Elon Musk took his $70 million private jet to watch the Qatar World cup final – His single trip to Doha emitted 186,000 pounds of co2 into the atmosphere. It will take an Oakwood tree 3,895 years to absorb it all.
, 2022-12-19 08:49:07
Elon Musk, the world’s second richest man (Bernard Arnault is placed at the 1st position with a wealth of $188.6 billion at the time of writing) and Twitter CEO must’ve heaved a sigh of relief at jet-tracking teen Jack Sweeney’s account ban from Twitter. But like his Numero Uno status wasn’t permanent, even this joy is temporary. A subreddit dubbed /ElonJetTracker is reporting the hedonistic choices of the Tesla founder to its 194K members and more. A recent update shared that Musk wasted a whopping $47k to fly to the FIFA world cup instead of watching it on the screen.
He took his stunning $70 million private jet from San Jose to Qatar and with that one way trip he single handedly released enough CO2 that an average American’s car would do in 12 years or 7 trips around the world. Reverse calculating the emissions needed to generate this amount of electricity, it would be enough to drive a Tesla for 1.5 million miles or 60 times around the earth. Mind you, these emissions are just for his trip to Qatar, his return trip to San Jose will double them..
At World Cup right now pic.twitter.com/CG7zMMxSjE
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
The journey from San Jose to Luton, UK, is 5352 miles, and another 3263 miles from Luton to Qatar. Assuming he made a trip back to San Jose, the SpaceX CEO will have travelled 16,100 miles on his jet. Per Reddit user upL8N8, Musk will burn up a whopping 15,000 gallons of fuel for his total…
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