Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More Than 9,000 Gallons Of Fuel

CBS ^ | 4/23/09 | Mark Knoller

[Nachum]

happens every time a president leaves town to make an Earth Day speech. Reporters scramble to point out how much fuel was expended so the President could talk about conserving energy and using alternative fuels.

In flying to and from Iowa today, President Obama took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One.

[Nachum]

Hypocrits R us...

[Nachum]

The list ping

[chuck_the_tv_out]

yeah, now it’s their guy, it’s all “happens every time”

only becomes a cliche when it’s their guy. then when it’s our guy, suddenly it’s not a cliche any more.

[engrpat]

Just a observation but this years “earth day” was really played down by the media. In the past it was bigger than the 4th of July but this year, at least in our paper and local news, not much about it.

[SkyDancer]

Wasn’t the guy Einhorn the founder of Earth Day? And didn’t he murder his girlfriend and is now serving life?

[newfreep]

yep...and IIRC he kept her body in a trunk for 1.5 years before being caught. AT his trial, lots of college professors testified to his noble character.

[Kansas58]

Yes,
But Einhorn actually REDUCED the carbon emissions in the world, through MURDER!

[Paladin2]

So, does the WH burn more kWh per day than Gore’s house or not?

[Anti-Kenyan]

It was waaaaaaaaaaaay more than 9000 gallons considering numerous military transports were used to move his helicopters, limos, and support vehicles and personnel.

[SkyDancer]

Thanks ... so Napolatino is ok with people like him but not our vets .... Seems these Earth people have killed more people here than our veterans (UnaBomber Ayers, etc) .... and Napo points to McVeigh (like military training teaches how to make fertilizer/fuel bombs) to show how dangerous our people in uniform are ....

[viaveritasvita]

Googled earth day and senator gaylord nelson taking credit for it....?

[chippewaman]

I wonder where Algore flew to today. There’s the biggest hypocrite of all. Earth Day ... what a joke! Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of these northeastern, liberal, “do-gooder,” hypocrites from Yale.

[SkyDancer]

Same like Gore inventing the internet ... I can see it ..

[seawolf101]

[Don Corleone]

Have all the light bulbs in the White House, and the Capitol been replaced with the new ‘green’ bulbs? Just asking. With any luck one will break and they would have to close down the whole place.

[Kansas58]

Well, I think Ann Coulter did a great analysis, once, showing that the military age group was ALSO the most likely age group to commit crime.
70 year old Norweigen heritage grandmothers are not likely to commit crime, but they are part of the “base population” when the libs tell us that “vets” are more prone to crime than the “general population” -—

Coulter took it a bit further, and showed that those who had ACTUALLY SERVED in the military were LESS LIKELY to be involved in violent crime, when compared to people of the same age that were NOT in the military and had no prior military experience.

[2nd amendment mama]

Yes and Arlen Spector was his lawyer!

[SkyDancer]

Terrific!

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL!!!

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-earth-day

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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release April 21, 2010
Presidential Proclamation — Earth Day

A PROCLAMATION

In the fall of 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson announced plans for a national “environmental teach-in” — one day, each year, of action and advocacy for the environment. His words rallied our Nation, and the first Earth Day, as it became known, saw millions come together to meet one of the greatest challenges of our times: caring for our planet. What Senator Nelson and the other organizers believed then, and what we still believe today, is that our environment is a blessing we share. Our future is inextricably bound to our planet’s future, and we must be good stewards of our home as well as one another.

On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, we come together to reaffirm those beliefs. We have come far in these past four decades. One year before the first Earth Day, our Nation watched in horror as the polluted and debris-choked Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire. In response, a generation of Americans stepped forward to demand progress. What Americans achieved in the decades that followed has made our children healthier, our water and air cleaner, and our planet more livable.

We passed the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, established the Environmental Protection Agency, and safeguarded treasured American landscapes. Americans across our country have witnessed the impact of these measures, including the people of Cleveland, where the Cuyahoga River is cleaner than it has been in a century.

We continue to build on this progress today. My Administration has invested in clean energy and clean water infrastructure across the country. We are also committed to passing comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will create jobs, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and cut carbon pollution.

We have more work to do, however, and change will not come from Washington alone. The achievements of the past were possible because ordinary Americans demanded them, and meeting today’s environmental challenges will require a new generation to carry on Earth Day’s cause. From weatherizing our homes to planting trees in our communities, there are countless ways for every American, young and old, to get involved. I encourage all Americans to visit WhiteHouse.gov/EarthDay for information and resources to get started.

The 40th anniversary of Earth Day is an opportunity for us to reflect on the legacy we have inherited from previous generations, and the legacy that we will bestow upon generations to come. Their future depends on the action we take now, and we must not fail them. Forty years from today, when our children and grandchildren look back on what we did at this moment, let them say that we, too, met the challenges of our time and passed on a cleaner, healthier planet.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 22, 2010, as Earth Day. I encourage all Americans to participate in programs and activities that will protect our environment and contribute to a healthy, sustainable future.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.

BARACK OBAMA