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Show DAILY A2 HERALD Sunday, April f, 2007 Campaigns look to hybrids to saw energy on the trail Established in 1873 A Lee Newspaper Customer Service Newsroom Nancy Benac THE 375-510- 3 WASHINGTON 80144-254- 0 FAX yww.heradextra.com . Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, UT Send mail to: P.O. Box 717, Provo, UT 846030717 News Editors Randy Metro Editor JoePyrah City Editor Amie Sports Editor Darnell Dickson 5 Business Editor Grace Leong 0 Life & Style Editor Editorial Page Editor Wright rwrightheraldextra.com 3 jpyrahheraldextra.com aroseheraldextra.com Rose ddicksonheraldextra.com EryssaAndrus gle6ngheraldextra.com eandrusheraldextra.com Donald W. Meyers dmeyersheraldextra.com President & Publisher Craig Dennis Dave Bake his -T- S hybrid? Democratic candidate John Edwards makes a point of telling people that after years of driving a regular sport utility vehicle, he and his wife bought hybrid model to shuttle their kids, strollers, toys, lug- W ' II gage and other stuff between Washington, D.C, and North Senior Managers Circulation Director PRESS year's presidential candidates are trying to get good mileage out of getting good mileage. The candidates, who do a kit of talking about the need for greater energy efficiency, are not just asking who walks the walk but also, who drives the Ton free 80088(8075 Executive Editor ASSOCIATED cdennisheraldextra.com Carolina. This month, Edwards announced his campaign would meanbe "carbon-neutraling it will do what it can to limit energy consumption and then buy "carbon offsets" to counterbalance the emissions produced by the energy it does use. . 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Barack Obama, through Iowa, where alternative fuels are popular. says he usually drives a flex-fuDemocratic candidate Bill vehicle, which can run on Richardson, the New Mexico gasoline or a cleaner-burninblend of ethanol and gasoline. politicians themselves. governor and former U.S. But he acknowledges that Republican Rudolph Giuliani energy secretary, made a big sometimes it is not practical to gave an energy policy speech show in 2005 of giving up his fill up with the ethanol blend, in New York last summer that gas guzzling SUV Lincoln included a pitch for greater use Navigator for a hybrid Escape, known as E85. of hybrid cars. Idling outside proclaiming, "I believe I should "My campaign leases a flex-fulead by example." for him was a Cadillac Escavehicle," he said in Janulade. He did, however, opt to A few months later, the f ary, "but I'll be honest with oot-- 2 walk to his next destination you, a lot of times you're ... governor ditched the 30 miles from the closest E85 rather than ride in the SUV, Chevy hybrid for a flex-fuwhich averages 13 mpg acTahoe LTZ after deciding the pump. It's going to cost you more to drive there and fill up cording to the government's . Escape was too small for him than just filling up with regular fuel economy guide. His camand his entourage, including a gasoline." paign refused to say what he is security detail. "I can't fit in it," Richardson Republican Mitt Romney, driving these days. the son of a former Detroit Arizona Sen. John McCain, joked. "It goes about 20 mph." auto executive, announced his a Republican candidate for The Tahoe averages 11 mpg in the city when using the E85 candidacy while standing in president, drives a Cadillac front of a.hybrid Ford Escape, CTS, which gets city mileage blend, and 15 when running on in the 7 mpg range, the which averages 36 miles per gasoline. Aides said that whenever gallon in the city, and an old guide says. Rambler from American Mopossible, Richardson uses the Romney drives a 2005 Ford cleaner-burnintors Corp. ethanol blend, Mustang and his wife a Cadillac SRX SUV. The Mustang which is known for getting Romney said his father, fewer miles to the gallon but George, who once headed gets 9 mpg in city driving; an SRX about 16. AMC, championed the small, generating lower exhaust g HOME DELIVERY . U.S. Sen. 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