How much does my flight sponsor Vladimir? (opens in new tab)
I regularly fly between Belgium and my second home country Latvia. How much am I sponsoring Vladimir when doing that? About 25€. Back of the envelope calculation.CRL - RIX return = 330 kg CO2 (1 l jet fuel a1 = 2.52 kg CO2 (refinery and distribution margin ~ 15% (conservative ballpark guesstimate based upon price/barrel for crude and jet a1 fuel)percentage of Russian crude in EU: 27% (P.S. More source countries have "interesting" policies. For example. 8% of EU imports are from Saudi Arabia.P...
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