McCain’s 13-Car Footprint
If the McCains need to travel anywhere, they have options. They can drive a Honda, a Volkswagon, a Cadillac…or any other one of the 13 vehicles registered to John and Cindy.
Talk about a carbon footprint! Maybe all this talk directed at Palin should be taking a closer look at McCain’s personal habits. Did I also mention that he owns at least seven houses? And that these cars don’t include the Lexus registered under a beer distribution company?
This comes from a Newsweek article released yesterday, which also points out that McCain has been less than truthful about the origins of his gas-guzzling possessions. Instead of a being a good ol’ patriot buying only American-made cars, as he has claimed, McCain instead should label himself an opportunist in the cheaper foreign market. Two of his cars come from overseas.
And he can’t very well hold this one over Obama. The Illinois senator drives only one car - a Ford Escape Hybrid. Which is both environmental and American.
Criticism points a finger at Obama, however - despite his car, the McCain camp says that Obama is focusing on trivial things. But it seems to me that McCain’s owning 13 cars falls directly opposite of any environmental initiatives he’s proposing. If he isn’t clean in his own life, how can we expect him to be any more sustainable in running the country?
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Yeah, also undermines any claims he can make to understanding the common person…
Well, even if he does have 13 cars, lets hope he’s not driving them all at the same time. Does it make a difference how many cars someone has if they aren’t simultaneously driven?
Then again, none of them sound like Ford Escape Hybrids.
I wonder which car John McCain will drive to my inauguration.
Does it make a difference how many cars someone has if they aren’t simultaneously driven?
Yes - because it is just another example of American waste and over indulgence.
I don’t understand. The author knows a person can only drive one car at a time.
Instead of a being a good ol’ patriot buying only American-made cars, as he has claimed, McCain instead should label himself an opportunist in the cheaper foreign market. Two of his cars come from overseas.
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First, someone here is lost, as there are no “true” american made cars, every one is littered with foreign parts and several of the “foreign” cars are built right here in America. As for the escape Hybrid, another multi-national fraud for us, it doesnt get any better mileage than most cars and it costs almost as much as a mercedes. Lets get it right people, Democrat or Republican doesnt matter, politicians made alot more than the average american. And hybrid cars are, for the most part, another fleecing of america as most do not improve gas mileage more than a few miles per gallon at an extreme cost to the consumer.
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