Rush’s comment today: only 50,000 barrels can be saved per day by properly inflated tires.
Rush that is wrong. The American Tire Manufacturing Association said 4 million barrels can be saved per day. You don’t realize how many people drive around in vastly underinflated tires.
Rush, nascar and drag races are won or lost sometimes with tires that are underinflated by one pound.
Rush, why all the negativity about finding new energy sources to replace oil over the last few days? Jeesh what has happened to your “Americans can do it if we set are mind to it?” attitude you have strongly held in the past.
Have you changed your tune just because obama has refered to new energy sources instead of Mcstain? Or are the oil companies whispering in your ear?
I have never seen such pessismism from you over the American entrepenurial strength and power we have in this country over developing new power sources. Lets develop the new technology here and make money from it instead of some other country(ies). Rush, Americans don’t hate “big oil” they have come to the realization something new needs to be developed to replace it down the road or it will put our economy in shambles.
From your comments yesterday it sounded like yuo have thrown in the towel and given up.
Something is not right here based upon your comments the last few days. I can’t believe what I have been hearing from your lips. (”It can’t be done,” “it’s not possible” etc etc ad naseum)
” A House Republican leader is lambasting President Bush on his decision not to call Congress back into session to deal with the energy crisis.
In a legislative update sent to GOP members and staff on Tuesday, Republican House Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.) accused “Beijing George” Bush of throwing House Republicans “under the bone-dry bus” on his way to the Olympics in China.”
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-republican-leader-rips-bush-2008-08-05.html
Do you have a linked source for that assertion? Does that cover just the US or the entire world? We use about 21 million bbls of oil a day, which means that we could save about 20% of our oil consumption. That is pure nonsense.
I did not hear Rush say that “only 50,000 barrels can be saved per day by properly inflated tires.” But I may have just missed it. But if Rush did say “50,000,” he is not off by much.
Properly inflated tires can improve gas mileage by approximately 3 percent compared to grossly under-inflated tires.
The U.S. consumes around 20.7 million barrels of petroleum per day. Only about 9.3 million barrels per day are used in motor vehicles. So a 3 percent improvement in automobile mileage would correspond, at best, to a 1.3 percent reduction in total oil consumption.
1.3 percent of 20.7 million means as much as 269,100 barrels of petroleum a day saved.
Here is a handy calculator. http://www.math.com/everyone/calculators/calc_source/percent.htm
But since most people know that properly inflated tires can improve gas mileage and they do keep their tires properly inflated, the actual potential savings is much smaller than a 1.3 percent reduction in total oil consumption.
Savings could be only as much as 269,100 barrels of petroleum a day if all tires were improperly inflated. If as many as 4 out of 5 tires are already properly inflated, Rush is very close to being right.
But the point is that the exact numbers are debatable within a certain range, but Rush is right to ridicule Barack Obama for claiming that properly inflating your tires will save as much as “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.”
This analysis does not even account for the practical impossibility of getting every idiot in the country to keep his tires properly inflated.