Hastert Setting an example?
Posted by Moonage on 28 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Oil Policy
Yesterday Dennis Hastert and others addressed the problem of skyrocketing gas prices and what they planned to do to combat it. To drive home their point, he left in a hydrogen fueled car. This is a purely alternative vehicle that uses NO gasoline. That’ll sure send a message to Exxon, Shell, and OPEC will it not?
Well, in this case, no it will not:
After sending the message for approximately one block, and not even out of camera range, Hastert ditches the hydrogen car for his SUV. His staff have all kinds of reasons for it, but it’s meaningless. The message sent to the oil industry was “don’t worry, we’ll do some photo-ops and nothing will change.”
I say the first bill Hastert needs to sponsor and pass is all Representatives will use hydrogen only vehicles while doing business inside the Beltway. Send Hastert a note and tell him he needs to do that, NOW! ( Oh, and before someone makes it a partisan issue, there were Democrats there too. This was a cluster-fubar. )
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