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'60 Minutes': Hummers and green gasoline
Created: 12/21/2008
Video description: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has spent more than $100,000 in modifying the Hummer to run on a more green gasoline.

'60 Minutes': Hummers and green gasoline Video Transcript

>> Okay, this is the Hummer.

>> Not many people know that Schwarzenegger personally invented the civilian Hummer. The maker of the military version told him that it could never be made street-legal. So Schwarzenegger bought one and spent $100,000 of his money to show that it could be done. Schwarzenegger launched the brand that is the very symbol of greenhouse gas gluttony.

>> So it runs on cooking oil?

>> Yeah, exactly. You can literally go up to a restaurant and get cooking oil.

>> Now, he's reinvented the vehicle with green that is more than skin deep. He has one variation that runs partly on hydrogen and this one has an engine modified to run on biofuel.

>> I mean it runs basically on anything -- anything natural.

>> His point is that trying to chase Americans out of their big cars what he calls "guilt trip environmentalism" has failed.

>> And my point was -- is "No, no, people keep all the stuff that you like, but change the technology." So I started really pushing that agenda in a positive way. Look at the great things that we can do. We can turn this whole thing around. The damage that we have created over the last hundred years, we can undo that. ^M00:01:15

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