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Enviro-Celebs Big Fuel Fiends

Source:  Copyright 2008, New York Post
Date:  May 10, 2008
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THE world's top celebrities are total hypocrites when it comes to saving the environment and stopping global warming .

Writing in Britain's Daily Mail, former Page Sixer Tom Sykes details the fuel-guzzling ways of boldfaces who profess great concern for the earth, air and oceans.

Madonna's carbon footprint for 2006 was estimated at 1,018 tons - more than 100 times that of the average British resident. For New Year's Eve, Madge, her family and five pals flew to India on a private jet. Her rep didn't get back to us.

Barbra Streisand had a contract specifying she get "120 bath-sized towels" for her tour of England and Ireland last year. She also used a 1,353-foot semi-tractor trailer, four vans, 14 buses and a limo, and flew a private jet from Manchester to London. Her rep, Ken Sunshine, dismissed the towels requirement as "bull," but said he didn't know about the transportation.

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