Barack
Obama to U.S. automakers: Make more hybrid vehicles
Monday, May
07, 2007
Maybe
Barack should drive a more fuel efficient vehicle?
Barack Obama wants U.S. automakers to make more fuel
efficient vehicles, especially hybrid
cars. To achieve this goal, Obama would like to
provide healthcare assistance to U.S. automakers so that
automakers could utilize half their healthcare savings to
invest in producing hybrids.
"For years, while foreign competitors were investing
in more fuel-efficient technology for their vehicles,
American automakers were spending their time investing in
bigger, faster cars," Obama has stated according to a
text of the Illinois senator's remarks that were provided
to The Associated Press (more).
And consumers, such as Mr. Obama, have been buying these
vehicles. Do consumers not share some of this lack of
vision?
Mr. Obama typically drives a gas-guzzling SUV. Of course
Mr. Obama, when questioned about his inefficient vehicle,
claims its a flex-fuel vehicle. Sadly, since Mr. Obama
spends much of his Illinois time in the Chicago area, he
can't utilize flex-fuel because there are simply so few
E85 pumps in that area. So, Mr. Obama has been a part of
the problem, not the solution.
Even worse, it's not just Obama, it's the far majority of
politicians of both parties. Leadership?
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