Yesterday, President Barack Obama rolled through Las Vegas to push for federal investment in clean energy vehicles, making his pitch at a UPS plant, escorted by a motorcade of 22 fossil fuel-burning vehicles. We haven’t seen anything this ironic since Al Gore hopped on a private jet to promote his global warming flick “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Kudos to our friends at the Nevada Policy Research Institute who captured the moment on video.
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can anything display a clearer definition of hypocracy?
Yes, this POTUS is the poster child for "Do as I say, not as I do."
Now, granted, some (4?) where of local law enforcement, but seriously- does anyone know why there had to be so many???? maybe local politicians in a couple?? and they were gas consuming SUV's and vans? What was the rationale?
This is so like Obama….Does the man EVER
STAY IN THE WHITEHOUSE AND ACCOMPLISH
ANY WORK HE WAS ELECTED TO DO!??
Maybe it's best that he is absent at all times!!
Would be nice if Congress would also go
Home also and it would be better for every
Citizen!!
I just wanted to say that half of Congress has to battle the Senate and the president. I think they are getting things done by not cowtowing to BHO. That is why we elected them in 2010.
What irony: he's "green" yet rolls into town in a 747 no matter how short the flight, and where are the "alternative fuel" cars in his motorcade? If he's so concerned about saving energy, why not make the entire motorcade Prius, and Chevy volts?
Yah! Chevy Volts on fire.
Hypocricy at its finest!
Obama should ride on an electric car to promote green energy. Fossil-fuel motorcades are not green at all.
Ha! Love it! A huge motorcade for the King of Green and not one of the vehicles even remotely fuel efficient, let alone "Green." All to promote immature technology that will never pay for itself. More Solyndras ahead…
just another scheme and waste of tax dollars after just secretly pushing thru another radical agenda debt ceiling raise of 1.2 trillion dollars added again hmm wonder what its going to be next month another 2 trillion maybe, my guess is as good as anyone elses i guess
And we are shocked at the irony/hypocrisy because … ???
Nothing about the left's hypocrisy shocks me anymore; even the fact that MSNBC will never show this.
What makes everyone thing the electric cars are so good for the environment? They are coal powered cars at least while we still have some affordable coal powered electric. After that they have to rely on the hot wind from BHO's mouth.
All these so caled "Green" supporters live by the "Do as I say, ot what I do" On top of that we, te axpayers are paying for his re-election campaign, DNC is suppose to provide and pay for this.
come on you can't expect Obama to follow the same rules as the rest of us after all he has… he's gonna… he plans to … he say's he will………….. gonna have to get back to you on that one!
"Do as I say, not as I do." – progressive liberal ideolgy… Hypocracy at it's finest… and the PR disconnet with the rest of us. Methinks he's going to have to donate a lot to Al Gore's Carbon offsets project now. 8p