One of the biggest shams being sold to the American people is that our hypocritical elected and unelected leaders are offsetting their excessive “carbon footprint” by purchasing green credits.  If they really believed in what they tried to impose upon us they wouldn’t have to “offset” their excessive contribution to what they consider to be global warming.

Todays hypocrites: Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein offers plenty of tips on how California households can combat global warming, such as carpooling and running only a full dishwasher.

But one bit of information Feinstein declines to share is the number of times that she flew last year on her husband’s Gulfstream jet, which burns much more fuel per passenger-mile than commercial airliners.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also has asked constituents to do their part to conserve energy — including cutting summertime power consumption — even though he takes to the skies on leased executive jets.

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A single cross-country round trip on a Gulfstream IV, or GIV, the model owned by Feinstein’s husband, churns out about 83,000 to 90,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, experts say. By contrast, on a per capita basis, the average American produces 50,000 pounds from all activities in an entire year.

Nonetheless, Feinstein and Schwarzenegger intend to continue their noncommercial flying ways because their jobs demand a flexibility the airlines can’t match, spokesmen say.

They can’t be expected to be good environmental stewards - that would affect their lifestyle!  Better that they put such onerous restrictions on us regular folk.

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