Environment Terminator
Filed under: Politik > Arnold Schwarzenegger
Talk about a commute!
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose official place of work is in the Northern California city of Sacramento, reportedly spends nearly every night in his Los Angeles-area mansion.
The distance between the two cities is about 360 miles one way!
The governor uses his own money to pay for his Gulfstream flights, which price out at about $10,000 an hour.
Good thing he earned some major cash as a bodybuilder/actor.
But, the environmental costs are high. Flying TO AND FROM WORK is not very ecologically sound, as our Perezcious readers know!
The governor's staff says he purchases "carbon credits." Such credits are aimed at offsetting the greenhouse gases generated by his flights but do nothing about the particulates and smog-forming compounds released into the air.
The reason the Governator gives for the 'commute'? It's so he can spend time with his family. Admirable but can't the family move up to Sacramento?
Arnold recently made the cover of Newsweek for being 'green'. Looks a little hypocritical to us!
[Image via WENN.]
Psh I don't blame him… I live in the Sacramento area and if you have lived here all your life like I have you probably would rather be in LA too!!!
Yeah - it's pretty funny these rich people spout how we little common folk should give up everything in order to be "environmentally correct". That's like Cheryl Crow telling us to use ONE SQUARE of toilet paper while she crossed the country in a HUGE bus. Al Gore and his MANY faux pas.
Hey rich people - just shut the fuck up. We don't need your advice. You could probably use ours, though.
Uh, pretty much all politicians are hypocrites. Why would terminator be any different?
He does what he can and every little bit helps. Family is important too and moving is a pretty big change for kids.
Suprise suprise another fake just like Spitzer. California is full of them. They have the worst smog in the states but everyone has to drive their OWN car with their specialized gay plates to sit in traffic for hours while the diamond lanes are empty. Plus there are plenty of SUv's, 4 wheelers etc on the road. And they all have to have their green lawns etc in areas where there isn't supposed to be any and waste tons of water. Their beaches are just as polluted as any, nasty.Plus they are all fake anyway…. fake tits,faces,lipo etc.. Let it slide into the ocean! Thanks and have a nice day!
And what about Al Gore with his "carbon credit" purchases? As well as $10,000 dollar electricity bills? Everyone is a hypocrite. It's good publicity to look like you care. P-O-L-I-T-I-C-I-A-N-S, what do you expect?
i'm back bitches!
he looks fat.
Arnold's daily jet-setting is right up their with big-shot environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio's response when asked if he would continue to use private jets in this age of global warming: "only as required by my industry."
Uh, gee Leonardo, I guess jetting to that 5 o'clock cocktail party is required by your industry.
Stop trying to make Republicans look bad..nice way to try and start posting so many biased blogs recently!! Keep your political ageneda out of your posts we all know you're a Hilary lover so just post the damn gossip already cause you're starting to really suck ass!
a good reason not to do steroids. all that muscle starts to sag and look what you get! yikes!
republican=not giving a damb about the environment. Does anyone notice how bloated his hands are?
Perez, don't talk like you are a big enviromentalist. You now think you are some big political commentator because you support a primary candidate. You have no idea what you are talking about and how carbon credits work. And while you are criticizing the governor for wanting to be with his family, remember he has kids who are in school. You'd be the first to call him out if he didn't treat his family as his #1 priority.
Al Gore did not invent the internet, but he did make up global warming….
ewww he looks like he is on estrogen. moobies! moobies!
Is this any more hypocritical than Al Gore taking private jets or Brad and Angie tooling around in gas guzzling SUVs? Republicans aren't the only hypocrites, Perez…..
I voted this guy in and have loved him until now!! What a horrible governor. How can he take millions and millions of money from the education budget?? I hate you Arnold. NO LONGER A FAN OR A SUPPORTER
The good news is he's not having whore sex for thousands of dollars…an hour.
He is the Anti-Christ…Satan incarnate, lucifer!!!!!
