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Special Sauce, Lettuce, Cheese, and Foreign Oil Dependency
This month McDonald's is giving away toy Hummers — 42 million of them, in eight models and colors — with every Happy Meal or Mighty Kids Meal. That's right: The fast-food chain that helped make our kids the fattest on Earth is now selling future car buyers on the fun of driving a supersized, smog-spewing, gas-guzzling SUV originally built for the military. In response, EWG has teamed up with Hybridcars.com to create the Ronald McHummer Sign-O-Matic™ so you can tell us what you think of this misguided marriage of two icons of American excess.
General Motors says the H2 and H3 benefit from a "host of advanced technologies" and that the H2's Vortec "is one of the most efficient engines in production today." Check out http://www.ronaldmchummer.com/vote.php?id=1451 .