McCain Mocks Obama With Tire Gauges, But Agrees That Inflating Car Tires Properly Will Save Energy
McCain Mocks Obama With Tire Gauges, But Agrees That Inflating Car Tires Properly Will Save Energy
Today, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee are taking issue with Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) recent suggestion that Americans inflate their car tires to save on gasoline.
Both are not only falsely claiming that Obama’s energy policy is based entirely on car maintenance, but they are concurrently selling and handing out tire gauges reading “Obama’s Energy Plan” as part of a fundraising campaign. This is an odd strategy given that just last week McCain agreed with Obama’s position, saying, “My friends, let’s do that“:
McCAIN: [Obama] said that the high cost of gasoline doesn’t bother him only that it rose too quickly. Yesterday, he suggested we put air in our tires to save on gas. My friends, let’s do that. But do you think that’s enough to break our dependence on Middle Eastern oil? I don’t think so.
Watch it:
Of course, Obama never said proper tire pressure would “break our dependence on Middle Eastern oil.” Some of McCain’s highest level supporters — Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) and Charlie Crist (R-FL) — also agree with the value of inflating car tires properly:
Both governors appealed to those with the real power to make change — average citizens — to drive slower, keep engines tuned and tires properly inflated, to buy hybrids and lower overall consumption.
“We all do have the power. Let’s not wait for government,” Schwarzenegger concluded. “Energy prices are not going back to the good old days.”
As ThinkProgress recently noted, the Department of Energy and the auto industry have said proper car care can have a significant impact on saving energy and gas money. Moreover, stock car racing giant NASCAR also agrees, urging its fans to pay attention to tire inflation pressure to increase fuel economy.
Part of McCain’s solution to energy independence and high gas prices is to “immediately” start “drilling off shore.” Such an approach would yield a savings of 6 cents/gallon two decades from now, in addition to putting to the planet in peril. By contrast, car maintenance can save 12 cents/gallon immediately.
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What a wise ass. He should do stand up comedy after he loses the election.
“In my day we had to kill a dinosaur before we could get the gas into our cars”
August 4th, 2008 at 4:54 pmThe people at the top of today’s Republican Party are authoritarian conservatives. One of the characteristics of authoritarian conservatives is the ability to hold and believe two contradictory views in their heads at once. They do not see any hypocrisy in this at all. It’s scary what they do one in power.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:55 pmLOSER………Poor old man Johnny has got nothing on Obama and is continually scraping the bottom of the barrel for lies and deceit and trying to scare America, AGAIN…..If we as a country fall for this “swift boating” again we are in trouble as a whole and so is the rest of the world.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm“We have a lot of work to do. It’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.”
“Make it a hundred…That would be fine with me.”
“I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.”
August 4th, 2008 at 5:03 pmLet’s all mail the McCain campaign tire gauges. Idiots.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:03 pmThat’s an interesting argument:
I totally agree with what my opponent says, but he’s still wrong to say it.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:04 pmObama could say 2 + 2 = 4, and McGrampa and the reich-wingers would smear him and spend weeks attempting to prove he is wrong.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:05 pmYea, but how will proper tire inflation help oil comanies make record profits? I think that is the main difference between MockClaim and reality.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pmI can’t wait for some REAL debating. When McDepends starts to flip flop around on the issues, he will get nailed, right between those beady little eyes!
August 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pmOn this subject, I was watching TV over the weekend and a commercial came on (I think it was a GM commercial) about how green the company is, and how they are building better cars with increased fuel efficiency, and with a couple of easy things drivers can do to get even better mileage.
One of the tips was… make sure tires are inflated at the correct pressure. It’s not as if this is breaking news; I mean, I’ve been hearing this since I was a child. It just happened to catch my attention this time.
It boggles the mind that anyone would give Obama a hard time for repeating such an old tidbit, and a well-known fact in the car industry -and that anyone would call the advise “silly”.
But it goes to show that taking reality is optional for Republicans: They think reality is “silly”…
August 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pmI’m getting mighty damned sick of that nasty old man. I wish he would drop de– I mean STFU.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pm[Obama] said that the high cost of gasoline doesn’t bother him only that it rose too quickly.
