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To: JakeStraw who wrote (285774)	4/27/2006 3:28:44 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575859

RE:"SUV drivers that are getting under 22 mpg should be required to pay more at the pump. They should be subsidizing us rather than helping to penalize us all..." The gluttony of some ruins it for others. Same ole'..

To: JakeStraw who wrote (285774)	4/27/2006 3:48:45 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575859

re: SUV drivers that are getting under 22 mpg should be required to pay more at the pump. They should be subsidizing us rather than helping to penalize us all... First smart thing I've heard you say. Less than 5% of the worlds population and more than 25% of the world's oil consumption. Ridiculously inefficient. And--- feeding dollars into bad actor regimes oil providing 1/3 of the current account deficit oil prices taking productive dollars out of the economy regressive tax *global warming and pollution if you believe in that stuff We could EASILY travel just as many miles on 60% of the fuel, which would cut the price of oil in half.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (285774)	4/27/2006 6:49:29 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575859

Like these people, Congress & gas guzzlers : "Going a Short Way to Make a Point" By Dana Milbank Thursday, April 27, 2006; A02 washingtonpost.com Is this a Case of Congress & Do as we say, Not as we do ..."Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines"... Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill -- Senate office a block away: Chrysler LHS Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to and from the gas-station news conference: Hyundai Elantra Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) with a staffer idling: Jetta Capitol for their weekly caucus (Topic A: gas): The House driveway was jammed with cars, many idling, including eight Chevrolet Suburbans (14 mpg). Senators were debating a war spending bill yesterday, but the subject invariably turned to gas prices. After lunchtime votes, senators emerged from the Capitol for the drive across the street to their offices. Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.) hopped in a GMC Yukon (14 mpg). Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) climbed aboard a Nissan Pathfinder (15). Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) stepped into an eight-cylinder Ford Explorer (14). Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) disappeared into a Lincoln Town Car (17). Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) met up with an idling Chrysler minivan (18). Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), greeted by a Ford Explorer XLT. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), greenest senator, picked up by his hybrid Toyota Prius (60 mpg). Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), was met by a Dodge Durango V8 (14). Also waiting: three Suburbans, a Nissan Armada V8, two Cadillacs and a Lexus. If the politics of gasoline favor Democrats at the moment, the insincerity is universal. A surreptitious look at the cars in the senators-only spots inside and outside the Senate office buildings found : Escort Sentra Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl's spot had a Chevy Lumina but far more Jaguars, Cadillacs and Lexuses and a fleet of SUVs made by Ford, Honda, BMW and Lexus. Sampling of senators' and staff cars parked along Delaware Avenue NE : Democratic campaign bumper stickers had average fuel economy (23 mpg) GOP campaign bumper stickers (18 mpg). Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) 1970s-era Volkswagen "Thing" (fuel-efficiency rating could not be found). When GOP senators had a lunch Tuesday a couple of blocks from the Capitol, many took cars. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spied The Washington Post's Shailagh Murray & he set out on foot. "I need the exercise".