Joe Biden’s gas-guzzling motorcade was last night spotted filling up at a petrol station in Edinburgh – where he is staying before taking the enormous convoy back and forth from Glasgow every day trailed by a helicopter.
Local man Gareth Mackie was stunned to spot The Beast and its decoy, plus at least two other huge SUVs which make up the 20-strong presidential motorcade.
‘Zoom in and you can see a White House aide’s jaw drop at UK petrol prices,’ he joked. Petrol recently hit a new record high of 142.94p ($1.95) a liter. [3.79 liters equals one gallon, or $7.38 a gallon. –CCD Ed.]
Diesel – which the Beast is believed to run on at just eight miles per gallon – also topped out at 147.94p ($2.02) a liter. [$7.66 a gallon]
Today critics pointed out the irony of Mr. Biden attending a climate change conference in Glasgow only to stay 45 miles away in the capital.
Flight trackers suggest a police helicopter shadowed his convoy all the way along the M8, adding yet more to Mr. Biden’s carbon footprint.
Mr. Biden’s Cadillac ‘Beast,’ a 20,000 lb armored limousine, generates an estimated 8.75 lb of carbon per mile driven – 10 times more than the average car. Two Beasts – the official vehicle and a decoy – form part of his entourage.
This means every day the two Beasts alone belch out 1,575 lbs of CO2 going between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The conference is set to last until November 12, bringing the possible total for both cars to just under 20,000 lbs.
Calculations suggest he will generate an estimated 2.2 million pounds of CO2 over the whole trip, the bulk of which will come from his airborne entourage of at least four last planes.
His fleet is made up of the heavily modified Boeing 747 he travels on, known as Air Force One when the president is on board, an identical decoy, and two huge C-17 Globemaster planes to carry his battalion of cars and helicopters.
Those jets each belch out an average of 54 pounds of carbon per mile flown. An average American would generate 0.365 pounds of carbon if they flew a similar distance – just under 10,000 miles – on a regularly scheduled flight.
In Italy, Mr. Biden’s motorcade was an incredible 85 cars long due to Italian COVID-19 rules, which only allow three non-cohabiting people – including the driver – per vehicle.
As well as the Beast, it consisted of Chevrolet Suburban SUVs, and famously thirsty Alfa Romeo cars driven by Italian police. It would have generated around 73.5 pounds of carbon per mile driven.
During his time in Scotland, Mr. Biden is staying at the luxurious Dalmahoy Hotel and Country Club – based in a spectacular 18th-century mansion alongside two 18-hole golf courses.
It has previously hosted the Solheim Cup, one of the most prestigious competitions in women’s golf.
The BP petrol station where he was filling up is just down the road from the Dalmahoy Hotel.
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Filling up with Fossil fuels and guess who pays the Bill Yes you guessed it its the American tax Payers who pays their bills
Rory, Rory, Rory…vehicles do not produce carbon. Wise up!!!!
Having said that, I do remember an old Volkswagen Rabbit diesel commercial, wherein a penny-wise Scot boasted that he could drive back and forth between Glasgow and Edinburgh all year on one fill up.
Also, it wouldn’t matter if the American president was a Democrat or a Republican, the motorcade would have been the same. The best example would be the same as Putin and Xi, stay home and take care of business.
A quick Google will tell you that they do. “While diesel fuel contains slightly more carbon (2.68kg CO₂/litre) than petrol (2.31kg CO₂/litre), overall CO₂ emissions of a diesel car tend to be lower. In use, on average, this equates to around 200g CO₂/km for petrol and 120g CO₂/km for diesel.”
There’s quite a difference between carbon and CO2.