Reuters finds it notable that Gore Jr. was driving a hybrid Prius.

So even as Gore was being arrested for driving high on marijuana and endangering the lives of others, he was tackling “a moral threat,” (Dad’s words) global warming. Talk about needing a little perspective.


It’s worth noting that Gore was driving at 100 mph when stopped by police. The much-ballyhooed Prius claims 61 mpg in city driving (EPA figure) which is proven bunkum. Real world tests put its city mileage at a still impressive 50 – but only 42 mpg on the highway (poor compared to comparable diesels) where the batteries' juice drains quickly and the car runs mostly on its gas engine.

At 100 mp[h], needless to say, the Prius is sucking down some serious fossil fuel.

In August 2000, the then-Harvard bound high school senior was nabbed for speeding on a North Carolina highway; news the media held for days so as not to embarrass his father, who was in the midst of being nominated for president at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles at the time.

At the family's request, the press also declined to report young Gore's 1996 suspension from the tony Washington, D.C. prep school St. Albans after he was discovered smoking marijuana in the cafeteria.

"[Vice President] Gore called leading news organizations around Washington and asked them not to run the story, and all complied," reported Newsweek's Bill Turque in his book "Inventing Al Gore."