Yes, Sen.‘Climate-Change- Is-The-Biggest- Existential-Threat’ Bernie Sanders (Vermont-Hypocrite) seems to love the private jet-setting life.

And notice how he stopped slamming “millionaires,” and has moved on to railing against “billionaires,” now that he has amassed a $2.5M fortune.

Via Free Beacon.

The Bernie Sanders campaign spent just under $1.2 million on private jet travel last quarter, outpacing the entire 2020 Democratic presidential primary field….

Sanders has long leaned on private air travel on the campaign trail, despite his belief that limiting carbon emissions from the transportation sector is crucial to combating climate change. Traveling by private jet is estimated to produce roughly eight times the amount of carbon per passenger as traveling by commercial airliner.

“Global climate change is real, it is caused mainly by emissions released from burning fossil fuels and it poses a catastrophic threat to the long-term longevity of our planet,” he writes on his campaign website. “The transportation sector accounts for about 26 percent of carbon pollution emissions.”….

The Sanders campaign says the environmental impact of its private jet use is mitigated by the purchase of carbon offsets, which it purchases from NativeEnergy. Entering the final quarter of 2019, the Sanders campaign had purchased $9,030 worth of carbon offsets. It purchased an additional $23,200 in carbon offsets from NativeEnergy this past quarter, the most recent filing shows….

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  1. Vintageport says:

    Can’t be seen traveling with the plebeians. After all, he IS our better, no? Just ask him.

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