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LISBON (AFP) – The Portuguese hosts of Friday's NATO summit hoped to use the event to promote clean-energy and electric cars, but all eyes were on US President Barack Obama's diesel-guzzling “Beast” instead. As is usual when he travels, Obama's eight-tonne armoured behemoth of a limousine was flown out to Lisbon before the US leader's arrival, and it ferried him from the airport tarmac to his first meetings of the weekend. Doubtless he didn't intend the Beast's roar to drown out his hosts' green message, but a US presidential motorcade and its attendant escort of Secret Service SUVs do attract attention, even at the most elite gatherings. Earlier, Prime Minister Jose Socrates and his fellow Portuguese, the president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, had arrived at the summit in quiet, zero-emission electric cars. “I'd like to underline the priority both our countries assign to renewable energy and electric vehicles,” Socrates said, after meeting Obama, amid amused sniping from the Portuguese press at the mixed messages. Full Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101119/od_afp/natosummitobamatransportenvironmento… added by: Radical_Centrist