Maybe someone should ask McCain exactly when Obama said that. It sure doesn’t sound like something he would say. It’s probably just another misinterpretation or misrepresentation of something Obama did say. They are getting really good at that, mainly because no one ever calls them on it.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pmfletc3her Says:
Let’s all mail the McCain campaign tire gauges. Idiots.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I got a better idea. Sharpen ‘em, dip the ends in frog poison, and throw ‘em at the little shitheel when ever he comes out in public…
August 4th, 2008 at 5:08 pmobamagr8 Says
August 4th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
“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!” [Obama quote]
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Actually, we’d probably save more. Giving the oil companies leases to drill off our coasts or in ANWR probably won’t result in a whole lot of oil. Why? Because they’re not going to drill until the time is right for them to realize maximum profits from it. If it was about increasing the amount of petroleum available or lowering gas prices, they’d be drilling on the leases they have now.
Conservation is a good thing. No, it won’t solve our dependence on oil, but it’s a step in the right direction. Why is this a subject for ridicule?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pmOT
Everyone please report bitblt for abuse on the KBR cell-phone thread. His comment (19) will make you cringe.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pmLeftside Annie Says:
I’m getting mighty damned sick of that nasty old man. I wish he would drop de– I mean STFU.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Let’s remember, he a “nasty LITTLE man…”
5′7″ he’d be tied for fourth among tiny phuquers in the White House.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:10 pmupside99 Says:
I can’t wait for some REAL debating. When McDepends starts to flip flop around on the issues, he will get nailed, right between those beady little eyes!
This is one reason why I am totally puzzled by Obama’s resistence to doing town hall meetings and having more debates with McCain. Contrasting the two, McCain is NOT going to come out on top. Why won’t Obama do it?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:10 pmWhy is it that in all these speeches it’s only “Middle Eastern” oil we’re dependent on? Is there something about Canadian and Mexican and Venezuelan and Nigerian and Russian and Angolan oil that makes it less addictive?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:11 pmThe travesty of this MCSmear is that they try to claim that inflating car tires IS the Obama energy plan.
It’s disingenuous — no, it’s dishonest — and it serves the American public poorly to introduce it into the public discussion.
“Serving the American public poorly” just might be an accurate slogan for the GOP, now that i think about it.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:16 pm#
Tweedster Says:
And refers to itself in the third person.
Flagged.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:17 pmGod, idiots. This has nothing to do with the facts. McCain is simply ridiculing our candidate. Here you go trying to discuss the facts. They are irrelevant. The whole purpose is to demean and belittle. Until we start fighting back with legitimate, well thought out and true attack ads, we will just end up like every other Democratic campaign, the logical winner until we let them make us look like weak fools.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:17 pmSpending your own campaign cash to engrave your opponent’s name on a device that people might actually use doesn’t seem like a winning strategy. No biggie. At least he didn’t do something stupid like making a commercial insulting the daughter and granddaughter of major Republic campaign contributors. . .
August 4th, 2008 at 5:17 pmObama doesn’t want to confront McStain cuz if he’s seen to be beating up on a “old” white guy, even this evil little dweeb, he’ll lose votes among white voters, who don’t wanna see their “war hero” getting thumped by some uppity kneegrow…
August 4th, 2008 at 5:19 pmSuch an approach would yield a savings of 6 cents/gallon two decades from now, in addition to putting to the planet in peril. By contrast, car maintenance can save 12 cents/gallon immediately.
Not only is it simple to do, it’s simple to communicate: Keep your tires properly inflated. Easy, now you try it.
Good.
Now try drilling for oil.
Which one are republicans fighting for and why, the easy one that everyone can do or the one that very few will actually profit from? You think they would stage some Congressional theatrics for the tire pressure gauge industry?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:21 pmAdjusting tire pressures and getting tuneups might save 3% of US gas consumption.
