Celebs Who Claim They're Green but Guzzle Gas

31. GLAD TMZ IS AROUND TO REPORT about the reality of most of these celebs....george clooney is the worst of all of them.....constantly complaining about media intrusion and then you find his fat face all over vanity fair in a puff piece comparing him to cary grant..........george the only thing you and cary have in common is you both like to suck c**k..........j.lo, brad, julia, so typical, they want a certain profile presented to the public (one that has nothing to do with who they really are) and they behave like spoiled children with even the smallest tibit of truth leaks out.....these celebs are dependent upon the ignorance of the masses between new york and los angeles who believe their crap....once you have been around them for a few years you realize that 90% of them are over indulged brats who have way too much money and get way to much attention for all the wrong reasons........

Posted at 3:55PM on Oct 18th 2006 by spud

32. The oly one I respect out of that group is Leo. He has always put his money where his mouth is without the glare of the media spotlight. Folks need to take lessons from him.

Also, these celebs needs to realize that the average Joe does not fly on private jets 10 times a month. We are doing much more for the environment than they are.

Posted at 4:12PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Candace

33. Reality Check and CP - get a life!! I DO have a husband who is physically handicapped and has been so since 1995, yet we still conserve by driving far more fuel-efficient cars, and I do indeed carpool! It isn't convenient much of the time, but sometimes sacrifice hurts a bit. Like it or not, most SUV drivers have those gas guzzling HOGS because they like them - not because they NEED them. I can assure you - those gas guzzling HOGS (yes, I said HOGS) which outnumber the smaller, more fuel-efficient cars 5 to 1, use far more fuel than the small number of private jets flying around. I don't claim to know everything, but I do keep up with much of the political rantings and ravings of the rich and famous. I am telling you that, unless you have a specific example of either Julia or George spewing hypocritical crap, then that makes you the idiot. As a matter of fact, they both seem to be in the minority of stars, these days, that do keep their politics to themselves. However, if you know differently, then give me an example. I'd love to hear it.

Posted at 4:14PM on Oct 18th 2006 by TC-Atlanta, Ga

34. WTF!!!
Once again you guys makeup some dumb story......like you were the first to discover this.
If you paid attention to the real "press", you would know every little bit helps. Atleast they are doing something.
What is the staff @ TMZ doing....please dazzle us with your conservations efforts.
The way you dazzle us with your hard hitting stories.

P.S. Wasn't "My Best Friends Wedding" like ten years ago>

Posted at 4:21PM on Oct 18th 2006 by edna123

35. News outlets have been commenting on this behavior for years. They may save fuel on the ground, but the damage that their private accomodations cause on the environment overshadows all their "goodwill." I congratulate DiCaprio(who campaigns all over the states for a better environment), but maybe he would garner more attention if he started calling out celebrities on their hypocrisy. That seems like something average Americans would pay attention to, since they seem to know more about J.Lo's bra size than they do about world events.

Posted at 4:21PM on Oct 18th 2006 by lulu

36. Julia Roberts is a spokesperson for Earth Biofuels Inc. There, I gave you an example. You need more? Now who is the idioit? TC, you need to spend mroe time thinking before you talk.

Posted at 4:23PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Reality Check

37. I don't understand. Celebs work all around country and the world. How else would they get to where they need to go?
What about executives and sales people who have to travel a lot? They probably use more jet fuel then any of these celebs do.
Silly story.

Posted at 4:46PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Damian

38. Reality Check, YOU don't "GET IT".

IF you were of the upper crowd, and did fly to your destinations, vs. Greyhound, you would know that commercial aircraft go out with empty seats ALL OF THE TIME.

The Dutchess could of chartered a jet but she took the standard commercial flt instead. THUS, saving TONS of jet fuel.
And the flt that she was on went out with 4 empty 1st class seats. There were also 50 empty seats in coach, on that perticular flt. Who should we blame for THAT happening?

It was posted that "Stars" charter jets for privacy, they can buy more seats in 1st class for privacy and save the fuel and polution from the charter.

Posted at 4:53PM on Oct 18th 2006 by oat

39. Great bunch of stars. Glad to see them all driving fuel efficient vehicles.

Posted at 5:00PM on Oct 18th 2006 by kindisastateofmind

40. They can't buy those seats if one celebrity is too busy buying all the seats in order to maintain her privacy. Besides, you are making the assumption she did this on a regular basis and only on planes where there were four extra seats. What about planes with larger first class sections? Do you suppose she bought all of those seats too? Or, perhaps did she choose then to fly first class? The point is, you don't know. All you can do is hypothesize, yet in the meantime you get all hyped up because one time she did something you consider to be right.

Either way, the end result is a celebrity spending a lot of money to fly somewhere in a situation where no gets to fly "with" them. Take a few deep breaths and contemplate that.

If it will make you feel better, however, I won't even bother attacking your assumption about my own personal mode of transportation. I, in the meantime, will take comfort that you just succombed to the weakest of all arguments: you fell to insulting me in order to make your point. Too bad you missed your mark.

Posted at 5:00PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Reality Check

41. I dont drive an SUV but what is the difference of someone who drives an SUV 10 minutes to work and someone who drives a Camry 30 mins. to worK? Same amount of environmental damage. SUV owners arent the cause of our enviromental problems. Unfortuantely its a collected effort with EVERY ONE of us at fault =(

Dont blame, do something =) If we spent as much energy bitching and responding (like I am now-ha!) we would be much farther ahead in every aspect of our society & environment.

Posted at 7:09PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Kim

42. I have always felt these stars are hypocrites for telling us how to live and living another way. I cant imagine the inconvenience REALITY CHECK feels a star is subject to flying first class could in any way compare to the inconvenience the average working stiff feels riding public transportation every day to and from work. I flew once to Europe and had the misfortune to be seated in the very center of a 747. Now that is an inconvenience, took three days for my body to recover. They live in houses too large for 75 people fly private jets, own boats that waste fuel and then tell me how my car is damaging the environment What BS

would love to see how the average celeb score on the how green are you test.

Posted at 5:44PM on Oct 18th 2006 by bill

43. Um, Bill? I don't know what you are talking about. I, too, was saying the celebrities need to practice what they preach. I have re-read all of my posts, and I can't find anything where I talked about how the celebrities would be inconvenienced by flying first class.......are you sure you meant me?

Posted at 6:17PM on Oct 18th 2006 by Reality Check

44. cmon TC just because I pointed out your flawed logic you don't have to get so upset. I barely even drive so don't get all uptight with me.

Posted at 6:37PM on Oct 18th 2006 by CP

45. It wouldn't be so bad if it was a necessity rather than an ego stroke. I mean it has to be cheaper to buy out the entire first class section of a commercial airline than to rent a private jet. Excessive waste at it's finest, but that's one of the priviledges of being a superstar I guess. But at least they drive eco-friendly cars rather than the big, giant SUV's that seems to be all the rage these days. Oh wait, that's what their entourage is following them in. My bad.

Posted at 6:52PM on Oct 18th 2006 by deebee