[nonnymoose]

Obama Warns of Gas Guzzling Cars in Town Hall Meeting

 

[Penelope]

In his defense (she says weakly) he and his family live within a mile of his wife's workplace and his children's school, so on the average day I doubt they're going very far. I have no idea about his travel schedule, of course, but when I lived in that neighborhood (um, in the muchmuchmuch cheaper section) our driving around was pretty limited.

Yeah, that doesn't help.

 

[darsmama]

Ok all you middle class and below average earners - drive this geo metro so we can save our environment and let us important people drive the Escalades.

 

[Finch]

I was very disheartened to see this.

 

[brookely ash]

(Editor's Note: After this story appeared Sen. Obama's press office sent us this additional information: "A story your station ran seems to imply that my boss Senator Obama was being hypocritical when he said Americans should drive more fuel-efficient vehicles though he was himself traveling in an SUV.

The SUV in question, though, is a Flexible Fuel Vehicle that can run on E85, which the Senator fills it with wherever its available (and in fact he's worked very hard to provide tax credits to increase availability and access to e85). I believe in light of these facts the story is misleading and warrants a correction."

 

[nonnymoose]

Quote:

The SUV in question, though, is a Flexible Fuel Vehicle that can run on E85, which the Senator fills it with wherever its available

Wonder how many places around there are to fill up with that stuff?

 

[Danelle78]

http://www.e85refueling.com/

 

[lisalou]

Has ethanol changed and I didn't know about it? Doesn't it actually take more fuel to create ethanol than it actually provides? The research I did on grist.org awhile ago bore that out. So yes it is hypocritcal as far as I'm concerned. But there are other things that continue to make him likable.