Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The (World Wildlife Fund) trip will produce 1231 tons of CO2 in 25 days”.

Governor Rick Perry of Texas: “Texas both produces and refines up to 25 percent of the nation’s crude oil. CO2 proposals moving through Congress would penalize Texas for fueling the rest of the nation. Congress needs to take the very serious implications of these proposals into consideration before it develops an ill-advised policy that will be the death knell for oil production in this country.”

Steven Milloy of JunkScience: “Move over Al Gore. Swankier carbon charlatanism has come to town in the form of the World Wildlife Fund’s luxury getaway called “Around the World: A Private Jet Expedition”…For a price tag that starts at $64,950 per person, travelers will meet at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Fla. on April 6, 2009 and then fly to “remote corners” of the world on a “specially outfitted jet that carries just 88 passengers in business-class comfort…Using the carbon footprint calculator on the WWF’s own web site, the 36,800-mile trip in a Boeing 757 jet will burn about 100,000 gallons of jet fuel to produce roughly 1,231 tons of CO2 in 25 days — that’s the equivalent of putting about 1,560 SUVs on the road during those three-plus weeks and that doesn’t even include emissions related to local air, ground and water transport and other amenities.”

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