Monday, November 24, 2008

Green Obama’s official limo is a gas guzzler On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised to get a million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015. His own new presidential limousine will be far from green, however. The Obamobile being prepared for the president-elect is said to be a monster gas-guzzler made by General Motors, the troubled car giant. It will look like a black Cadillac but is built like a tank. A spy photographer who tracks down future car models for magazines snatched pictures of the heavily disguised first-car-in-waiting when it was being road-tested last summer. While security is paramount - the car is built to survive roadside bombs as well as gunfire - there are hybrid four-wheel drives on the market, such as Ford’s Mercury Mariner, which some critics believe could have been adapted for the president....

3 comments:

Kanani said...

You have the BEST links!
Thanks for this.
I think it's realistic to say that Obama cannot drive around in a Prius. With the mother of all wars coming up in Afghanistan, it's best to have our President well protected.

Anonymous said...

I think Black Sabbath should change the lyrics to War Pigs:

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor


Politicians drive themselves away
they don't care about the air
Why should they drive a scooter bike
They never listen to Mr. Gore.

Or something like that. Hey, I am not Weird Al or Paul Shanklin, but I think you get the point.

Frank DuBois said...

Kanani, thanks for the compliment.
Clay, point well made.