McCain Tire Gauge Mocking Of Obama Ignores Support From Those On His Side Of The Aisle
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Steve Benen has already covered how the right has picked up their new symbol to mock Barack Obama's energy policy, as if the entirety of Obama's program is to have people keep their tires inflated. Jon Perr points out this isn't a new tactic for them. However, Keith Olbermann goes further, and points out that this strategy (at least amongst the critical thinking in the electorate) may backfire when this advice has been endorsed by GOP Veep shortlister Charlie Crist, California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger, NASCAR and even President Bush's Highway Traffic Safety Department, none of whom could credibly be called in Obama's corner.
Anti-science as the GOP likes to be, I'm sure these facts will go right over their heads:
The study indicates that substantial benefits would accrue if car care facilities systematically offered complimentary tire pressure checks with oil changes including: (i) increased safety by decreasing all crashes and saving more than 100 lives per year, (ii) reduced petroleum consumption by over a billion gallons/year, which would (iia) provide over $4 billion in economic savings for US consumers that could in part be recouped in retail/auto-care facilities, (iib) reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 13.5 million tons and automobile pollution and (iic) enhance national security.
As Obama says, "it's like these guys take pride in being ignorant."
Oh, snap!
Full transcripts below the fold
OLBERMANN: The Republican presidential candidate has devoted his nightly embittered mocking quota to ridiculing a gas-savings suggestion advocated by his Democratic rival, a gas-saving suggestion advocated five weeks ago by a governor John McCain is considering as his running mate, a gas-saving suggestion advocated two years ago by those liberal lunatics at NASCAR, the stock car racing circuit, a gas saving suggestion which President Bush‘s own highway department suggests could save more barrels of oil in one year than new offshore drilling could produce in four.
Keep your engine tuned and your tires properly inflated. This as Senator Obama is declaring in Michigan today that we must end the age of oil in our time. In a new ad, the Obama campaign stating that four more years of an administration tied to big oil would be the wrong choice.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, OBAMA CAMPAIGN AD)
NARRATOR: Every time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets. Now big oil is filling John McCain‘s campaign with $2 million in contributions because instead of taxing their windfall profits to help drivers, McCain wants to give them another $4 billion in tax breaks. After one president in the pocket of big oil, we can‘t afford another.
Barack Obama-a windfall profits tax on big oil to give families $1,000 rebate. A president who‘ll stand up for you.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D-IL) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I‘m Barack Obama and I approve this message.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN: The McCain campaign responding, quote, "Barack Obama‘s latest negative attack ad shows his celebrity is matched only by his hypocrisy."
Back in Michigan, the presumptive Democratic nominee is pointing out an end to the age of oil in our time will not be accomplished through offshore drilling.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
OBAMA: We can‘t simply pretend as Senator McCain does, that we can drill our way out of this problem. We need a much bolder and much bigger set of solutions. We have to make a serious, nationwide commitment to developing new sources of energy, and we have to do it right away-right now.
(APPLAUSE)
OBAMA: We cannot wait.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN: The rebuttal move from the McCain campaign today, handing out tire gauges to the traveling media corps which read, "Obama‘s energy plan, a stunt meant to mock the Obama suggestion last week that Americans improve their gas mileage by keeping all tires properly fully-inflated," as if that were the only part of Obama‘s energy plan.
Cue, Senator McCain in Pennsylvania today.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MCCAIN: Unfortunately, Senator Obama continues to oppose offshore drilling. He continues to oppose the use of nuclear power. These misguided policies would result in higher energy costs to American families and businesses and increased dependence on foreign oil. We‘re not going to achieve energy independence by inflating our tires.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN: Please stop yelling at me, sir.
The McCain campaign is also e-mailing a fundraising pitch offering the tire gauges for a low, low $25 donation. They are available at amazon.com for 89 cents.
Problem number one, checking tire pressure is not the only aspect to Obama‘s energy plan which also includes in no particular order, dipping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, putting at least 1 million plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015, and a major commitment to helping the auto industry build new factories or renovate existing ones to retool for the production of those new generation vehicles.
