Embarrassed Hastert Switches Cars

The Speaker of The House has decided to give up his car and go to a flex fuel car that runs on E85. Those who thought ragging Hastert about his switch from the hydrogen car to his Suburban was a waste of time, maybe wrong in this case.

(Hastert's blog) We need to diversify our energy sources so that we aren'’t reliant on foreign governments. I think hydrogen is key to this effort. It can be produced from virtually any energy source, is almost emission free and has great potential. It's worth a try. I rode in a hydrogen car recently. In fact, I'’m such a proponent of renewable fuels, I have plans to soon buy my own flex fuel car that can run on E85, which is an ethanol blend. They're good cars, and we all need to do whatever we can to ease America's energy problems.

It might be a political stunt, but at least he was pushed to make the switch.