{"id":711127,"date":"2010-04-07T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:07:11","slug":"obamas-limo-will-not-get-a-hybrid-drivetrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/711127","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Limo Will Not Get a Hybrid Drivetrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6670\" title=\"limo2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/limo2-600x400.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I try to stay out of politics. It is an ugly, ugly arena, especially these days. I like cars much more.<\/p>\n<p>But so far I have liked Obama&#8217;s stance on automobiles. He is pushing for alternative fuels, electric cars, and better fuel efficiency. I can\u00a0definitely\u00a0dig that. But in my mind, the best leaders lead by example. Although the Presidential limo is already powered partially by biodiesel, Obama had been pushing to get a hybrid drivetrain fitted to it as well, but the Secret Service seems to have nixed the idea. I just don&#8217;t think they are trying hard enough.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/07\/obamas-limo-will-not-get-a-hybrid-drivetrain\/#more-6668\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yIHcnEy1pM4:GPIVyeZvxS8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yIHcnEy1pM4:GPIVyeZvxS8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=yIHcnEy1pM4:GPIVyeZvxS8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yIHcnEy1pM4:GPIVyeZvxS8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=yIHcnEy1pM4:GPIVyeZvxS8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yIHcnEy1pM4:GPIVyeZvxS8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=yIHcnEy1pM4:GPIVyeZvxS8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=yIHcnEy1pM4:GPIVyeZvxS8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/yIHcnEy1pM4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to stay out of politics. It is an ugly, ugly arena, especially these days. I like cars much more. But so far I have liked Obama&#8217;s stance on automobiles. He is pushing for alternative fuels, electric cars, and better fuel efficiency. I can\u00a0definitely\u00a0dig that. But in my mind, the best leaders lead by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YZN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812885,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711127\/revisions\/812885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}