Problem number two, Obama is not the only one to have advised Americans that properly maintained tires increase fuel efficiency. California Governor Schwarzenegger-and let‘s see McCain try to mock him about this-having said in June in a joint appearance with Florida Republican Governor Charlie Crist who campaigned with McCain last Friday, that average citizens should keep engines tuned and tires properly inflated as well as driving slower, buying hybrids, and lowering overall consumption.
Governor Schwarzenegger having added that at the end of June, quote, "energy prices are not going back to the good old days."
Now, who else believes that tire pressure affects the fuel efficiency of the car? NASCAR does. It has advice on its website for two years and counting, that tires be checked "at least once a month and before every road trip," quoting further, "With escalating fuel prices the time is now for drivers to focus on simple things like proper tire pressure to maximize tire performance and increased fuel economy.
Perhaps Cindy McCain might have picked that up when she toured a garage at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania and got into a NASCAR racer with the president of NASCAR over the weekend.
The Bush administration is also promoting proper tire inflation as a way to save money and cut gasoline use. Quoting from Department of Energy guidelines, "Keep tires properly inflated and aligned to improve your gasoline mileage by around 3.3 percent."
The gloves are off.
McCain is only half inflated. I think it is jealousy.
Giant Pen*s head olbermann the wanker man has spoken.
Obama Proposes ‘Tire’ Gauge to Monitor McCain’s Consciousness
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=2464
Obama is going into attack mode to fight the stupid (but effective) crap McDainbramage has been flingin'.
Pop popity pop pop....
munch munch munch....
mmmmm...good eats
"Oh, snap"
That was two snaps a twist and a kiss! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7aHzPKkW_E
Re: As Obama says, “it’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”
Priceless!
We don't have to worry about working at ending the age of petroleum in our lifetime. It will end anyway. Oil production has been basically flat since May 2005.
We are in "the plateau". It will last for a few more years, depending on economic conditions - a bad economy creates reduced demand, thusly stretching out what remains. After that it will begin to decline at around 2% a year, and that will go on for about 10 years, and then it will go into double digit decline rates. What is more important is the Export Land Model, which demonstrates that even with mildly reduced production exports decline precipitously as the exporting country develops its society around petroleum consumption. This has already happened in Indonesia and the UK, and is about to happen in Mexico. So, for import dependent countries LIKE THE USA, the picture is far bleaker: the resource will seem to disappear in the late 20teens to mid 2020s. Don't like it? Tough.
I recommend you learn how to grow more of your own food, and live close to where you work.
“it’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”
It's pretty damn clear that they take pride in being ignorant.
If they blow off what NASCAR says about tires as being liberal elitist lies it's clear as day.
These are the same people who think Iraq had a hand in 9/11, that we found WMD, and that conservatives were the heros in the civil rights movement.
mccain-mclame @ 9:
And insist everyone else accompany then on the road to glorious stupidity. Like it or not.
As Terry Pratchett noted in his novel "Guards, Guards":
That's the Republican theory of governing in a nutshell. I wonder when someone's going to ask whether we're electing the person who'll make the best leader, or the best liar?
Have any of you seen the official Paris Hilton For President ad mocking McCain's celebrity ad? Too efin' funny!
Quote from the origional "Flight of the Phoenix", "You sir, behave as though ignorance was a virtue"
"it's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." LOL. That's right Obama, rope a dope is over, time to smack some heads.
And Grandpa.... don't take the ass whipping you surely will get at the debates personal.
Alright, now Obama's starting to show a little sandpaper - this is exactly how you need to do it!
Pride in being ignorant?
Welllllll, pride is a funny thing. You never know when it's gonna rear up.
One time, after getting drunk and driving into a tree with a stolen car, I was really proud that the force of the impact didn't make me vomit.
I mean, I'd been doing Jello shooters for hours, man, HOURS.
In conclusion, sure---I could see someone taking pride in their ignorance. Happens all the tiiiiiiime.
Tomorrow morning the national network "news" programs will exclaim "Obama say Americans are ignorant!"
That quote (and the whole Youtube video linked in the main post) are EXACTLY the kind of response I would want to see to McCain's Campaign's attack ads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjXqfvLu28
Let's not forget the whoel debacle about the suggestion of learning another language a few weeks back.
I wonder what they're going to do with all those silly gimmicky tire qauges they sell if none of them actually plan on using them? What a waste of their campaign donors' money and a worser waste in a time of economic crisis.
