---
title: "Environmental Champion Elon Musk Flies Private Jet 31 Miles Instead of Driving"
description: "Tesla's Elon Musk tried to finish the ElonJet tracker Twitter account but got ratted out yesterday for a 9-minute private jet flight in California."
date: "2022-05-08"
modified: "2022-05-08"
authors:
  - name: "Lonnie Lee Hood"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ahood"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-private-jet-elonjet-twitter-miles"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Environment"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Science & Energy"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "climate change"
  - "elon musk"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# Environmental Champion Elon Musk Flies Private Jet 31 Miles Instead of Driving

![Tesla's Elon Musk tried to finish the ElonJet tracker Twitter account but got ratted out yesterday for a 9-minute private jet flight in California.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/elon-musk-private-jet-elonjet-twitter-miles.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Getty \</em\>*

## Elon's Jet

The infamous Twitter account ElonJet —which [Tesla CEO Elon Musk already tried to bribe](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-buy-twitter-theory>) into shutting down just before he purchased the whole social media platform — just ratted him out for a super short and eco un-friendly flight on his private jet.

The flight left San Jose, California Friday morning and landed in San Francisco just 9 minutes later, according to the automated public [flight information software powering the account](<https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1522716398631456769?s=20&t=4MmLmnuB6tj_1Eya6hG06w>). Followers on social media were quick to criticize Musk for what many said is a wasteful trip that flies in the face of the billionaire's supposed goals.

"Elon sells Tesla as an 'eco-friendly' company, meanwhile he uses his jet to move this short distance polluting more than I will do with my car in a year. Wow what a hero," [one Twitter used replied yesterday](<https://twitter.com/fonsi_hersin/status/1522899960064315393?s=20&t=4MmLmnuB6tj_1Eya6hG06w>).

https://twitter.com/fonsi_hersin/status/1522899960064315393?s=20&t=4MmLmnuB6tj_1Eya6hG06w

## Hold Up

As social media users said, Musk claims his companies are helping solve climate change publicly — all the time.

Last month he started Twitter [beef with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-bill-gates-texts>) because the said the fellow billionaire is a hypocrite for publicly talking about climate change but privately betting against him. Gates owned up to shorting Tesla stock in a text message.

But just last week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) [pushed back SpaceX's launches in Texas](<https://www.space.com/faa-spacex-starship-review-delayed-may-31>) while they continue to evaluate the facility's environmental impact. Now Musk is taking private jet flights for trips plebeians make every day.

Musk may not be as eco-friendly as he purports. But hey, even if the FAA doesn't let him send rockets into orbit with SpaceX, he'll still have a private jet to fly around in.

**More on climate change:** [*Scientists Claim New Enzyme Can Break Down Plastic In a Single Week*](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-new-enzyme-break-down-plastic-week>)