Obama car talk is out of gas

I don't like having to repeat a point I made just a few days ago, but since Reuters isn't doing its job as a reputable news source, I have to step in.

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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