Elon Musk flied private jet more than virtually anyone else in the U.S. last year, according to a report published on Monday by the Institute for Policy Studies and the nonprofit group Patriotic Millionaires.
The climate impact of his travel habits, which included taking a private flight every two days on average, are significant. His carbon footprint from his 171 private flights last year is 132 times more than the average American's yearly total.
Private planes are notoriously harmful to the environment. They are 5 to 14 times more climate-warming polluting per passenger than commercial planes, since they carry far fewer people on board, the NGO Transport & Environment found in 2021.