Plus he's got like 12 Hummers that he drives around, he is constantly blowing stinky Cuban cigar smoke in the air, even around his kids, and he farts a lot. He is one of the most un-green people out there. He's gross, not green. I've never understood what Maria sees in him.
i am all for being green but if he wants to do the commute so be it. at least he got rid of the hummer. don't you know all these celebs are just a bunch of phonies. they have millions so it is nothing to give to charity or make efforts at being green. it is all hypocritical so don't just point your finger at the gov. let him throw away his money, it is good for the ca economy. also, i understand not wanting his kids to switch schools to move to sac town. nobody does anything about thos damn busses that cause so much polution on our streets every frickin day.
he's fullllllllllllll of shit and doesn't like latinos. He should have got stuck on acting. corrupt mofo
I can't blame him. Sacramento is a hole. No one with half an ounce of opportunity or half a wad of cash should live here.
ridiculous! don't talk so much about caring for the environment, and then do so much damage!
according to the harvard crimson al gore's the real hypocrite:
Gore and his wife Tipper, whose children all live elsewhere, reside in a behemoth 20-room mansion outside of Nashville that used nearly 23,000 kilowatt-hours last August, more than twice the annual-yes, annual-energy usage of a typical American home. Gore's preferred mode of transportation between stops on his international publicity tour is his private jet, which spews out CO2 emissions at the rate of a small army of SUVs.
tsk tsk. show's you how political the nobel peace prize is.
SCHWARZENEGGER IS BLOCKING THE HIGH SPEED RAIL!!!
AND I suppose you and your staff never fly to all the events in which you participate Perez? London, Texas, New York? GIve us a break.
Oh please, every single celebrity is hypocritical, like for instance look at that fat pig gore not only is he eating enough food that could feed a whole third world country do you think he flys united…yeah right talk about jumbo jet…almost every politician/celebrity have private planes…so what if Arnold goes to LA every night…pelosi travels back and forth from CA to D.C on her private jet so stop being a radical liberal…politics and celebrities don't mix…
thank you Perez this kind of shit is ridiculous and there is NO EXCUSE!!!!
It seems like Perez is against republicans. Why not show the biggest Hypocrite of all. Al Gore has started a "go green" compaign stating we have "10 years to shape up or our planet will be sent free-falling." Yet his home uses more electricity every month then the average american house does in one year. If I were Leonardo Dicaprio I would feel like such an idiot for jumping on this guys bandwagon. He claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces. That makes it right? That is like saying you are against killing animals, it is wrong and decided to wear the biggest fur coat you can find and claim it is okay because it used to belong to somee lse but they sold it to you, you didnt actually kill the animal yourself. If you stand for something then stand for it. Dont be a hypocrite and say you believe in something so much, humanity will die if it doesnt make changes, and then you yourself is one of the biggest causes of the problem you are claiming is so important.
Shockingly - hypocritical. Normal people could never afford this luxury to destroy the environment. We would have to make normal choices - like moving our family near our work place, or sacrifice and visit on the weekends. Sad to see that the privledged, truely take advantage of those privledges at the sake of the environment that they claim they are tying to preserve for all of us. I guess, until it infringes on what is convenient for them. I am sad to see that even Arnold is now above the 'law' the 'commoners' that he feels this is ok for him. What if all us commoners practiced this type of behavior. I bet we would have a tax imposed on us - or a fine, for offended the rest of humanity.
seriously. can you all find something else to b^tch about other than the damn environment?
Governor Blagoevich (Illinois) has been doing that for years. The capital is Springfield, not Chicago, but his wife insists their children go to a special prep school up there. Nice cover-up. But the State of Illinois pays for it. Hmmm.
JUST LIKE YOUR F**K BUDDY BIG GAY AL GORE!!!!!
This should be the Poster Boy for "Once had it, Doesn't Anymore : What Steroids Do, If You Live Long Enough".
Obviously - never having children, Perez, you have no concept of how a major move affects children. I commend Arnold for wanting to be with his family each night but I think there could be a compromise here. My husband commutes 300 miles twice a week so he can be home each night but when work demands it - he stays overnight near his office. I think Arnold should work two days, be home one. Work two then be home on the weekends.
This man is admirable for sure. It is ridiculous to call him anything other than that. His commitment to California, his family and his dedication to the enviorment is much higher than your lame ass, Mr. Perez i hate everyone except my hot self which is the foulest thing i have ever seen.
