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Bush on move is Guzzler in Chief (W is a hypocrite because Air Force One uses tons of fuel)
New York Daily News ^ | February 2, 2006 | KENNETH R. BAZINET

Posted on 02/02/2006 11:15:13 AM PST by presidio9

President Bush is one of the biggest gas guzzlers in the country and his first stop to sell the idea of breaking the nation's oil addiction burned up thousands of gallons of jet fuel and hundreds of gallons of gasoline. The White House, Air Force and Secret Service keep a tight hold on the President's travel and mileage, but government and industry figures show that the Air Force One 747 jet gets less than the equivalent of a mile per gallon.

The President usually travels with a backup 747 as well as a huge C-17 aircraft packed with the presidential limo and the Marine One helicopter, which flies Bush from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base and around destination cities.

The C-17 gets even worse mileage than the 747s, and the chopper's mileage is pegged at .014 mpg.

Once on the ground, the President travels in a gas-gulping convoy. At the heart of that convoy are two Cadillac limos and several Chevy Suburbans.

Even without the bulletproof shields and other special measures, the limos get 18 mpg in the city.

The Suburbans get 15 mpg in the city, but that too is without the bullet- and blast-proofing and the communications gear the Secret Service and military travel with. Three to five Suburbans travel in a motorcade, which often stretches to more than a dozen vehicles.

Bush's 700-mile trip to give his State of the Union encore speech in Nashville yesterday cost $19,594.25 in fuel alone just for Air Force One, according to government figures.

He will carry his message over the next few days to Maplewood, Minn., Albuquerque and Dallas before heading back to Washington. That's another 4,341 miles.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abefroman; clintonworldtour; kerosene; liberaldesperation; wtfk
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To: presidio9

The hotel in china where I stayed had perfectly clean bathrooms. I didn't observe anything like your picture. Still, that's plenty nice for Hillary.


41 posted on 02/02/2006 11:34:40 AM PST by TommyDale
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To: presidio9

I wonder if the author would like to present the same argument about all the secret, almost nightly, dashes across country by Bill Clinton to meet with wealthy donors to his campaign.

Those flights were made without any publicity and to some extent without the knowlege of the press, although some of them knew or had to know.


42 posted on 02/02/2006 11:36:12 AM PST by wildbill
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To: Ditto
President Bush is outta control. He has to be stopped. I know for a fact that Greenpeace donated, over 50 12 speed bicycles, and 12-15 Prius', 8 Insights, and also a 1975 old rock and roll van, that has been adjusted to run off of used vegetable oil, complete with hippy like flowers plastered all over it.(to haul around "equipment")
43 posted on 02/02/2006 11:36:36 AM PST by thehumanlynx (“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” -Edmund Burke)
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To: presidio9
Bush on move is Guzzler in Chief

But it was MUCH more okay when Clinton did the same thing.

Gotchya.

44 posted on 02/02/2006 11:37:24 AM PST by Lazamataz (I have a Chinese family renting an apartment from me. They are lo mein tenants.)
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To: presidio9

Nothing like good cheese , melted on top of a good sausage! Now to find some good onions and peppers to top it off.


45 posted on 02/02/2006 11:37:37 AM PST by sausageseller (Look out for the jackbooted spelling police. There! Everywhere!(revised cause the "man" accosted me!)
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To: rushlimbaughshow

What about Hillary's use of Air Force One and Marine One during 2000 while she was running for Senate? Has anybody looked at that?

I work next to the heliport in New York in lower Manhattan and let me tell you Marine One (Two and Three and a series of other aircraft and boats) were used more in the fall of 2000 than they have been since.


46 posted on 02/02/2006 11:37:39 AM PST by kevinm13 (The Main Stream Media is dead! Fox News Channel Rocks!)
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To: presidio9

my gosh, a newspaper printed this? I think the DNC should run with it, this is hugh.


47 posted on 02/02/2006 11:38:02 AM PST by SF Republican
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To: sausageseller; Abe Froman; Velveeta

Are you related to Abe Froman?


48 posted on 02/02/2006 11:39:43 AM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the handy deadline.)
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To: RexBeach

Better the money goes to paying for fuel than towards another liberal social program recipient. At least we are getting some work out of the fuel!


49 posted on 02/02/2006 11:40:04 AM PST by Ez2BRepub
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To: ozzymandus

50 posted on 02/02/2006 11:42:45 AM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the handy deadline.)
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To: presidio9

"Are you related to Abe Froman?"

The Sausage King of Chicago?

Wow, amazing how well known Abe is getting these days.


51 posted on 02/02/2006 11:43:46 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Are you getting snooty with me?


52 posted on 02/02/2006 11:44:38 AM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the handy deadline.)
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To: wmileo
Clinton Set to Double Presidential Travel Record He's Already Set Records for Trips, Days, and Pace of Overseas Travel
53 posted on 02/02/2006 11:44:54 AM PST by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: presidio9
This is from the Onion, right?

Mental Retards Anonymous?

Scrappleface?

Am I close...?

54 posted on 02/02/2006 11:45:29 AM PST by Publius6961
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To: .cnI redruM

*snicker* that was great


55 posted on 02/02/2006 11:45:58 AM PST by Hi Heels (Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty)
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To: finnman69
Bill Clinton: America's Best-Traveled President -- A Study of Presidential Travel: 1953-2001
56 posted on 02/02/2006 11:46:58 AM PST by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: presidio9
"Are you related to Abe Froman?"

Nope.

Does "The Sausage King" need to adopt a son?

57 posted on 02/02/2006 11:47:29 AM PST by sausageseller (Look out for the jackbooted spelling police. There! Everywhere!(revised cause the "man" accosted me!)
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To: Ditto
I recall during the 2000 campaign when Al Gore made literally three cross country flights in one day in Air Force 2 (DC to LA to Miami and back to LA) to attend various fundraisers while talking about the environment the entire time.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

I got to save this one for dumasses of America...

58 posted on 02/02/2006 11:49:51 AM PST by Publius6961
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To: sausageseller

No, but you should send a resume. Abe's always looking for a guy with your skills.


59 posted on 02/02/2006 11:49:59 AM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K virus -only without the handy deadline.)
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To: presidio9

Where was this guy when all those celebrities fly in their private jets to Las Vegas for the "Earth to America" preach-fest? The President has to fly private for security reasons. Celebrities are just guilt-ridden hypocrits. (just my 2 cents )


60 posted on 02/02/2006 11:50:25 AM PST by TX Bluebonnet
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