{"id":75069,"date":"2021-12-06T07:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75069"},"modified":"2021-12-06T07:09:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:09:20","slug":"75069","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75069","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Hypocrisy O’ The Day<\/p>\n

Somebody in goobermint try to throw out the line about lowering your ‘carbon footprint’ BS, shove this hypocrisy right back in their face.
\n‘Rules for thee, but not for me!”<\/p>\n

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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm hops into gas-guzzler in Boston<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BOSTON<\/p>\n

Feds fume over Herald\u2019s Jennifer Granholm SUV gas story.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Herald\u2019s story about U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm riding around Boston in a gas-guzzling SUV has the federal department fuming.<\/div>\n
Granholm made\u00a0the front page in Saturday\u2019s paper<\/a>\u00a0when she followed up her comments here about the need for more investment in efficient, sustainable infrastructure through President Biden\u2019s \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d bill by hopping right into a Chevy Suburban Premier, which doesn\u2019t rank particularly well in terms of environmental friendliness.<\/div>\n
But the feds felt like the Herald\u2019s focus on the \u201cgas-guzzler\u201d SUV was just pumping up a non-issue.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWould the Herald run this kind of a story if it was a minivan? Shame to see journalism like this at a time when there a real dollars coming to Massachusetts that will lower costs and create jobs for families and workers,\u201d a Department of Energy spokeswoman said in a statement emailed over on Saturday.<\/div>\n
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The department\u2019s media office didn\u2019t respond to a request Friday about how she squares her ride with her comments about the need for better sustainability and efficiency. But when the rubber hit the road and they read the story, the spokeswoman decided to send that missive over, per the email.<\/div>\n
Granholm, who currently would be 15th in the line of succession for the presidency if her Canadian birth didn't make her ineligible for it, is a former two-term governor of Michigan. She \u2014 like U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, the former Boston mayor \u2014 has been dispatched to pitch the \"Build Back Better\" bill around the country on behalf of the administration.<\/pre>\n
\u201cWe need to act quickly both on environmental justice but also on saving the planet,\u201d Granholm told reporters inside the in-progress shell of the striking new Arts Academy overlooking Fenway Park on Friday. \u201cSo much of your greenhouse gas emissions involves buildings and vehicles. And so those two pieces are embedded in the Build Back Better agenda.\u201d<\/div>\n
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A few minutes later, she and several members of her entourage were piling into the large white Chevrolet Suburban Premier they\u2019d rolled up in.<\/strong><\/div>\n
The webpage maintained by Granholm\u2019s own Department of Energy that is the government \u201cofficial source\u201d for fuel economy lookups pegs the 2021 Suburban at somewhere between 16 and 23 miles per gallon overall, depending on whether it\u2019s using diesel, premium gas or regular gas. For city driving \u2014 as the slow going in the area right around Fenway is \u2014 the SUV can get as few as 14 miles per gallon.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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A couple of quick Google searches show the Suburban \u2014 whose webpage on the Chevy website reads \u201cWelcome to the big life\u201d \u2014 showing up on multiple top-10 \u201cgas-guzzlers\u201d lists. The federal fuel lookup page lists multiple hybrid and electric SUVs with overall mile-per-gallon marks of 35 to 95.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Premier version is the middle of the three Suburban makes in terms of price and luxury. Next year\u2019s Premier starts at $66,300.<\/div>\n
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To answer Granholm\u2019s flak\u2019s question about minivans \u2014 the least-fuel efficient one of those still gets overall 20 miles to the gallon, rating better than her sizable ride in both gas consumed and emissions, per her federal website.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hypocrisy O’ The Day Somebody in goobermint try to throw out the line about lowering your ‘carbon footprint’ BS, shove this hypocrisy right back in their face. ‘Rules for thee, but not for me!” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm hops into gas-guzzler in Boston Feds fume over Herald\u2019s Jennifer Granholm SUV gas story. The Herald\u2019s story … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,50,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-goobermint","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75070,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75069\/revisions\/75070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}