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Barbara Boxer's Hypocrisy Fuels Critics

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Sen. Barbara Boxer, the new chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, talks the talk when it comes to demanding higher gas mileage standards for vehicles in the U.S. – but does she walk the walk?

Back in 1990 when she was in the House, the California Democrat admitted during a House hearing that her husband was leasing a Porsche, an import whose city mileage ratings ranged from 13 to 18 miles per gallon.

Boxer told Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., that she did not know the Porsche’s mileage rating.

Said Dingell: "Why don’t you buy a Geo?”

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  But there was no Geo in sight when Boxer held a one-woman rally last year at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill and attacked the Bush administration’s relationship with big oil.

After the rally, the Washington Post reported, Boxer hopped into a gas-guzzling Chrysler LHS (18 mpg) "even though her Senate office was only a block away.”

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