Posted on 08/22/2024 7:50:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This just in: Jeff Bezos is a hypocritical gasbag. But then, I think we all knew that already.
Bezos, co-founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, likes to wag his finger at us about carbon footprints. He's even met with the Pope to talk about carbon footprints. (I'll bet the Pope's carbon footprint is substantial.)
But Jeff Bezos is also firmly in the "do as I say, not as I do" camp in his personal life. Example: On Thursday we learned that Bezos just shelled out $80 million for a Gulfstream G700, that being one of Gulfstream Aerospace's premiere luxury business jets, capable of cruising at nearly Mach One.
It's Bezos's fourth private jet. Yes, really.
The billionaire Amazon founder last month purchased a Gulfstream G700, luxury business jet manufactured by Gulfstream Aerospace that’s considered one of the largest and most advanced private jets in the world, according to Business Insider.
With a maximum range of around 7,500 nautical miles, the G700 is also said to be capable of reaching top speeds of Mach 0.925 — or around 92.5% of the speed of sound, around 710 m.p.h.
The G700 also boasts 20 panoramic windows and “whisper-quiet cabin with 100% fresh, plasma-ionized air replenished every two to three minutes.”
Last Sunday, the G700 took off from Ibiza.
At around the same time, Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez were photographed on the island near the mogul’s $500 million superyacht.
Yup. That's right. They have a superyacht, too. Four business jets and a superyacht. And here's the really rich part: This is an airplane that Goldman Sachs just decided they can't afford.
In March of last year, it was reported that Goldman Sachs abandoned plans to buy the G700, which comes equipped with a private shower, as part of a cost-cutting measure.
That's right. Goldman Sachs. They couldn't afford it.
Still, it's not that Bezos can afford this jet while one of the world's largest investment banks can't. No, what I'm wondering is what the carbon footprint of a plane like this is. Oh, wait - all we have to do is look further down the page!
Publicly available flight data showed that Bezos’ plane made 28 flights in 39 days — leaving a carbon footprint of 264 tons, or 17 times what the average American emits in a year.
Bezos apparently tried to keep his acquisition of the plane out of the public eye by using the Federal Aviation Administration’s program that allows jet owners to keep information about their aircraft private.
The FAA Privacy ICAO Aircraft Address (PIA) program allows aircraft owners to use temporary, randomized addresses that changes the aircraft’s identity numbers so as to make flights less traceable by the public.
So, not only is Bezos - just with this airplane alone - putting out roughly the carbon footprint of Belize, 17 times what we SUV-driving Americans put out in a year - but he's also using legal folderol to hide it from the public. What a clown - a hypocritical, virtue-signaling clown.
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Look, if Jeff Bezos was just living the lifestyle of the rich and famous and keeping his mouth shut about what the rest of us do, I wouldn't begrudge him one square inch of the rich Corinthian leather (Corinth is famous for its leather!) on the aftmost seat in that Gulfstream jet. It's his money, and he can do as he likes with it.
But it's the finger-wagging at the rest of us about our carbon footprints that makes this intolerable. He even lectured the Pope - who appears to agree with him.
Pope Francis met with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, at the Vatican to discuss climate change.
Sánchez posted photos of the meeting at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the residence where Fancis (sic) lives, in an Instagram post Aug. 15, saying that the pope’s “wisdom, warmth, and humor were deeply touching.”
Now, defenders of Jeff Bezos - I'm sure there must be some - will tell you of the Bezos Earth Fund, which Bezos is funding to the tune of $60 million. As a percentage of his net worth, that amount would be equivalent to most of us super-sizing a french fry order. But that doesn't in any way minimize Bezos's overweening hypocrisy in his jet-setting, mega-yachting lifestyle.
Honestly, it would serve the guy right to have a bunch of climate-protesting nitwits super-glue their hands to his new airplane. That would not only be funny, it would be a nice little serving of karma for an outrageous hypocrite.
