newsbusters.org — Barack Obama said inflating your tires will increase gas mileage, but somehow this comment has not been picked up by the networks news. I have even seen the inflating tires comment associated with McCain. McCain is not that stupid.
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jimswarthowAug 1, 2008
roger wilco Barama! - so between you and Cheryl Crow's one square of toilet-paper per dookie stroke-of-genius you two are gonna end up saving the world. woopee! - y'know, it just scares the daylights out of me when I imagine life on this planet w/out the benefit of this sort of sage-wisdom that just oozes from the Left.
Closed AccountAug 1, 2008
How in the f**k this rookie got into this position just shows how gullible certain segments of the American public can be. They bought the Iraq war reasoning hook, line, and sinker, and now they're eating up Obama's bulls**t and asking for more.
dalhectarAug 1, 2008
While I'm not sure I want my president to use the use the bully pulpit to promote common sense stuff like inflating your tires and basic car care... I also don't want him to talk about the "scourge of steroid abuse in professional sports". How many pro athletes are there again, and what does that have to do with National Security, Balancing the Budget, protecting the environment, or any REAL national concern? Maybe Bush should have spent more time on the mortgage crisis instead of that?
capnobviousAug 1, 2008
funny how they know almost exactly how much oil that would save us per day. that would mean that they would need to know fairly acuratelyhow many cars have under inflated tireshow many of those tires are under inflatedhow much those tires are under inflatedhow much of an increase in mpg that inflating the tires would givehow many miles these people with under inflated tires will drive after inflating them
capnobviousAug 1, 2008
they will pass legislation to make it illegal to drive your vehicle with less tire pressure than the manufacturer recommendation. screw drilling for oil... we should pass more laws that allow the government to tell us how we should live.
Closed AccountAug 1, 2008
How much oil can be found in Americans' car -- through more efficient driving and better vehicle maintenance? Using current numbers from the Dept of Energy and EPA, the answer appears to be some 2.5 to 3 million barrels a day -- 20 times what could be found if we ended the congressional moratorium on offshore drilling and three times the oil we are likely to find in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
dawalkerAug 1, 2008
Wrong. As usual. "Properly inflating your tires can improve gas mileage by 3%. Of course, many people already keep their tires properly inflated, and many more are at least close to being properly inflated. Let’s be generous and assume that one-half of the total possible savings would be realized if we all inflated our tires properly; that’s a net gain of 1.5% fuel efficiency. Americans drive approximately 2,880 miles per year. If we average 24 mpg, we use around 120 billion gallons of gasoline in our vehicles. If, through perfect tire inflation, we improved our collective fuel efficiency by 1.5%, that would be 1.8 billion gallons. A barrel of oil produces around 20 gallons of gasoline, so the total savings available through tire inflation is approximately 90,000,000 barrels of oil annually. How does this stack up against “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling?” ANWR: 10 billion barrels Outer Continental Shelf: 18 billion barrels (estimated; the actual total is undoubtedly much higher, since exploration has been banned) Oil shale: 1 trillion barrels So, on the above assumptions, it would take only 11,308 years of proper tire inflation to equal “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.”"<a class="user" href="http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/obama-inflate-your-damned-tires-and-everything-will-be-fine">http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/obam ...</a>