"It appears his hypocrisy knows no bounds"
Posted on 08/16/2006 5:18:12 AM PDT by seanmerc
Illinois Senator Barack Obama warns citizens at his 50th Town Hall meeting about gas guzzling, WPSD-TV reports.
It was among many points made to the standing room only audience at the Metropolis Community Center. Obama spoke on everything from DC politics to global warming.
He says part of the blame for the world's higher temperatures rests on gas guzzling vehicles. Obama says consumers can make the difference by switching to higher mileage hybrids.
Today the Senator said, "It would save more energy, do more for the environment and create better world security than all the drilling we could do in Alaska."
"After the meeting... Obama left in a GMC Envoy after admitting to favoring SUV's himself," claimed local News Channel 6.
Tommy Vietor, Senator Obama's press secretary, explains: "What Senator Obama has long advocated is the use of vehicles that are more fuel efficient, including but not exclusively hybrids.
"The vehicle senator obama travels in while in illinois is a Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV), which can run on e85, a blended fuel made of 85 percent ethanol.
"So he in fact was practicing what he preached at the town hall meeting in Metropolis yesterday when he said we must drive fewer gas-guzzling vehicles."
But it does not appear that GMC's Envoy is E85 ready.
Developing...
That could be our next VP running around telling us what's good for us.
Arrives empty headed, leaves empty headed.
I read a thread last night about this. Once the cat was let out of the bag, the local tv station removed ANY mention of this story from their web site. Nice, don't cha think?
This is SUPERMAN in METROPOLIS.
You wouldn't expect SUPERMAN to just humbly pretend he was an ordinary person like Clark Kent, would you?
Yeah, baby!
Well, they ARE smarter & more caring than us/sarc
I thought his full name was Democrat-Rising-Star-Barack Obama.
Obama Sin Laden
ABP:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684339/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684292/posts
Sorry. I did a search and nothing came up, so I posted it.
Arrives full of crap, leaves empty headed.
Yep typical liberal. Kind of like the gun-grabbers who don't want ordinary people to have guns but make darn sure their body guards do.
Good point. I am ashamed I overlooked the little darlings.
According to a list of GM vehicles capable of using E85 from the National Ethanol Vehicle coalition (NEVC), no GMC Envoys are listed.
2007
5.3L V-8 engine Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra half-ton pickups 2WD & 4WD
5.3L Vortec-engine Avalanche, Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon & Yukon XL
3.5L Chevy Impala (LS, 1LT & 2LT)
3.5L Chevy Monte Carlo (LS and LT models only)
5.3L Chevy Express
5.3L GMC Savana
3.9L Chevy Uplander
3.9L Pontiac Montana (Offered only in Canada and Mexico by special order)
3.9L Saturn Relay
3.9L Buick Terraza
2006
3.5L Chevy Impala (LS, 1LT & 2LT)
3.5L Chevy Monte Carlo (LS and LT models only)
2005 - 2006
5.3L Vortec-engine Avalanche
5.3L Vortec-engine Police Package Tahoe*
2003 - 2006
5.3L V-8 engine Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra half-ton pickups 2WD & 4WD
5.3L Vortec-engine Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon and Yukon XLs
2002
5.3L V-8 engine Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra half-ton pickups 2WD & 4WD
5.3L Vortec-engine Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon and Yukon XLs
2.2L Chevrolet S-10 pickup 2WD
2.2L Sonoma GMC pickup 2WD
2000 - 2001
2.2L Chevrolet S-10 pickup 2WD
2.2L Sonoma GMC pickup 2WD
*Fleet vehicles only.
I also had previously looked at a Trail Blazer (the Chevolet version of the Envoy) and no Envoy type vehicles for 2006 or 2007 were going ot be E85 capable. So the Senator should reevaluate his FFV stance.
"So he in fact was practicing what he preached at the town hall meeting in Metropolis yesterday when he said we must drive fewer gas-guzzling vehicles."
Except isn't E85 less fuel efficient than gasoline?
Check out: http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2005/10/pawlentys_subur.asp
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