YET ANOTHER ODUMBO FAILURE...
Federal Vehicles Guzzling More Fuel Despite odumbo's Pledge to Cut Greenhouse Gas Use
odumbo's effort to reduce Uncle Sam's carbon footprint has resulted so far in nothing but hot air. Why does the government act surprised? And why do they even care when the American taxpayer is paying all the bills?
A new report finds that last year federal vehicles guzzled more gas than they had in any of the last five years despite Obama's order requiring federal fleets to reduce total petroleum consumption by 30 percent by 2020 and to promote tele-working as part of a broader goal to cut direct emissions by 28 percent by 2020.
The General Services Administration's report, released this month, found that the federal fleet of vehicles -- not including military -- increased its gas consumption to 322 million gallons in 2010, up 7 percent from 301 million gallons in 2009, the largest yearly increase in the past five years.
The federal gas bill also soared 33 percent, from $704 million in 2009 to $939 million last year. In 2008, Uncle Sam forked over $952 million for gasoline, the highest total yet when gas prices had gone through the roof across most of the country. An average price of gas in 2008 was $3.25 per gallon. In 2010, the average was $2.78 per gallon.
Not surprisingly, the two agencies with the highest fuel bills by far were the U.S. Postal Service, spending $374 million, and the Department of Homeland Security and its 31,500 security and police vehicles, spending $263 million. The next highest bill came from the Department of Justice with $64.4 million.
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