Gas-guzzling car rides expose AOC’s hypocrisy amid Green New Deal pledge

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Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to save the planet with her Green New Deal, but she keeps tripping over her own giant carbon footprint.

“We’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ ” the progressive darling said in January, speaking of herself and her fellow millennials. “And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II.”



Last week, she ratcheted up the rhetoric: “It is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult” due to climate change. “And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it OK to still have children?”

The guiding principle of her eco-vision is to bring about “a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases” within 10 years.

To achieve this, the GND fact sheet says, the nation must “totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail … create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle.”

But the woman who boasts of a “razor-sharp BS detector” seems to have trouble sniffing out her own.

Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustible-engine cars — even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office.

She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show. The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone.

In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals — even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train.

The campaign shelled out only $8,335.41 on 52 MetroCard transactions.

“Everyone — top to bottom — used the MetroCards,” Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent told The Post.

By comparison, fellow freshman Rep. Max Rose — whose district is more than twice the size of AOC’s and, like hers, spans two boroughs — listed only 329 transactions for car services, totaling $6,091.29, campaign filings show.

In a district with limited transit options and a $17 Verrazzano Bridge toll, Rose spent only $732 more than AOC on gas and tolls — an indicator of personal car usage.

Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly attributed her success in beating Democratic incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley to walking the streets of her district, which includes parts of Queens and The Bronx.

“I knocked doors until rainwater came through my soles,” she tweeted last June, famously donating her worn-out campaign shoes to the Cornell Costume Institute for an exhibit about women and empowerment.

But Ocasio-Cortez and her staff appear to have done much less walking after she vanquished Crowley in the party’s June 2018 primary.

Instead, her campaign embraced the friendly skies, logging 66 airline transactions costing $25,174.54 during campaign season.

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Someone that expects truth out of a socialist is in for disappointment. Someone that expects a liberal to live like they want to regulate everyone else to live is deluding themselves. Anyone that votes for these idiots deserve what they get, but everyone else and the nation doesn’t deserve such punishment.

The other day someone noted that AOC had her most recent cooking with AOC podcast in the SAME kitchen she’d been in for the previous 2 months!
And we thought she couldn’t afford two (or more) places to live.
Seems she can.
Her new kitchen in her luxury apt in DC hasn’t been featured yet altho she’s supposedly been living there.

Liar.

About the same time as her gas guzzling habits hit the NYPost her boyfriend’s legal employer was caught in a photo chomping down on a (!!!) hamburger with AOC at a restaurant!
Yeah, boyfriend is paid by rich silicon valley mogul while working with AOC.
Meanwhile said mogul is being paid by AOC just under the legal limit for having to disclose his other incomes!

Seems AOC is getting the hang of ripping off taxpayers, playing on their emotions and double dipping incomes via boyfriend’s outside incomes all while pretending to be paying all her workers ~ the same (for altruistic reasons.)

People are begging off coverage of her, but I think she needs the spying eyes on her.
She’s pretty two-faced.

The same gose with just about all of these DO AS ISAY NOT AS I DO liberal eletists Democrats like Al Gore,Leonardo DiCaprio,Laurie David,John Travolta,Robert Redford,Robert Kennedy Jr,as well as Greenpeace who still sail all over the globe in their Fossil Fueled Ships making total pests of themselves just ask one their Origoinal founders Patrick Moore