{"id":5686,"date":"2010-09-14T21:16:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T01:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2010-09-26T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T01:21:10","slug":"harry-reid-arrives-at-clean-energy-summit-in-a-fleet-of-giant-suvs-national-review-09-14-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/harry-reid-arrives-at-clean-energy-summit-in-a-fleet-of-giant-suvs-national-review-09-14-10","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid Arrives at Clean-Energy Summit . . . in a Fleet of Giant SUVs ( National Review 09.14.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;\">Clean, green Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rolled up to the<span> <\/span><span><span id=\"IL_AD1\" style=\"background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; cursor: pointer !important; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-attachment: scroll; float: none;\">Clean Energy<\/span><\/span><span> <\/span>Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week . . . in a fleet of giant SUVs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;\">The Heartland Institute<span> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartland.org\/environmentandclimate-news.org\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">reports<\/span><\/a><span> <\/span>that, while the Senate Majority Hypocrite \u201cand other high-profile environmental activists blasted carbon-based fuels at the Reid-sponsored summit, Reid and other bigwigs were caught on film driving to and from the summit in several SUVs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;\">\u201cI was absolutely astonished, not to mention appalled, that Harry Reid would retain a fleet of gas-guzzling SUVs so that he and a few aides would not have to walk the mere 100 yards to address environmental activists,\u201d said Heartland Institute senior fellow James M. Taylor, who took the attached photo. \u201cIf<span> <\/span><span><span id=\"IL_AD2\" style=\"background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; cursor: pointer !important; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 50%; background-attachment: scroll; float: none;\">greenhouse gas emissions<\/span><\/span><span> <\/span>are such a problem, you would think Reid might have actually made the short stroll through the parking lot, or at least retain Priuses rather than large SUVs for the summit,\u201d said Taylor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 14.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: black;\">Reid\u2019s arrogance is routine in Washington where pols ride in Secret Service\u2013provided GMC Yukons and Chevy Suburbans<span> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/planet-gore\/18330\/arrogance-senator-reid\/henry-payne\"><span style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">while denouncing SUVs as wasteful transportation<\/span><\/a><span> <\/span>to the peasants.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean, green Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rolled up to the Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week . . . in a fleet of giant SUVs. The Heartland Institute reports that, while the Senate Majority Hypocrite \u201cand other high-profile environmental activists blasted carbon-based fuels at the Reid-sponsored summit, Reid and other bigwigs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}