But it does so immediately and without a negative enviromental impact… Drilling in ANWR would take years to come on-line (if it came on-line at all) and would mean that the US would only have to import 66% of it’s daily oil, instead of 70%… woo-hoo! (those are the BEST estimates of PEAK production out of ANWR… you got a winner there Obamagr*!)
August 4th, 2008 at 5:25 pmobamagr8 Says:
Adjusting tire pressures and getting tuneups might save 3% of US gas consumption.
Obama said, “we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling”
That would seem to be overstated…..
August 4th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
wide-spread adoption of the tenets of the super-mpg/hypermilers school would do way more than lower consumption 3 percent. Eg: Never let you car idle for more than 10 seconds.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:25 pmCheck it out.
Oh, and don’t be a numb-nutz about it, which propensity I have detected in your previous discourses…
This is the kind of shit you pull when you ain’t got nothin’. Keep up the good work, McSame.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:26 pmFace it: John McCain is a F#cking Lying Scumbag (FLS).
August 4th, 2008 at 5:27 pmCall me a geek, but I just had to do some research to see just what we’re talking about when we speak of “barrels of oil”. I’ll share what I found, for anyone interested:
A barrel of oil is 42 gallons.
Light, sweet crude yields approx. 30% gasoline, or 12-13 gallons of gas.
Heavy, sour crude (as can be found in ANWR) yields approx. 14%, or 5-6 gallons of gasoline.
Kerosene and other “petrolium by-products” are derived from the balance of the “barrel” of oil.
Interesting. If we are able to increase MPG with properly inflated tires tune-ups, and decrease overall need for gasoline by walking, biking or carpooling whenever possible, no reasonable person could support increased drilling offshore or in ANWR.
Note, I said reasonable person.
PEACE
August 4th, 2008 at 5:28 pmMandating correct tire pressures will solve the energy crisis so …..
I don’t recall anyone but you and McCain sayin’ there was a magic bullet to solve the energy crisis… most of the real world believes that many things will need to be done- conservation is one of those things… can you keep up?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:28 pm@29, obamagr8 (can’t help but be a dickhead) Says:
Mandating correct tire pressures will solve the energy crisis so …..
Set up national inspection stations that check everyone’s tire inflation. Gas prices fall back to ‘06 levels. Problem solved!
August 4th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
youre one of those millions of murkins who don’t do nuance, aincha cully?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:28 pmWell, no, you DO get it, but you’re just a dickhead.
Old McTireGauge is a little over-inflated himself. He better have someone measure his current hot-air-pressure and deflate him a little a few PSI, or he may blow a gasket before the Goofy Oil Pontificators (GOP) Convention in early September. Prepare for a new nominee, McMormon…
August 4th, 2008 at 5:28 pmThe troll is right. It IS overstated.
However, the troll limits the advice Obama suggested to tire pressures, at least in citing its statistics (3%, according to FuelEconomy.gov). It’s forgetting the proper tune-up (4%) replacing air filters (10%), and using correct motor oil (1-2%).
This adds up to 18%, which translates to roughly 1.6 million barrels of oil per day. The total output of the OCS is 1.25 million barrels per day. However, the calculations cited here are acknowledged to be overstated, since they depend on every car being in need of a tune-up. Thus the maximum savings is probably closer to 10%, or roughly 800,000 barrels of oil.
So it is overstated. But not by much.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pmAnd the troll decides to “double-down” on its idiocy.
Why should anyone take this troll even semi-seriously, if it’s unwilling to take facts and logic semi-seriously?
Anyone? Anyone?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:32 pmYou have to balance the practical with the theoretical.
Hence the advice to have your tire pressure checked and your car tuned up… seems pretty practical to me.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:36 pmObamagr8 is coming off just like McDepends; I know I can’t beat Obama on facts and logic, so I will just use innuendos and make shit up.
Gonna really hurt come January, huh, obamagr8?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:38 pm[Obama] said that the high cost of gasoline doesn’t bother him only that it rose too quickly.
I don’t know if Obama said that, either. My guess is that he probably didn’t or — if he did — it wasn’t phrased or intended in the manner that McNumbNuts suggests that it was.
