IL: Obama Warns of Gas Guzzling Cars in Town Hall Meeting

News Channel 6 ^ | August 14, 2006 | Staff Report

[Peach]

Illinois Senator Barack Obama warns citizens at his 50th Town Hall meeting about gas guzzling. It was among many points made to the standing room only audience at the Metropolis Community Center. Obama spoke on everything from DC politics to global warming. He says part of the blame for the world's higher temperatures rests on gas guzzling vehicles. Obama says consumers can make the difference by switching to higher mileage hybrids. Today the Senator said, "It would save more energy, do more for the environment and create better world security than all the drilling we could do in Alaska."

After the meeting... Obama left in a GMC Envoy after admitting to favoring SUV's himself.

[Obie Wan]

Not is that fact true,it's VERY funny !!!

[mewzilla]

You know the plane was going somewhere anyway.

Well, while we're on the subject...

Obama in flight

[Lawgvr1955]

Give the libs credit. They have stones. Doesn't an Envoy have a manufactures suggested retail price of over $38,000.00?

I can see millions of Americans switching over to cars costing that much. NOT.

To think that a couple hundred years of human activity on the Earth is leading to Doom is a logical leap only libs have the egocentric belief system to accept. It took giant asteroids to wipe out life on the planet eons ago, yet a 70 years of widespread auto use will do it faster. Give me a break!!

[GeronL]

would that be Barak Hussein Obama??

[Diddle E. Squat]

Obama's Bahama mama has llamas in Yokohama?

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

Nice/s write up on obama at the muslim American society website...hmmmm

http://www.masnet.org/prof_personality.asp?id=1508

[Cobra64]

"Obama Warns of Gas Guzzling Cars in Town Hall Meeting"

Jeeze! Now SUVs are attending town meetings?

[cricket]

Useless.

Totally. . .

Waiting for Repubs to crank up their rhetoric to take out these all these Lib fools who offer their 'sobering' analysis of all things political; but know that is useless as well.

As for Obama, an empty suit; with charisma. . .he surely makes a perfect Demrat candidate.

[mewzilla]

Give the libs credit. They have stones. Doesn't an Envoy have a manufactures suggested retail price of over $38,000.00?

Is Obama's leased?

Taxpayers footing bill for Congress' car leases

[jdm]

***GMC ENVOY

Up to 16 mpg city

22 mpg highway***

Is that good? I walk everywhere I go. /sarc

[Redgirl]

[from occupied ga]

Illinois Senator Barack Obama warns citizens at his 50th Town Hall meeting about gas guzzling...

As he and his entourage arrived and departed in several chauffered limousines. One set of rules ofr the elite, another for the little people.

[metesky]

A real man o' de pipples.

[Paleo Conservative]

Does anyone have a list of all the times Obama has flown in corporate jets since taking office? It would be interesting to calculate how much carbon his activities emit.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Im shocked! Shocked I tell you.

[HangnJudge]

Some of us who genuinely hate sending our money to people who want to kill us have altered our driving arrangements

My steed of choice...
Gas Mileage: 65-70 mpg

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

he doesnt have that much class. maybe with kerry in a leclerq

[Hildy]

I get that low mileage on my mid-size Jeep Liberty...IT PISSES ME OFF. It's NOT a big SUV...and the worst part is that there's a readout telling you what crappy mileage you're getting!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Isn't Obama liberal? Is he a socialist?

does he ever see his father? Did his father raise him?

So many questions about him. He basically won an uncontested election to slip into the Senate.

[Gimme]

"Senator Barack Obama warns citizens at his 50th Town Hall meeting about gas guzzling."

Yeah sure the guy then jumps on his own gas guzzling Jet after exiting his gas guzzling limo.