Saturday, May 06, 2006
Kay's Gas Guzzler
From the Dallas Morning News, some interesting insight into what some of Texas' mostly-Republican congressional delegation drives: Area's U.S. lawmakers love their gas guzzlers. (Courtesy of BugMeNot, you can login with email "me@me.localhost", password "password".)
No big surprises from those that take so many campaign contributions from Big Oil, and are so eager to squander the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the sake of a little oil:
Forget hearing much about conservation from Dallas-area lawmakers. Most drive trucks and big cars with poor gas mileage. And most push expanded oil production as the top solution to the current price squeeze...
GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has one of each [an SUV and a big sedan] – an 8-year-old Ford in Washington and a 3-year-old Cadillac Escalade in Dallas that gets a paltry 14 mpg.
