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.
If only it were that simple. Liberals have no workable answers. That leaves them on a perpetual search for a new attack.
This idiot doesn't even have his facts straight.
If the plane is carrying 400 people, its mileage per person is about 50 mpg.
Buses, trains and other forms of public transportation get lousy mileage, too, but all the greenies love them because if you fill them up you get excellent mileage per person. The big catch with public transportation, and airplanes for that matter, is that they often are largely empty and mileage per person goes all to hell.
no comment on babs monthly electric bill to cool her fur vault
It was a lot worse than I remembered.
You had your chance.
I bet they all flew Swiss Air coach class to Davos and left their Gulfstreams in the hanger just to "Save The Planet".
No, no, no...Bubba's plane ran on bodily fluids.
...couldn't NOT say that.
What's the mileage of CLinton's haircuts?
Kerry would've bicycled and skiied himself wherever he needed to be.
The MSM is comprised of useless eaters.
Of course, these same "critics" would have squired Bill Clinton around in a hooker-powered Hummer.
This is one of the more absurd things I've ever read! It sure did make my day, though! Think of the work this guy had to do to come up with this as a tactic to bash Bush! What mental gymnastics!! LOL.
How Childish!!
Pray for W and Our Amazing Freedom Fighters
Clinton.
I have it around here somewhere. I'll find it.
the author is absolutely right... george bush should be using a row boat when traveling abroad /sarcasm
Yeah, this baby may burn more fuel than my SUV.
It used to fly coast to coast on a single gallon
of ethanol when bj was staining lewinsky's blue dress.
The Hildabeast took it to the next level by flying into Dallas every few months to have her hair done.
Locals remember this since ALL highways in Dallas County were shut down when she was landing and then when she was taking off. The only exception was IH-20 on the south side.
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