Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges

[Jaaaman]

Quote:Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."

And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen. "The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

Oh... the irony of it all.

[Jaaaman]

With all of these VIP's coming to Copenhagen one would think they might try to set a good example. Considering the carbon footprint of this event is larger than what 60 countries produce in an entire year, how precisely is this saving the planet again?

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Ooops... here is the link to the story. My bad.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenha...edges.html

[Pookie]

Why can't they use "GoToMeeting.com" on the Internet and spare the environment?
Seems to me that would be a much smarter and more earth-friendly alternative quite fitting for this type of gathering.
Purrs,
Pookie

[Jaaaman]

(Dec. 07, 2009 10:18 PM)Pookie Wrote:  Why can't they use "GoToMeeting.com" on the Internet and spare the environment?
Seems to me that would be a much smarter and more earth-friendly alternative quite fitting for this type of gathering.
Purrs,
Pookie

They wouldn't be able to eat that lovely caviar and enjoy luxurious limo rides through Copenhagen then.

[BoogyMan]

Just as with the disastrous health care mess and the elitists in the congress "wanting it for thee but not for me", the AGW loons are above the kind of regulation that us peons are to suffer under.

They know their "science" is half baked, but there is taxation and personal profit afoot. Al Gore stands to be the worlds first "Carbon Billionaire" and we can't have reason or reality standing in the way.

[red states rule]

(Dec. 07, 2009 02:28 PM)Jaaaman Wrote:  

Quote:Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."

And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen. "The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

Oh... the irony of it all.

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[Shooterman]

(Dec. 08, 2009 06:47 AM)red states rule Wrote:  

(Dec. 07, 2009 02:28 PM)Jaaaman Wrote:  

Quote:Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."

And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen. "The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

Oh... the irony of it all.

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I do like Dees, the cartoonist. ( not the lawyer Morris Dees clown and his Southern Poverty Law Center )

[Shooterman]

Seems as now Ol' Bam Bam and his gaffe machine is in high gear. He has pissed off the Nobel Committee as well as The King of Sweden.

At this rate, every fifth rate world power may declare war on us because of the Goofball in Chief.

[Jaaaman]

(Dec. 10, 2009 11:09 AM)Shooterman Wrote:  Seems as now Ol' Bam Bam and his gaffe machine is in high gear. He has pissed off the Nobel Committee as well as The King of Sweden.

At this rate, every fifth rate world power may declare war on us because of the Goofball in Chief.

He is completely clueless... and we are suffering as a nation because of him and his goofball administration.

[Shooterman]

Make no mistake, I thought and still do, that Bush was a disaster, but this bum we now have, makes Ol' George look like a piker.