Posted on 07/02/2008 7:52:35 AM PDT by ZGuy
Arnold Schwarzenegger has risked accusations of green hypocrisy by driving around in a gas-guzzling Dodge Challenger Coupe.
The Hollywood star-turned Californian governor has built a reputation as a leading green campaigner and last Friday told a climate-change meeting in Florida: "America is so addicted to oil it will take us years to wean ourselves from it, and to look for new ways to feed our addiction is not the answer."
In an interview last year, the governor spoke of his wish to create "a whole new industry of clean cars and clean engines and components to build those engines."
To this end, he did sell his fleet of Hummers.
But the former actor's green credentials may have been slightly dented after he was spotted driving the coupe in Los Angeles.
The vehicle, which does just 13 miles to the gallon, boasts a 6.1 litre V8 engine and can reach 60mph in under five seconds.
Schwarzenegger, 60, took the car for a spin with his sons Patrick, 14, and Christopher, 10, and his wife Maria Shriver, 52.
The model, an SRT8, is similar to The Dodge Charger made famous by The Dukes of Hazzard television series in the 1970s and 80s.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“probably shrunken up like he just stepped on a cold tile floor.”
Even my wall to wall carpeting don’t seem to be doing me any good. Damn!
ROFL.
I used to live in LA. Very funny.
Thank you. I saw the movie when in came out. I was living in LA. A year or so later, saw Barry Newman in a deli in Santa Monica.
It was a Challenger, not a Charger.
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