Guest essay by Eric Worrall
{video follows] Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton has raised consternation, after being filmed boarding a private charter jet, within hours of announcing a major Green policy initiative.
According to the Daily Telegraph;
Just hours after Hillary Clinton unveiled her presidential campaign’s push to solve global warming through an aggressive carbon-cutting plan, she sauntered up the steps of a 19-seat private jet in Des Moines, Iowa.
The aircraft, a Dassault model Falcon 900B, burns 347 gallons of fuel per hour. And like all Dassault business jets, Hillary’s ride was made in France.
The Trump-esque transportation costs $5,850 per hour to rent, according to the website of Executive Fliteways, the company that owns it.
And she has used the same plane before, including on at least one trip for speeches that brought her $500,000 in fees.
On Monday the Democratic presidential front-runner announced the details of her initiative to tackle climate change, calling it ‘one of the most urgent threats of our time.’
And here is the video:
We at WUWT applaud politicians like Hillary Clinton, who lead by their example. In fairness, should be noted that the fuel used by Hillary’s private jet flight is only a shadow of the fuel the current President of the United States has burned, flying the petroleum guzzling Air Force One to attend important global warming engagements. Of course, these days, even owning an entire airline does not disqualify someone from being a planet saving eco-warrior.
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YAWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh look , a leftist hypocrite. Gee, never seen one of those before.
The two most fundamental tenets of being a Lefitist:
1: Everything is about politics and the advancement of Leftist ideology.
2: You must be a 100% stark raving mad, full metal jacket hypocrite to achieve # 1.
Also, Leftists have no shame so it is pointless to try to shame them when they are caught being # 2
But they are the leaders of all those people ‘To Stupid To Spend Their Own Money’.
A 757 with 250 seats burns around 5 gal/hour/seat on an 8-hour flight.
A Harley gets about 35-40 mpg. A pickup truck gets about 18. A pickup truck carrying 5 people and 4 Harleys on a trailer still gets about 18 with the AC on. Numbers without a context don’t always support a conclusion.
Regardless of niggling details, Hillary is an idiot who sees modern government as a top-down system of people management best left to elitists like herself who listen more to think tanks than the people she would like to lord over. She is hardly alone in this.
How many gallons of fuel does a broom consume?
straw in the wind.
“Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton has raised consternation, after being filmed boarding a private charter jet, within hours of announcing a major Green policy initiative.”
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hillary’s response: “What difference does it make?”
Only little people fly first class. –AGF
In the words of Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds:
“I’ll believe there is a climate crisis when the people who are telling me about the climate crisis act like there is a climate crisis”.
That, and “I don’t want to hear another goddamn thing about my carbon footprint…”
Which seems a bit more apt.
+ 1,000,000,000!
Caligula for President!
Last post was put in the wrong sequence. Sorry.
I spent almost 30 years as a pilot flying people around in so-called “private jets.” (The ones I flew belonged to corporations.) I can attest that those aircraft are, in fact, a very efficient way to move people under many conditions, especially to and from places that are not served by the airlines.
What I can’t stand is the idea that only people like Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and their ilk should be able to travel that way; all the rest of us should be content to drive our Nissan Leafs and SmartCars (or peddle our bikes) everywhere we go – while our “betters” look down on us from their Falcons and Gulfstreams. Gross hypocrisy.
Al Gore and Hillary are effective only if they can reach the most voters possible in a given time frame and it is critical to the single-party system that they be effective. Therefor it is easily justifiable for both to use un-green transportation if the result is to reach as many sheep as possible for the purpose of convincing them to scale back their lives per Agenda 21 because their time is not as important (nor is their very existence) as Al and Hill’s. Or to put it more plainly, the policies of the greens cannot be adhered to by the greens if they are to be effective. Even more plain – time is short but there’s no end to the green-backs in the federal coffers. Greens who are sensitive to the needs of Gaia know and accept this as their grenade to fall on for the good of… well, something not involving future generations.
