Ben Affleck took Jennifer Lopez and their overwhelming concern for the environment on a private plane and private yacht trip for her birthday. Maybe Ben always looks like he's about to start crying because he does more environmental damage in one week than an entire suburban neighborhood does in a year. Here are some interesting stats.
- A 70 meter (229 foot) yacht will burn 500 liters of fuel AN HOUR just to idle. Not even to move. That's just sitting still doing nothing
- The yacht they were on is called Valerie (one of my favorite girl names btw) and by coincidence it's 229 feet. 500 liters is 132 gallons. How long does it take you to use 132 gallons of gas? A month? Two months? They're doing it EVERY HOUR. Every 10 hours they're using 1,320 gallons of gasoline. And that's just sitting there in the air conditioning.
- They also traveled by private jet. A Bombardier Global 7500 that consumes 460 gallons of fuel an hour. They flew form the US to France using 460 gallons of fuel every hour they were in the air. It's 4400 miles one way. Being generous, assuming a 10 hour flight for easy math, these two burned FIVE THOUSAND gallons of fuel. Just on that leg of the trip. And they'll have to fly back too. So TEN THOUSAND GALLONS of fuel. How long would it take you to use 10,000 gallons of gas. Three years? Four? They'll do it in two trips. Not even counting the boat.
- None of this even includes all of the fuel and everything else the support staff uses getting everything up and running and schlepping these two idiots back and forth in various cars and SUVs and all of the trucks etc. required to get all of this stuff ready, cleaned fueled up and stocked with food and booze.
- Jennifer Lopez is 52
So I don't want to hear another word from either one of these assholes about how we need to stop doing shit to save the environment. They alone probably "damaged the environment" more on this one single trip than I will for the entire rest of my life. And that's including all those times I flushed used motor oil down the toilet.
