According to this report, Illinois senator Barack Obama warned citizens at his 50th Town Hall meeting about gas guzzling vehicles and proclaimed that such vehicles are a big part of the blame for the world’s higher temperatures. In urging citizens to switch to higher mileage hybrids, Obama observed that “it would save more energy, do more for the environment and create better world security than all the drilling we could do in Alaska.”
After the meeting, Obama proceeded to leave in his SUV, a GMC Envoy.
But it’s not finished. When Obama’s staff saw the news report, they sent the following email to the station that published the report:

A story your station ran seems to imply that my boss Senator Obama was being hypocritical when he said Americans should drive more fuel-efficient vehicles though he was himself traveling in an SUV.
The SUV in question, though, is a Flexible Fuel Vehicle that can run on E85, which the Senator fills it with wherever its available (and in fact he’s worked very hard to provide tax credits to increase availability and access to e85). I believe in light of these facts the story is misleading and warrants a correction.

Let’s get this straight. Don’t drive an energy guzzling SUV. But it’s o.k. to do so if your SUV can guzzle primarily ethanol, for which the Senator promotes tax breaks because it is uneconomic to produce otherwise, partly because of the energy cost involved in such production.
Something tells me that Senator Obama and his staff should shut up on this particular issue. Hat tip to Steven Hayward.