However, I do think that it was better for prices to rise quickly given the fact that they were going to rise. A slower increase would not have necessarily gained the attention that this recent spike did nor would it have resulted in the dramatic reduction in consumption that we have seen over the past two months.
Likewise, giving the oil companies carte blanche to “drill here, there and everywhere” (1) would not alleviate either the supply or the price problem and (2) would likely dampen the conservation effect.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:39 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
obamagr8 Says:
Mandating correct tire pressures will solve the energy crisis so …..
And the troll decides to “double-down” on its idiocy.
Why should anyone take this troll even semi-seriously, if it’s unwilling to take facts and logic semi-seriously?
Fair questions. Here is what I do. I figure our trolls have about an eight grade education, so I always brace myself for that fact when I read their posts. They make fun of small solutions because they think they belong to the kewl kids club. When Limbaugh laughs at progressives, they laugh at progressives. They don’t really know what they are laughing at, but Ruch laughed, so we must also.
All the lousy trolls know what Obama said about the tire pressure, and they all know why he said it. If you were to ask any of our trolls, say one month ago about tire pressure - all of them would absolutely agree it is a small positive increment, and they do it because their fathers probably told them to. They know it is a small, incremental benefit, but it got made into what it is now - by the scum at the GOP - so now they make fun of a gas saving tactic which they all employ.
How screwed up do they have to be to avoid a gas saving tactic - which they all know about, but cannot admit to using - all because the GOP is now making fun of it?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:43 pm@ #36, obamagr8
just can’t help being a dick, can ya?
killing the engine at stops you regularly pass, and then watching the lights in the other direction will prevent the stalls you seem to find so worrisome.
the restart device? it’s been 25 years…ya think they mighta improved the technology?
people hate $5 gas more…
you can’t help being a dick, can ya?
August 4th, 2008 at 5:44 pmWhen was the last time that rich, senile old fu ck checked the pressure on HIS tires?
Maybe he mistakenly use that pressure guage for a rectal gas pressure sample.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:53 pmObamagr8 recognizes it’s beaten on this one and retreats mumbling, ‘Curses! Foiled again!’
August 4th, 2008 at 5:53 pmLuckily for Obama, McCain is no where near as perceptive as Obamagr8…
Grammar check on #44.. Thanks!
August 4th, 2008 at 5:54 pmPasty McNasty is starting to make George W look like a nice guy. What a creep!
August 4th, 2008 at 5:59 pmMcIWASAPOW might be a tad elitist on this one. I wonder what my NASCAR buddies think about his inferring that they’re gay for using a tire guage.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:01 pmthere’s that word again.
I saw it in a story about Gore the other day.
what a luxury the right enjoys! all they need to do is mock something and it is branded as mocked.
but then, what the hell else are they going to do?
August 4th, 2008 at 6:02 pmSo, since the securities bubble has collapsed some 90 billion has moved into the commodities [oil] causing prices to skyrocket. World demand increased by some 25% over the last fifteen years - not nearly enough to cause prices to skyrocket since 2000.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:06 pmBut Obama didn’t say it was a small change; he said “we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling”
Here, let me help… this is from the earlier post on this topic:
So it appears that the Government says that too…
August 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pmJames K. Sayre,
Do you have a list pre-written for all the things you like to say “G.O.P.” stands for, or are you making them up on the spot? You’ve come up with some really good ones. Keep it up. :)
August 4th, 2008 at 6:18 pmGallons of Oil per Barrel 42
Barrels of Oil per Metric Ton (U.S.) 7.33
U.S. Crude Oil Production 5,064,000 barrels/day
State Ranking of Crude Oil Production Texas - 1,087,000 barrels/day
U.S. Crude Oil Imports 10,031,000 barrels/day
U.S. Crude Oil Imports from OPEC 5,980,000 barrels/day
Well, 200,000 bpd from the OCS is not enough to wean ourselves from foreign oil and would not have much effect on price, I think.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pmMcCain is acting like the tire pressure thing is Obama’s entire energy plan. Geez…
http://www.political-buzz.com/
August 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pmMcCains plan for weaning us off oil aint gonna happen. Expect him to drop the tire gauge inanity.
