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.
Never bought any of his product. Basically Walmart in a warehouse.
He has to break a bunch of eggs to make his big omelet.
We’ve made up for you and then some. We’ve been customers for 25 years or so.
I buy from eBay. They may be libs but I like goods that could be hot. And stop with the Amazon shaming. It is hurtful.
And one of his yachts was tied to a dock at Bucksport, Maine this past Tuesday. I saw it and it was nothing special-he must have a bigger one somewhere else.
Bezos - destroyer of jobs, enabler of China, proponent of the sweatshop culture.
Conceited little prick.
OTOH, that’s about (for 4 jets and the yacht) $950,000,000 in salaries, etc.. for thousands of working stiffs...
Good for him...
One or two volcano eruptions trump this communist, stupid, carbon footprint crap...
He’s a flaming hypocrite.
Plus upkeep. Ain’t cheap.
What cave have you been living in? It is the right (and the duty) of the members of the Supreme Soviet to lecture the proletariat not to do he things they themselves freely engage in.
DW and I have bought plenty. What about Amazon is not to like?
We retired into a lower cost of living rural area . A world-wide selection of goods at fair prices makes rural life easy. And I do not have to be worried about paying inflated prices due to shoplifting.
Good for you.
However, when you live far from an area where products are plentiful, or even exist, Amazon is a wonderful service. We joined back when they pretty much only sold books.
264 tonnes is pretty easy to pay someone to pull that much CO2 from the air or ocean. A number of companies are doing so commercially and selling carbon emissions credits in the EU market for it. $600 per tonne is the most expensive number thrown around. Even at $600 that’s only $158,400 to be totally carbon neutral that’s pocket change too a billionaire. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bezo already pays for carbon credits.
This company has the cost down to $20 a tonne and they make fuel with it so it’s a circular process.
This group is using ocean capture for 15 to 35 euro per tonne and there is unlimited amounts in the oceans 150 times more than air per cubic meter.
Industrial co2 is $60 per tonne wholesale so either one of the above just cornered the market on industrial co2 as well.
Rich people will always be able to afford any carbon price that’s just how it is. Kings used to buy indulgences from the pope why would modern elites be any different.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221007227
Powwe and co2 rather elegant. The cold water coming off the output is also loaded with nutrients perfect for growing ocean crops in like kelp or sea grass. Ferment either to ethanol or methane, use the lipids(oils) for biodiesel and feed the protein to cattle ,chickens or pigs. Otec also creates huge amounts of fresh water as a byproduct kinda useful when on a desert island in the middle of the ocean like some of the Hawaiian Islands.
I never said it was a pollutant but the world powers have and decided it is something to be regulated, they have the very real power to enforce that so your and my opinion are just that opinions.
"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."
A large number of Amazon workers rely on food stamps for assistance
So you push the hoax. Go away.
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