Actually, come to think of it, I do have an idea what to do with them....
i'll bet rush limpbaugh didn't mention this little bit of info.
instead i'm sure he focused on the negative/hate chant
The Bush administration is also promoting proper tire inflation as a way to save money and cut gasoline use. Quoting from Department of Energy guidelines, “Keep tires properly inflated and aligned to improve your gasoline mileage by around 3.3 percent.”
i love it that obama LAUGHS at mccain.
but asking conservatives to think will only add to polluting the atmosphere. ya know, with all the smoke coming out of their ears.
MountainMan23 @ 18:
I also quite liked the quote "they know they're lying".
12 connecticut man1 Says: Have any of you seen the official Paris Hilton For President ad mocking McCain’s celebrity ad? Too efin’ funny!
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It's WAY over the top .. laughed my ass off ..
And it's getting posted & re-posted everywhere ..
http://drinkliberal.blogspot.com/2008/08/hilton-strikes-back.html
12 connecticut man1 Says: Have any of you seen the official Paris Hilton For President ad mocking McCain’s celebrity ad? Too efin’ funny!
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Rolling on the floor laughing ..
It's way over the top ..
Saw this last night...yet another example of the ignorance of those on the right...with a few notable exceptions...
Here's the direct link to the Paris Hilton video response to McCain's "Celebrity Obama" attack ad:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d
Nichole: Of MUCH, MUCH more importance than this particular thread is the
interview between Keith O. and Ron Suskin as to his book and the critisim he
(Suskin) has been receiving. The video is available at www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
Very,very interesting and informative...
MountainMan23 @ 26:
Saw that on Countdown tonight...scary thing is she actually made sense...provided of course she's not reading off of cue cards or anything like that..
This is EXACTLY the right response to all that McCain nonsense. Someone in the campaign needs to make this an ad or something with close to the same language. Why get mad when you can make fun of them and make them small? McCain got pwned.
Doggiebobo@27: By the way, the video needing viewing is #5
CG@23
Very true...call them exactly what they are ....LIARS! When Obama speaks clearly like that, I KNOW HE CAN BEAT THIS OLD FOOL no matter what the "polls" proclaim.
mccain sounded ridiculous on stage at sturgis. i guess he didn't have a teleprompter. belittling obama about the tire guage.....wow it's going to come down to a culture war what a surprise. people just don't get it.
ignorance is a form of confinement-very sad. willful ignorance is a form of self-confinement. some probably think(or unconsciously think)that ignorance is some kind of harmless foible or adorable trait-i don't think we have that 'luxury' anymore.not when the rest of the world is breathing down our neck.and the current crop of 'leaders' played all our 'ignorant' cards.
It's is insulting for McCain and the Repugs to use this argument whan the average American is suffering. This is a well known fact. You can tell the elitist Repugs don't fill their tanks. Christ! How low can McCain go.
19 Shan Says: Let’s not forget the whoel debacle about the suggestion of learning another language a few weeks back.
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Excellent point.
And it's exactly the same fundamental issue:
To revel in our ignorance.
OR
Do something intelligent that would actually improve our lives.
Obama is correct when he said, these guys take pride in being ignorant.
First think I was told when I bought a car was check your tires and have them properly inflated.
one thing there obama didn't quite get right, it isn't "like" these guys take pride in ignorance, they absolutely revel in it. i know, sadly, i work with just such kookoo klowns everyday so it's a sort of dismal form of entertainment. when you get close to them after awhile, you really come to understand there are people who really do enjoy their foolishness and ignorance, it's like some sort of cheap drug for them, the kind that makes a monkey out of the people who do it, but they think they look really great.
hope obama wins, and that we all get better cause we're sick right now.
seevee @ 1:
A sarcastic and witty reply to McSame and Karl Rove's character assassination bullshit. Obama needs to keep up this line of attack because this will resonate. Humorous ridicule of the asinine, juvenile mischaracterization by McRove of Obama's plan is difficult to rebut: It turns it back around on them.
Any publicity is good publicity: this may actually get people to check their tire pressure.
Gramps is gloriously imploding himself lurching from one hilarious fuck up to the next and the thing that puzzles me the most is how the shitless pitiful 'progressives' who dominate these comment threads with badly spelled one liners actually think this wreck has a chance at winning.
