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February 7, 2007
Travel Fit For a Queen
Posted by Dave Blount at February 7, 2007 12:47 PM
Kudos to Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi for apparently not buying the global warming hype, even if she continues to spew it. Dismissing Denny Hastert's old plane as too small, she is demanding an Air Force C-32 to fly her and her entourage back and forth from Washington to the San Francisco district that saw fit to elect her.
The massive aircraft Queen Nancy requires for use by herself, relatives, and other California reps includes 42 business class seats, an enclosed state room, an entertainment center, a private bed, an open bar, and a crew of 16. Operating costs for the behemoth run about $15,000 per hour. To fly Stretch to home, then to go back and get her, would cost $300,000, whereas round-trip commercial fares start at $233. But that's all right, taxpayers have plenty of money.
Speaking of taxpayers, Pelousy has voted to raise gasoline taxes at least five times. Yet she is driven around by a gas-guzzling government-owned SUV that is exempt from the gas tax.
Here's what Stretch has to say about W's commitment to enviromoonbattery:
It's not just about what he says. It's about what he does. In the past … he has talked the talk on climate change. But he hasn't walked the walk.
Pelousy doesn't walk the walk either. But why walk when you can ride gas-tax–free SUVs or fly giant C-32s?
On a tip from V the K.