Fly coach, Jeff. Or, hell, even first class in a regular airliner. Then, at least, you won't be such a hypocrite.
He’s got good taste in jets.
This is one of a few reasons that show the man made global warming is a fraud.
Co2 is also a valuable industrial chemical tech to pull it from air or water has value in the chemicals industry. Turning co2 into fuel, plastics, lubricants, and food via fermentation or electrolysis is tech humans have today right now.
Co2 at $50 per tonne and electrons at 2 cents per kWh can produce liquid aviation fuels for cheaper than the current FBO price. KADS is selling jet A for $5.98 today. $3 to $6 is the price depending on tax levels for synthetic fuels from co2 and power.
Warning: GenXPolymath is a CO2 climate HOAX pusher.
Warning: GenXPolymath is a CO2 climate HOAX pusher.
Warning: GenXPolymath is a CO2 climate HOAX pusher.
God you boomers are dense. It’s not pushing a hoax to acknowledge that you nor I for that matter have any say in it. If you think voting in November is going to have one hoot of a effect on what the world powers have decided you are delusional. At this point you adapt to the world you live in. Take the personal steps to minimise the impact to you personal finances and life style. Unless you are going to raise arms against a vast globally connected and financed cabal of world power players who actually do have the funding and army of trigger pullers to implement that power you better plan to adapt or be rolled over like a soda can by a tank.
I’m in oil and gas it’s made me a rather wealthy man. I personally could care less about the ppm level of co2 in the sky. I am a geologist in a few disciplines I actually produce via my productive efforts the fuels most people take for granted. I simply point out that the days of burning fuel to the sky are limited. Do I support that frankly I could care less I’m making money either way. We will need all the liquid hydrocarbons humans can get our hands on for for things much more important than burning it to the sky. Ones oil gets more limited the value of it will skyrocket and those who produce it will get even richer. Water is a limiting factor for humans as well, hydrogeologists are well paid and will only get better as we deplete fossil water all over this planet. The Great Plains aquifer is the text book example of this truth. I say bring it I like making $2000 plus a day on contract. Don’t get all butthurt and blame the messenger. There is a vast globally connected and financed cabal that actually runs this planet elections are for people to think they have a say. One only needs to look at the GOP and their local opposition to see it’s all theatrics to keep the masses in line. The DNC convention was pure theater for the plebs.
You do know the difference between opinion and fact, right?
It does not matter what "the world powers" have decreed. That does not change reality.
“Climate change” is the modern version of..
“Let the peons eat cake.”
They hate us.
You might think Shellie obama might have called out Bezos for taking “more than he needs” in her joyless and downright angry speech the other night.
But liberals revel in being hypocrites. It doesn’t bother them one bit.
Fascinating … thanks for your very interesting posts!
Of course I know it. But it is difficult to find anything which is not made in China these days.
The SNAP numbers are the latest in a series of revelations surrounding working conditions inside Amazon’s warehouse facilities. On Thursday, The Intercept noted that, in addition to being a top SNAP recipient, Amazon’s median employee pay was only $28,446 — 9 percent less than the industry average and well below the U.S. living wage.
Any decent economist will tell you that the correct minimum wage is $0.00.
No one is forced to work at Amazon. What these stories really tell us is that Amazon has managed to take a group of people who would otherwise be virtually unemployable and through workplace rules and automation turn them into low-level productive citizens. In the grand scheme of things, if Amazon did not employ these workers they would be on either unemployment or welfare. The US would need another army of bureaucrats to administer this burden and would need to print even more fiat money to pass out.
Now that is a wonderful idea. Larger government and more inflation. I am perfectly willing to let Jeff Bezos have all the business jets he wants, and throw in a couple of personal jumbo jets for good measure just for preventing that much government expansion and government dependence.
Writing about Jeff Bezos in such a way as to promote envy and jealousy is part of socialist thinking.
When I read about him, or any of the other hugely rich entrepreneurs, I do it from a capitalist viewpoint -- what can I learn from this story to improve my own economic well being?
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