Critics Shred Biden for Showing Up in ‘Gas-Guzzling’ Motorcade to Warn About Climate Change

President Joe Biden is facing criticism for the logistics of his trip to Massachusetts to deliver a speech where he labeled climate change an emergency. On Wednesday, the president traveled to the site of a former…

Bradley CortrightJul 21, 20223 min read

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Biden obviously can’t just hop on a commercial airline in coach for his flight. And it’s not likely that the Secret Service is going to switch over their vehicles to tiny compact cars to be more fuel efficient.

These days, some companies are making electric SUVs, such as GMC, which is taking reservations for an electric Hummer.

However, it’s unclear if the available electric SUVs would be able to meet the demands of a presidential motorcade while carrying all the armor to keep the president safe.

The U.S. Army has reportedly placed an order for one electric hummer for evaluation, so if it passes the Army’s test, perhaps that could be the start of the beginning of a transition to electric presidential vehicles. For now, though, any potential shift to a presidential electric fleet seems a ways off.

Still, the optics of massive C-17 jets flying the vehicles in the presidential motorcade to the destination airport, followed by Biden on Air Force One, followed by the motorcade’s drive to the location where he spoke about climate as an emergency, and then a quick turn around and flight back to Washington, D.C., for a speech he could have given at the White House do not seem to convey that there is an emergency.