Yeah, and he just stole jobs from thousands of teachers which will lead to 40 kids per highschool class, 36 students per class in 4-5 grades and 30 kids per class in kindergarten. Why should he care? His kids go to private school in LA countey.
Re: Duzzy – Duzzy 27 million is how much he has cut from your district not the state. The state amount is much higher. My district just lost 16 million.
yeah i also think its hypocritical that you dont call out all the green democrats that do damage flying private jets everywhere they go…
Uhm, he needs some Weight Watchers….his hips are gonna knock someone over
Hey guys,
Arnold is the greatest bodybuilder/actor in this world! Dont even think to fuck with him!
Cheers!
Hey dumb shit perez Sacramento is the capital of California I do not understand how you fail to mention that its not just some town in nor cal. Shit like that is the reason people from nor cal hate so cal. Its typical for him to want to stay in la he is wasteful and does not represent all of california.
The headline says it all. Calling him green is a joke. I live in Finland and this winter we hardly had any snow. This is something that I guess we have to get used to. It is another sad example of global warming.
you are one to talk about hypocrites chubby why dont u help the enviroment by using less oxygen, and taking up less space by losing about 50lbs? go for it if you fucking can, btw i bet your fucking rainbow sherbert hair probably has about 20 chemicals in it.
Haha actually his family DID live in Sacramento when he was first elected, but his kids began to complain it was "boring" there. I guess the most important thing for him is giving the brats what they want!
The Governor of Illinois also does this…his official place of work is Springfield, IL, and he flies home to Chicago every night, costing about $13,000 a week.
Why after living in the USA for most of his life does the Enviroment Terminator still talk so GOOFY? He pretends he can't pronounce words correct-"how you say" " you people say"? "Whats the word you people say" Are you calling Americans "you people"? Either you are stupid or have a speach inpedimat or you think its cute, WE DON"T. Drop the fake overdone acesent.Youve lived her far to long to still talk like its your first day in the U.S. You act like a big dumb child.
perez, i love you….but Sacramento is more than just a city in Northern California….it's the freakin capital!
eeeeew yuck. what is with the puffy lobster hands! He has a lizard throat, gross. He is so not 'green' hippo-crit loser. What a disgrace that he is our governor. sad.
eeeeew yuck. what is with the puffy lobster hands! He has a lizard throat, gross. He is so not 'green'– hippo-crit loser. What a disgrace that he is our governor. sad.
"Looks like a big bag of walnuts."
Just because he can afford it doesn't mean it is right. We wonder why there rest of the world hates us and it is waste like this. Ahhhhnold mustn't be sullied by having his wife and kids live in Sacto, like the regular peeps.
Actually,now that I think about it he is probably ripping off the rest of us by charging this plane to his "production company" like he did before, registering it in Nevada, so he doesn't have to pay taxes on it.
i wouldn't want to live in sacramento either
Have you ever looked at big Dem supportrers and all their cars, private jeys ect. Most of Hollywood are hyporites but you need to pick on a Republicans becuz you are just SOOOO PREJUDICE. It makes me sad you will never open you mind or eyes.
At least he pays for it himself. The IL governor Blagovich makes the taxpayers of IL pay for it each day.
I live in Sacramento. And when he came to look at the governors Masion he and his wife didn't like it. It wasn't of their taste or size. (It must be nice to be that rich Arnold)…. They where about to have the city and state build them another one at tax payers expence. But for whatever reasons he decided not to. I believe becuase he knew he would get a lot of backlash for it. When Arnold was running for governor he and his family knew that they were more inlikely going to have to move to Sac. or close to it. I find it disappointing that he is using so much fual knowing how much it is and how bad it is for the earth. And on top of that he made major budget cuts to just about everything in California. Which is effecting a lot of people and not in a good way. He is going to push people out of California for so they can get a better education, jobs, and health care because they aren't going to be able to find it here. We need a Governor that really does care about the people of California and not his own pocket.
It's not just Arnie. There are thousands of rich assholes abusing this planet for their convenience.
with 3 hummer H1s in the driveway, he's soo full of shit his eye's are brown
George Clooney refused to be a spokesperson for prius (Despite driving one) because he also takes a jet and thought it would be hypocritical.
