Hussein followed McCain to Sturgis!
Posted on 08/05/2008 1:00:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
How out of touch is Barack Obama? He's so out of touch that he suggested that if all Americans inflated their tires properly and took their cars for regular tune-ups, they could save as much oil as new offshore drilling would produce. Gleeful Republicans have made this their daily talking point; Rush Limbaugh is having a field day; and the Republican National Committee is sending tire gauges labeled "Barack Obama's Energy Plan" to Washington reporters.
But who's really out of touch? The Bush Administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 bbl. per day by 2030. We use about 20 million bbl. per day, so that would meet about 1% of our demand two decades from now. Meanwhile, efficiency experts say that keeping tires inflated can improve gas mileage 3%, and regular maintenance can add another 4%. Many drivers already follow their advice, but if everyone did, we could immediately reduce demand several percentage points. In other words: Obama is right.
In fact, Obama's actual energy plan is much more than a tire gauge. But that's not what's so pernicious about the tire-gauge attacks. Politics ain't beanbag, and Obama has defended himself against worse smears. The real problem with the attacks on his tire-gauge plan is that efforts to improve conservation and efficiency happen to be the best approaches to dealing with the energy crisis — the cheapest, cleanest, quickest and easiest ways to ease our addiction to oil, reduce our pain at the pump and address global warming. It's a pretty simple concept: if our use of fossil fuels is increasing our reliance on Middle Eastern dictators while destroying the planet, maybe we ought to use less.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Or we could drill ANWR. Such a simple answer, yet liberals still don't get it. How can they so blindly refuse an easy solution?
Cars don’t need tuneup and everyone knows to keep their tires inflated. Telling people what they already know isn’t gonna help one bit.
Will someone post a decent JPEG or other graphic file of a tire gauge, preferably the cheap pencil variety, and not the dial variety?
And if we move into caves and use no fossil fuels at all, then Middle Eastern dictators will go away and the planet will be saved. Yea!
I'm gonna go hurl now.
It’s laughable how the msm twists themselves into pretzels trying to cover “THE ONE! big dummy’s butt”
'Rats likely much more likely than Republican/Conservative/Libertarians to have under inflated tires. Why not a National Tire Inflation Service to go to welfare offices and inflate all the SUV tires in the lots?
I’m still buying into the destroying the planet part.
There will be a mandate that all State Troopers carry tire guages and will be checking the pressure during DWI roadblocks- anything to increase revenues.
“Addiction to oil”- what a worn-out blowhard phrase!
Yeah, like people are gonna do that. Too much effort. And expensive. I keep my tires filled, but I haven't had the engine tuned since I bought my car 8 years ago, and haven't needed on. Go Toyota!!
“200,000 bbl. per day by 2030”
How long did these azzhats have to dig to come up with that ridiculously low number? Actual number is at least TEN TIMES that, which kind of blows away their entire thesis. And this isn’t counting ANWR and shale oil (est. 1,000,000,000,000 bbls now — yes, TRILLION).
BTW, my est. above (ten times) is the high number from a PEAK OIL paper. You know, the people who have been predicting for the last 30 years that we are going to run out of oil in the next ten years...
First of all, not all oil goes for transportation. Second, most persons do maintain their cars and check their tire pressure, so the gains would not be that signficicant. And third, any sane energy plan will use EVERY possible approach to generate more energy. THAT is the critical point this statistically-challenged twerp from Time is missing.
The key word is increase, which takes into account the new sources offsetting the decrease in current sources as they are depleted. Not a very fair comparison.
Thanks!
The twits at Time Mag better tell Obama to check his own damn tires. That rear one is way low.
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