{"id":1764,"date":"2023-07-20T17:18:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T00:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2023-11-15T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:01:14","slug":"greenpeace-thinks-air-travel-should-cost-a-lot-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/07\/20\/greenpeace-thinks-air-travel-should-cost-a-lot-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco, Taxes: Greenpeace says air travel should cost a lot more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greenpeace did a study claiming trains costs up to 30x more than airline flights &#8211; and on average, are typically 2x more expensive than airline flights. (They get those ratios, in part, by comparing apples with oranges &#8211; for example, comparing a 12 Euro Ryanair fare where you cannot have carry on bag or baggage to a train where you can take baggage. This is misleading but is what studies by activist groups do.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They say airlines in Europe get excess tax breaks &#8211; and these tax breaks should be eliminated &#8211; <em>and air travel should cost much more in the future, so that flights are only for the wealthy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/trains-more-expensive-than-planes-europe-greenpeace-climate\/index.html\">Train fares are up to 30 times more expensive than planes in Europe | CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace did a study claiming trains costs up to 30x more than airline flights &#8211; and on average, are typically 2x more expensive than airline flights. (They get those ratios,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-travel","category-eco-tourism","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}