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- JimSwarthow, on 08/01/2008, -0/+21roger 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. - inactive, on 08/01/2008, -4/+20And how would the government ensure that EVERY American had his tires inflated properly? Maybe a tire pressure Gestapo?
- solboldi, on 08/01/2008, -1/+16If McCain had said this, the Puffington Hoax, Jethro Report, "Thing Progress" and others would be going nuts, savaging McCain as 'senile' 'old idiot' 'grandpa dummie' and being very nasty about it. The MSM discriminates against McCain on the basis of age constantly and no one says a word about it. What about that?
- inactive, on 08/01/2008, -1/+15It is said that laughter increases one's lifespan.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 08/01/2008, -1/+13Thanks Barry, but I already checked the inflation in my tires recently.
I just hope his next idea isn't some sort of crypto-socialist wealth re-distribution plan or something.
Oh wait... - inactive, on 08/01/2008, -2/+10a blog post....ugh
- CapnObvious, on 08/01/2008, -0/+5they 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.
- CapnObvious, on 08/01/2008, -1/+6funny how they know almost exactly how much oil that would save us per day. that would mean that they would need to know fairly acurately
how many cars have under inflated tires
how many of those tires are under inflated
how much those tires are under inflated
how much of an increase in mpg that inflating the tires would give
how many miles these people with under inflated tires will drive after inflating them - inactive, on 08/01/2008, -2/+7How in the ***** 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 ***** and asking for more.
- dawalker, on 08/01/2008, -0/+4Wrong. 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.”"
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/obam ... - inactive, on 08/01/2008, -0/+3Cite.
- dawalker, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2Oh that's where Obama's Brown shirts come in.
http://roadsassy.com/2008/07/08/coming-soon-barack ... - MadKennyP, on 08/01/2008, -4/+3How 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.
- Dalhectar, on 08/01/2008, -5/+2While 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?
- StupotAce, on 08/01/2008, -4/+1I have one problem with the intro.
"McCain is not that stupid."
Maybe McCain knows more about tires (which, I know that tire inflation is one of the most important areas of knowledge I want my President), but he sure as hell is definitely that stupid in other areas (i.e. the internet). - MadKennyP, on 08/01/2008, -16/+5It was picked up by the MSM:
" . . . Such moves would save about 800,000 barrels a day, as opposed to the 1.25 million barrels a day from drilling off shore. Still, that doesn't mean the idea to is to be mocked, as many Republicans seem to be doing right now."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/re ...
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