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Posted on 03/07/2008 7:34:59 AM PST by jdm
One of the annoying attributes of global-warming scolds is their inability to practice what they preach. The US Chamber of Commerce produced a very amusing video last month explaining how much in carbon emissions the UN generated by insisting on conducting endless conferences on the issue. Today, the Los Angeles Times takes a look at the travel practices of Arnold Schwarzenegger, another booster of energy-production limits, and notices the stench of hypocrisy:
Like many of the Californians he represents, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now spends more than three hours commuting because he lives so far from the office.
But his ride is a private jet.
After flirting briefly with buying a Sacramento abode for his family, then living alone for a while in a 2,000-square-foot hotel penthouse across from the Capitol, the governor has decided to stay nearly every night at his Brentwood mansion.
The commute costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, which aides say the governor pays for himself. Some environmentalists say the trips expand his carbon footprint enough to undermine his image as a crusader against global warming, despite the pollution credits he buys to offset the damage.
Arnold has his reasons, of course. He has teen-age kids at home and he wants to be with them. That’s not possible in Sacramento, because … well, who wants to live in Sacramento, for Pete’s sake? Even though the state has a 12,000-square-foot mansion built by Ronald Reagan for California’s First Families, Arnold’s Brentwood digs are tonier and closer to the Hollywood power base he courts.The Governator chooses to fly home every night instead, commuting between Northern and Southern California. That’s his choice; he’s footing the bill for the travel. However, instead of catching regularly-scheduled commercial flights between the capital and Los Angeles, he’s traveling by private jet — a huge waste of resources and a large release of the very gases that global-warming activists such as Schwarzenegger claim are dooming the planet.
When global-warming Chicken Littles start living as though the crisis actually exists, then the rest of us will start believing it. Arnold could start by dumping the private jet and flying commercial. Even better, he could show a little sacrifice by moving into that 12,000-square-foot shack that the state has to maintain whether he’s there or not. Global warming activists want to limit our own living choices — they can start with their own.
We may have to dump the term limousine liberals. That came into vogue by describing the type of Hollywood political activist that demanded sacrifice from everyone but themselves. Given the escalation of the hypocrisy here, a better term might be private-jet progressives.
Pollution credits. These should have every human on the planet with a brain rolling around laughing their heads off. The biggest scam every perpetrated by pols on the public. Carbon credits get 'em while they're hot. I am in the wrong business. I should be selling carbon credits to Ahhhnold and the boys. As if buying so called carbon, or polution, credits could actually lessen the amount of carbon in the air. Once again, what a joke, and what fools people are who believe in all this crap.
Some pigs are just more equal than others.
Sometimes you want to join ELF and help them burn the McMansions..and why not Corp Jets? (sarc).
The reason they don’t burn jets is because they are owned by their friends..
This article would have more impact if it cast an equally baleful eye on Al Gore and his energy-sucking estate.
This can’t be true?
private jet progressives
i love alliteration!
We need to start a company that sells Calorie credits to fat people.
We can say we are paying skinny people to not eat some of the food that the fat people are eating.
Or even better, if you eat that second dessert, pay us and we will give some money to feeding the poor.
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Bump for Saturday reading.
Perfect! It's interesting that the media seems so uninterested in looking at Algore's building up of the Global Warming nonsense, then voila, starting a company that trades on the hysteria he began. If ANY Republican politician had done this, the MSM would be all over him like white on rice.
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