Al was probably proud!

His son was driving a hybrid.

Al Gore's son busted for drugs in hybrid car

Wed Jul 4, 2007 6:26PM BST

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The 24-year-old son of former Vice President

Al

Gore was arrested for drug possession on Wednesday after he was

stopped

for allegedly speeding in his hybrid Toyota Prius, a sheriff's

official

said.

Al Gore III -- whose father is a leading advocate of policies to fight

global warming -- was driving his environmentally friendly car at

about

100 miles (160 km) per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles when he

was pulled over by an Orange County sheriff's deputy at about 2:15

a.m..

A subsequent search yielded a small amount of marijuana, along with

prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin and Adderall, said

sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino. There were no prescriptions found,

he

said.

Gore was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and booked into the

Inmate Reception Centre in Santa Ana, about 34 miles (55 km) south of

Los Angeles, on $20,000 bail, he said.

It was not Gore's first brush with the law. He was arrested in 2003

for

marijuana possession and in 2002 for suspected drunken-driving.

Gore was still in custody as of mid-morning and was sharing a holding

cell with an unknown number of people, said Orange County Sheriff's

spokesman Jim Amormino.

"There are no special privileges," he told Reuters.

Gore cooperated with law enforcement as soon he was pulled over and

quickly identified himself as the son of the former vice president,

Amormino said.