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.
Tell the lie, tell it often enough . . . . . .
Yet, another reason I stopped reading Time decades ago. I don't even pick it up in the doctor's waiting room.
My DH performs smogs for CA’s test only. He needs to visually check tires to ensure they are not under-inflated and blow out on the rack. He said he’s LHAO at the over-inflated tires he’s seeing now. He said some of them look like they are about ready to blow. I’ll have to ask him if the have an ‘Osama 08’ bumper sticker.
Modern cars do not require tuneups for 100,000 miles (and haven’t needed earlier tuneups since the mid-90s) - current cars all have tire pressure monitors that scream bloody murder if a tire is even one or two pounds low. Any real loss of fuel economy will trip the check engine light anyway
In other words, Obama and his advisors are stuck in the 70s. Nothing new there.
Brown, not bloody.
How much stupid do you need to write this kind of junk? br> Does this fool think we produce no oil now? That's the only way you can get "1%" out of his statement.
Does he really think (or does he just want to think) that we will "only" produce 200,000 more bbl./day "by 2030"?
Does he really think that it will take the American people over 20 years to ramp up another measly 200,000 bbl/day?
Not much confidence in his fellow Americans!
It isn’t the math of inflating tires, it is the idea a nominee for the Office of President of the United States thinks it appropriate to lecture AMERICAN ADULTS on putting air in their tires and tuning their engines!
Obama can’t even treat Americans as adults; he needs to talk down to us like we are kids and don’t have a clue how to run our daily lives or save money!
This is just more proof of the Obama Nanny Government he would set up.
I heard a sound-bite on local radio that’s got Obama all riled up over this issue. He’s stutters and stammers that he’s right and that Repubs are laughing at a known fact. This is a great issue to get him worked up, I hope it continues as such. He sounds like a kid who is about to cry because he is being laughed at.
And tell him his helmet is on backwards. When was the last time he was out on that bike and wore the helmet? A year earlier?
Is he wearing an a$$hat?
I was hoping someone would post this...
If they think increased drilling is going to add 1%, they are the ones out of touch.
We need to be pushing for complete and total energy independence, and we need to make it a national priority.
Thats drilling offshore Alaska, offshore California, thats ending the oil-shale moratorium, and building coal-to-diesel plants in coal producing states.
Is replacing “all” of our imported oil a tough goal? Yes. A much more practical interim goal is replacing Persian Gulf oil. Thats doable. Two hundred thousand bpd is only 1% of our needs, but its ten or fifteen percent of what we get from the Persian Gulf. Two hundred from the California coast, two hundred more from offshore Arctic, half a million from ANWR, add a pilot oil shale plant or two and half a dozen coal-to-diesel plants, and you’re there.
Most of our imports come from this hemisphere. For the sake of our balance of payments we need to replace that too, but first things first. Replace the first 2 million bpd and then we’ll go for the rest afterward.
Is it going to take 20 years to add 200,000 bpd? Thats laughable. A couple of years. Thats all. And the various new 200k fields can be done in parallel. We just have to do it. You have to wonder, what drives the person who wouldn’t want to do it? Why would you “not” do it?
bloody? Nah.......BROWN !
I agree, we need oil for farming, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing processes. Hows the tire pressure on that fertilizer partner?
He doesn't, and can't. They took some estimates about how much underinflated tires and out of tune engines affect gas mileage, and extrapolated gas savings on the tacit assumption that everyone's tires are underinflated, and everyone's engine needs a tune-up. It's a bunch of crap.
Legislating us and taxing us out of our cars will “also conserve” on fuel. But it won’t make any MORE fuel magically appear, neither does refusing to buy foreign oil because “we use more than our fair share”.
This is antiAmericanism 101. Same as telling us we can’t have AC running all year long because they don’t have it in Europe.
As we drill more oil and stop “buying” foreign oil, we will be buying more of our own oil on the open market. There is no ID on what oil we buy. Unless we want to nationalize oil and keep ours from going to market.
“any sane energy plan will use EVERY possible approach to generate more energy”
Wind and solar along with ethanol without massive government subsidies don’t fit into a sane plan.
The first thing I want to see is off shore drilling in Southern California, not out 50 miles but from the beach out WHERE THE OIL IS!
We need to see that our tax dollars stop buying it for school libraries. Where is the "fairness doctrine" for school magazine materials?
possible AND viable would be a better way to state it, with viable including coal-to-liquid, geothermal and, IMO, tax breaks for certain solar aspects such as thermal mass and other low-tech designs.
Why don't employees of the MSM and others on the Obama staff admit that it will not, however, make new sources of oil unnecessary?
Then we can move on to important issues. Issues like why to MSM employees use those phallus-shaped microphones especially black ones?
(There's a photo somewhere of San Francisco mayor Anytwosom Newsom with one of those microphones in his mouth. He wants to be our president one day.)
How many % points is several and on WHAT statistics are you basing this claim? How many vehicles are in need of a tuneup and how many need to have their tire pressure checked? Personally I learned many years ago that inflating tires to the proper pressure and for me 2 lbs above the recommended would save fuel and I have been doing this for years, probably 30 years.
I saw this at Politico.
Additction to oil tax revenue has been known to affect politicians, especially admitted former cocaine users.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0808/McCain_camp_amps_up_tire_gauge_gag_.html
found that here
It also appears they're basing the fuel savings estimates for getting a tuneup on the difference between a substantially out of tune enging and a freshly tuned one. How often will you have to get a tuneup to maintain the level of efficiency? You could easily spend more in tuneups than what your savings in gas might be trying to meet their expectations.
You’re going to buy all of “your own oil” on the market. But you’ll be paying American contractors and American workers to drill it. The royalties will be paid to American entities, usually the federal government if its federal land. Taxes will be paid at every level. It will ship to market by American pipelines paying royalties to American pipeline owners who pay wages to American workers. The money stays here.
The price will be set by “the market”, which is a world-wide market. The difference is, where does that money go? Not entirely a simple subject, since the Saudis own shares in American companies. But a far greater share stays here if you drill it here and Americans are the ones doing the drilling.
I’m not worried if Alaska oil sells to Japan, while we are buying an equivalent amount from Canada; as you say its a world market. I’m worried about the total balance of payments. I don’t want a barrier around the country, but I want us to produce as much as we use, at least. At least.
Does this mean that Obama will now propose free “tire pressure guages” (except for higher income earners, of course) for everyone??
That’s great!! Some of you are real creative geniuses!
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