Monday, 21 December 2009

Latest from the Do as I Say Club

REMEMBER how I told you about this exclusive club where the Climate Change Fanatics (CCF's) demanded that you must make sacrifices to save the planet – but of course that doesn't apply to them?

Well the latest bean feast in Copenhagen is well under way.

First off these are the people who are putting extra taxes on flights to stop the taxpayer having two weeks in Benidorm or wherever. This is just for the taxpayer, the CCF's carry on flying. The local airport is expecting an additional 140 private jets, bringing in the CCF's, in fact so many additional aircraft are coming in that there is no room, they land, discharge their CCF's and then head to neighbouring countries like Sweden to park up.

After landing you might expect the CCF's to head for their YMCAs or hostels either on a bike or walking. Not at all. Majken Friss Jorgensen, Managing Director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, usually has 12 such vehicles on the road. For the summit she will have over 200. She reckons that overall the CCF's will be using over 1200 luxury limousines. The French alone have rung up and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand; we're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden". By the way the total number of electric or hybrid cars in that total is just five!

Now don't forget this is for those CCF's who are already taxing you off the road if your vehicle is classified as a 'gas guzzler'. Anyway after being picked up in 12 cylinder luxury cars they are being hurried off to the very best hotels at £650 per night where they will feast on scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges. When where you last able to afford that? Most taxpayers I know can't afford £650 for two weeks all inclusive.

But surely when they get there they will calm it down a bit? I mean they will be wanting to do their bit to save the Planet? Well not really, we serfs are expected to shiver in the dark so that we have more money available to pay more taxes but the CCF's? Here are some facts.

Whilst at the summit all these people will be guzzling energy. The organisers will lay 900km of computer cable and 50,000 square miles of carpet. More than 200,000 meals will be served and visitors will drink more than 200,000 cups of coffee.

The UN estimates the emissions from both international travel and living costs will be in the region of 40,500 tonnes - the equivalent of around two thirds the CO2 the UK's biggest polluter, Drax power station, produced in a day in 2007. Or to put it another way the same carbon emissions as Morocco in 2006.

On the news yesterday it was estimated that over 34,000 people were travelling to Copenhagen for this summit – but don't worry serfs, they're not paying – you are!

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