McCain bashed by Paris Hilton

[genderhazard]

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," .

[resiz3d]

Originally Posted by genderhazard

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.

It's not like Obama said "This is my energy plan: Inflate your tires!"

Someone in the audience asked what they could do right *now* to help save gas and the tire thing is his reply. What's wrong with that?

Originally Posted by genderhazard

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?

Dont forget.. if we start drilling more the American people don't get the oil. Exxon and other oil companies get it. They can take that oil and sell it to China or Europe or whoever's willing to pay more for it.

[genderhazard]

Originally Posted by resiz3d

It's not like Obama said "This is my energy plan: Inflate your tires!"

Someone in the audience asked what they could do right *now* to help save gas and the tire thing is his reply. What's wrong with that?

Nothing is wrong with that. Carpooling would save more but keep your tires inflated. is there someone who keeps track of under inflated tires?

BTW putting pure nitrogen in is better than compressed air.

It is extrapolating that to 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." that is the moronic part.

Obama policy was no domestic drilling no offshore drilling Where China is going to drill.

Dont forget.. if we start drilling more the American people don't get the oil. Exxon and other oil companies get it. They can take that oil and sell it to China or Europe or whoever's willing to pay more for it.

Well the Oil companies are the ones who make the investment, they should reap the rewards. Don't you forget that many of the American people have 401 K plans and they often contain oil company stock.

9.5 cents per dollar is about the profit exxon mobil gets 15 percent of profits went directly to shareholders in the form of cash dividends, and the biggest chunk, 40 percent, was used to repurchase Exxon's own stock." But ExxonMobil paid 83 percent as much as the $8.4 billion it earned, $7 billion, $2 billion more than a year earlier, in just federal income tax -- and a lot more in other taxes.

Yes, ExxonMobil cashed in by investing and working to get their product to the retail customer while the federal government collected 18.4 cents per gallon in tax for doing nothing. Federal, state and local taxes total an average of 46 cents per gallon -- significantly more than the 38 cents Exxon earned on $4 gallon of gas.

So if we get rid of Big Oil where will the goverment go to collect all that lost revenue?

[LOD]

The scary thing about this offshore drilling situation is that if we don't open some of these areas to American companies other countries will do it instead. Cuba has invited China to drill in theses areas of question. Now who would you trust to drill off the coast of Florida China or Shell? If shell screws up It's Exon-Valdez all over again. If China coats the gulf coast with American oil what will be next? World War 3?

[PrBlahBlahtson]

Originally Posted by genderhazard

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.

Part of the reason he made the statement is that off-shore drilling could reach full capacity of 200,000 barrels per day (abbreviated as bbl for some reason) by 2030. Oil consumption in the United States of America was measured at 20,730,000 barrels per day by The CIA Factbook as of 6/14/07 and posted by NationMaster.

So in twenty years we could increase our oil supply by almost 1% of the demand.

When you look at the actual numbers, his statement makes sense. But you're correct, without those numbers it just seems stupid.