(CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked U.S. Secret Service Spokesman George Ogilvie on Friday how many miles per gallon the service gets from the $1.1-million bus it has been using to convey President Barack Obama on his recent “jobs” tours, Ogilvie said he was declining to comment on the question for ”security purposes.”
Hemphill Brothers, the Tennessee company that provided the motor for the bus, also declined to answer any questions about it.
According to the Web site of Holiday Motor Coach, a company that produces customized buses, their vehicles typically get about 6 mpg on the highway. But their vehicles, presumably, don’t typically have the sort of security upgrades required in a vehicle carrying the president.
In July, Obama signed an agreement with 13 major automobile manufacturers to increase the average fuel economy for their vehicles sold in the U.S. to 54.5 mpg by 2025.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/how-many-mpgs-does-obamas-bus-get-secret-service-keeps-it-secretWhen you factor in the increased weight due to the ballistics protection and what not, it's likely that this bus gets even less than 6 mpg.
So much for that whole climate change thing.
