Diddy Halts Private Jet Flights Over Fuel Prices

LOS ANGELES — Fuel prices have grounded an unexpected frequent-flyer: Diddy.

Sean "Diddy" Combs complained about the "... too high" price of gas and pleaded for free oil from his "Saudi Arabia brothers and sisters" in a YouTube video posted Wednesday. The hip-hop mogul said he is now flying on commercial airlines instead of in private jets, which Combs said had previously cost him $200,000 and up for a roundtrip between New York and Los Angeles.

"I'm actually flying commercial," Diddy said before walking onto an airplane, sitting in a first-class seat and flashing his boarding pass to the camera. "That's how high gas prices are. I'm at the gate right now. This is really happening, proof gas prices are too high. Tell whoever the next president is we need to bring gas prices down."

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Comments

[KillTheMessenger]

What???? You mean even our "celebs" can't afford wasting money any longer. Wow. The fall of the American empire has begun!

[Sensationalist]

Wow Diddy is so green.

[thegirlnextdoor]

Well, at first I thought he'd grounded his planes due to concerns regarding global warming and carbon fuels. But hay, if it take high fuel prices for people to seek out alternative methods of movin' around - good.

[Rashnak]

Yes- make the poor suffer so Diddy has to take first-class commericial flights. that will show them!

[pilgrim7]

Great. The middle rich are starting to feel the pinch of the lower middle class whose incomes are merely $5 million. Hold on, all you common people. There's still hope.

[madeyemoody]

Poor Diddy. I guess he'll have to park his yacht too. boo hoo.

[ShamusNYC]

I was going to type something insightful, but frankly I'm too overwhelmed with emotion & tears to do it.

WHERE IS THE HUMANITY?

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD - SEND MONEY TO P. DIDDY! FORGET GUSTAV, THIS IS THE ***REAL*** AMERICAN CRISIS!

[ed3541]

What has this man done for the poor? You can see what he's done for the rich in this excerpt from the Telegraph (UK):
In a recent television interview, he suggested a brand-new chauffeur service purely reserved for drunken celebrities, and while on vacation in France, splashed out £10,000 on an second private jet to carry just his luggage from France to Rome.
French pilots had told him that a single plane's engines were not powerful to carry the weight of all his suitcases of clothes.
Now he wants free gas from his Saudi brothers. I suggest he try to save his soul instead. Jesus said, " Whatever you do for the least of Me you do for Me." And, "It's harder for a rich man to get into heaven than a camel to pass thru the eye of a needle."

[frieswitdat]

Now if he has to trade in his Bentley, for a Prius, then you know times are hard at the Diddy Camp.

[MrCleaveland]

He halted his flights because of fuel prices?

I notice he didn't halt them because of their dreaded carbon footprint.

Another hypocrite Greenie.

[darthmaul]

Wake up! Rap stars and moguls are about conspicuous consumption, not about saving anything. The only "green" their interested in are Greenbacks, and now I suspect Euros!

[Ajita]

Where does it say he's an environmentalist? He's not a hypocrite, he just doesn't care about the planet.
Do you planet-haters have any real arguments left other than cry "hypocrite" every time someone takes a deux? Let me make it clear, even if every environmentalist is a hypocrite it still does not make the facts about global warming, environmental pollution and the mass extinction of species less true.

[Osiris1906]

Here's Diddy's opinion on McCain's VP selection.­..hilariou­s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thmueS0ngAs&eur

Hope he come through on his promise to help mobilize millions of young voters

[manndan]

That was funny.

[liberation4life]

We don't need his help.

[ShamusNYC]

He's a jerk, yes, but if he can get out the vote - fine.

[RushLiberal]

Well I guess according to John McCain status of the classes - Piddy falls into the lower middle class now.

What a shame - has to fly first class with all those Republican politicians.

Welcome to the Lower middle class Piddy.

[rangem]

he need s to be biotch slaped

[Mort]

Times must be hard for the 'ol Puffball. Don't it make your heart just bleed for him?

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

To all the Starving Masses:

IT IS TIME TO START EATING THE RICH!!!!

(Except for this guy--he looks tough and stringy!)

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Man! This is a real heartbreaker! Think he might accept some donations on his personal website?