Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More Than 9,000 Gallons Of Fuel
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
In flying to and from Iowa today, President Obama took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One.
The press office at Andrews AFB wouldn’t give me the fuel consumption numbers for the 747 that serves as Air Force One without the approval of the White House Press Office, which as I write this has yet to be given.
But Boeing says its 747 burns about 5 gallons of fuel per mile. It’s 895 miles from Washington to Des Moines, so a round trip brings the fuel consumption for the fixed-wing portion of the President’s trip to 8,950 gallons.
(AP )
Not included in these calculations are the presidential vehicles that took him the short distance from the landing zone in Newton to the event site at the Trinity Structural Towers Manufacturing Plant.
In his speech there, President Obama called for a “new era of energy exploration in America.”
At a plant that manufactures the towers for wind turbines, he urged Americans to support his plan for promoting expanded use of alternative and renewable fuels.
And he announced that for the first time, the Interior Department would be leasing federal waters for projects to generate electricity from wind and ocean currents.
President Obama could have saved at least 9,116 gallons of fuel by giving his speech at the White House – but no wind turbines are manufactured here.
(CBS)
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See all 142 CommentsWhether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U.S. needs to know H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday, behind our backs. You may want to read it?It wasn?t mentioned on the news?just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen. Obama funds 29M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA. This is the news that didn?t make the headlines?. By executive order, President Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3M in ?migration assistance? to the Palestinian refugees and ?conflict victims? in Gaza.
> > The ?presidential determination?, which allows
> hundreds of
> > thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to
> resettle in the United
> > States, was signed on January 27 and appeared in the
> Federal Register on
> > February 4.
> > Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that
> the order provides
> > a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances
> to individuals
> > who have displayed their overwhelming support to the
> Islamic Resistance
> > Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of
> January 2006.
> > Let?s review?itemized list of some of Barack
> Obama?s most recent
> > actions since his inauguration:
> > · His first
> call to any head of state, as president, was to
> > Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah party in the
> Palestinian territory.
> > · His first
> one-on-one television interview with any news
> > organization was with Al Arabia television.
> > · His first
> executive order was to fund/facilitate abortion(s)
> > not just here within the U.S., but within the world,
> using U.S. tax
> > payer funds.
> > · He ordered
> Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of
> > detainees halted.
> > · He ordered
> overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.
> > · He withdrew
> all charges against the masterminds behind the
> > USS Cole and the ?terror attack? on 9/11.
> >
> > Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands
> of Palestinian
> > refugees to move to, and live in, the US at American
> taxpayer expense.
> >
> > These important, and insightful, issues are being
> ?lost? in the
> > blinding ?bail-outs? and ?stimulation?
> packages.
> >
> > Doubtful? To verify this for yourself:
> > www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488
> > http://www.thefederalregister.com/d.p.2009-02-04-E9-2488
> >
> > PLEASE PASS THIS ON?AMERICA NEEDS TO KNOW!
> >
> > We are losing this country at a rapid pace.
Buy I guess that isn't cool enough for Mr. Big? He would rather apologize to everyone, in person, for what an arrogant nation we are.
He is a horse's ass.
This administration doesn?t want an oil platform ruining our coastlines, (platforms should be over the horizon) but there is no problem with littering the view with wind turbans. Have you seen a wind farm? Google Palm Springs wind farm. Talk about trashing an area.
While watching the Amazing Race, I noticed as the competitors jumped into cabs in these third-world countries, that the graphic on the side of these cabs said ?Powered by Natural Gas (LNG).? Why aren?t all U.S. government vehicles powered by LNG? Sounds like a great first step to cleaning the environment. Are we just too ARROGANT to accept a third-world idea? Or, is there some hidden agenda?
What if we discovered a clean magical power source? It would solve all of our environmental and energy problems. Well, we have it?its called Nuclear. Yes, I hear the cries of environmentalist??it?s too dangerous; what do we do with the waste?? The answer: we bury it as it?s proposed and research a way to neutralize it in the future. Heck, we learned to fly and go to the moon in less than 100 years. Have some faith in American ingenuity. France has been getting 80% of their power from Nuclear for years. Our military ships are Nuclear powered. How many accidents have you heard of? Are we just too ARROGANT to accept a French idea? Or, is there some hidden agenda? WAKE UP people and start asking questions.
This means that those making that 250,000.00 + will not only add there tax onto their products to us but with a profit added in also and now we will have to pay more to boot!!!! Guess we just can't believe this rascal about anything huh.
FOR **ONE** WAY:
Andrews AFB/NAF -> Des Moines Intl
Distance: 800.0 nm
Estimated fuel burn: 6309.8 gal / 42275.5 lb
Estimated time en route: 1:34
CBS, you could really improve your ratings by reporting what is actually happening instead of what meets your agenda. I haven't watched the big 3 in years (since the selective recount battle of the Bush/Gore election) but I would if they could rid themselves of the bias.
There are TWO 747's deployed every time the President flies. One is a decoy and backup should the first one have a problem. Plus there is a C130 that carries his armored Limo. Then, on the ground there is a huge motor cavalcade assembled to escort the President wherever he goes.
So figure over 27,000 gallons of fuel for 0bama to go grandstanding on "Earth Day"
Obama is and always was a hypocrite- who takes advantage of people for his own self gain. Gore isn't any better - the multi millionaire off of the pseudo-Global warming...and scaring kids with it. Shame Shame
Obama's Wednesday evening parties seem not to have peaked the interest of the press where $100lb. beef is served. MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH.
IT IS CRISIS CREATED BY THE LEFT TO TAX ENERGY TO RESDISTRIBUTE WEALTH AND TO KEEP THE POOR OF THE WORLD ... POOR.
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