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One would think that liberal U.S. Representative Harry Waxman, (Democrat, Malibu) would be driving a domestic hybrid. After all, he should know that as Black Panther and radical leftist Eldridge Cleaver said in 1967, “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” And since he's been taking the point at the congressional hearings gbrowbeating the car execs, he should be holding up his end of the bargain by driving a ultra fuel efficient ultra-low-polluting vehicle.
If not, then Congressman Waxman is part of the problem. Asked whether he drives a hybrid, Mr. Waxman responded, “No. I have a 2002 Toyota Camry.”
When the followup expressed surprise that he didn’t drive an American car, Mr. Waxman came back with, “This car was made in Kentucky by Toyota. The last time I bought an American car, they had to ship it in from Canada.”
The 69-year old congressman, who recently toppled long-time Michigan Democrat John Dingle, notably friendly to the Detroit automakers and the United Auto Workers, from the important House Committee on Energy and Commerce, should be well versed in American industrial history and policy.
However, by complaining that his last American car had to be shipped from Canada suggests an ignorance of the Canada-United States Auto Pact of 1965 which essentially eliminated the financial border between Canada and the United States, a sort of automotive NAFTA between the U.S. and ouhr neighbors to the north.
As a result, every Ford hotrodder knows the differences between a Cleveland (Ohio) and Windsor (Ontario—the last time we looked, in Canada) engines and which design is more conducive to modification, even if they have no idea where Windsor is. (For the record, it’s right across the river from Detroit).
But Mr. Waxman should also be aware that his Toyota—from which we’ve been told the profits flow to Tokyo—was built by non-union workers. . While this apparently doesn’t offend the UAW, which contends that any industrial worker not represented by a union is being exploited, the progressive Mr. Waxman should be aware that by buying that Toyota he is not supporting the union that has overwhelmingly supported Democrats and the Democrat party.
Mr. Waxman, an ardent environmentalist, should also be aware that Ford licenses Toyota hybrid technology but with its own enhancements equals or exceeds Toyota models, and that Ford’s first hybrid vehicle, the Escape Hybrid (and the mechanically identical Mercury Mariner Hybrid and Mazda Tribute Hybrid) are built in Ford’s Kansas City, Missouri, plant. At least the Democrat Congressional leader should know that the incoming president, a member of his party, traded his fuel-thirsty global-warming Hemi-powered Chrysler 300C for an Escape during his presidential campaign.
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We humbly recommend that Mr. Waxman invest some of the pay raise Congress just voted itself in a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid that according to the Environmental Protection Agency gets 41 mpg going from Washington, D.C., photo op to congressional hearing. But I repeat myself. He’ll reduce his carbon footprint, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, shore up our faltering auto industry and help keep UAW members on the job. It’s a win-win-win-win, and a real public relations coup if the congressman carpools to Kansas City to pick up the keys from a union member at the factory.But as fellow Congressional Democrat John Dingel called Waxman “a man there who doesn't understand and doesn't care about industrial manufacturing in the United States." Perhaps Hollywood Henry can out-Prius his silver screen constituency by getting behind the wheel of a domestic hybrid. Or maybe not.
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