Brown’s Budget - No blue-sky thinking
Brown continues to “Nickle & Dime” the public with increased petrol duty (up 2p per litre from October) and increases in road tax but why didn’t he tackle another source of pollution - air travel.
Depending upon which reports you read, air travel is set to rise by 31% or 35% by 2010. Which ever figures you believe, that’s a LOT of extra travel and that’s a LOT of extra carbon.
The airlines would argue, with some justification, that air travel’s contribution to carbon emissions are often exaggerated, but it doesn’t take a genius to work out that more flying isn’t a good thing for the planet.
Surely even a small tax on kerosene would raise send that message that air travel is unrealistically cheap whilst raising welcome revenues for the treasury.
Here’s a link to an interesting video showing what others think of the budget’s green implications.