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Posted on 03/15/2011 5:18:14 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
At Friday's news conference, President Obama tried to connect with the common man coping with rising gasoline prices. Instead, the president left little doubt that he is clueless about cars.
"You may want to buy a fuel-efficient car," quoth Obama, "but you may not be able to afford it. And so you're stuck with the old clunker that's getting 8 or 10 miles a gallon."
Eight to 10 mpg? Which clunker would that be? I wondered. An old Hummer? Your father's father's Oldsmobile? A late-model Lamborghini? It takes a luxury brand, a boat-sized machine and/or a few decades to approach those dismal mileage numbers.
An 11-year-old Pontiac minivan, for example, gets 17 mpg in the city, 24 mpg on the highway.
You have to go back to the Carter administration years or earlier to find Obama's idea of a gas-guzzling family car -- and even that vehicle would have been a van, light truck/SUV or luxury model. And yet he is behind the wheel of Washington's energy policy.
Can you blame me for believing Team Obama was pushing the pedal to the metal in a rush for higher gas prices?
On March 11, Obamaland pushed back against the perception that its anti-drilling policies -- implemented in the wake of the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout -- have contributed to high prices at the pump. The cost of filling one's gas tank has risen uncomfortably close to $4 per gallon in the Bay Area of California.
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But then I have to haul along firearms and ammo, so I don't fly.
They must have used obsolete or worn-out transistors in his brain when they put him together in Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory.
My 1969 Mercury Marquis (429 c.i.d.) used to get me 15 mpg on the highway. I could drive from Tampa to Tallahassee (~ 330 miles) on one 20 gal. tank with a bit to spare.
I heard him say 8-10 mpg and laughed to myself. Yeah, back in the early 80’s we drove a used Oldsmobile V-8 that got mileage near that. You could sit at a light and watch the fuel indicator tick down. And then there was that used Cadillac I drove in college in the 70’s...but other than those two cars, I can’t remember a car getting that low mileage. Obviously he’s not “in touch” with car mileage.
No, Obama's brain is wired with flip-flops. And a few NOR gates.
more comments showing obama is a patronizng no-nothing elitist axxhole
Note to jug ears:
My 1997 clunker SUV (V-8) gets 16 MPG and my 1999 SUV clunker gets 18-20 mpg, and my entire family burns less gas in 10 years than when you and Moochelle fly in your personal trainer weekly from Chicago and send your family dog to Maine on his own private jet
I wonder too. Even my 4x4 crew-cab pickup (V-8, auto), gets about 15 around town and 20 to 22 on the highway.
My "few years old" commuter car gets 33 mpg. Sure, it's a little 4 cyl 5 speed stick. It is just plain fun to drive - can't call it a clunker. BTW, Goodyear Eagle GTs really grip, highly recommended to anyone looking for tires. It's like a whole new car with these on it now. (and no, I haven't gotten a ticket - yet)
Got a 2000 Chev 3500 15 passenger van for the Fam, with a 7.4 Vortec. One of the heaviest family vehicles on the road. Smooth ride.
It gets 16 mpg.
Didn’t the Bamsters daddy die by drunk driving in an Olds Toranado?
Obama rides in an up-armored Lincoln Town Car. The thing probably weighs 4 tons and probably does get 8 mpg.
When he lived in Chicago, he rode a bike with under-inflated tires. I know this because I’ve seen the pics.
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“And yet he is behind the wheel of Washington’s energy policy.”
Every statement “O” makes is proof positive of just HOW disconnected he always was, is and continues to be from Americans and American life. Depend on it, the American national character is an ‘unknown’ and an alien concept to “O”.
We now have in the WH, an utterly disaffected, marginalized and unmistakably anti-American President who could not be more badly informed of and antagonistic to American values and interests.
In my lifetime, I hope never again to see American voters as easily led to accept a Presidential candidate SO patently and obviously unfit.
I guess that's hussein obama admitting "cash for clunkers" was a failure. (we knew that already) I thought C4C was supposed to allow all the "po folk" to get rid of said clunkers. Guess it was really what we knew it was all along - more ill-considered wasteful spending by hussein obama and the Democrats.
Supposedly, King Barry drove a Chrysler 300 and then traded it for a more politically correct Escape Hybrid when he got in the race for the pres__ency.
Everything he says or does is politically motivated, even when he says or does something stupid.
Excellent.
1992 chevy suburban 2500: 10mpg
but its got a 450 cubic inch V8. tows 2 horses in a trailer at 80 mph at around 2200 rpm no problem.
has 40 gal tank. now costs over $150 to fill. ouchies.
Obama also thinks that we should get tune ups...
I've never seen Barry drive anything other than a golf cart. He probably never even got a driver's license (not with a COLB, anyway).
And in our midst, the many millions who put him there.
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