Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/13/2009 3:48:19 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Prince Charles was accused of hypocrisy last night for using a private jet on an 'environmental' tour of South America.
The prince will travel to the region next month in a visit costing an estimated £300,000 as part of his crusade against global warming.
He will use a luxury airliner to transport himself, the Duchess of Cornwall and a 14-strong entourage to Chile, Brazil and Ecuador on a 16,400-mile round trip.
Aides insist it is impossible for the prince to complete the ten-day official visit using scheduled flights as he will undertake almost 40 engagements.
They also stress that he will offset his carbon emissions.
But last night critics seized on his choice of transport. Labour MP Ian Davidson, a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said: 'It would be hard to make this up.
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'To hear that the Prince of Wales is flying to South America to save the environment and taking 14 staff on his jet at hideous cost just for this trip is the height of the absurd.
'At a time when the greed of bankers is causing much adverse comment I would have thought that Prince Charles would have had more sense than to be so financially and ecologically wasteful.'
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Hitch Camilla up to a wagon and drive around in that.
I wonder if the Goreacle is going?
Can’t he flap his ears?
Translation: Prince Charles went on vacation.
I’m tired of artsy-fartsy elitists jet-setting around in their private jets and telling US how to live. The good prince can kiss my ass.
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I can’t believe this dolt may be King some day. His mother has done far more for the environment by planting the garden behind the place than he has done in his entire life.
Bonnie Prince Charley: dumb as a rock.
Whiskey for my men and a beer for my horse.
Won't happen. Liz is going to live to 102 like her mum. And she won't abdicate.
I pray you are correct.
That’s harsh. :)
It’s sad, really, that this guy’s life is so empty that he has apparently embraced the religion of global warming to give his life meaning.
“Aides insist it is impossible for the prince to complete the ten-day official visit using scheduled flights as he will undertake almost 40 engagements.”
So take twenty days. It’s not like he’s got to get back to his job.
The “Monkey’s” Davy Jones was in town the other day. A reporter asked him what he thought about Obama. He said he reminded him of Prince Charles. Both of them can whisper into their own ears.
Let me suggest this one:
"Camilla, I think it's that bloody fish and chips I had for noon tea that's come back to haunt me."
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“Whiskey for my men and a beer for my horse.”
HaHaha
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