Friday, August 06, 2010

Michelle Obama Criticized as "Modern-day Marie Antoinette" Over Spain Vacation - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports the C-32A (757) the First Lady used to fly to Spain - one of the planes that usually serves as Air Force Two, and sometimes Air Force One - operates at a Department of Defense reimbursement rate of $11,351 per hour.

So a 6.5 hour flight to Spain would run $73,781.50 - double for the round trip.
[Will the Michelle Obama's plane alone burn over 54,000 liters of fossil fuel for this unnecessary 13-hour trip?]: Boarding.no : Boeing 757-200 to airBaltic
About Boeing 757-200
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Fuel consumption - 4200 l/h
Access : Rooted in society : [Werner Krauss, cultural anthropologist, celebrates the glory days of the global warming hoax] - Nature Geoscience
Climate science has been a success story. The development from identifying anthropogenic climate change to establishing it as a matter of global concern has culminated, so far, in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore in 2007.
The Ethanol Tax Credit – It’s Worse Than You Think — MasterResource
If ethanol consumption were to drop by only 3.1% or 4.8% – rather than 32% – as a consequence of eliminating the tax credit, the cost of eliminating a gallon of gasoline via this program increases by 7-11 times; from a meager $1.78 as reported by the CBO to a range of $12 to $18. Likewise, the cost of reducing one ton of greenhouse gases would increase from $754 to a range of $8,000 to $9,000.

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