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Title: Presidential limousine, security vehicles exempt from fed 'green' vehicle policy
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Detroit News Washington Bureau
URL Source: http://detnews.com/article/20110401 ... rom-fed--green--vehicle-policy
Published: Apr 1, 2011
Author: David Shepardson
Post Date: 2011-04-01 18:42:33 by Hondo68
Keywords: just couldn, weigh twice or three times, assembled by General Motor Co.
Views: 10069
Comments: 8
Washington — The U.S. Secret Service said today that some federal vehicles for law enforcement and security purposes will be exempt from President Barack Obama's directive that all federal vehicles purchased starting 2015 be advanced technology models. Secret Service spokesman Robert Novy said the directive wouldn't apply to vehicles used for some law enforcement or security reasons by various federal agencies. "Certain specialized vehicles including those with law enforcement and security specifications are not subject to this directive," Novy said. That would include the GM-built Cadillac presidential limousine and other vehicles in the motorcade. Obama announced the plan this week to "green" the federal fleet. "I'm directing our departments and our agencies to make sure 100 percent of the vehicles they buy are fuel-efficient or clean energy cars and trucks by 2015. Not 50 percent, not 75 percent — 100 percent of our vehicles," Obama said today at an appearance in Landover, Md., at UPS facility. The White House says the advanced technology vehicles include hybrids, electric vehicles and alternative fueled vehicles. Among those are "flex fuel" vehicles that can run on E85 ethanol or gasoline — something that costs automakers less than $100. Many full-size SUVs are flex-fuel models, and automakers get credits toward meeting fuel efficiency standards to build them even if drivers never use the higher blend of ethanol. No written guidance to federal departments has been issued about what types of models they can purchase or what agencies are exempt. Last year, Obama said he had asked the Secret Service if he could ride in a hybrid vehicle — he was rejected. "Now, the reason is not because Secret Service are bad guys. It's because the cars that I'm in are like tanks. I mean, they, as you might imagine, they're a little bit of extra stuff on it. They're a little reinforced.So they weigh twice or three times what an ordinary car weighs. So they just couldn't get the performance, in terms of acceleration, using a hybrid engine," Obama said. The presidential limousine is assembled by General Motor Co. at its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant. This isn't the first time law enforcement has been exempted from a vehicle policy by the Obama administration. Obama signed an October 2009 executive order banning texting behind the wheel by all federal employees. But he said agency heads may exempt "certain employees, devices, or vehicles in their respective agencies that are engaged in or used for protective, law enforcement, or national security responsibilities or on the basis of other emergency conditions."
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
You don't think they believe in these values, do you? Gotta set the tone for the next round of independence removal.
Well, [W.A-R.'s] got to do something for attention, his multiple personalities aren't speaking to him any more, and his imaginary friends keep finding excuses not to come over.
You know that might actually be a good thing him riding around in a Volkswagen Beetle. It would personify just how Mickey Mouse he and his cabinet are.....
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
Of course. The Soviet dictators exempted themselves from all of the hardship that they imposed on their citizens as well. This is what leftist tyrants do.
Good luck with the rickshaw, azzhole.
This is what leftist tyrants do. Just when do the bleating public-school educated nitwits get bothered by the hypocrisy and Third World standard of living?
This EO is even more powerful stuff than "healing the oceans." 0bama is THE BEST!! "0bama....oh, 0bama...
Yesss Massa, the reparation check is in the mail.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... You are a moron. The vehicles in question are armored tanks. They can't get fuel standards of normal vehicles. That is why.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
Last year, Obama said he had asked the Secret Service if he could ride in a hybrid vehicle — he was rejected.
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
(Edited)
Presidential limousine, security vehicles exempt from fed 'green' vehicle policy
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#4. To: hondo68 (#0)
"I'm directing our departments and our agencies to make sure 100 percent of the vehicles they buy are fuel-efficient or clean energy cars and trucks by 2015. Not 50 percent, not 75 percent — 100 percent of our vehicles," Obama said today at an appearance in Landover, Md., at UPS facility.
#5. To: jwpegler (#3)
The Soviet dictators exempted themselves from all of the hardship that they imposed on their citizens as well.
#6. To: hondo68 (#0)
(Edited)
Obama signed an October 2009 executive order banning texting behind the wheel by all federal employees.
....we've been such a baaaaad b*tch of a nation.......0bama....oh, 0bama...We deserve to suffer as penance for slavery and lack of pigment....0bama....oh, 0bama......Are you feeling healed, yet, Capitalist pig?....."
#7. To: Liberator (#6)
Are you feeling healed, yet, Capitalist pig?
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#8. To: jwpegler (#3)
Of course. The Soviet dictators exempted themselves from all of the hardship that they imposed on their citizens as well.
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