LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING.

The president's Earth Day speech may not have been as green as it looked.

[Last] Thursday President Obama spoke at a Des Moines, Iowa plant that makes towers for wind turbines. CBS News reports the president's team burned 9,116 gallons of fuel in the air during the 1,800 mile trip. That does not include the gasoline for the motorcade and all the various support vehicles.

A speech in the White House's Rose Garden definitely would have been more green.

Translation: we must be green so he can remain in the long green.