A new member of the House named Eric Massa decided to make a bit of a publicity stunt by driving a fuel cell car to his swearing in this week.
One minor problem, the car he drove can only go 150-200 miles without a recharge and the drive to DC was around 300 miles. So he had to use two cars.
Each car had to be towed to and from his dropoff points meaning the tow trucks used way more fuel and put out way more pollution than a normal car would have.
Aside from being a silly stunt, it’s interesting to note what some of the readers of the newspaper article have. The story does not mention (indeed none of the mainstream media stories I’ve seen bother to mention) his party affiliation.
One guess as to what his party is….
One guess as to how the story would have played if he was a member of another party…