It ain’t easy being green, and in the case of Barack Obama’s inaugural, it seems like he’s not even trying to green it up. According to the Institute for Liberty, the Obamathon in Washington will produce about 575 million pounds of CO2 emissions.
In a study titled Carbon Bigfoot, the IFL concludes that the CO2 glut will be substantial. From the global warming wrecking celebs flying all over the place in their many private jets, to the many hundreds if not thousands of vehicles that will be used to get people to and in the midst of the inaugural, the CO2 carnage is at the amazingly high level.
The IFL finds:
- Celebrities, politicians, and bigwigs using 600 private jets will produce 25,320,000 POUNDS of CO2
- Personal vehicles could account for 262,483,200 POUNDS of CO2
- n the parade, horses alone will produce more than 400 POUNDS of CO2
The IFL also came up with a revealing illustration about what this all means.
It would take the average U.S. household 57,598 years to produce a carbon footprint equal to that of the new president’s housewarming party
Granted the IFL scoffs at the very notion of worrying, as greenwits do, that all this revenue generating travel and commerce is a bad thing.
But, it is interesting that the folks that claim to be the best, most mean and green, tree hugging, global warming priests around are going to be responsible for this conflagration of globalony destruction.
The Obamathon in Washington will be a global warming catastrophe… but here’s guessing that no one will say a cross word in the Old Media!
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It's considered to be offset by what he'll save later
bk (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 9:08AM EST (link)The laws are not
10ksnooker (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 9:14AM EST (link)Are not for the anointed ones. The laws are for the little people, ya Know. ya Know, they could all fly commercial, ya Know.
Rationing of fuel is the same. Odummer gets all he wants, you stand in line or huddle in your cold house.
ya Know.
Just couldn’t help adding a little Kennedy lingo to spruce up the place, ya Know
If only there was a cap and trade fee, then everything would be Ok.
General_Confusion (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 9:20AM EST (link)Whatever the problem, tax is the solution – Dems 09
If only there was a cap and trade fee, then everything would be Ok.
General_Confusion (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 9:20AM EST (link)Whatever the problem, tax is the solution – Dems 09
Ball Room Dancing Carbon Foot Print
Greg (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 9:25AM EST (link)I did not see any account for the added physical activity will added to the carbon foot print. What about the added energy that will be used to keep warm. They need to go back and redo there calculations.
Obama probably doesn't believe any of it
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 9:53AM EST (link)Obama probably doesn’t beleve that rot any more than he believed BushLied, GitmoMustClose, CampaignFinanceReform, or any of that jazz.
He’s an opportunist.
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Well if he gives millions to the Rev Al Gore's offset company...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 10:09AM EST (link)then all will be well it’s a circular money giving event!
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Their figure for the carbon output from the cars is clearly wrong
The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, January 15th at 12:20PM EST (link)They estimated based on a 400 mile round trip, with a conversion factor for the gas based on the mileage. Living here in the People’s Republic of Maryland, I’m dreading having to come into work on Tuesday (I can’t get out of it). They have closed 3 of the 4 bridges which ordinarily allow traffic into DC from Virginia. All of that traffic is going to come around into Maryland to try to get into DC. The beltway is going to be an absolute parking lot – progress measured in feet per hour, not miles. The whole time those cars are idling they’ll be burning gas and not moving. And that won’t JUST be the additional visitors. It will be the rest of the schmucks like me who have to go to work that day because their business are open. Mass transit isn’t an alternative either. I normally ride the Marc train to work ($65/month tax free plus no parking fees isn’t to be sneezed at), but they decided the occasion warranted special “Inaugural Tickets” at $25 a piece (normally $12 round trip from my station to Union Station). The trains are sold out of course. And Metro won’t be able to handle the additional influx on top of a normal work day, which for many people it will be.
My back of the envelop calculation says DOUBLE the number for the carbon output, and that’s before the speechifying begins.