The economy is tanking and we are shedding jobs, how about we do away with the political stunts and start focusing on that as this OCS drilling is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:34 pmMcSame gets pumped up:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2008/ 07/ 26/ AR2008072601891_pf.html
August 4th, 2008 at 6:46 pmHybrid cars shut off their gasoline motor when they are stopped, instead of idling their engines. And the energy used to brake the car is Used to charge the batteries.
That’s why Hybrids are so fuel efficient in STOP and GO, Traffic Jam situations.
That’s why diesel hybrid GARBAGE TRUCKS make sense. All the Stopping and Going. Cities should get tax incentives to buy them…and Detroit should make them.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:49 pmOBAMA needs to get with it, and start making this election about Bush’s record!
From Cenk Uyger’s diary…and recommended read:
The Obama team should take this clip from The O’Reilly Factor, where McCain says he is so proud of doing everything he possibly could to get George Bush elected twice, and run it on a loop a million times over. Here is the money quote from the interview:
MCCAIN: I voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004 … And not only that, far more important than a vote, I campaigned everywhere in America for him … I enjoyed it. I campaigned with him. I did everything I could to get him elected and reelected president.
Here is the simplest campaign ad of all time: Show all of Bush’s failures and then run McCain saying, “I did everything I could to get him elected.”
I did everything I could to get him elected. I did everything I could to get him elected. I did everything I could to get him elected. I did everything I could to get him elected
http://dailykos.com/ storyonly/ 2008/ 8/ 4/ 124641/ 1714/ 118/ 562285
August 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pmSen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-CT) “own website still features several press releases that treat tire efficiency as a smart idea — even a critical national security issue.”
Republicans are such losers - they can’t even keep their own messages straight. Thery are all over the map, inconsistent flip-floppers, & McCain is best of them all in those categories.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:03 pmWell, if your only criterion is selfish financial gain, then it’s not really worth it.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:19 pmOK
August 4th, 2008 at 7:20 pmSo I am going to mock McCain by getting one of my grandfather’s Depends and stenciling “McCain, He is So Full of It”. I will pass these out at his next rally.
obamagr8 Says:
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ralph llama, respectfully, there is _NO WAY_ replacing air filters and tuning up a car can make those kinds of improvements.
The last car with a carburetor was sold in the US in was a 1994 Jeep Cherokee. Since then, everything sold here is equipped with an EFI system and an ECU controls the ignition. Nothing wears out, nothing changes. A tune up does very little.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
In the US market, the last carbureted car was the 1991 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor equipped with the 351 in³ (5.8 L) engine, and the last carbureted light truck was the 1994 Isuzu.
And BTW
The last Jeep to use a carburetor was the ‘91 Jeep Wagoneer ; stop making shit up , d-bag……If you don’t know (and obviously , you don’t) , just admit it.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:21 pmRemember the Keating Five!
August 4th, 2008 at 7:37 pmmr. 8, respectfully, those are not my numbers — they’re your government’s. Argue with them.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:53 pmOh, f#ck it all - I was 8 years old, got my bicycle out for the summer. I went (grunt, groan) down the street. My first stop was the gas station (remember free air?). I aired up the tires and thought I was floating on a cloud from there out! From that time on I never needed a politician or scientist or pneumatic engineer to tell me what I learned in those few minutes. It makes one HELL of a difference!
August 4th, 2008 at 8:07 pmAgain, Mr. 8, they’re the government’s numbers.
Argue with them.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:14 pmDumb Question: If inflating tires and tuning up the engines can save 3 per cent, what would be the effect of raising the fleet MPG averages - you know the ones that Bush has fought so hard against.
And if we got rid of the Humvees ?
August 4th, 2008 at 8:55 pmMagoo, I mean McCain needs inflating, he’s been blowing a lot of hot air lately. I must say he is looking little flat.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:15 pmMapleStreet Says:
And if we got rid of the Humvees ?
