Claire Bernish – Des Moines, Iowa — It’s that time again, folks—the season when America’s megalomaniacs glut the airwaves with nationalist pomp vying for your worthless vote in the race to buy the title of 2016’s Corporate Oligarch-in-Chief©. This year’s election competition is replete with hypocritical antics befitting our politicians—but Hillary Clinton truly stepped it up a notch on Monday evening.
After unveiling her sweeping vision to install a half billion solar panels and cut carbon emissions in order to fight climate change, Clinton could have crossed the Democratic platform’s obligatory “say something about the environment” off her list.
Could have.
Until she was spotted and filmed at a terminal in Des Moines boarding a $5,580 an hour, 19 seat, 347-gallons-of-fuel-per-hour guzzling Dassault model Falcon 900B private jet.
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You know, just like the one in your garage.
Because Hillary is down-to-earth, environmentally conscious, so in touch with the American people plutocracy.
Let’s just cut to the chase. Hillary’s Do As I Say, Not As I Do hypocrisy—flagrant though it may be—in no way distinguishes her from any other politician in the U.S. Inc. Delivering impassioned speeches to convince the populace that [insert plan, vision, law, rule, lifestyle here] is a worthy cause we all need to [strive for, advocate, follow], is a politician’s way to soften the blow of new revenue-generation. Stealing our income? “Defense Budget”!! taxes.
Ultimately, such hypocrisy is only a shock to those who still have faith in the political process that guy over there in the corner. To the rest of us, Hillary’s giving a speech about the importance of curbing climate change and proceeding to board what’s likely the exact most hypocritical means of transportation just a few hours later, is simply American Politics As Usual.
There is no surprise here. Only entertainment.
Don’t forget to vote.
SF Source The Daily Sheeple July 2015
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While I truly despise hillary Clinton, I must take issue with the entire article.
Crabbing at Hillary for her use of a Jet is a matter of sound environmental choice. I have no argument with that decision.
Jet fuel costs over $3.50 per gallon, it’s her money. The more she spends on transportation, the less she’ll have for spreading nonsense. That goes for her supporters who often pay for her transport. If they want to spend the $5000 per trip (not counting the cost of the aircraft to the owner), again it’s their money.
But the real issue is fuel usage. Gasoline and diesel usage is far more polluting to the environment, per ton mile, than jet fuel. Jet fuel is made of a form of refined kerosene. In a jet-engine environment, the fuel is consumed at a rate of more than 99.9%. The rest goes out as part of the thrust mixture. There is therefor no waste, and very little non-atmospheric emission into the atmosphere. The slight amount of smoke seen in the engine thrust is rarely higher than .0001% of the entire exhaust mix, and at flight power levels, this percentage falls even further, because the air moved thru the engine increases greatly with higher thrust levels, while the fuel usage rises by a much smaller ratio.
Gasoline and Diesel engines are rarely more than 60% efficient at the fuel-burn ratio levels. This emission can be seen very easily. The only reason gasoline does not produce visible smoke is because of an additive that disguises the appearance of the exhaust gases, like MTBE and related chemicals (all of which are carcinogens, MTBE is now forbidden in may states).
The only form of diesel transport that is efficient per ton/mile is the freight-train, but it still produces several thousand times the emissions into the atmosphere, more than jet-fuel, on a per-gallon basis.
For these and many more, a jet for transport, while a luxury, is still a responsible position; and one I whole-heartedly respect.
Hi Paul, perhaps if the dichotomy of running on a “plain folks” platform and traveling in a private jet were not so great Hillary may have introduced all the advantages of flying via private jet to speak about climate change.
Regardless I still have a hard time believing that carbon emissions from cars are creating more environmental damage than corporations and chemtrails. Thanks nonetheless for the info re the various quality levels of burned fuels. Interesting. – g