Sounds like Schwarzenegger is morphing into Al Gore.
Posted on 07/13/2008 3:09:19 PM PDT by Brilliant
Last March, we received word that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was offsetting his jet travel demands by purchasing green credits. The cost of Schwarzenegger’s travel was to be “annually invested” in sustainable forest management projects. At that time, it was reported that the Governor was flying twice-weekly from his office in Sacramento, CA to his mansion in Brentwood, CA. We firmly believed then that the offsetting was, at best, a band-aid for a habit that in one hour would do more damage to the environment than a small car could inflict over the course of one year.
Now, the LA Times is reporting that Schwarzenegger’s habit has increased to commuting nearly every day by private jet — a move that regardless of offsetting, is widely considered as damaging to a “champion of environmental issues” and cover-boy for various green magazine issues. From the article,
Administration officials say Schwarzenegger is well aware of this and makes amends by purchasing pollution credits for the carbon dioxide his jet releases. The credits fund efforts worldwide to reduce greenhouse gases, such as projects that harness energy from wind, landfill gas and farm waste, although they don’t eliminate the pollution from Schwarzenegger’s plane. Flying the Gulfstream and other jets the governor uses costs as much as $10,000 an hour. Some conservationists say Schwarzenegger is essentially attempting to buy a clean conscience with the carbon offsets, which cost about $43 an hour.
In defense, Schwarzenegger says his family needs him and such daily trips warrant the commute. While I can understand the personal importance of such an action, as a representative of the people — and a role-model for sustainable initiatives — Arnold should suck it up and simply crash in Sacramento for a bit. Commuting daily in a private jet erodes the pedestal of anyone championing green living and warning against the dangers of climate change. Offsetting is simply not enough. As we’ve said before, you have to “be the change” in this shift to make an impression.
Sounds like Schwarzenegger is morphing into Al Gore.
It’s simply ABSURD. He needs to move his family to Sacramento like every other governor.
A photo of his mansion. I wonder whether he uses more or less energy than
Gore? Is this the guy the libs want to put forward to criticize Bush on global
warming?
It is if you're a hypocritical swine. Again I point out that the President's personal residence (his only one) in Crawford is completely off the grid, completely "sustainable." While the eco-warriors who attack him (Arnold and Al Gore) are enormous carbon hogs. It's a disgrace.
What’s absurd is the whack jobs that take this stuff seriously. There is no global warming, which is why the new orwellian phrase is “climate change”.
If he wants to commute in a 747 and can pay for it, good.
The buying of NOTHING
What utter crap.
PS. BTW... all those forest fires going on in Ca. probably spew more smoke pollutants in the air per day than all the planes and autos in the USA combined!
“His family needs him.” Snort!
Hey Arnold, did you hear the one about the poor people in South America kicked out of their forst homes so Eucalyptus plants could be planted with your offset money?
—ping—
When I was growing up hypocrisy was a bad thing. These days it is celebrated.
Perhaps, if it wasn't for the fact that he wishes to impose an austere lifestyle on the rest of us, because he himself buys the into the hoax. On top of that, while consuming hundred and hundreds of gallons of jet fuel, he considers the coat line off his state to precious to get any oil for the rest of us.
Regardless of the warming stuff, jets are polluting, the central valley, where Sacramento is, is listed as the worst air in the country. Flying back and forth from his mansion to the capitol daily is ridiculous.
hey, he has to pander to green fascists too, y’know...;)
Algor and Schwartzenegger can do whatever they want. They’re movie stars.
I don’t blame the gorebull warmers. I’d be upset too, if the Terminator exposed my marxist scam for what it is: a system with the goal of allowing the elite in society to do as they please living like kings, as everyone else suffers, riding bikes, living off of energy credits and food credits, totally dependent on the government for everything.
There’s a reason for the 2nd Amendment.....
I get this vision of a battery of 88’s concealed in the woods near Pismo Beach.
But one indiscretion by a right wing Republican and it's the stocks and dipping chair, no delay at all.
I keep seeing articles detailing how much it costs us to fly this moron around like this, but to be truthful, the way they pizz money away here, I don't even pay attention.
