SPINNING YOUR WHEELS

Crafting an energy and climate change policy for the South might be as difficult as it sounds. Take Virginia, where an attempt to go hybrid in the executive protection unit backfired on Gov. Tim Kaine.

Kaine said the state had to abandon its use of hybrid vehicles for the executive protection unit.

“The vehicles a year ago were, but it wasn’t easy to buy the fuel,“ Kaine told the RT-D after outlining his vision of an energy strategy at the Southern Governors’ Association conference at The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia.
The distribution of the fuel is very… you just don’t find it in a lot of places.“

VIPs

The governors weren’t the only security draw at The Greenbrier. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was reportedly catching a little R&R at the plush resort. The RT-D didn’t spot Rice, though she was on the resort’s VIP list. Given the recent developments between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia, though, it couldn’t have been very relaxing. Perhaps she was conducting diplomacy from the famous bunker complex housed beneath the resort?

DUDE, WHERE’S MY VOTE

Barack Obama’s campaign is going all out to secure the White Castle vote. How else to explain Tuesday’s appearance—in Richmond and Northern Virginia—of actor Kal Penn. Penn has a regular role on the Fox medical drama “House,“ but may be best known for his role in the cult stoner comedy, “Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.“ Too bad there don’t appear to be any White Castles in Virginia. How about “Harold and Kumar Go To Arby’s”?