Saving the World in Style! Danish Limo Operators Can't Keep Up With Demand Ahead of Copenhagen Conference

The Telegraph is estimating that this week's Climate Conference in Copenhagen will see approximately 1,200 limousines and 140 private planes converging on the Danish capital:

On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen's biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the "summit to save the world", which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200.

"We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention," she says.

Guess again!

Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."

And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number?

"Five," says Ms Jorgensen.

"The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don't have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it's very Danish."

The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.

So we learn that hybrid cars are cost-prohibitve in the nation that's hosting the summit that's supposed to save the world.

I also wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn all these government and UN representatives will see to it that they will get to keep their private planes, limousines and town cars while hectoring and browbeating anybody who dares use their own vehicle instead of carpooling or taking public transit.