Over $200 billion dollars has been syphoned away in the AGW-climate change scare by the AGW-climate change driven “Big Green Energy Scheme” (scam) and the Clintons and their “foundation” have been in the middle of it. The AGW-climate change “religion” is not based on solid transparent publicly discussed science. The IPCC models have been proved inaccurate time and time again. The preponderance of honest scientists now question the political motives of those pushing the (bogus?) AGW. The AGW scare resulted from the UN “Reo Accords” and morphed into “Agenda 21” and its related “Sustainability Movement” and has been promulgated by Al Gore, Tom Steyer, George Soros, John Podesta and the like; follow the money. To a large extent this is about bringing down America as the last remaining super power. The way to bring a country to its knees is to deprive its citizens virtually unlimited inexpensive energy and then implement energy controls. The UN’s goal is population reduction Malthusian style and they want to destroy global capitalism. See our website “The Green Corruption Files” to learn more at: http://fuelrfuture.com/the-green-corruption-files-archive/
I see someone above thought that Mrs. Clinton’s idea might be peachy keen. Hmmmm.
First, we know that whatever she says it will cost is a low estimate and the real cost will vastly exceed the estimate. It is the law of government projects.
Second, the stealing of the money from the taxed for “their benefit” is aggression of the first rank. Morally repugnant.
Third, The materials to make the panels may use up some rare metals. See the report from Yale …. http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_scarcity_of_rare_metals_is_hindering_green_technologies/2711/
Forth. If the plan were solid, the market would provide the panels and people would buy them. There was no large government intervention needed to get people to buy smart phones.
Fifth. Why the G.D. Hell would we make 1/2 Billion solar panels at enormous cost, inefficiency, graft, greed, corruption, and inevitable long delays when we could build thorium power plants? The US government prevents any real move on the safe, efficient, practical front but making getting approval a generation long process.
Just announce that any government agency that stood in the way of cheap and safe thorium plants would be disbanded and poof the market would give you a “clean and green” answer to the power problem. (or just burn coal for the next few centuries while we think it over — coal is a known commodity)
~Mark
That is almost 1 gallon of fuel every 10 seconds.
Eugene WR Gallun
And water ( something we really cannot do without ) will be regulated in our area, I wonder if the Clinton’s and their ilk have water meters?
The best thing about Hillary is that she does Leona Helmsley better than the original: Opulent lifestyle, obscene consumption, $100k+ speaking fees, only private jet travel, lies, deceptions, etc……. and she gets a pass on it all from the MSM! Adapting that famous Leona quote: “We don’t worry about carbon. Only the little people have to worry about carbon”. What a slime she is.
Getting people to install solar panels is a great way to build a political constituency for renewable energy. Has worked well in Europe.
Iowa, with both of its senators on-board the green energy bandwagon is one of the best places to campaign for renewables.
Also panders to the “corn” gasoline crowd.
See “The Green Mirage” on-line for calculations on needed surface area for solar collection of baseload power. Note the links to “Going Solar” in the “Key Concepts” box for a detailed description of how the numbers are calculated. If you have any questions about this work you can email me at tt@usclcorp.com or call at 916-482-2020. Solar is totally inappropriate for baseload power and only works for homes when heavily subsidized by the government and the rate base. “The Green Mirage” is at: http://fuelrfuture.com/review-of-forbes-on-line-magazine-article-solar-energy-revolution-a-massive-opportunity/
Thanks for the article. You convinced after reading the “Key Facts” Then reading the majority of the artcle I just stopped, but one question, was it Elon Musk that started Tesla ( and did he not start PayPal ( Google was Zuckerberg. or am I mistaken?).
Elon Musk was one of the original 3 PayPal founders. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin; later joined and run by Eric Schmidt. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
What happens to all those discarded panels? I’m sure you have some wacko idea. Btw , do you benefit financially from solar?
@ur momisugly John, that is a great question that I always ask from people that are “greens/ warmists etc., I never get an answer other then oh but we can re-use them (solar panels), my next question how are you going to and what type of energy are you going to use to do that?
Silence.
My comment was meant for joel
Hillary loves government power. Any justification for more government power is fully embraced. What none of these fascists believe in is the free market. The free market would probably result is much more efficient production and utilization of energy resources. There is no evidence that all the government meddling and regulation for the last 40 years has done anything to change the climate or conserve energy. What would be a major change for the better is to start shutting down the bloated government piece by piece.
I’ve got an even better idea; 500 million hamster farms with billions of hamster wheels hooked up to produce electricity. Hey, it’s “green” energy innit?
Seriously, though, Hillary’s ideas are not just crazy; they are batshit crazy.