In addition to using a thirsty charter jet and SUV motorcade to ferry him to speeches ripping Detroit automakers for causing global warming by not building more fuel efficient vehicles, it turns out Barack Obama also chooses horsepower over fuel efficiency in his family car.
Mark Phelan reports in Friday’s Detroit Free Press that Obama drives a 340-HP V-8 Hemi Chrysler 300C – the most powerful engine option for that vehicle, and one of the most powerful family sedans on the market. The “C†gets a combined city/highway 21 mpg.
As Obama shows, fuel efficiency is not a top priority among American customers. Though engine technology generally gains in efficiency 1.5 percent a year, most of that gain goes to HP, reflecting buyer tastes.
What’s next for Green hypocrite Obama? A 10,000 square foot home in Tennessee?
I am sure if asked about this blatant hypocracy, the “articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking” B. Hussein Obama will claim that he has purchased the requisite ammont of carbon offsets. So not to worry. Nothing to worry about…