Here's what Reuters says:
Barack Obama said on Saturday Americans would start changing the kinds of cars they drive if gasoline prices continue to climb and said he owned a hybrid vehicle, though he doesn't drive it much.
Obama, an Illinois senator and the front-runner for his party's presidential nomination, has made fighting climate change a key issue of his campaign, and as fuel prices soar, he has repeatedly called on car makers to increase fuel efficiency standards.
Without specifically telling Americans to stop buying gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles, the Illinois senator said higher fuel prices would lead to a shift.
"We've seen that this quarter. People are changing their behavior and we've seen a slump in the sales of SUVs and big trucks and a drastic spike in cars both medium size and small," he told reporters on his campaign plane.
But as I noted just a few days ago, and on earlier occassions, until the Detroit Free Press reported on it last year, the Obama family drove a gas-guzzling 340-HP V-8 Hemi Chrysler 300C. Only then did the Cult of Change leader feel it necessary to buy a hybrid.
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2 comments:
Good Job! :)
What does McCain drive?
I love how you tagged this entry "hypocrisy," you could tag the entire GOP agenda with the same thing.
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