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And their drivers, MapleStreet. Don’t forget their drivers.
If there’s one truly defective part on every Humvee out there, it’s the loose nut behind the steering wheel.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pmMr. 8, I read the information in the link, and in the further dot-gov link.
Thanks for your concern, but here’s what it stands: I don’t trust the government very far, but I trust it more than I trust you.
Fact remains, Obama’s claim is a credible reading of the information provided by the US government.
Is it a best-case scenario? Yes. But as a Republican troll, you should not be unaccustomed to that type of reasoning, right?
Have a good evening, Mr. 8.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:29 pmTroll=anyone like obamgr8 who shows up, posts totally ridiculous comments, and then whines when folks point out the utter absurdity of those comments.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:13 pmMcNasty strikes again. This time he uses cute tire gauges to cherry pick Obama’s statement on energy as a way to ridicule him.
Remember 2004 when the swiftboaters handed out “purple heart bandages” at the GOP convention? Where is the media to demand the truth from McNasty?
Oops, I forgot. He gives them donuts.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:18 pmFirst of all, I’d really like an Obama tire gauge. I’ve been wondering if I was properly inflated for years. But how do I get a MCCain hot air gauge, and will it really tell me anything?
August 4th, 2008 at 10:28 pmRather pie in the sky than stupid in the hole…
Carter had it right 30 years ago, and what was one of the first things Ronnie Raygun did upon entering the WH? Take down those solar panels.
So, dimwatt, what are people supposed to do… continue listening to Herr Brusch and and now Johnny McShame as they run up huge deficits?
Or follow the lead of the geniuses at Ford & GM who just lost a whopping $23BB in one quarter?
Or listen to you? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
This country, including its’ leaders, both elected and business, have had 3 full decades to prepare for this moment, and… NOTHING.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:31 pm“Pie in the sky.”
Well, with a snotty attitude like yours, I’m not surprised you’d be so dismissive. Look, give it a rest. You’re no fun.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pmhivanh Says:
First of all, I’d really like an Obama tire gauge. I’ve been wondering if I was properly inflated for years. But how do I get a MCCain hot air gauge, and will it really tell me anything?
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Prolly tell ya nothing worth listening to, BUT, your tires will end up over-inflated…
August 4th, 2008 at 10:59 pmI am so tired of this nonsense. Are we not electing the “leader of the free world”? WTFH is this crap? With all the problems and issues in the world, we’re down to this silly ass, juvenile, shite? C’mon “my friend” raise your game.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:11 pmobamagr8 Says:
How many cars on the road have “clogged air filters” or bad O2 sensors?
O2 sensors go bad ALL THE TIME. And while cars don’t have carburetors fuel injectors go bad and need to be replaced, In addition maintenance on a car can involve egr valve, egr gasket, air filters, fuel filter, PCV valves and oil sneder. And a tuneup involves spark plugs and wires not carbueretor and timing chains. And you don’t have a clue WTF you’re talking about.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:24 pmOBI8, why don’t you let the air out of your tires and throw a bunch of cat litter in your trunk and drive around. That will show Obama a thing or two.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:25 pmOPI8, I hope you’re a woman because I’ve never met a man that knew so little about cars, wuss.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:27 pmIf these maintenance measures don’t work why it big oil sending out all their minions, like McCain, to tell people it won’t help. They must be afraid it will cut into their profits.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:30 pmShayne, your fingers are really flying tonight–keep it up!
August 4th, 2008 at 11:46 pmTrolls like Opi8 improve my typing.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:47 pmOoooooooooo…
Look… over there…
It’s… a… LEMMING!!!!
August 4th, 2008 at 11:49 pmHey, c’mon, RUCerious, you’re giving lemmings a bum rap.
Shayne, I think you’re right, I’ve experienced the same thing.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:52 pmLemming stew, yum! Yuck that’s not lemming it’s troll. Tastes like sh*t.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:18 amYeaaaaaah… who sez wolves don’t eat lemmings???
