The text you quoted claims that the "environmental price" is of "as much energy as a trans-American flight". It implies that this would contribute to these issues (true), and rhetorically suggests that this is not fair, but words-as-written, I don't see any distortion of truth. Heck, it's using familiar units: most of us have an order-of-magnitude idea how many trans-American flights there are each month.

"Author is not affecting a neutral point of view" is not the same as "author is distorting truth".