Maybe the name should be changed from 'Crooks and Liars' to "Chicken Little Central".
Hey Conn man 1 I really enjoyed forwarding that site to my conservative friends.
Taught me a bit of humility also. I will not make fun of or snicker at Paris ever again. And, I will be more careful drawing conclusions about people in general.
I'm just having trouble with the current admin. Heck Hitler was a vegetarian. He was almost as evil as Stalin and Mao. But, I'm still trying to think of something nice about the bushies. Oh yeah, the Africa AIDS thing. Oops, just creating a bigger market for big Pharma. Prevention doesn't help.
seevee @ 1:
Not yet. When Obama starts talking about McSame being part of the Keating 5, being another Bush-type clueless underacheiver finishing at the bottom of his Naval Academy class, leaving his wife and kids for a younger richer woman, and unable to keep his stories straight like was it the offensive or defensive line of which fpptball team he gave the names of while he was in captivity.......that's when the gloves will be off. Then is when he will be countering Rovian lies about him with painful truths about McSame.
doggiebobo @ 27:
I agree, but I'm down two video people this week, so that's why we're showing yesterday's broadcast today. We'll get Suskind up tomorrow a.m., I'm sure.
So I tuned into Hannity today to play a little game I like to call "10 seconds till the talking point" to see how long it would take him to mention tire pressure and mock Obama. Once again I won, he mentioned it within 10 seconds. But this is where it gets funny. He cuts to a commercial and its his own voice talking about some car that alerts you when its tire pressure is low. Hannity went on for a good minute about how great this car is because it makes sure your tire pressure is up which saves you gas money. He went on and on about how good tire pressure saves you gas money. His hypocrisy knows no bounds. Does anyone know where we can get the audio from Hannity's radio ads? We really should be using this any time a right winger tries to mock Obama on the tire pressure issue.
You might already know, but just in case --
Hannity's doing radio commercials for the Pontiac Vibe and their main
selling point is that there's a readout that constantly monitors tire
pressure to aid in fuel economy. Hannity goes on and on about how this is a
great way to save gas, that it saves more than people know and that it's
very important. He also directs people to his website for more information
on the topic.
I guess he forgot he recorded that spot. But it certainly flies in the face
of the right's desire to paint Obama as an idiot for suggesting that correct
tire pressure is one thing that we all can do to save gas.
P.K. McBurroughs @ 16:
I guess I'd have been proud it wasn't MY car I wrecked...
I absolutely love the second clip!
"Vote Republican - We take pride in being ignorant!"
Priceless!
Obama: Tire gauges help fuel efficiency
McCain: Dipsticks measure if I'm full of it.
Personally, I think most of these Rethugs are so ignorant that they can't understand how to read a tire pressure gauge. Or maybe they don't have the (now) fifty cents needed to operate the air machine, since it won't take a credit card.
Fantastic. He makes all the key points, and he's laughing at them.
McStain in my pants @ 20:
Yah, now a certain subset of the 27%ers will willfully let their tires go under inflated on their suvs and other behemoths --- which are strictly for utility and aren't meant to compensate for anything in anyway. And then they'll complain even louder about the price of gas.
It's actually all a cunning plan to rile up the base about more drilling...
Site Monitor, just kill #50. I just want those who want to witness a fiesta of racists going bonkers over tire gauges and Cindy McCain to check out the ABC nes political blogs. The networks whose sensitivity on racial issues brought us the "Obama accuses McCain of racism" fiasco is allowing amazing bigotry to stand out for hours. I cannot get direct quotes by the diligent site monitor here.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/mccain-voluntee.html?cid... Make note of Steveo at 7:41 and Barry Husseion Obama at 7:52
"IT'S LIKE THESE GUYS TAKE PRIDE IN BEING IGNORANT"
Finally.
More please.
