LETTERS: ENVIRONMENTAL VEEP: TOTAL HYPOCRISY

To the editor:

Since Al Gore and his global wartming budies are continuously preaching to coproations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, I thought everyone should know how well he is doing his part. On his global-warming lobbying trip in December 1997, he traveled from Washington to Florida, from Florida to Alaska, and from Alaska to Japan and then to Washington on Air Force Two, the luxurious presidential Boeing 707 airplane.

The complete trip is calculated at over 16,000 miles. On average, the plane guzzles about 4.1 gallons of jet fuel per mile. Thus the total required for the trip was 65,600 gallons. At an average price of fuel being $2.01 per gallon, the fuel cost alone would be $131,000. There are 6.7 pounds per gallon of jet fuel. Total pounds of juel guzzled by the Gore global warming express: 439,500. Total hypocrisy.

JIM KREWSON

Shawneetown