Obama’s Tire Gauge Advice Is Good Advice
Posted on August 7, 2008
No, really, it is. Keeping your tires inflated properly is good advice. My Dad gave it too me when I got my first car, a ‘79 Trans Am (6.6 liter, 403 Oldsmobile engine, load levers, t-tops, midnight blue, Hurst dual-gate slap stick (insert Tim Allen laugh here.))
AAA and other auto clubs give that advice.
Your mechanic will give that advice, and, when you get your oil changed, most places will also check the tire pressure. They do at Jiffy Lube.
And, yes, the government does recommend that you keep your tires inflated properly. The Left loves this advice so much that they are even quoting the Bush admin!
You should do it. Don’t over-inflate, particularly when it is hot or you are going to take a trip, and check it more often when it gets cold. Full details here.
But…….
Barry was not giving advice. He was giving an energy policy and plan. The original;
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!
When you combine the tire inflation with saying it is just as good as drilling (or not drilling, as he wants), that is then a plan. If Barry wasn’t so enthralled with his own oratory and messianic capabilities, his inability to admit he was wrong (haven’t the left skewered Bush over that?), he would have followed up with “it was just good, practical, solid, real world advice.” But, no. He wants to dig that hole
Energy plan/position. He is not giving advice. Which is disturbing for a man running for President, who thinks we can solve our ever growing energy needs with a tire gauge.
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He is entirely correct. The savings for an individual consumer are the same. Offshore drilling will give us temporary relief of nearly 2%. Keeping your tires properly inflated makes your car 3-4% more efficient.
I think an energy solution will take federal action, and individual action. Keeping our cars as efficient as possible is one thing.
If you mean to make fun of this as a part of the solution, you should probably try harder.
Um, it was an answer to “What can individuals do.” It only got into a policy discussion because McCain’s campaign started joking that it was his entire energy plan. So no, it wasn’t a policy discussion until McCain made it one. Go criticize McCain’s campaign, if you object to tire pressure being talked about in the context of energy policy.
how are your pressures, marcus? i expected to see every lefty on the block outside every morning checking their tires and, since i live near a university, that should be a lot of lefties. maybe they only do it when i’m not around…
Well… I would have to say that, assuming the context was what Obama says it was, people really shouldn’t be making fun of it. I’m against Obama as much as anybody, but I’d have to agree with Nato. Obama really gave no reason to think it’s a policy. If you could find an expert that disagrees on the idea that it’d save 3-4% nationwide(contradicting his statement that all the experts agree), that would work, but the statement itself was sound.