Obama celebrated Earth Day by using over 9000 gal of fuel

While flying to and from Iowa on Earth Day, Obama took two flights on Air Force One (shown below) and four on Marine One.

The press office at Andrews AFB wouldn’t give the fuel consumption numbers for the 747 that serves as Air Force One.

However, Boeing says its 747 burns about 5 gallons of fuel per mile. It’s 895 miles from Washington to Des Moines, so a round trip brings the fuel consumption for the fixed-wing portion of the President’s trip to 8,950 gallons.


The trip also put Obama on Marine One for round-trip flights between the White House and Andrews AFB and between Des Moines International Airport and Newton, Iowa, site of his Earth Day speech. It totaled about an hour of flight time.

The VH-3D that serves as Marine One consumes about 1200 pounds of fuel per hour, which comes out to about 166 gallons consumed flying Obama yesterday.

Not counted in the fuel calculations mentioned above is the fuel for the vehicles that took him from the Marine One landing zone to the site of the speech. The vehicle fleet always includes armored SUV’s to escort the armored presidential car.

Also not included is the fuel to get Marine One and the presidential vehicles to Iowa and back.

The article at the link below also says: Obama could have saved at least 9,116 gallons of fuel by giving his speech at the White House.

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