A car in every garage 1

Everyone in the world has already linked to this story about McCain's 13 cars (Obama has one -- a hybrid Ford Escape), but I just can't get over the humor of this sentence: "The McCains also own three 2000 NEV Gem electric vehicles, which are bubble-shaped cars popular in retirement communities."

I think the hypocrisy game is silly and have denounced it at length when aimed at Al Gore, so I won't be a hypocrite myself -- I could give a crap how many cars McCain has. I'm far more interested in the fact that he's proposing a $5,000 tax credit for purchasers of zero-emissions cars (yay!) and the fact that, well, that's about it for his plan for reducing transportation oil use (boo!). That and the goofy battery prize.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. Biodiversivist's avatar

    Biodiversivist Posted 8:05 am
    25 Sep 2008

    NEV Gem electric vehicles = golf cart

    In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

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