Posted on 11/20/2010 3:34:09 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
Global Warming allies left scratching their heads as Dear Leader arrives at summit in a 8mpg Panzer...
Most Americans are no longer surprised by Obama's do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do liberal duplicity on issues such as smoking, green lifestyles, or personal modesty/frugality. And anyone who did actual DD on Obama's environmental platform back in '08 can tell you his last ride before arriving in DC to heal the earth was a 300hp Chrysler 300 Hemi.
But the starry-eyed European Left is still coming out of the hopenchange ether, so many of them were appalled that even as the EU's left-leaning leaders -Obama's best carbon-trading allies in the world- were arriving at summits in Portugal this week on bikes and in electric cars, diplomatic klutz Obama showed up with the standard monster... one that weighs over 3x as much as a normal Caddy:
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While the Portuguese prime minister and the Portuguese president of the European Union’s executive commission are tooling around the NATO summit here in no-emission electric vehicles, Mr. Obama is fouling the Lisbon skies with his no-efficiency "Beast," the eight-ton, diesel-fueled behemoth of a limousine the president carts around the world with him.
Obama is expected to discuss climate change and a common US-Europe approach to it when he takes part in a US-European Union (EU) summit after the NATO meeting on Saturday. But in the meantime, the Portuguese capital is being treated to a jarring dichotomy: the polluting "leader of the free world," on one hand, lumbering across town in the Beast with a phalanx of black Secret Service vehicles and Portuguese police motorcycles in tow; and the Europeans zipping around in smart electric vehicles, on the other. Oh, and to drive the point home, journalists attending the summit are being ferried to events in electric buses, as well.
A “note to the media” left at every journalist’s work station in the summit press center says the use of electric vehicles is meant to raise awareness of Portugal’s “world pioneering leadership in electric mobility.” Portugal claims to derive 45 percent of its electricity consumption from “clean” energies. Its “Mobi.E” electric mobility network – with 100 charging stations in 25 municipalities around the country, set to rise to 1,300 charging points by mid-2011 – is considered a world leader.
But the Portuguese press is more interested in the Beast. Pages in Lisbon newspapers have been dedicated to cutaway renderings of “Cadillac One,” with charts and boxes offering every detail of the vehicle that the Secret Service divulges: the Kevlar tires, the special foam in the gas tank to immediately extinguish any fire from a direct hit, the supply of presidential blood...
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“with 100 charging stations in 25 municipalities around the country”
wow, I’m sure that’d work in America.
It must be tough after sp[ending 200 million a day on the Asian tour to have to jump in the old Family Huckster and travel to Portugal.
8 mpg is a little tough , but what the heck flying AF1 in there with it’s back up and a couple of Cargo planes carrying cars and various supplies added a little carbon to the skies also.
One hundred stations just might satisfy the needs of NYC.
100 stations wouldn’t be enough for Tampa. You’d end up using the power in the battery to get to a station let alone driving around.
Bunch of idiots
What?! No spinners and a high-end stereo with subwoofers? B-)
Eventually,unless a new power source comes forth from the pages of Sci-Fi and makes the leap to reality,we will be using electric cars. Trying to shove not ready for prime time technology down the throats of the people however is not the smartest route. If anything its just further evidence of Obama’s hubris. He wants to be “that president” with as many mentions in the history books as possible regardless of the wisdom of those firsts.
And like America under the Obammunists, Portugal is BROKE as a joke... but they’ve got € to screw around with electric cars.
Note a Chevy Volt costs 45k, while a diesel Ford Fiesta (70mpg!) costs a third of that, maybe that would make a little more sense for Lisbon than the Jetsons fantasies
And like America under the Obammunists, Portugal is BROKE as a joke... but they’ve got € to screw around with electric cars.
Note a Chevy Volt costs 45k, while a diesel Ford Fiesta (70mpg!) costs a third of that, maybe that would make a little more sense for Lisbon than the Jetsons fantasies
Far be it from me to refuse any opportunity to snark at “the Obamanation”, but I doubt if the Secret Service really gave him much of a choice on the limo.
It’s more than just a limo, it’s a mobile command post. The next President will use it or one like it, and the Secret Service won’t give him/her a choice about that, either.
No other ways for get around at a summit where he’s about to give a Global Warming speech...?
He needed to ship that thing across the ocean instead... as a mobile command post I understand it, but if he had any political sense he’s at least rode an electric moped somewhere for the cameras
And when he DID have a choice... he drove a 14mpg V8 Hemi anyway
One of them is athletic and presidential, a real Christian and a patriotic American to be proud of . . . and the other throws like a girl.
lolol
Well, it does seem that all in all, technological changes factored in, man hasn’t changed. We’re still hauling the arrogant elite SOB’s around...
what, no cigarette lighter, ashtray or crack pipe holder?
what a jip!
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