Remember when Obama, played car mechanic - the concerned everyman worrying about paying the high cost of fuel, and green candidate?  Well, that was before the election;  this is now, the week after the election.

Barack Obama has won, his followers are in ecstasy, so no problem with violating campaign promises and themes. 
 
Let's start with the First Car.  The president-elect's aides are already hard at work on making it fit for a president who won 52% of the vote.
 

Obama’s presidential ride, dubbed “Cadillac One,” will reportedly be a mammoth, custom-made Cadillac limo built like a GMC truck that sits on 19 -inch wheels. The vehicle will also have 5-inch-thick bulletproof windows, cell phone-jamming gear and blast-proof armor.

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But Obama’s vehicle will reportedly be a much beefier version than President Bush’s Cadillac DeVille stretch.
 
U.S. News and World Report reported that the vehicle shares “the same chassis and tires” as a GMC 2500 series truck, “indicating that it is far heavier than a civilian Cadillac.”

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But a standard Cadillac DTS limo, which is a low-level version of Cadillac One, gets just 12 miles per gallon in the city and 18 on the highway and costs $47,000.

Several political and automotive blogs have pointed out the vehicle’s fuel inefficiency, including U.S. News and World Report, which called it “the most monstrous Presidential limousine yet.”