It’s not even that long & it would’ve been fun to have a roadtrip. Flew the jet for ~1h instead. Useless pollution.
IANACS but I think the levels of pollution are actually similar.
If you replace a short haul flight with a ride on a train you could easily cut carbon emissions by 75% Source
Interesting! Thanks for the source.
It looks like short haul flights actually produce 12% less emissions than driving.
That is mostly because those numbers take the average occupancy level into account. Cars are rarely driven with a passenger in every available seat.
I have seen perfectly pedestrian suburban white trash do this shit…
God forbid they take “public” transit… thats for the poors and minorities! disgusting
I wish nothing but the worst for your friend.
Half the fun of trips like that is the trip itself. See an interesting building or landmark along the way? Go check it out. Have an available seat? Pick up a hitchhiker.
Have an available seat? Pick up a hitchhiker.
If the hitchhiker looks sketchy, the rule is always pick them up.
In my cars with my friends, the hitchhikers are usually among the least sketchy looking.
#life goals
Journey before destination.
On top of this, it sounds like he didn’t offer seats on the private jet to any of you guys either? That’s beyond simply evilly out of touch and into the realm of “are we actually friends if you’re willfully taking separate transportation to avoid spending time with the rest of us?”
I could at least comprehend if he wanted to have 4 extra hours with you all at the destination, but if he’s just going to spend the time savings alone that is a massive dick move on top of the already massive dick move.
He did take us with him.
Lolwut?
So… you accept a free, private jet ride, step off the plane, then bitch about your friend? The self righteous tone of your post was already giving me the “ick”, but to find out you took the ride anyway just shows you’re more interested in looking like someone who gives a shit, then someone who actually does…
Nevermind, that’s awesome. Is he looking for additional friends?
Well then he cut down the emissions per seat drastically!
Have you considered that actually refusing to fly with him might have had an effect? Of course he will fly if it allows him to show off to his friends like that. If you want someone to understand that their behavior sucks then you actually have to pull through. Now he thinks “hey looks like when given the choice they do actually prefer flying so i was right from the start”.
Yeah I didn’t go to the bachelor party of one of my best friend bc they were going to London (from Germany) for one night. I thought that was so unsustainable that I had to pass…
I did the Philadelphia to Boston trip by plane once (I live in Central New Jersey), only because I had a business meeting at 12 PM. The Acela doesn’t stop in Trenton, so while I preferred the train waking up at 5am didn’t appeal to me. If I go again I’ll prioritize the train. City pairs in US that should have high speed rail: https://youtu.be/wE5G1kTndI4
Why spend several hours with friends when you could spend an hour alone on a jet
Yeah, even a car wouldn’t have been the most horrible choice in comparison. And those are fun, while not as fun as a train where you can all partake instead of one having to drive. Unless it’s just the two of you, then a car would be a waste and also not very fun since the other’s focused on driving.
I’ve never met someone that wealthy, but wealth is way more relative than lower, middle and higher classes.
The wealthier people I’ve met kind of like to brag about their money. I’ve always guessed that is the way they behave among themselves. It’s never a direct competition about their wealth, it’s always a package of actions and prepositions from where anyone should or could conclude they are wealthy. Kind of passive-aggressive.
Maybe your friend is trying to do their wealthy people thing with you, guys, because that’s what he knows to do. Maybe you have to have a bit of patience with this friend. I get it, I’m poor, so they make so little sense to me. I just hope you can work it out, and remember, maybe that’s all they know, that’s why university is so important to those privileged enough to attend.
Are you upset that they drove? Flew? Why is either bad here?
I don’t understand what you’re upset about.
Private jet instead of public transit
It looks like the wealthy friend flew instead of driving down or taking the bus down with their friends. They’re upset because it’s just more useless pollution and a loss of time that the friend group could have spent together having a good experience.
In my experience no plane could compete with the comfort of a table seat in a train with friends.
Found the non-American.
you know if you have a jet, the “flight attendents” blow you and massage you all flight long. I’m not sure what your friends can do under the train table though so you might be right
A train handy is an underrated pleasure. Those occasional sways on the turns and random shakes and shimmies are to die for.
Private jet would outcompete anything, sadly
That’s despicable. I’d be absolutely disgusted by that behavior, and tell him in no uncertain terms. And tell him it would have been better to not come at all.
Tell him he smells too!
I thought they would have went there with their own car, but nope, even worse.
Can’t stand to travel with the poors I guess.
48 hours in a weekend; you lose 16 sleeping, 32 awake hours.
2 hours for travel is 6% of your weekend
6 hours for travel is 19% of your weekend
It’s not the destination bruh, like it’s the journey.
That’s 19% of your time spent with your friends on the bus.
Remove them of their wealth and your friendship
You should kill your friend with a hammer in the woods on your weekend trip.
You should seek help. It’s not ok to suggest people should murder their friends. They should simply not be their friend if this bothers them.
So what you’re saying is that you can’t murder your friends so stop being friends? I like what you did there.
Im suggesting you shouldn’t murder anyone.
In fact, he’s morally obligated to murder his friend with a hammer in the woods.
You should suck my fucking balls.
In the woods?
As long as you don’t mind the sight of blood. I heard some guy got killed with a hammer there!
Actually murder is a good thing if the victim is unpopular
