U.S. Government Plans to Reduce Its Energy Use - NYTimes.com
“As the largest energy consumer in the United States, we have a responsibility to American citizens to reduce our energy use and become more efficient,” Mr. Obama said in a statement.Flashback: Barack Obama sets travel record for first year of presidency - chicagotribune.com
The costs of the trips -- borne by taxpayers -- are difficult to measure, but they're high. When the president uses Air Force One, it costs $100,219 an hour to operate, according to the Air Force. And that's just the president's plane.Flashback: Obama Administration Favors Blue States for Travel? - ABC News
There also are cargo planes, used to fly in armored limousines, helicopters, staff and other equipment, as well as the Secret Service. A single Air Force C-17 cargo jet, for example, costs $6,960 an hour, according to the Congressional Research Service.
For President Barack Obama, it's almost as if the election campaign never ended. Just look at his travel schedule.2007: Obama most costly freshman world traveler - Barack Obama News- msnbc.com
The same states that Obama targeted to win the White House are seeing an awful lot of the president, Vice President Joe Biden and top Cabinet officials. Only this year, the taxpayers are footing the multimillion-dollar tab for the trips, and Obama officials are delivering wheelbarrows of economic stimulus money — also compliments of taxpayers.
First term senator's charges nearly 45% higher than his classmatesFlashback: Obama Cranks Up White House Thermostat: "You Could Grow Orchids In There"
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's two years in the Senate have taken him around the world, from Russia to Iraq to Kenya - an itinerary more costly to taxpayers than any other senator who took office with him.
"He's from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama's senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."
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