NYC mayor restricts idling, but his SUVs do it (Hypocrite PING!)

AP-Yahoo! ^ | 22 July 2009 | SARA KUGLER

[greatdefender]

NEW YORK – Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has pushed an ambitious green agenda and cast himself as a national environmental leader, routinely runs afoul of his own anti-pollution policy by letting his official SUVs idle, sometimes for more than an hour.

In spot checks over the past week, The Associated Press timed idling periods for the mayor's city-owned SUVs, which shuttle him around the city or trail him when he takes the subway. The parked vehicles idled at least eight times for periods of 10 minutes to over an hour.

The mayor earlier this year strengthened the city's anti-idling law — which allows three minutes of idling — into what advocates call the nation's toughest and promised a public-awareness campaign. The bill limited idling to one minute in school zones and mandated education for taxi driver applicants.

"Those of us that want to leave a good life for our children, and want to have clean air for us to breathe, and clean water to drink ... it's incumbent on us to really carry the fight," he said at the signing.

Bloomberg's SUVs are exempt from the law because they are considered emergency vehicles, but the city is trying reduce idling, spokesman Stu Loeser said Wednesday.

The SUVs have devices enabling heat and radios to run without the engine. The devices don't allow the air conditioning to run, but the vehicles are supposed to be parked in the shade when possible, Loeser said. Nearly every time the AP noted the idling vehicles, temperatures were mild and they were parked in the shade.

"We're doing our best," Loeser said.

[greatdefender]

"We're doing our best," Loeser said.

Well......it's not good enough!

[Secret Agent Man]

What a loeser. /pun

[GOP_Lady]

Do what Daddy Bloomberg says, not what he does.

[Venturer]

You dont really expect the mayor to get into a hot car do you?

[GOP_Lady]

Do what Daddy Bloomberg says, not what he does.

[chevydude26]

bloomberg is such a whiny sob

he threw a hissy fit over the possible gun bill the past few days

i dislike bloomberg...he thinks he’s smarter than everybody but he’s just a rockefeller liberal

[swain_forkbeard]

Rules are for little people.

[bareford101]

hey, the man is a liar... what do you expect????

[patton]

“The SUVs have devices enabling heat and radios to run without the engine. “

APUs?

[Texas Eagle]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has pushed an ambitious green agenda and cast himself as a national environmental leader, routinely runs afoul of his own anti-pollution policy by letting his official SUVs idle, sometimes for more than an hour.

Hell, this guy's a piker compared to California Governor Ahnold Swczenehezegger (sp?) who flies his private jet from Los Angeles to Sacramento and back every day.

No doubt the thermostat in The Executive Mansion in Sac is set to a cozy 72 degrees whether he is there or not.

[Texas Eagle]

"Those of us that want to leave a good life for our children, and want to have clean air for us to breathe, and clean water to drink ... it's incumbent on us to really carry the fight," he said at the signing.

All animals are equal.

But some animals are more equal than others.

[razorback-bert]

trail him when he takes the subway

I know New Yorkers take everything in stride, but an SUV in the subway?

[smokingfrog]

I propose that all politicians spend most of their time idling.

[JimC214]

No matter what he does, over turning term limits, to this. He will still be elected. Like all Libs he is two faced.

[VR-21]

There are the rules we live by, and there are rules the modern American political class lives by.

It's very difficult for the pigs to do all that thinking for us, and running our lives as well. Therefore the pigs should get all the apples and milk. It's only fair.