{"id":1581355,"date":"2022-07-31T10:02:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1581355"},"modified":"2022-07-31T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T14:02:44","slug":"taylor-swift-brutally-mocked-over-private-plane-fuel-emissions-her-team-issues-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taylor-swift-brutally-mocked-over-private-plane-fuel-emissions-her-team-issues-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Brutally Mocked Over Private Plane Fuel Emissions; Her Team Issues Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaylor-swift-brutally-mocked-over-private-plane-fuel-emissions-her-team-issues-statement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1581355&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Singer Taylor Swift, an unabashed hardcore leftist, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danidiplacido\/2022\/07\/30\/taylor-swift-provokes-backlash-and-mockery-after-topping-list-of-private-jet-polluters\/\">slammed<\/a> online after a report published last week claimed that her private jet was responsible for creating more carbon emissions than any other celebrity\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/weareyard.com\/insights\/worst-celebrity-private-jet-co2-emission-offenders\">report<\/a> from Yard said that her aircraft was in the sky nearly 23,000 minutes this year, on average taking 80 minute flights, and that her plane\u2019s flight emissions alone were responsible for creating well over 8,000 tonnes of emissions, more than 1,180 times the average person\u2019s total annual emissions.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Swift claimed in a statement to Rolling Stone that most of the trips on Swift\u2019s jet were not actually taken by Swift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaylor\u2019s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals,\u201d the representative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kylies-17-minute-flight-has-nothing-on-the-170-trips-taylor-swifts-private-jets-took-this-year-1390083\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cTo attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The other celebrities mentioned in the report from second-highest jet emissions to tenth-highest include, in order, boxer Floyd Mayweather, 7,076 tonnes of emissions; rapper Jay-Z, 6,981 tonnes of emissions; former baseball player Alex Rodriguez, 5,342 tonnes of emissions; musician Blake Shelton, 4,495 tonnes of emissions; film director Steven Spielberg, 4,465 tonnes of emissions; Kim Kardashian 4,268 tonnes of emissions; actor Mark Wahlberg, 3,772 tonnes of emissions; television host Oprah Winfrey, 3,493 tonnes of emissions; and rapper Travis Scott, 3,033 tonnes of emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes after billionaire Kylie Jenner faced backlash a couple of weeks ago over reports that she used her private plane for flights as short as three minutes to avoid having to sit in traffic for roughly 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/im-the-one-who-has-to-use-paper-straws-kylie-jenner-gets-blasted-for-3-minute-private-jet-trips-to-avoid-traffic\">reported<\/a> at the time that the outrage began with a photo <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/kylie-jenner-criticized-on-twitter-after-asking-for-donations-for-injured-makeup-artist-eat-the-rich\/\">Jenner<\/a>\u00a0posted to her Instagram page, showing her and rapper Travis Scott standing in front of a parked Rolls Royce and two private jets \u2014 one of which belonged to Scott and the other to Jenner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/kylie-jenner-hosted-handmaids-tale-themed-party-emily-zanotti\/\">Jenner<\/a>\u00a0captioned the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CgDCvEDvUJz\/\">photo<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 on which comments and embed options have been limited since the backlash began \u2014\u201dYou wanna take mine or yours?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some responded positively to the photo, saying that \u201cHis &#038; Hers\u201d private jets were among their own personal goals, a number pointed out that private jets are not known for being eco-friendly \u2014 and that it was especially tone-deaf to post something like that when the general public is being asked to embrace mitigation measures that are inconvenient or uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Virginia Kruta contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Taylor Swift, an unabashed hardcore leftist, was slammed online after a report published last week claimed that her private jet was responsible for creating more carbon emissions than any other celebrity\u2019s. 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