John Clarkson wrote :
" Freddy....not sure that's true. A return flight to the Windies might produce something like 1.6 tonnes carbon per passenger whereas 12,000 miles in your average car produces 3.9 tonnes........"
John,...... thanks for your post but I am not sure of the relevance to the point I was making (and I wasn't even thinking annual figures) :
ie. my 4 return trips to Frampton (= 320 miles/c. 0.1 tonne) will be a fraction of the carbon footprint of our passenger's return flight to the Caribbean (= 1.6 tonnes)
If 12,000 miles in my (average) car produce 3.9 tonnes
then 1000 miles produce 0.325 tonne
then 320 miles produce c. 0.1 tonne
as opposed to the passenger's 1.6 tonnes for his return trip to the Caribbean.......QED.
Surely, 0.1 is a mere fraction of 1.6.
Further, even if we are talking annual figures, then the quoted airline passenger isn't going to sit in a cupboard for the other 50 weeks of the year. He's also going to be a car driver doing, say, the annual average of 12,000 miles. He may even do another overseas trip (I'm staycation UK this year) to add to his already growing carbon footprint size as opposed to mine.
Freddy
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