August 5th, 2008 at 12:19 amDo polar bears eat lemmings?
August 5th, 2008 at 12:23 amWha… huh?
Riiiiiiiiiiiii-diculous…
It is a well-known fact that WOLVES just LOVE lemmings…
Can’t get enough of them… as a matter of fact…
August 5th, 2008 at 12:36 amPolar bears eat everything and anything. It’s a known fact.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:45 amFortunately, most Republican cars in my area won’t burn any gas, whether the tires are properly inflated or not. They stay up on blocks pretty much all the time.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:45 amCars need routine maintenance Opi8. What is so confusing about that? Anything with moving parts needs to be maintained for optimum performance. It’s obvious you don’t even own a bike. Which is good because if you owned a car you’d never change the oil would you. Then you’d brag about how much money you saved not changing it. Typical rethug.
August 5th, 2008 at 1:06 amWhy do the repugs love looking like asses?
WTF!
August 5th, 2008 at 2:53 amHAHAHAHA
Since when does the repug nominee pay for and hand out campaign slogans for the dems?
Wow talk about loony.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:05 amobamagr8 Says:
Good christ, people. Do you think the roads are filled with cars that are so badly in need of a tuneup? 32 states check for emmissions that ensure cars are operating properly.
Good point! Not!
Too bad our state doesn’t test their buses, light rails, subways, government vehicles etc.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:08 amWhen will the right criticize General Motors?
This morning, I heard an add that states because of the importance of properly aired tires, GM will feature air gauges on the dash board on all new vehicles.
The add continues that a government study shows properly aired tires will increase a vehicles MPG!
So, why would GM spend money on a “loony” idea, based upon a government study?
Anyone? Anyone?
August 5th, 2008 at 8:53 amBuehler?
McCain is an airhead with a leak.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:52 amRepublic of Stupidity,
About the Obama tire gauges, is there a way to get some (at a normal price, not paying big bucks to the McCain campaign) and then use them as a promo for Obama ?
Once again, Obama is right (NASCAR says so). Once again Obama is doing something while McCain just sits back and criticizes him. etc. etc.
August 5th, 2008 at 10:24 amThe GOP seems to thin that the only way they can win is too dumb down America.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:38 pmThey now mock something that is common sense,
keeping your tires properly inflated just doesn’t save gas it extends the life of the tires.
Any frugal middle/working class guy or old school motorhead knows that…..
of course multi-millionaires who have drivers….McCain, Hannity, Limpballs, etc might not be as aware of that as the average guy would be..
Checking your tires, checking your oil, getting a tune-up, driving less, taking a bicycle, walking …. These are all things that every one of us can do to save on gas. The government cannot require us to do these things, though. What is the number one way to get folks to be smart about their use of petroleum-based products? Make the petroleum-based products prohibitively expensive. It appears that Sen. Obama wishes to use the market in this manner to control individual behavior, by raising taxes on fuels, refusing to lower taxes on fuels, refusing to support off-shore drilling, proposing windfall profits taxes, all in a manner that will put upward pressure on the price of oil. If oil is prohibitively expensive, then Sen. Obama will not have to pass a law requiring us to check our tire pressure. Since when is that a solution?
August 5th, 2008 at 12:55 pmobamagr8 Says:
Well, if NASCAR says it’s true, it must be so. After all, they are such a progressive and innovative group. Just look at their record on race and minorities
Wow, what a stupid argument. The good old boys and rednecks in NASCAR might not ALL be the most enlightened folks on the planet when it comes to race and women in the workplace, but I can guaren-effin-tee you they know their cars and tires.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:55 pmEspecially more than a keyboard-bound troll.
You, my silly friend have obviously never spent any time around gearheads.
Jim Bob 2008 Says:
It appears that Sen. Obama wishes to use the market in this manner to control individual behavior, by raising taxes on fuels, refusing to lower taxes on fuels, refusing to support off-shore drilling, proposing windfall profits taxes, all in a manner that will put upward pressure on the price of oil. If oil is prohibitively expensive, then Sen. Obama will not have to pass a law requiring us to check our tire pressure.
