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COP15's footprint
ON THE POLITICAL FRONT, and to be filed under the heading “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up,” the Copenhagen climate summit is in full swing and the delegates are leaving a “footprint” bigger than “Sasquatch” if we are to believe the reports there. The Telegraph in London reports that a record number of limousines have been deployed to and will be used in Copenhagen this week by the delegates to the convention. Those in the business of leasing limousines in the city were expecting an increase in demand of course, but the increase has gone beyond their wildest imagination. The head of one company had expected that perhaps 200 limousines would be needed this week, up from Copenhagen’s regular demand for perhaps 50 on any given day. However, the demand has risen to more than 1200, and as one company owner said
We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfill the demand [so]…we're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.
When asked how many of the delegates had asked for a “hybrid” fuel driven limousine, the same company owner said
Five. 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.
So in two swift statements, this limousine company owner has exposed the utter and complete hypocrisy of the climate change crowd and has exposed the
idiocy of Danish taxation, and has given us a good laugh at the expense of the climate changers.
Further, and leaving even bigger carbon footprints, we are told that the local airport is expecting 140 extra private jets during the peak period of landings and take-offs. This is so far above the airport’s capacity that the planes are being diverted to other regional airports, requiring that the limousines drive much farther than had been expected to pick up their passengers and transport them back to Copenhagen. Which will then, of course, require that they be ferried back to these same regional airports in the same fuel using limousines when the passengers/delegates in question fly home. You can’t make this stuff up. You just can’t! Sometimes it’s just too easy.
- Dennis Gartman/ The Gartman Letter 12/ 09 / 09
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ISSUES.... 12/10/09
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