"You Could Grow Orchids In There"

That's the description of the Oval Office by David Axlerod, a senior aide to the Obama. Apparently the new president doesn't like cold weather. Don Surber has more:

Or, as my favorite environmental lawyer put it: “Green for Thee, Not for Me.”

From the New York Times puff piece today on President Obama (well, OK, they all are): “WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.”

Cranked up the thermostat, eh?

Let’s get into the Wayback Machine for June 6, 2008: “We can’t drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we’re living in the desert or we’re living in the tundra, and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world’s energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we’ll be fine. Don’t worry about us. That’s not leadership.”

Hope. Change. Crank up the thermostat.

Mr. President, didn't you listen to the Goreacle yesterday? He promised us that we're all gonna die from climate change if we don't immediately scale back our energy usage.

In a sort of related item, I was making a couple of rental car reservations today (I have a couple of long driving trips coming up and would rather put the miles on somebody else's car) and at Enterprise Rent-a-Car I was given the opportunity to offset my carbon emissions for only $1.25 a day. I didn't check that box.

I'm proud of my carbon emissions and I don't care who knows it.