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In addition to being one of the most expensive inaugurations in these trying times, it was touted to be the greenest in history. Really? Guess that whole hopey changey call to service thingy wasn't inspiring enough.
Just as we are committed to making this the most open and accessible inauguration in history, we are also committed to making it the most environmentally sensitive," Inauguration Committee spokeswoman Linda Douglass told FOXNews.com.
"This will be the greenest inauguration in history, because we have tried to be mindful of the potential effects on the environment that a large crowd could have. We are trying to do everything we possibly can to return Washington, D.C., to the same state in which we found it and to reduce our own footprint as much as we can."
Hmmm, wouldn't you have been more green and reducing "carbon footprints" by staying home and not wasting resources?
The Institute for Liberty, a conservative think tank, estimated recently that the millions of people coming to the inauguration will generate a half-billion pounds of carbon dioxide — 260 million pounds from the 600 private jets that will come to Washington, and another 260 million pounds from personal vehicles.
It says the pollution amounts to more than 575 million pounds of CO2, which would take the average U.S. household 57,598 years to produce.
I'll bet the Goracle was just livid upon seeing this as he flew out on his privte jet.
Hopey changey. Question it not.