I guess Arnold didn't have that sense.
I know where his house is. It's on Sunset and..can't say. Not far from the 405.
Oh Perez, of course you can smell the hypocrisy, since you are in fact the world's biggest hypocrite and wannabe's out there. I feel your 15 minutes are winding down.
no business in politics.
PERRAZ is jealouse… cuz this bitch can have what Gov. has… PUTA!!!!! Can you find a better job man (girl whatever you are oh i know TERRORIST!!!!)….
I'm from Sacramento and as always the folks from down south don't think much of our city. Maria came up and gave it some cursory look arounds but I knew she wasn't going to move the clan up here. She planted some sound bites in the media about what a wonderful community Sacramento was but reading between the lines was easy, "Not good enough for my family". Nancy Reagan wasn't pleased either but it's kind of funny in a way because Ronald Reagan chose a wonderful neighborhood (after vacating our decrepit Govenor's Mansion) for his family, it was a neighborhood with real people and loads of charm. His children could ride their bikes and play with other kids on the block. The only way you could tell that his house was different was the small guard shack in front and I think that the adjoining houses may have been occupied by security, but the houses are fabulous. I think he lived on 45th or 44th st., a big tree lined street where almost all the houses are huge two stories with old world charm and were built around the '1940's. I drove around Brentwood a couple of weeks ago and our "Fab Forties" can match up to Brentwood anytime. Everyone is falling all over themselves lately to channel Ronny but Arnold chose differentlyfor his family. I'm also sick of the governors having their celebratory balls in SoCal. If that's not snooty I don't know what is. We should start holding our NorCal water for ransom.
we mayb killing our mother earth… BUT i say rock on, i don't want kids, so fuck you and your grand childrens childrens childrens children and so on and so forth. If anyone in our political hierarchy really cared about "going green" they would be doing much more to help save our earth. So rock on Arnold. Drive your god damn plane everyday all day and keep on goin green=)
smoke weed everyday
Suck it perez
you're realizing just now that these so called 'green celebs' all do this shit? Al Gore is one of the worst offenders out there. He takes private jets everywhere.
I guess we are the only ones who are supposed to worry about that shit and not the elites.
Re: sini – Hey moron, you are beyond full of shit. This year was the coldest year we've had on EARTH in nearly 100 years. The midwest of the US had more snow dumped on it than the last 5 years COMBINED and its not done yet.
Solar activity took a dive late last year and ever 'gain' made by global warming was wiped out in ONE YEAR. Now, one year does not a trend make, but if it continues into next year…and the year after that…then perhaps the Gore scientists, who apparently felt good about 'ending the scientific debate' after 5 years of study, will have to actually look at more data.
The solar activity plays a much bigger role than you think.
I'm all for pollution reduction but the anthropogenic global warming has a way to go before becoming a scientific law as Gore would suggest.
LIMOUSINE LIBERALS ARE ALL ALIKE…..THEY GIVE UP NOTHING AND PREACH GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY CONSERVATION. HIPPOCRITES.
He looks just bad. Look at his hands…Whats going on there??
WHY are his hands so swollen?
Back off!!!! at least he pays for the trip home to be with his FAMILY!!!
He also passed a bill to spray parts of California with toxic chemicals. GREEN MY ASS!!! check out www.StopTheSpray.org The spray, Checkmate, is made by a company that contributed over $100,000 to his campaign. He is an evil Nazi with icky bitch tits and his wife looks like Frankenstein.
Who cares….
oh come on give him a break! atleast he's trying
what about Al Gore! he's the biggest hypocrite ever!
he looks fat :/
Carbon credits are a scam - a load of BULL - and so is MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING. But - this is another example of a liberal (he claims to be Republican but is not) telling us how to live our lives and they do the opposite. Gov Blagoevich of Illinois is the same way and does the same thing.
You dumb ass, he made his money in real estate!!!!
The environment doesn't give a rat's butt about carbon credits.
The only way to "go green" is to go green.
