Speaker of the House, her Royal Highness, Nancy Pelosi has a small commuting problem. Her three day work week is sandwiched in between weekend commutes to California. She is not the first Speaker to have an aircraft at their disposal. OK.. fine.
It was a C-20 which is a modest corporate level jet. Her problem with it was that the aircraft had to stop along the way and refuel. Ok.... fine...
So she now commands a C-32 which is
The C-32 is a specially configured version of the Boeing 757-200 commercial intercontinental airliner. The C-32 body is identical to that of the Boeing 757-200, but has different interior furnishings and 21st century avionics. The passenger cabin is divided into four sections:
Now this "modest"aircraft has an operational cost estimated to be in excess of $22,000 per hour to operate. (note that it is about a 5 hour flight on the average and my less than stellar mathmatical skills equates that to about $110,000.00. Oh yeah, there is that return trip of another $110,000.00 per Freaking weekend!!)
Now while you and I are beginning to wonder if the whole bottom is going to fall out, Her Royal Highness is looking over you, twice every weekend she is looking over you while she suffers that horrible commute. Good thing the price of fuel is down folks otherwise it would cost US a hell of a lot more.
One has to wonder if their (Congress) recent raise of their travel budgets to $90,000 per head (or asshole... your choice) had anything to do with all of this?
Sharku
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