Posted on 12/01/2015 7:46:05 AM PST by b4its2late
Car service, hotels, and accommodations for the president and other administration officials to attend climate change talks in Paris are costing taxpayers nearly $2 million, according to government contracts.
The COP21 meeting of global leaders, which President Obama said is a "powerful rebuke" to terrorists, began on Monday. Representatives from 195 countries traveled to Paris, burning 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide for the United Nations conference that is seeking to reduce global emissions.
The tab for Obama's motorcade alone totals $784,825. The State Department issued a $407,868 contract to Biribin Limousines, an international chauffeur service, for vehicles for the president’s security detail.
"No Sustainability Included," the document states under a section for contract clauses.
Numerous other contracts for passenger vehicle rentals, including $9,042 for accompanying press, totaled $376,957.
Taxpayers were also billed $100,216 to book hotel accommodations for the president's stay. Hotel rooms and cell phones for the U.S. Secret Service traveling with the president cost $16,642 and $4,034, respectively.
A number of cabinet secretaries are also in Paris for the United Nations conference, including IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, whose car service tab is $5,400.
Secretary of State John Kerry's car service totaled $76,435, with three separate contracts worth $38,684, $15,789, and $21,962.
Car service for Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is costing $19,080, and two contracts worth $10,153 and $10,737 were issued for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's chauffeur service.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is also attending the conference, with hotel accommodations at the Tuileries Finances in Paris costing $36,091, and her car service totaling $13,903.
In all, costs associated with the climate change summit totaled $1,805,282.
The spending included $51,337 to rent a hangar for Marine One for the duration of the trip, $4,744 to rent office equipment, $12,478 for a hotel suite for a control room, and $7,239 hotels for the United States Agency for International Development.
The government also paid Decoral, an interior design agency running accommodations for COP21, $486,989 and $134,778.
Spending on the conference dates back to August, when the government paid $9,576 to rent a meeting room.
President Obama's goals he proposed for the conference are estimated to cost up to $45 billion per year and would reduce global temperatures by less than two-tenths of one degree.
All they needed was a garbage truck
Exactly.
Why does the IRS guy need to go to a global warming seminar? What does his job as IRS commissioner have to do with global warming???
Let them (That would be us) eat cake.
Still more Obama hypocrisy.
There’s never any end to it.
Probably has something to do with rooting out and destroying heretics via our totally voluntary tax system.
The negro community organizer from Chicago feels he deserves to be treated in style-sort of a reparations mentality!
Obama loves all this attention and star treatment while he f**ks the country. My only comfort is that this is the best it ever will be for him. He will not fare well at the judgment.
“The COP21 meeting of global leaders, which President Obama said is a “powerful rebuke” to terrorists...”
Is there any other statement needed to prove this man as neither competent or qualified to lead this country. These brutal terrorists declared war on us and we are at risk. They have no fear of the scam called climate change - they have no fear of losing their very lives!
You go that right. I think he is happy the way it is going. Yes, he is incompetent and unqualified for the job he is in. But he’s there to destroy our country, and he’s doing a bang up job in that regard.
Nor in the history books if the truth is ever told.
I hope Trump will start mentioning facts like this on how much Obama and democrats like Pelosi are pissing away taxpayer’s money at their expense. Trump is self-funding his campaign but is only targeting other candidates at this point. He should redirect his aim at the criminals doing it in the democrat party and the money Obama is costing the US because of his narcissism.
I don't think Moochele and the rest of her entourage are there. But I bet she has racked up big bucks in her jaunts with the crew around the globe.
It'll be interesting to see how much those two have cost us in dollars over the 8 year reign in their own personal family vacations.
We see how much damage they have done in other areas. Hard dollars and cents will be interesting in what we can put our fingers on, but the long term costs are incalculable.
Good idea and great strategy.
I know. It’s sickening.
no sustainability included = Used when the contract includes neither requirements nor provisions/clauses for recovered materials or energy efficient, biobased, or environmentally preferable products or services.
way too funny !
What was the Emperor’s carbon footprint?
0bama lied and polar bears died.
So? It is your money. Smile, pay your taxes and stop being stingy. Our “betters”/”leaders” deserve it, don’t they? All praise these all-seeing, all-knowing wonderful people.
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