Yep... good old Arnie is a hypocrite all right...
And did you notice that the old gas bag RINO has gotten some face work done... check it out... new nose, bags removed under the eyes... botox around the forehead and mouth....
Does he pay for it? Or is it picked up by the state (after all, he is the governor); or may be it is written off on his taxes as some sort of "business expense"?
Jets are a minor source of pollution. Their exhaust contains water vapor, unburned hydrocarbons, particulates, sulfates, nitrogen oxides (NOX), and carbon dioxide. The GW crowd has some concerns about the warming effects of the exhaust clouds. The exhaust clouds are mostly released at high altitudes so I do not think there is much of a pollution impact on the ground.
I am much more concerned about the hypocrisy pollution. The California governor is competing with the GW pope for the hot air prize. In times of insane gas prices, the California governor should just live as a commoner. If all of the other leftist hypocrits would stop their personal airplane trips, the reduction in oil demand may even have an impact on oil markets.
Great. Then retire and stay home. RECALL now!
Agreed.
But maybe he shouldn’t be giving “come to the pulpit” messages to the rest of the country.
Very Nice plane, nice shack.
He should retreat there and finish his kids teen years at home with them.
our democrat governor.
Don't they believe in sharing the wealth? Don't they believe Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others like them should be sharing the wealth by giving their money to the government, selling their large houses and living in small 2 bedroom houses?
If Climate Change(AKA Global Warming)is so real then why are these people allowed to preach one thing to us and live a totally different life style than they preach?
Most libs I have tried it on can't come up with a good answer and when you ask them if there really is a tribe somewhere planting trees for carbon offsets, what tribe is it? Who gets the money? Do they know Al Gore buys carbon credits from his own company? How exactly does this help the environment?
Believe me you will never get a chance to finish your questions before the lib gets madder than he** and either walks off or tries to punch you!
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If they look in a mirror, who do they see?
AHNOLT you are loosing both ihr respect und ihr brain functioning hier....
please come baaaaack ....
danke
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pilots his
humvee to a signature-gathering event for
his initiatives in March [2005].
To be fair to Arnold, I understand that he
got rid of his fleet of Humvees because
they were not popular with the environmental
wackos.
i’m sorry i voted for arnuld the 1st time.
i didn’t make the same mistake the 2nd! i voted not for governor.
I have taken the pledge to never ever fly again the rest of my entire life. And I am one of those Conservative Libertarian AGW Deniers.
Let us see you Holier Then Thou Liberal Elitist start taking the same Pledge.
Arnold is like his uncle-in-law(Ted Kennedy), a big freaking hypocrite.
But what I have a serious problem with is piling debt
on the citizens of California like free health care for
illegal immigrants and then using globull warming as
a method of taxing the citizens to pay for his finical insanity.
The politicians that are responsible for this finical
irresponsibility expect the rest of us to live in caves
and ride bicycles to work while they spend us into oblivion
and continue living in extravagance themselves.
Make no mistake about it....
There is no Anthropogenic Global Warming. There is no energy / oil shortage.
Their just using these phony crisis as a tax to
pay the enormous debts they themselves created and
to redistribute Americas wealth.
It's a tax.
The Saudi's and the high oil prices are buying all our debt.
I don;t think he is hypocritical, exactly. HE never said that he should take steps to help the environment. HE has only said that the rest of us should.
If he had said that he should take steps, that would make him a hypocrite.
Is that a hydrogen Gulfstream?
Who controls the money for the carbon credits?
Prove it, Ahnold. Who do you buy your credits from? How much do you pay for them?
Oh, and by the way, did you take your family with you whenever you had to go out of the country to film your movies?
I didn't think so.
Notice how now it's morphing from "carbon credits" to "green credits"? Guess even the enviro-weenies are starting to realize that the too-much-carbon argument doesn't hold water.
translation: He's getting scammed.
No. It's more like he's the Judas Goat in this....Lead by example and all that B.S.
This is like the televangelists who scream a puritanical morality but have hookers and gay trysts on the side.
Never believe anyone who protests too much.
BUSTAMANTE!
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