may do as you please if it’s to “save the world.”
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Indeed, during the COP26, over 400 private jets flew into Glasgow, Scotland, many of which made roundabout trips visiting picturesque European vacation destinations before and after the conference — all to “save the world” from carbon emissions.
In response to public backlash, many argued that the discussions surrounding climate change (which could have just as easily been done from home on a Zoom call) are so important that it justified generating “roughly 102,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.”
To put that in perspective, the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator produces the following equivalents for the impact of the CO2 emissions caused by the COP26 conference:
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11,533,701 gallons of gasoline consumed
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10,068,762 gallons of diesel consumed
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113,291,558 pounds of coal burned
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1,357 tanker truck’s worth of gasoline
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12,343 homes’ energy use for one year
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18,618 homes’ electricity use for one year
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237,309 barrels of oil consumed
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4,190,170 propane cylinders used for home barbeques
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0.026 coal-fired power plants in one year
In terms of the Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent, the calculator produces the following equivalencies:
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22,292 passenger vehicles driven for one year
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257,602,782 miles driven
Based on this line of reasoning, we know that climate change policies and carbon taxes aren’t going to affect the wealthiest in the world’s private jet travel. And now we know that it won’t affect their private luxury yacht parties either.
Weird, it’s almost like climate change policies are designed to exclusively extort wealth from the middle class who can afford personal vehicles but not lobbying to have their vehicles made exempt from the costly policies.
