Indiana's Governor Mitch Daniels Refuses to Conserve Fuel
Do you think you are special, Governor?
Are you better than the rest of us?
Do you think you are special, Governor?
Are you better than the rest of us?
Gov. Mitch Daniels tours the state in a donated RV,powered by donated soy biodiesel fuel.
Daniels says he has no plans to park the RV
that gets about 8 miles per gallon.
Gasoline prices are just under $3 a gallon, and the White House is urging motorists to conserve fuel. But Gov. Mitch Daniels, who is driven around Indiana in either a dark blue 2004 GMC Envoy sport -utility vehicle or his trademark RV 2001 Beaver Patriot Thunder, said he has no plans to exchange either for, say, a hybrid fuel-saver such as a Toyota Prius.
“People are buying more fuel-efficient cars now in greater numbers, so people are responding in common-sense ways,” he said of the consequences of high pump prices.
He just won’t be one of them, at least for now.
“I believe in driving ’em till they drop,” Daniels said.
Besides, he said, it’s up to the Indiana State Police to decide which vehicle the governor drives in. Currently, that’s the 2004 GMC Envoy, which gets 12 to 17 miles per gallon.
And RV1, a 2001 Beaver Patriot Thunder, that Daniels uses as he tours the state, was donated by an Oregon company. So was the fuel — a soy biodiesel fuel donated by the Indiana Soybean Board.
Asked if he should forego the 8 mpg RV even if it isn’t burning a fossil fuel, just to send a conservation message to the public, Daniels said: “Well, that’s something we could keep looking at.”
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