Obama’s Answer to Drilling Debate: Inflate Your Tires (Video clip)

CNN ^ | July 30, 2008

[Free ThinkerNY]

"We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could save just as much."

[green iguana]

Glad you can run yours on hope.

Errr, maybe I meant to say I'm hoping my car will run. It's got a lot of miles...

[uglybiker]

I'd like to know when the last time (if ever) B.O. ever did a tune up.

Or aired up a tire.

[RinaseaofDs]

Didn’t they HAMMER Bush the Elder for not knowing how much a gallon of milk cost at a supermarket, and marveling at a check out scanner?

This idiocy has GOT to be on part with that bit of out of context reporting about Bush.

Quayle’s political career died on one misspelled word. What is taking so long for this guy to fold up. He pissed the Germans off last week when he said NATO ought to step it up to give US taxpayers a break.

[xkaydet65]

Actually that statement has been making the rounds for the last five years. Mostly about ANWR. Four years ago I was arguing with a co worker about energy and I mentiond ANWR. He immediately said that all the oil in ANWR would amount to no more than the oil we’d save if we all inflated our tires properly. It sounded rehearsed but I didn’t carry the discussion further. If someone would google the haloed one’s words I’m betting you’d be directed to a five year old talking point.

[Rebelbase]

I started a telecommute job a few weeks ago. I’ve gone from burning $100+ week to $25/week and am lovin’ it!

[Hazwaste]

...and computer controlled fuel injection systems, air-mass meters and such.

Good point. Haven't had a carburetor since my 1975 VW Rabbit.

[wally_bert]

I loved The Jeffersons, George was something else. My favorite scene is where he is giving a elegy for an employee that everyone hated since the guy's mother was attending. As the scene progressed, there were closeups of the other people there with voice-overs saying the bad things this guy had done to them. There were 3 or 4 women in succession each saying "he cheated on me" and one was his wife.

[edzo4]

and pelosi says drilling is a hoax, RIGHT....

[KarlInOhio]

Are the Chinese and Indians inflating tires and getting tune ups also?

That's why Congress needs to immediately pass a law spending $100 gazillion to send everyone in China an air pressure gauge, a tire pump and a timing light.

[jbarntt]

"We could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could save just as much."

We could almost save as much energy if Obama would deflate his ego, a prime source of hot air which leads to global warming.

[wally_bert]

[God luvs America]

bump for later...

[Arrowhead1952]

this comment really is something that you would expect to come from Paris Hilton’s mouth.

I give Paris Hilton a little more credit than this. Now Okara or rosie o'donut saying that may be about right.

[dmartin]

Freep the ad makers at GOP and McCain site.

I don't think that the RNC has ever had or will ever possess the backbone needed to run the types of advertisements you describe.

[Skenderbej]

Since March I’ve inflated my tires in my Xterra to 40 psi, up from the 32 I used to keep. I haven’t noticed any difference in mpg. For some reason I still continue to check my mpg at each fill-up in both of my cars even though I can predict my mpg pretty closely without doing the exact calculations. I’ve been doing it for so long in both of my cars.

I guess Barry wants me to overinflate my tires to 80 psi and risk a freeway blowout and compromise the safety of those around me in order to save billions of barrels of oil. We should risk killing others instead of killing a seagull while drilling for oil.

[nikos1121]

Dear Lord,

Spare me the agony of listening anymore to this false prophet. Better yet, put me to sleep like Rip Van Winkle and re awake me on election day.

[nikos1121]

Yeah, and be sure to “repack” those tires...every 10,000miles

[nikos1121]

Eureka!!!! Jay Leno finally has something to hit this guy with!!!!!!! He should have a field day with this tonight.

[MosesKnows]

“The moron actually said that??”

No, of course he didn't say that. Obama is not that ignorant. If he actually did say that he will have officially, and successfully, graduated from ignorant to stupid.

[KansasGirl]

The silly incompetent big eared sonuvabitch is even more stupid than I had feared. LOL