Sorry for being so blunt, but your argument is complete bull****. The price of oil is $120 a barrel. THAT is what is controlling individual behavior.
1.)Lowering taxes will have a minimal effect when prices are at the $4.00 gal level. Not enough to offset the lost funding for highway infrastructure, of which we are coming up short as it is. Lost funding also effects jobs in construction, not a good time to be doing that.
2.) The drilling argument is a red herring. The oil companies already have leases that they are not developing. Why should they? They already have the highest profits in history and are doing just fine, thank you. They are in business to make money, not to help you get lower gas prices.
They are more interested in using those profits for stock buybacks and stock dividends than developing production.
Even if they were interested, it would take years and the effect would be minimal.
3.)Obama, or any politician will only have so much control as price is determined by supply and demand. Google “peak oil” and you might learn something.
As I said in a previous post the GOP thinks they can only win if they dumb down America.
August 5th, 2008 at 1:11 pmNice try.
Why should we use less oil? Emission standards have done a great job of cleaning the air without having to cut consumption. The Dems get the most “mileage” when they scare their “kool-aid drinkers” with non-issues like global warming.
The best way is for D.C. to back a GOOD alternative fuel that doesn’t drag the economy into depression with usage. It should be able to be used with current technology.
So let’s drill in the meantime to save the economy, undermine the economies of our terrorist enemies and get over the irrational fear of global warming.
August 5th, 2008 at 9:01 pmpm Sen. Obama was suggestion ways consumers can save gas. he wasn’t addressing just your fatass.
you can thank your emperor-in-chimpy and his big buddies at the oil companies for squeezing every drop of oil from our dollars.
deflate your silly little ego, you will save gas because you will decrease your load.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:42 amObama is on the right track calling for Americans to keep tires properly inflated.
Americans CAN do something about the energy crisis. With everyone working together to solve the problem, even something that seems little, like proper tire inflation, can grow to a savings of $ 14 billion a year, which doesn’t seem small at all.
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August 6th, 2008 at 1:33 pmPresident
“Obama is on the right track calling for Americans to keep tires properly inflated” - And so is my car owner’s manual. You can be on track without moving.
Like pmavrk2, my tires are properly inflated and my car is tuned and guess what? Obama’s plan isn’t working. And it doesn’t make any difference in the price rise of everything else that needs to be shipped.
Obama is a clueless light-weight that offers thoughtless, worthless “solutions” for economy killing problems. And he wants to raise taxes too?
August 6th, 2008 at 2:38 pmDid I say Obama is Carter-esque? I should have.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:37 pmI want one of those tire pressure gauges. Obama is the Messiah and is going to change the world. If he says, “inflate your tires”, well then gosh darn it, I am going to inflate my tires.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:28 pmVote Obama!
This is ridiculous- lets look at the facts:
McCain never disputed that tire inflation is a good idea. That’s a straw man. McCain disputed what Obama said…
“They’re making fun of a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent. It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant, you know? They think it’s funny that they’re making fun of something that is actually true.” -Obama
According to the DOE, 3.3% is the maximum estimated savings for a car with 4 underinflated tires. Are all of the tires in America underinflated? If 100% of our tires are underinflated, then Obama’s 3-4% is possible. According to the NHTSA, 27% of cars have one or more underinflated tires. Only 3% have four underinflated tires. Of all the tires in the country, only 12-13% are underinflated. So, the real savings (assuming EVERYONE pumps up their tires) is about 0.4%
Perhaps Obama put the decimal point in the wrong place.
By the way, where I live 0.4% is less than 1.5 cents per gallon. McCain’s gas tax holiday would save 12x that much per gallon.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:42 pmDear Wayne,
Thanks for the compliment. Not, I don’t have a list of things to call the gop, the words just keep popping out. I’ve been publicly ranting against vile Republican Presidents since Nixon won back in 1968 with his “secret plan to end the war in Vietnam.”
Cheers.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:31 pm