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  • Local man Gareth Mackie was stunned to spot The Beast and its decoy, plus at least two other huge SUVs 
  • Critics pointed out irony of attending a climate change conference only to commute from 45miles away 
  • President’s Cadillac ‘Beast’ runs on diesel and belches out around 10 times more C02 than average car 

Rory Tingle – Daily Mail Nov 2, 2021

Joe Biden’s gas-guzzling motorcade was last night spotted filling up at a petrol station in Edinburgh – where he is staying before taking the enormous convoy back and forth from Glasgow every day trailed by a helicopter.

Local man Gareth Mackie was stunned to spot The Beast and its decoy, plus at least two other huge SUVs which make up the 20-strong presidential motorcade.

‘Zoom in and you can see a White House aide’s jaw drop at UK petrol prices,’ he joked. Petrol recently hit new record high of 142.94p a litre. Diesel – which the Beast is believed to run on at just eight miles per gallon – also topped out at 147.94p a litre.

Today critics pointed out at the irony of Mr Biden attending a climate change conference in Glasgow only to stay 45miles away in the capital.

Flight trackers suggest a police helicopter shadowed his convoy all the way along the M8, adding yet more to Mr Biden’s carbon footprint.

Mr Biden’s Cadillac ‘Beast,’ a 20,000lb armoured limousine, generates an estimated 8.75lb of carbon per mile driven – 10 times more than the average car. Two Beasts – the official vehicle and a decoy – form part of his entourage.

This means every day the two Beasts alone belch out 1575lbs of CO2 going between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The conference is set to last until November 12, bringing the possible total for both cars to just under 20,000lbs.

Calculations suggest he will generate an estimated 2.2million pounds of CO2 over the whole trip, the bulk of which will come from his airborne entourage of at least four last planes.

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