Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Global Warming - "1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges"
This is clearly some kind of intellectual dishonesty.
Should we be nice and just accuse them of being disingenuous; or, should we tell it like it is, and call it hypocrisy?
Then there's the unequivocal truth that they're all using the citizens money...
Should we be nice and just accuse them of being disingenuous; or, should we tell it like it is, and call it hypocrisy?
Then there's the unequivocal truth that they're all using the citizens money...
Andrew Gilligan reports in the U.K. Telegraph:
"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. "
