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[โ€“] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The basic problem is that airplane fuel (kerosene) is untaxed due to an international treaty dating back decades. It's very hard to change international treaties, especially when a politically powerful industry has a stake in them not changing.

I knew it was untaxed, but didn't know it was an international treaty...

But what would be the consequences of not respecting that treaty, I guess there would be more than a little genocide of something