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News Hounds: Newt Gingrich Mischaracterizes Obama’s “Inflate Your Tires” Comments Along With The Rest Of His Energy Platform
Think Progress: Clueless Gingrich Claims Inflating Car Tires Properly To Save Energy Is ‘Loony Tunes’
Political Animal: Since when do Republicans oppose routine auto maintenance?
Newt Gingrich Mischaracterizes Obama’s “Inflate Your Tires” Comments Along With The Rest Of His Energy Platform
News Hounds —
... In Part 2 of his two-part segment, Gingrich jumped on Obama’s statement of the day before in which he commented that inflating tires and keeping a car properly tuned would save as much gas as offshore drilling would provide. As ABC News and ...
Clueless Gingrich Claims Inflating Car Tires Properly To Save Energy Is ‘Loony Tunes’
Think Progress —
... Earlier this week, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) noted that “making sure your tires are properly inflated” is one of the “things that you can do individually…to save energy,” adding that “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.” ...
Since when do Republicans oppose routine auto maintenance?
Political Animal —
... . By contrast, the production offset based on Obama’s proposal will likely approach 800 thousand barrels per day, immediately. ...
GOP Revolts On Energy Policy
A Blog For All —
... Conservation is a touchy feely non-solution to a problem that the Democrats have exacerbated time and time again with obstructionist and misguided policies. The rise in oil prices has stifled economic growth and caused tremendous hardship for most Americans - especially those who cannot afford to take private jets such as Pelosi. Limousine liberals might love having high oil prices, but it doesn't do the nation any good. Sen. Barack Obama's solution to the energy crisis? Check your tire pressure . ...
NYT Howler of the Day: Obama Makes 'Few Rhetorical Stumbles'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... (this one hasn't even made it to the GOP's list yet) -- Obama claimed that proper tire inflation and regular tune-ups "could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling." Again, laughably, not even close. ...
History Doesn't Just Repeat; It Stutters
A Blog For All —
... alone will not solve the energy crisis. That's Obama's idea . Hiding from voters because Nancy Pelosi cravenly and cowardly adjourned Congress for five weeks while the nation suffers from high energy prices will not solve the energy crisis. She knows that the national sentiment towards offshore drilling is there, and it would be approved by Congress in an overwhelming manner. Pelosi, Reid and the other eco-leftists refuse to take any steps that would lower the price of energy in the country because they hope to benefit from high energy prices by imposing still more ...
Do They Realize How Stupid They Look?
The Great Plains Observer —
... Last week Barack Obama commented that if American’s just kept their tires properly inflated, we could save as much if not more oil than we would get by opening up more offshore drilling. Of course he was correct and of course he wasn’t trying to push proper tire inflation as his energy policy (which can be read ...
McCain Hits Back at Obama Energy Speech
News —
... tire gauges today to mock Obama, who suggested last week that, by keeping their tires properly inflated, Americans could save as much fuel as oil companies would produce through GOP plans for more offshore drilling.
Time Magazine: Obama's Tire Inflation Plan 'No Joke'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... But ABC’s Jake Tapper also fact-checked Obama’s statement on keeping tires inflated, and he reached a different conclusion. Tapper quoted Frank Verrastro, Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), who came up with this analysis (emphasis mine): ...
Time's Tripe Is 'Tired': Mag Claims Obama Is Right, Ridicule Is 'Smear'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... clinging to the idea that Obama was right.
Grunwald published his attempted Monday defense of Obama's "tired" claim on Monday -- several days after numerous bloggers and others had refuted it.
That didn't stop the Time writer from stepping in it bigtime in his attempt to defend the indefensible. Grunwald's "analysis" is so pitiful and woefully incomplete that it deserves a serious slap-down.
From ABC's Political Punch blog, here is exactly what Obama said last Wednesday -- which, curiously, Grunwald didn't bother to quote: ...
Tire Gauges
Obsidian Wings —
... ABC's Jake Tapper has consulted the Director of CSIS, who estimates that inflating tires and getting tuneups could save around 800,000 barrels of oil a day. For some reason, he compares this to current output from offshore drilling, not to the projected gains from lifting restrictions on offshore drilling. Luckily, the government's Energy Information Administration has ...
Obama ignores facts, blames GOP
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... funny
that they’re making fun of something that is actually true. They
need to do their homework. Because this is serious business.
Instead of running ads about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, they
should go talk to some energy experts and make a difference.
But the problem isn't that Republicans denied that air pressure
could save fuel. The problem is that Obama's math was way off.
Powerline did the
math, Jim Geraghty
did the math, and Jake Tapper
did the math, and under no scenario do you get to savings equal
to offshore drilling. ...
Obama on tire inflation: “It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... He said last week that “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,” which, realistically, is not true and explains why his campaign ...
Obama Calls McCain Out After Day Of Distortions: "It's Like These Guys Take Pride In Being Ignorant"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... All well and good, except that's not what Obama actually said in Ohio on Tuesday. (He has previously, and ABC's Jake Tapper caught him out on it, but not today.) The narrow quote Bounds takes from Obama -- "we would actually probably save more oil than all the oil that we'd get from John McCain drilling" -- is meant to suggest that Obama believes efficiency savings from tire inflation could outstrip all hypothetical offshore drilling, a claim for which there is no hard evidence. But, traveling past the place where Bounds chooses to stop quoting, it's clear Obama was not making ...
taking a bite
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... last week that having a tuned up car and fully inflated tires would help save energy…. "so i told them something simple," obama said. "i said, 'you know what? you can inflate your tires to the proper levels and that if everybody in america inflated their tires to the proper level, we would actually probably save more oil than all the oil we'd get from john mccain drilling right below his feet there, or wherever he was going to drill.'" (note: that's not accurate, as we fact-checked last week. but the larger point about energy savings is correct.) ...
Obama’s Insult is as Flat as His Imaginary Tires
The Sundries Shack —
... The fact - and this is a fact - is that he was wrong. While it is true that if every single car had the correct air pressure in its tires and was tuned-up regularly, we might save enough oil as we’d get if we opened up all the prohibited areas. It is also true that keeping your tires properly-inflated is a good thing that will save you money, not just in gasoline but also in tires. ...
8/6: This Mule's Got Some Kick After All
Blogometer —
... , and Jake Tapper did the math , and under no scenario do you get to savings equal to offshore drilling. So who is ignorant and who needs to talk to the experts?" But bloggers such as ...
Instapundit — I MISSED THIS EARLIER: Fact-checking the tire-inflation claim. And I love this: "Whip Underinflation Now!" I want a button! ...
Tire Inflation Could Not Save More Oil Than Offshore Drilling Could Produce
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Of course, not every American needs Obama to tell them to inflate their tires. The government estimates that only 27 percent of all vehicles have an underinflated tire. That means that the country would not save 3 percent of its gasoline consumption, but rather would save one quarter of that number--roughly .8 percent. Currently, Americans use 390 million gallons of gas a day, so .8 percent of that is 3.1 million gallons a day. Run the numbers and the maximum amount of gasoline wasted owing to tire inflation every year is (3.1 million x 365 days) 1.1 billion ...
MSNBC's Witt: McCain's Use of the Tire-Gauge Issue 'Perpetuates the Problem'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The media continue to have Obama's back after his ridiculous claim tire inflation could be a substitute for oil drilling in a speech at a rally in Missouri on July 30. ...
McCain Flipflops on Keeping Tires Inflated
The BRAD BLOG —
... Of course, Obama never claimed properly inflating tires was a magic bullet by itself for ending the gas-price crisis. However, according to every credible expert, properly inflating tires could make a big difference: ...
