Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges
"On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.
"We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention," she says. "But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report."
"Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "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."
This summit isn't about the climate any more than the health care bill is about making people healthier. It's about wealth and power.
Leaders from a hundred or so countries will all be jockeying for ways to put the United States at an economic disadvantage. The sad part is that, "The Enlightened One," will be there trying to give them what they want for his own political advantage.
There ought to be some shame in there some place, but I wouldn't waste any time looking for it...