Energy watchdog exposes eye-popping carbon footprint of Sanders' jet-setting tour: 'Fake socialist'

FIRST ON FOX: As Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to question astir the state connected his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, portion astatine the aforesaid clip defending his usage of backstage jets to bash so, an vigor watchdog radical has calculated the existent scope of the c emissions his flights person emitted.

During the 16 stops of the tour, which Sanders embarked connected with the assistance of progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his backstage pitchy emitted a full of 62.15 tonnes, oregon metric tons, of c dioxide, according to an estimation from Power the Future.

To enactment that successful perspective, Power the Future said successful a property merchandise that the emissions equate to burning 62,600 pounds of coal, driving a gas-powered SUV 150,000 miles, powering each location successful Sanders’ hometown of Burlington, Vermont, for weeks, and powering 9 U.S. homes for an full year.

Power the Future besides calculated that Sanders generated much c dioxide emissions connected this azygous circuit than the mean American produces successful 5 years. Additionally, the radical says that the emissions undo the carbon-capturing enactment of astir 2,900 trees implicit the people of a year.

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A caller study sheds airy connected the c emissions from Sen. Bernie Sanders from flying privately. (Fox/Getty)

"Sen. Sanders has voted for authorities punishing radical for their c footprint and threatening fossil substance executives with situation for clime alteration hysteria, but his idiosyncratic actions show he’s conscionable different limousine liberal, a fake socialist, unwilling to unrecorded what helium wants to enforce connected you," Dan Turner, Power the Future laminitis and enforcement director, told Fox News Digital. 

"The clime question is dead, and Bernie Sanders’ hypocrisy helped termination it."

Sanders, successful a caller interrogation with Fox News, refused to apologize for his backstage pitchy question and argued that oftentimes it is not imaginable oregon feasible to alert commercially. 

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Sen. Bernie Sanders' run committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, spent much than $221,000 chartering backstage jets during the archetypal 4th of 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings reviewed by Fox News Digital. (Power the Future)

"That's the lone mode to get around," Sanders told Bret Baier. "No apologies for that. That's what run question is about. We've done it successful the past. We're gonna bash it successful the future."

"You tally a campaign, and you bash 3 oregon 4 oregon 5 rallies successful a week. [It is] the lone mode you tin get astir to speech to 30,000 people. You deliberation I'm gonna beryllium sitting connected a waiting enactment astatine United…while 30, 000 radical are waiting?" 

Power the Future noted that 1 of the backstage pitchy flights taken by Sanders was from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, a way that offers much than a twelve commercialized flights per day. 

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Power the Future said successful a property merchandise that the emissions from Sen. Bernie Sanders' backstage pitchy question equates to burning 62,600 pounds of coal, driving a gas-powered SUV 150,000 miles, powering each location successful Sanders’ hometown of Burlington, Vermont, for weeks. (Power the Future)

Sanders' run committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, spent implicit $221,000 chartering backstage jets during the archetypal 4th of 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings reviewed by Fox News Digital and archetypal reported by The Washington Free Beacon. The filing, which was released past month, shows that Sanders dropped the monolithic haul betwixt 3 backstage pitchy companies: Ventura Jets, Cirrus Aviation Services and N-Jet.

Last month, Fox News Digital exclusively reported that Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez were spotted utilizing a backstage pitchy worthy up to a staggering $15,000 an hr for respective West Coast stops connected their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour. 

"Champagne socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez request Americans surrender their pick-up trucks, aerial conditioning and nutrient from the luxe leather seats of their backstage jets that outgo much per hr than astir Americans gain successful months. Their hypocrisy is staggering," National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Ben Petersen told Fox News Digital astatine the time.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Sanders' bureau for comment.