Nada @ 10:
When they threw NASCAR under the bus any doubt I had in my mind was removed.
jane @ 38:
I took Obama's advice and picked up a new tire gauge (my freebie Geico gekko-shaped one wasn't exactly the easiest to use) while I was at the auto parts store. It turns out two of my tires were dangerously low. Not only might I save some money on gas and reduce my CO2 output a little bit, I might have prevented a major problem. I really think Obama should take a cue from the McCain campaign and start selling (or just giving away) Obama '08 tire gauges to show how fooling McCain looks and how practical and sensible Obama is. All Obama is calling for is common sense and personal responsibility and the Republicans are mocking him for it. I thought those were supposed to be the kinds of good ol' American values that they claimed for themselves.
Also, that bit about Hannity's radio ads for the Vibe is comedy gold.
I lol'ed from the beginning till the end for the town hall meeting and the paris ad
the ironony of this whole last week/month is that mccain has been saying "obama is not ready to lead". y'know, i.e., as in he hasnt matured as a senator/politician; wtf ever. and what do we get from mccain? his wife showing up in a bikini contest at sturgess, an add with britney and paris in it, an add comparing obama to moses, and that typical maccain daffyness in every interview and his campaign manager saying, "oh, were very proud of our ads and WERE HAVING A GOOD TIME WITH IT ALL". REALLY!!!! i'm glad you are all slapping your knees and chuckling over your UNSURPASSED cleverness, all while i can barely afford to fill my f*cking gas tank to drive to work to make a dollar that is virtually worthless! REALLY?! and barack is supposedly out of touch?! holy f*ck my @ss we are doomed if this type of bs plays to voters. i just want to vomit out my a$$hole. and by that of course i mean vomit so hard my sphincter comes though my body and out my mouth and i die. i'm sure you get it
"Do you take pride in being ignorant?" A good question. Would love to see it asked of Republicans frequently and in all media.
Do you stupid fucking drooling simpering mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging blood-lusting Republican butt-trumpets actually take pride in your ignorance?
Loonie @ 58:
Yes.
MountainMan23 @ 24:
The beauty of the new media... A couple of hundred bucks on software, a video cam and a little effort to actually use them and you too can go viral with a great ad. It doesn't hurt if you have a well known celeb to star in it either.
Got to give her major props on doing this in a thoughtful way.
Its about time we have a democrat call em on their bullshit.
mccain-mclame @ 9:
You forgot it was the librul's fault that we didn't win in Vietnam!!
and After Clinton, everything is now Obama's fault...
Never mind that Bush guy who's been in there for almost 8 years...
Keiths Tire Gauge story inspired me to make a pushback political ad. I worked on it all day today and it just finished uploading to YouTube:
Tire Gauge
i want my obama tire gauge!
i'm waiting to hear back from his store. let's help obama sell more tire gauges than mccain.
but first he has to sell them.
i dont know about any of you...but i am sad
do most people sleep through their lives?
are they unaware as to how much the corporatists control the nation and the congress
are they such sheep that they dont question why the formerly repug controlled congress did nothing during their time in regards to energy?
why is it that only jimmy carter saw this coming and he was mocked...and we laughed
It isn't as simple as Kieth makes it out to be, Obama said properly inflating your tires would save as much oil as drilling for it (this was before he said we could drill).
I don't think NASCAR or the Governator made the same statement...
McCain isn't saying that inflating your tires won't help, he is commenting on the stupidity of Barack's claim.
There's a much better Bush Administration website link than the one you posted. I included it in my comment (#84) to Steven Benen's post on this subject on August 2. Here it is again, courtesty of Bush's Dept. of Energy and his E.P.A.:
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/maintain.shtml
“it’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”
Thats what makes them republican'ts
RepubAnon @ 11:
That's the Republican theory of governing in a nutshell. I wonder when someone's going to ask whether we're electing the person who'll make the best leader, or the best liar?
<3 Pratchett.
But wait, he has a few rape vs ravish jokes in his books, he must be a sexist neanderthal... Oh noes!
And oh, of course the liar gets voted for... People know, deep down, that a good "leader" will get eaten up by the corrupt system. So they vote for the liar, imagining leadership qualities onto him thus quietly acquiescing to the status quo.
"Take pride in being ignorant", vote Republican...
Wheres my bumper sticker
Being Republican means taking responsibility for one's own ignorance.
