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What Did You Drive One Block to the Gas Price Press Conference?

Posted by Glenn on April 28, 2006 - 11:45am in The Oil Drum: Local
Topic: Policy/Politics
Tags: oil, peak oil, politics [list all tags]

While not specifically mentioning our press release, I think the MSM is starting to pick up on the pandering/misinformation theme. I see a large divide though between the print media (NY Times, WSJ, WaPo, etc) and TV media. TV news seems to lack any depth, just continuously showing clips of various grandstanding politicos and images of gas stations with three dollar plus regular...
But, I've also seen a lot of the "What did you drive to the gas price / oil industry bashing press conference?" or even better "How many SUVs were idling outside of the Capitol building?"

USA Today provides us this set of photos that pretty much sum up the debate over gas prices in this country. And this is not just a Republican thing.

Many Democrats on the Hill are being driven around in armored SUVs too.

So how did Chuck travel the one block to the press conference?

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) used a Hyundai Elantra to take the one-block journey to and from the gas-station news conference. He posed in front of the fuel prices and gave them a thumbs-down. "Get tough on big oil!" he demanded of the Bush administration.

Chuck, I know security is a bid issue, but really, one block? You make make a bigger statement by walking or riding a bike. But that's all it's about right - making a statement and looking good. How about real answers to reducing demand. How about addressing the addiction, instead of trying to lower the price of dope (I mean gas)?