Bloomberg's brain idles

Embattled New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the latest chapter in the Republican saga of "do as I say, not as I do."

In an effort to appear as America's environmental leader, the mayor backed an ordinance to keep motorists from idling for more than 3 minutes and polluting the air. After dealing with air pollution myself, I don't doubt the need for such a law.

One big problem though: Bloomberg thinks he shouldn't have to obey the ordinance like everyone else.

The mayor gets an entire fleet of city-owned SUV's at taxpayer expense. These hulking vehicles guzzle gas like it's going out of style. Although the SUV's are equipped to run partly on ethanol, they don't, because ethanol is so scarce in New York City.

Worse, he lets the SUV's idle - often for more than an hour. Some of these instances were during ego-boosting photo ops.

And Bloomberg calls himself America's green mayor? What a hypocrite.

Often, all the SUV's do is trail Bloomberg when he takes the subway. He made a show of using the subway to prove what a peopley guy he is - but being trailed by the SUV's defeats the entire message of this stunt.

How come the mayor's SUV's don't have to follow the law? Because they're considered emergency vehicles. I guess photo ops are a big emergency when you're about to lose the election.

(Source: http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/mayor_restricts_idling_but_his.html)