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Jeff Bezos, Climate Scold, Buys 4th Private Jet for $80 Million – RedState

This just in: Jeff Bezos is a hypocritical gasbag. But then, I think we all knew that already.

Bezos, co-founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, likes to wag his finger at us about carbon footprints. He’s even met with the Pope to talk about carbon footprints. (I’ll bet the Pope’s carbon footprint is substantial.) 

But Jeff Bezos is also firmly in the “do as I say, not as I do” camp in his personal life. Example: On Thursday we learned that Bezos just shelled out $80 million for a Gulfstream G700, that being one of Gulfstream Aerospace’s premiere luxury business jets, capable of cruising at nearly Mach One.

It’s Bezos’s fourth private jet. Yes, really.

The billionaire Amazon founder last month purchased a Gulfstream G700, luxury business jet manufactured by Gulfstream Aerospace that’s considered one of the largest and most advanced private jets in the world, according…

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