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- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -2/+11Uh, actually properly inflated tires DO help with gas mileage.
You can get better mileage by pumping them up real tight, but it's contraindicated by the owner's manual.
For the rightards who are going to bury this without reading it:
"The Department of Energy estimates that (based on gas costing $3.96/gallon), “you can improve your gas mileage by around 3.3 percent by keeping your tires inflated to the proper pressure” which would ultimately save “up to $0.12/gallon” or, nearly the amount of the federal gas tax ($0.18/gallon), a tax Gingrich supports repealing. Moreover, the auto industry agrees with DoE’s assessment."
Terrible title, I wouldn't digg it at all but it'll piss the rightards off. - hawkeye17, on 08/01/2008, -0/+8I love it when Newt vividly reminds all of us of why he is totally irrelevant today.
- AmyVernon, on 08/01/2008, -2/+8it's amazing that more people don't realize that simple things like this can help save gas...
- Insightful, on 08/01/2008, -2/+7Gongrich: The man who shut down the government in '95 at the cost of 800 millions, the man who had 84 ethics charges filed against him during his term, and the man who had an affair before leaving his first wife (his gemotry teacher btw) and refused to pay alimony and child support (their church took up collections) who then had another affair and remarried.
Why would any sane organization give his person a platform?
Let's watch the news clip to see where who is giving him a platform... FOX. Never mind. - Dumbledorito, on 08/02/2008, -1/+3If you'd had the intellectual curiosity or even a working index finger to click the link, you'd see the full headline was: "Clueless Gingrich Claims Inflating Car Tires Properly To Save Energy Is ‘Loony Tunes’"
The submitter didn't bother to truncate the headline to fit the Digg submission field's character limit.
And some cars still can be tuned up; we have quite the fleet of pre-computer vehicles on the roads. Plus, "tuned up" has come to, at least in my area, include changing your oil and air filters, your fuel filter, etc. or anything that's considered "routine maintenance."
But nevermind all that; go ahead and keep on fuming and foaming. - bluevillage, on 08/03/2008, -0/+2Ridgeliner7 doesn't read articles.
- ryan83189, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1It works, they should make the air to inflate the tires free, I see places charging 75 cents for a minute of air, and I question if it is really worth it in terms of savings.
- trev0006, on 03/05/2009, -0/+1I believe this statement is somewhat true. http://www.discountpartcenter.com/
- Dumbledorito, on 08/02/2008, -0/+1I've noticed that there are both: Free and pay air pumps.
The 75 cent ones most often have a built-in air guage and give you actual air pressure. The free ones are mostly underpowered (barely decent for bike tires) and require a separate guage to measure their progress. - rahulbrown, on 08/02/2008, -1/+1Actually, the biggest thing we can do to save energy is not waste food. Food production is the #2 biggest use of energy and greenhouse gasses. We waste half our food supply, and still have 35 million people go hungry every day in America!
http://digg.com/food_drink/America_s_Shocking_Hung ...
That needs to get to Digg's front page! - nontoxyc, on 08/02/2008, -1/+1All the statistics being cited are based on the erronous assumption that no one's tires are properly inflated. This isn't actually going to save any energy because only a complete drooling imbecile doesn't already have their tires at 25-30 psi.
The author is starting from the assumption "Everyone's tires are underinflated" and then figuring out how much energy we could save if everyone inflated them. - Ridgeliner7, on 08/01/2008, -10/+4Buried as inaccurate *****. Gingrich didn't make that claim, "The Chosen One", Barack Obama did. He also said keep your car tuned up, when everyone knows cars no longer can be tuned up, they are run by computers, spark plugs aren't even changed before 50,000 + miles.
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