loliknowrite: This is McCain these are his ads celeb says "I'm John McCain and I approve this message."
Edit damn my one finger typing ways......
The One is a web ad on his website. (I guess web ads don't need that tag)
and what callous I thought "The One" and Paris Hilton's videos were funny.
The Obama quote: "There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy. ... Making sure your tires are properly inflated - simple thing.
But 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'd actually save just as much." - Aug. 1 speech in Springfield, Mo.
The facts: The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that drivers can improve gas mileage by as much as 3.3 percent by keeping car tires property inflated.
From the computer of Genderhazard
Ok my car (2007 hyundai elantra 5 speed manual) has gotten 29.6 mpg from my last fill-up on 08/04/08 and has traveled 288.6 miles at an average speed of 33 mph. The tank holds 14 gallons. my last fillup cost $47.26 @3.799 per gallon. And the car computer estimates I can go another 127 miles before I need to be looking for a gas station. (probably when I get home tomorrow).
So
29.6 * 14 = 414.4 mileage range
414.4 * .033 = 13.6752 additional miles per full tank (arriving at the pump on fumes)
13.6752/414.4 = 30.30303030303030303030303 (I get a free tank of gas every 30 fill-ups or every 12,557.5757 miles.
And I know this is just a rough estimate because the price of gas fluxuates ( now on it's way down) but $47 is $47 dollars right.
Oops wait I already keep my tires properly inflated because I know how to maintain a car and understand that soft tires make the car engine work hard to maintain speed.
So of course McCain agrees that it is a good idea to maintain proper tire pressure, It is a basic "Do" in the owner's manual along with having good windshield wipers.
But it is not an energy policy and there is no way it will save as much as drilling for oil will.
To say nothing of the fact that inflated tires will have no affect on the amount of motor oil I use or the amount of heating oil Grandma Genderhazard will need this winter. (maybe she should just get a parka to walk around the living room.) She has wool blankets so she's good.
Obama's comment was asinine. Face it if those same words came out of Bush's mouth you would be the first to say what a moron he is.
Had Obama simply said
"There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy. ... Making sure your tires are properly inflated - simple thing. Turn of lights when you leave the room.
and then he could have broken out into song
Also another thing I hear is that it would be seven years before we say and oil if we started drilling today. (if I accept that premise, then if we had drilled in Anwar when Bush first lobbied for it wouldn't we be seeing oil right about now?
PS On Obama's 47th birthday he held a $28,000 per couple dinner at 60 state street Boston MA.
Do you think he took public transportation?
I mean after all he said in Germany "As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya," .