{"id":19510,"date":"2013-11-21T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19510"},"modified":"2013-11-21T15:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T20:02:57","slug":"google%e2%80%99s-green-hypocrisy-pollutes-the-environment-costs-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19510\/google%e2%80%99s-green-hypocrisy-pollutes-the-environment-costs-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Green Hypocrisy Pollutes the Environment, Costs Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google likes to promote itself as a green, environmentally conscious company. After all, the company stays busy lobbying for carbon tax and cap-and-trade schemes, encouraging government to shutter coal plants and building solar farms. In reality, however, as I point out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/contributions\/google-flying-high-and-polluting-the-air-with-government-bought-fuel\/\" target=\"_blank\">a piece featured today on The Blaze<\/a>, Google is far from green.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s executives control a fleet of private jets that they use to gallivant to vacation spots around the globe \u2013 burning an average\u00a0of 100,000 gallons of fuel every month. The supposedly environmentally conscious company\u2019s jets have emitted more than 100 million pounds of carbon dioxide over the last four years alone.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s worse is that you are helping to fund Google\u2019s green hypocrisy. Google, thanks in part to its hefty campaign donations and cozy relationships with federal lawmakers and the Obama Administration, gets to park its jets in a taxpayer-funded NASA hangar and purchase its jet fuel at below-market prices from NASA and the Department of Defense. Google officials spent an\u00a0estimated $29 million on jet fuel at the facility, roughly $10 million less than what they would have paid on the open market.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/contributions\/google-flying-high-and-polluting-the-air-with-government-bought-fuel\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google likes to promote itself as a green, environmentally conscious company. After all, the company stays busy lobbying for carbon tax and cap-and-trade schemes, encouraging government to shutter coal plants and building solar farms. In reality, however, as I point out in a piece featured today on The Blaze, Google is far from green. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,4400,301,362,4399,288,395,4398],"class_list":["post-19510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-carbon-tax","tag-environmentalism","tag-google","tag-hypocrisy","tag-nasa","tag-obama-administration","tag-private-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19510"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19527,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510\/revisions\/19527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}