Paul McCartney's new hybrid arrives by air from Japan

[philip]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1951848/Paul-McCartney-'horrified'-as-his-eco-car-is-flown-7,000-miles-from-Japan.html

Paul's never been what I would call an in your face environmentalist (except maybe for the vegitarian thing) so I'm not going to razz him to much on this. If it had been Sting, that would be different.

[RC45]

And yet again we have PROOF the enviornmental camps are absolute morons.

Unless this flight was a special flight just for his car, then the transportation thereof did not add amy more "carbon" to the atmosphere.

But instead of arriving by boat as expected, the car was flown to Britain on a Korean Air flight, creating a carbon footprint almost 100 times bigger than if it had come by sea.

I am surprised they have not invented new units like "carbon footprint per item/flight tim * moon phases".

I have never before wanted to so badly to round up all the eco-idiots and have them drowned in a large melting ice flow as right about now ... :?:

[HeilSvenska]

He's an idiot if he was actually surprised that a Japanese-made car would have to be transported to somewhere outside Japan by something that uses fuel. What'd he expect? Solar powered catamaran?

creating a carbon footprint almost 100 times bigger than if it had come by sea
Per unit mass, probably. Ships aren't that clean.

Couldn't he just pick something in his local Lexus lot?
He doesn't really care. Otherwise, he wouldn't have accepted that piece of junk that only does 22mpg anyways.

[Mattk]

The fact that his supposedly environmentally-friendly car was delivered by plane rather than ship is quite ironic, but irrelevant. More important is why would he pick the hybrid? Sure, it's a gift, but the regular petrol version works just fine. Hybrids don't save that much petrol and are just not as good.