Today's big waste-of-everything story comes from the land of excess where a wealthy Sheikh thought it'd be a great idea to send his black and gold Lambo LP640 in for an oil change. What makes this a big waste is that the Sheikh lives in Qatar and his 'local' service center is in London, UK.Autoblog Green was suitably miffed by it all and brought to our attention that not only was there a lot of waste in getting it to and from London (apparently it cost $46,644 USD to ship) but the car itself is a big carbon farting machine.
Even the staff of the shipping companies thought it was total bollocks with an airport worker saying, "This car doesn't have a carbon footprint – more of a crater." A London-Heathrow cargo handler added, "It would have been far more efficient to fly mechanics out there.". No duh!
This on the same day as the announcement that Exxon posted record profits making a cool $1,500 USD per second in the last financial quarter. At least our petrol has dropped to around the $1.50/l mark (not that that's cheap but it's cheaper than it was).
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