The point of this writer is well taken. The Rethug congress is distorting reality and basically lying to the public about Obama's ideas. However, the Dem's would do well to note something important here. The GOPpers act in unison. They ridicule Obama in unison, and they make it the "Common Wisdom" to do so. The Dems ought to do the same thing in ridiculing McCain, but they don't. Instead of acting as a whole from the same hymnal, you get crackers like Kerry continuing to criticize their best defendants, like Wesley Clark, instead of taking down the Rethugs. They need to get their act together, never speak ill of their own, and find a common theme to use against McSame.
ONE BILLION GALLONS PER YEAR more than the drilling that isnt happening
and at a cost of...... USING AIR......
if i had a billion gallons, i could drive one of those ARNOLD HUMMERS
(not the kind MS S and CINDY GIVE, the kind with wheels)
christ, you've got cheney's office scheming to kill us troops and new evidence that the Bush admin wanted to forge letter in the run up to the war that linked 9/11 with saddam and the discussion in the presidential race is about air.... not even hot air.... just air.
I want the bumper sticker, "GOP: Pride in ignorance... for America"
When you find yourself in a deeeep hole piled high with shit, as the Republicans curently do, The first rule is to STOP SHITTING !!
Repugs, please leave your lame ass attempts at 'humor' to the pro's like Stewart and Colbert ok ?
Properly inflated tires, they say, will add about 3% better gas mileage. On $4.00 a gallon that is $.12 a gallon savings. McShame, Limpdick, and Hannity laugh at this as if it is some kind of joke. McSame wants to drill off the coast thinking that will save the day. But you know what? EVERYBODY says that the oil from the new offshore drilling will be available in 10 years. And guess what? It will only bring the price of gas down about $.05. Obama’s hot tip about keeping your tires inflated properly will save more than double what McAsshole’s idea will do and do it 10 years earlier. Why would anybody vote for a retard like MsC*nt?
As Obama said these idiots seem rather happy with their ignorance.
Hey McAsshole, get off my lawn!!!!
The GOP has simply become just another cartoon on Nickolodeon.
Sponge John SquareArms
UPS tries to design their delivery routes with the fewest left hand turns in order to decrease the amount of time the trucks sit idling and burning gas. The republicans would have you think that is a stupid thing to do. They save millions doing it. Duh.
I cannot wait until Obama debates McCain one on one when mccain can't hide behind his surrogates and has to answer directly to Obama for all of his ridiculous attacks. I would LOVE for McCain to argue his way around this tire gauge attack. Obama is going to eat his lunch. I only hope that people don't vote mccain because they feel sorry that Obama made him look like a doddering old fool at thedebates.
next time John "I've got all the facts" McCain is in Czechoslovakia
he should ask them about tire pressure - while he's looking for the
Czechoslovakian President for his photo op!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hows this?,
Vote Republican, So us Liberals can wallow in your ignorance once again
Vote GOP: The "other" white meet.
Another home run for Keith...
“it’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”
It's one thing to be ignorant - after all, ignorance can be corrected with education. It is another thing entirely to be arrogantly ignorant, and to dismiss knowledge.
Unrepentant Liberal @ 82:
Of course they'd think so--(almost all) NASCAR races are only left turns...
Perhaps we should start handing out buffalo chips with Cindy McCain's picture on them.
I was unloading a tank truck of sulfuric acid not long ago and noticed that the rear wheels had been replaced by these tires they call "super singles". Instead of two narrower tires placed side by side, they were replaced by a single, wider tire. I asked the driver what he thought about them , and he said he loved them. He said he was getting 0.5-0.6 additional miles per gallon because of them. Considering that he was driving a big , high-horsepower Class 8 rig that only got ~ 6 miles to the gallon, that's a pretty significant improvement in mileage due solely to tires (8.3%). He said that he would do even better by also putting them on the front wheels, and if the tires on the tank trailer were replaced, he could expect better than a mile per gallon net increase in mileage. He also said that he'll get an extra 150,000 miles on the tires before thy need to be replace. Oh, he also said that the new tire wheel set up reduced his vehicle weight by 1,300 pounds. Not bad. Guess he's a retard, too.
I've noticed that the DoD is putting the same tires on their trucks wherever possible, too. In fact, they are way ahead of everybody else in doing it. I guess McCain would also laugh at them for looking to save fuel by fiddling with tires.
