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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.
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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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#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
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.....
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