Elon Musk was criticized when he traveled 65 km by plane: Are his environmentalist discourses bullshit?

We know that Elon Musk has always presented Tesla as a company where environmental concerns and environmental concerns come first. However, Musk recently made a rather strange move that made people doubt that he was a true eco-activist: Tesla’s president used his private jet to cover the 65-mile distance between San Jose and San Francisco.

According to the ElonJet twitter account, which tracks all of Elon Musk’s movements on the plane, the flight took just 9 minutes. It’s clear that this saves Tesla’s CEO a lot of time, but the amount of harmful emissions from such a short flight is incomparable to the emissions of a car ride with an internal combustion engine.

Elon Musk accused of hypocrisy

Naturally, this incident sparked heated debate on Twitter. Ironically, some said that Musk bought Twitter to shut down the account that tracked his plane’s movements, while others made various jokes about the traffic jam between the two cities.

On the other hand, many users seem to condemn Tesla’s president hypocritically. They point out that Musk talks a lot about caring for the environment, but does not hesitate to take off a private plane to exceed 65 km.

A Twitter user expressed this situation as follows: “Elon promotes Tesla as a ‘green’ company while also traveling short distances. “He’s driving his private jet for a ride and polluting the environment more than I do in a year with my car. Wow, what a hero.”