Drudge has this flashback on his site. It just shows you how very wastful this chowderhead is. His carbon footprint is as big as half the city I live in.
"The most vulnerable part of the Earth's environment is the very thin
layer
of air clinging near to the surface of the planet, that we are now
so
carelessly filling with gaseous wastes that we are actually altering
the
relationship between the Earth and the Sun - by trapping more
solar
radiation under this growing blanket of pollution that envelops the
entire
world," Vice President Gore told the U.N. Global Warming conference of
159
nations this morning in Koyto, Japan.
In what was one the most
dramatic speeches in recent memory, Gore announced
to world leaders: "Whether
we recognize it or not, we are now engaged in an
epic battle to right the
balance of our Earth, and the tide of this battle
will turn on when the
majority of people in the world become sufficiently
aroused by shared sense
of urgent danger to join an all-out effort."
Applause filed the halls of
the Kyoto International Conference Center. "We
must achieve a safe overall
concentration level for greenhouse gases in the
Earth's
atmosphere."
carbondioxidemethanenitrousoxidehydrofluorocarbonsperfluorocarbonssulfurhexa
chloride.
The
message is serious. So serious in fact, the DRUDGE REPORT has
calculated that
Vice President Al Gore is burning more than 439,500 pounds
of fuel, or 65,600
gallons, at a cost of more than $131,000 on his 16,000
mile daytrip, just to
deliver the warning.
Now that's commitment.
Air Force II's Global
Warming Express features an itinerary that takes the
vice president from
Washington to Florida to Washington to Alaska to Japan
and back -- all in
just 72-hours.
"The extra heat which cannot escape is beginning to change the
global
patterns of climate to which we are accustomed. Our fundamental
challenge
now is to find out whether and how we can change the behaviors that
are
causing the problem."
Gore's plane, a Boeing 707 gas guzzler burns
on average 4.1 gallons a mile.
The complete Washington to Florida to
Washington to Alaska to Japan and
return to Washington trip calculated from
commercial air mileage tables is
just over 16,000 miles total. Gas gallons
needed for AIR FORCE II to go
16,000 miles: 65,600. Applying the average
price of $2.01 per gallon of
Jet A to the 16,000 mile r/t -- the fuel cost
alone passes $131,000.00.
There are 6.7 pounds per gallon of jet fuel. Total
pounds of fuel burned on
Gore's Global Warming Express --
439,500.
Unprecedented Leadership.
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