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From the article: "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany an
by rg 17y ago
From the article:
"We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."
And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? "Five," says Ms Jorgensen. "The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."
The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports--or to Sweden--to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.
- cwan 17y agoQuote from deceiver.com (http://deceiver.com/2009/12/07/no-sleep-till-carbonhagen/ http://deceiver.com/2009/12/07/no-sleep-till-carbonhagen/): "Taking a private jet to a conference on stopping global warming is a bit like traveling in a sedan chair carried by indentured servants to a summit on stopping human trafficking."
- yters 17y agoI think what they are trying to do is to create a systemic shocking amount of CO2 to totally throw our climate off kilter, and thus cool things down. Kind of like reverse psychology for climate change.