We use 120 billion'ish gallons a year of diesel fuel, and trucking uses ~95% of it. If the trucking industry were to completely swap over to those type of tires, it could save an estimated 13.2 billion gallons of deisel a year. If you (generously) assume that you can get 0.7 gallons of deisel from a gallon of crude, that's a savings of 18.86 billion gallons or ~439 million barrels of crude/year. All to tires.
McCain is an irredeemably corrupt cretin. I know just the place he stow his tire guage.
Recall recently when McCain was urging everyone to "wear sunscreen." Why don't the Dems pull the same type of BS that the Repubs pull and start throwing out the statement that "McCain's entire health care policy is nothing more than urging Americans to put on sunscreen." Come on, fight fire with fire....
"How can you tell if the driver in front of you is Republican?"
"His tires are flat."
“How can you tell if the driver in front of you is Republican?”
“His tires are flat.”
So is his head.
Yep, drilling for oil and building nuke plants. Goes to show you just can't teach old white haired guys any new tricks.
Obama 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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E. Skyhawk @ 63:
Who's Bush?
Republicans are going to (at the least) "forget" him the way they forgot Ford.
WC @ 7:
Obama needs to run an add like this:
Summarize the the the whole tire inflation crap:
1- Make sure to point out that the tire inflation business would actually save as much gas as off-shore drilling would produce in x years.
2- Make sure to show that Republicans know this to be true. They can show reports from Bush's energy department.
End the add with a request:
"Call the McCain campaing and ask: Is John McCain stupid, or does he just think we all are?"
Again, as I say many times here, if you havent heard them actually talking about it yourself ... you have no idea!
This has been a HUGE talking point for all the "Right" wing blowhards on AM radio here in Houston.
They will play that one little snippet of Obama's speach over and over and over and over and over! Just trying to convince/brainwash their listeners into believing that this is all he's got and he's just crazy and the race is over!
fastfeat @ 89:
I would suspect the UPS tactic is due to oncoming traffic, which forces you to wait, if you wish to cross their lane for a left turn.
Don't think Nascar has much oncoming traffic :)
Obama should have added ... "All joking aside, it is good to see that the Republicans actually have embraced this simple thing that every American can do.. right now... to reduce demand which will reduce gas prices AND help the economy.... Heck! It's a 2-fer!...."
He needs to keep hammering something like:
"... Glad to hear they stopped for a moment and realized that we need real change now, not more oil drilling that only produces bigger profits for an even bigger oil in 10 years ... but does absolutely NOTHING in the short-term.... I mean NOTHING! Is that THEIR energy plan? Nothing?"
Has Olberman's "Please stop yelling at me sir" remarks made it on here for comment yet?
If not, HA!! ... I laugh heartily every time I hear him say that after McBain speaks.
Never gets old.
ralph @ 42:
Hope they enjoyed it... :)
With this particular bit of immature bitchery, the rethugs also seem to be saying that they don't want people to take ANY personal responsibility, not even to do something as simple keeping one's stupid tires properly inflated. No, the overarching message is "Kick back, don't think, consume, be wasteful, it will all be fine, let US do the thinking, TRUST US, sleeeeep".
"Nanny state" my ass. "Daddy state" is what rethugs are into.
Atta boy, Barack. Throw it right back at 'em.
Remember during one of the earlier presidential primary debates when Edwards, referring to the right-wing political machine on Capitol Hill, said "you can't nice these people to death"?
He was right. Obama has to go negative because, regardless of what voters say, negative advertising does work. Smear needs to be met with smear. Obama needs to attack McCain in every way possible to win this thing, even if he has to hit below the belt.
What did the five fingers say to the face?
SLAP!!!
Yeowzers. That hurt.
does mccain want us to drive on flat tires ???? i see many more jokes from mccain to come .... LETS BE REAL !!!!! our country is at stake and obama want to fix it for the poeple and mccain want his wife to show her boobs to bunch of bikers .....what have we got ourself into ??
You're all drinking the Kool-Aid. You have to be ignorant not to be inflating your tires. Driving 101. They tell you this in high school. Oh wait most of the Obama supporters probably didnt go to high school. But I still believe we all know when you start feeling your rims hitting the ground probably a good time to inflate those tires. Good grief. Do you need someone to tell you what is common sense? Sad
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