C-
He needs to fly more, you fuckheads and your global warming are stupid. IT IS NOT HAPPENING, GET OVER IT.
Could the winder on his watch be ANY BIGGER? He probably can't bend his left hand!
Hypocritical? Not nearly as hypocritical as your butt-boy Al Gore. Why don't you do some investigating on Gore's cardon foot print.
Arnold Rocks!!
Just a bunch of worthless pieces of crap. He is the best gov that any state can get. Look at NY's gov. So what he is flying back and forth he is paying it with his own damn money. Some of you fuck ups need to get a life and get a damn job. Yes he is looking old but wouldnt you if you where getting his age. Look at Stallone he looks even worst.
U guys saying to coolest things. I actually come to read your comments to cheer me up when I'm having a bad day.
All of you articulate folks here claiming to be teachers…I just can't imagine why they choose to let you go, maybe the anger issues or the language???
I can tell most of you have never been to Sacramento. You couldn't pay me to move there either. Davis is very nice though.
Arnolds hands are quite swollen? He probably just strangled some union boss inside that building. You rock Arnold. Kill the unions and the budget crisis will be terminated.
Umm…. what about John Travolta, Brad Pitt and the other liberal pilots out there who fly around every week. stop just hating on only conservatives Perez!
OMG, doesn't he have tiny hands…!
okay he can pay that much to go all the way to los angeles but he cant donate money to the schools hes cutting money from i think he's ridiculous dumb jerk
given that almost all politicos travel by private jet, I would say they're all hypocrits. They should fly comercially like the rest of us.
I'm tres disappointed in Arnold. He should know better. If he doesn't watch out, he'll alienate the people (such as myself) that voted for him but care deeply about the ENVIRONMENT!
Arnold isn't the only governor doing this. Illinois' has been for the past 6 years. He flies from Chicago to Springfield every single day. That's about 200 miles each way. At least, I would assume, Arnold pays for it out of pocket. Blago make the Illinois taxpayers pay for his everyday flights.
Re: jon – HAHA!! I was thinking the SAME thing!!! WTF is up with those hands?? Im getting scary flashback's from the days of the Munchkins singing the Yellow Brick Road…wow…they are just so dwarf-like…
jerk!
The governor should be setting a good example even if he were to commute once a week by car he would save an enormous amount of carbon. and yes it is hypocritical of Gore to also purchase carbon credits in order to fly all the time especially in a private jet but in order for people to tbe more sustainable and to reverse the massive amount of damage that has been done no one would be able to fly ever again! It is fairly evident that gbl warming is happening a lot of the issues we are starting to face globally are due to rising temps. Things like more extreme weather (tsunamis, drought) , also the capabilities to produce food in some areas is decreasing. Consider that a lot of the solutions offered up are not realistic. Everyone is jumping on the biofuel wagon but most people do not relaize that in order to produce enough fuel using corn a huge segment of the population wouldn't be able to eat beacue of the amount of space you would need for the corn. Also food will get more expensive as there is more competition for corn as a food product (as well as one to feed cattle) and a biofuel. And lastly on the biofuel issue the US government gives a lot of subsidies to farmers hurting people who traditionally produce corn in countries like Mexico. There is a whole range of issues, reppression and Human Rights to look at if we consider what the effects of mass use of corn 4 fuel. Let the gov. know this is not how you want to represented.
Hey Perez - Why not show Al Gore doing the same crap! Private planes, several homes (that were not built "green") — energy use out the roof.
Oh yeah, he's a liberal democrat so he gets a pardon, right??
Stick to the celeb gossip and quit trying to be some kind of political/moral authority blogger. Ughh. sick of it
hahaha- this guy is my boss. Srsly, I work for him.
What an ahole! He's cut millions of dollars from our schools and he's flying home every freaking night?
Re: IL –
Very true. Good to know the "i can't uproot my family for my job" excuse works for both parties. Home office in Chicago my butt…
Once again money talks and the environment suffers for it. Why doesn't Arnold take a commercial jet already headed from Sacramento to LA and reduce his carbon footprint?
gulfstream flights arent 10 grand an hour, even if he has the g550 its at most 6k an hour with fuel and pilot costs, he owns doesnt charter