Gas Guzzlers and the Media
Posted by Moonage on 25 Aug 2005 | Tagged as: The Media
Talk about someone with an agenda, check out this headline:
Of All Gas Consumers, Bush May Be Biggest
Getting President Bush from here to there consumes an enormous amount of fuel, whether he’s aboard Air Force One, riding in a helicopter or on the ground in a heavily armored limousine. The bill gets steeper every day as the White House is rocked by the same energy prices as regular drivers. Taxpayers still foot the bill….
Almost every vehicle Bush uses is custom-made to add security and communications capabilities, and the heavier weight of these guzzlers further drives up gas and jet fuel costs.
It is not Bush’s choice to be ferried around in a less than fuel-efficient manner. Those arrangements are dictated by tradition and the Secret Service, whose mission is to protect him….
But Bush is one of the nation’s most-traveled presidents.
On and on it goes about how Bush is suckin up the gas. She even criticizes his personal truck that he rarely drives. Meanwhile, I can think of two other things that probably give "Bush" a run for his money:
- The NASCAR Nextel Cup series will feature 34 races between 221 and 500 miles in length, with usually 43 racers. This could consume about 650,000 miles at, I am sure, less than 1 MPG. Now, to top that off, that’s JUST the Nextel Cup series. They’ve got the Busch Series and the Truck series. And, that’s just NASCAR.
- The roads of any major city. More often than not people just sit there. What’s the MPG if your miles are 0?
Now, if Jennifer Lovin can lump all of the people that the POTUS is required to have around him, then any racer should be lumped in with all the rest, and anyone sitting in a traffic jam can be lumped in with everyone else. I am not pointing Jennifer Lovin to writing an article on how wasteful NASCAR is, I am pointing my readers to how useless and biased Jennifer Lovin’s article is. Sure, POTUS requires a lot of gas, but, the US military consumes a lot more. Some things are just what they are and can’t be helped. If Bush, respecting the current oil demand crisis, decided to sit on his ranch in Texas, the Jennifer Lovins’ would criticize him for not being diplomatic enough, or taking too many vacations, or adding to greenhouse gases in Texas.
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