Drive What I Mandate You Should, Not What I Drive
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Most of the presidential candidates support hiking federal fuel efficiency laws. But do they practice what they preach about fuel efficiency when it comes to the vehicles they drive? Hardly. A review of some of the vehicles the candidates drive appears in today’s Detroit News editorial by R. Burr and H. Payne:
Mike Huckabee: “When it comes to his own vehicles, the Baptist minister strays from his scripture of fuel efficiency.” Vehicles includes a 2007 Chevy Tahoe (16 mgp, pictured above) and a Chevrolet Silverado (12 mpg) two of the biggest light trucks on the planet.
John McCain: Vehicles include a Lexus (his wife’s) and a CTS Cadillac (18 mpg).
Barack Obama: Travels with a Secret Service convoy of Chevy Suburban SUVs (12 mpg). His personal vehicle was a gas-guzzling, 340 horsepower Chrysler 300C (17 mpg) until he was exposed, and he bought a more politically correct Ford Escape SUV hybrid (27 mpg).
John Edwards: Now drives an Escape hybrid (30 mpg) after he was inconveniently caught driving a bigger SUV last summer while preaching that Americans should sacrifice their SUVs.
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