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Campaigns save energy with hybrid cars
Nancy Benac, March 31, 2007 (AP via Yahoo News)

WHO
Democratic candidate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democratic candidate Bill Richardson, Republican candidate Arizona Sen. John McCain, Republican candidate Rudolph Giuliani, Republican candidate Mitt Romney, Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama, Democratic candidate John Edwards

WHAT
The vehicles the candidates are using and the other efforts they are making to limit the “carbon footprint” of their campaigning:
- Edwards and his wife use hybrids for personal activities and has declared his campaign will be “carbon-neutral” by purchasing carbon offsets for all greenhouse producing activity.
- Obama’s campaign uses flex-fuel vehicles and fills up with E-85 whenever possible.
- Romney announced his candidacy standing in front of a hybrid Ford Escape. He drives a 2005 Mustang, his wife drives a Cadillac and his campaign has used flex-fuel vehicles.
- Giuliani’s campaign still uses SUVs but New Yorker Rudy walks whenever possible.
- Mccain drives a Cadillac.
- Richardson switched to a hybrid Ford Escape but found it too small and switched to a flex-fuel Chevy Tahoe. He uses Ethanol when possible.
- Clinton, as former first lady, rides in Secret Service motorcades but the Clintons have requested the Service add the hybrid Escape to its fleet.

WHEN
Present time activity labeled the 2008 presidential race.

WHERE
All over America, from the doorbell ringing in Iowa and New Hampshire, to the jet-set style fundraising in the big money states.

WHY
Energy and global warming are major issues.

QUOTES
- Obama: "My campaign leases a flex-fuel vehicle," he said in January, "but I'll be honest with you, a lot of times you're ... 30 miles from the closest E85 pump. It's going to cost you more to drive there and fill up than just filling up with regular gasoline."
- "I can't fit in it," Richardson joked [about the hybrid Ford Escape he gave up for the Chevy Tahoe]. "It goes about 20 mph."

- “Regardless of the candidates' personal vehicles, the whole adventure of running for president traditionally has been one colossal exercise in energy consumption, as candidates jet from state to state and then convoy from event to event in gas-hungry SUVS and vans…the leading candidates in the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns flew a million miles each.”
- NRDC spokeswoman Julia Bovey…[said], "Anyone running for president who claims they're going to be able to lead this country out of the energy and climate crisis needs to show they can do it in their campaign."