The Mean Green Machine; Arnold is back, with a lime-colored bus and the hots for the 'Hydrogen Highway.' Can he ride it all the way to re-election?(Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 19-JUN-06

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Byline: Karen Breslau

He's put the hummers in storage. He's told friends he was deeply impressed by Al Gore's new global-warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." And as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger hit the campaign trail last week, he had a new look: a bright green bus emblazoned with a mural of Yosemite National Park. At Schwarzenegger's first stop, near Redding, Calif., along the banks of the picturesque Sacramento River, a woman asked him what he'd do about high gas prices. Schwarzenegger promised to go after price-gouging oil companies, then launched passionately into his plan to build a "Hydrogen Highway" and to impose strict limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, making California...

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