Obama Inauguration Will Produce 575 MILLION Pounds of CO2
The Institue for Liberty has put together some figures detailing the very unGREEN inauguration set for Jan 20, 2009.
- *Celebrities, politicians, and bigwigs using 600 private jets will produce 25,320,000 POUNDS of CO2
- *Personal vehicles could account for 262,483,200 POUNDS of CO2
- *In the parade, horses alone will produce more than 400 POUNDS of CO2
- *The total carbon footprint for the Inauguration will likely exceed 575 million POUNDS of CO2
- *It would take the average U.S. household 57,598 years to produce a carbon footprint equal to that of the new president’s housewarming party