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As if the continuing horror of his divorce from Pegleg McLeech wasn’t bad enough, now he finds out that his new “eco-friendly” Lexus LS600H was flown to England from Japan:
A source is reported to have said: “Paul was offered a Lexus as a gift and ordered the hybrid limo because it helps to reduce emissions.
“He’ll be horrified after learning it was delivered by plane. Paul has always campaigned for green issues and he can’t understand why anyone would send an enormous car from Japan to Britain on a plane.”
Carbon offsetting firm CO2balance.com said the plane journey would have caused a carbon footprint of 38,050kg, compared to 397kg for a three-week boat journey…
Co2balance.com Director Mike Rigby said: “That is the equivalent of driving the car around the world six times.”
Hey, he should have had it shipped by yellow submarine! Get it? Because, see… he… he was in the Beatles… Leave me alone, I’ve had a bad day.
Great! Now I have that song stuck in my head!
Carbon offsetting firm? How do they manage that exactly? Did they steal my carbon credit/deserted island scheme? If they did I’ll see those bastards in court!
I love those celebrities who don’t know how to do their maths.
As far as a carbon offsetting thing goes, I think many of them are just selling indulgences. If you want to produce less carbon, you will do something else than buying you a car.
All I’ve done for the last 2 days is run numbers and feel compelled to slightly correct the logic here. Yes, the carbon emmissions from the whole plane trip are 38,000 whatever, but unless the car flew in the plane by itself for just that reason it is not fair to slap the whole “carbon offense” on just the one car. Certainly better to have it sent by ship but Sir Paul McMessImIn shouldn’t take the whole brunt of the plane’s journey.