Presidential Transportation

written 25 Jan 2008 in the earliest morning

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Enviroblog is one of my favorite RSS feeds for all things green. It has a manageable amount of posts to sift through (unlike those other brands) and a healthy dose of liberal treesucking. In a post today, where they claim that 98% of Americans want to phase out fossil fuels and 4 out of 5 of us want climate action now, they list what vehicles the folks running for their party’s nominations drive. I’ll reproduce the list here for those of you afraid of hyperlinks.

The Republicans

  • Mike Huckabee drives a Chevrolet Silverado truck while his family’s main car is a 2007 Chevy Tahoe. Just FYI, those two SUV’s are also the biggest SUV’s on the planet.
  • John McCain’s wife drives a Lexus while his daughter owns a Prius hybrid. He drives a Cadillac.
  • Mitt Romney drives Ford Mustang convertible and a big Chevy pickup, while his wife drives a Cadillac crossover vehicle.
  • Ron Paul drives a Buick in DC, a secondhand Lincoln and Ford truck in Texas.
  • Rudy Giuliani does not own a car.

The Democrats

  • Barack Obama owns a 340 HP Chrysler 300C. However, when his choice was made known to the public, he bought a more PC hybrid.
  • John Edwards drives a hybrid as well, but he was apparently caught driving a bigger SUV a while ago. He also own Chrysler Pacifica.
  • Hillary Clinton drives a fashionable Mercury Mariner hybrid, which by the way does not score all that well on mileage counts.

I don’t know what these revelations reveal, but I can say this: You don’t change your boots when they’re in the mud, you put on the golaches on before you go catching skippers.

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    [...] nathan wrote a fantastic post today on “Presidential Transportation”Here’s ONLY a quick extractMitt Romney drives Ford Mustang convertible and a big Chevy pickup, while his wife drives a Cadillac crossover vehicle. Ron Paul drives a Buick in DC, a secondhand Lincoln and Ford truck in Texas. Rudy Giuliani does not own a car. … [...]

    - Cars » Presidential Transportation | 10:12am 25 Jan 08
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    Great list. It’s about what I expected. I commented on the original post, adding information about my long-shot candidate of choice, Mike Gravel.

    Here’s an interview where he talks about his environmental ideas and also his choice for transport.

    For a more local bent on the issue, check out the third letter to the editor here, as well as the story that inspired it. The resulting firestorm of pro- and anti-SUV letters that were published in subsequent days remain a point of pride in my letter-writing escapades.

    - Jake | 09:25am 26 Jan 08
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    Scratch that last link in the story. It should point here.

    - Jake | 09:28am 26 Jan 08

  • I’m not sure I follow your link strategy there, Jake, but the article about car leases interests me.

    I am a strong advocate of elected officials salaries commensurate with their constituents. If you’re a member of the Pennsylvania House and you represent, say Northern Cambria County, your pay should be the average income of the people living there. Not the high or low end, the exact median, that way you are presented with the same economic situations as your own people.

    Only then would “perks” be granted at the same level that a business pays for expenses. So, if you had a flight to Harrisburg to discuss business, the gov’t pays for it. If you have a weekend flight to the Poconos to hang out with lobbyists, you pay for it.

    - nathan | 10:35am 28 Jan 08

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