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Obama’s energy plan: drilling tires
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... oil a day at the most absurdly optimistic extrapolation. Maybe the Democrats could use a tune-up on energy policy.  It looks like they’re still stuck in the 1970s, with tired, worn-out points and bad timing.  On energy, Obama is your father’s 1973 Oldsmobile. Update : Tune-ups?  Most cars today don’t require tune-ups for the first 100,000 miles.  Some automotive mechanics recommend them every 30,000 miles, but it’s hardly the 5,000-mile requirement it used to be twenty-five years ago. Jim Geraghty has calculated the savings, and comes up to 6 million gallons of gasoline a ...

No matter how you compute it, this is just silly
Betsy's Page — ... 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 watch the video, you'll see the audience just sit there in silence as if they can't believe what he's saying and expect there to be some other punchline to his point, but there isn't. Jim Geraghty does his own back-of-the-envelope computation about how much oil we'd save by ...

Why the tire-pressure gauge stings
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... And getting regular tune-ups? You’d actually save just as much ! Obama didn’t intend this as some sort of offhand comment about conservation and efficiency.  No one doubts that proper tire inflation can help with efficiency, and no one thinks it’s silly to maintain one’s vehicle for a variety of reasons.  However, Obama clearly stated that we could get just as much oil from tire inflation and tune-ups as we can get from drilling— a ludicrous statement well deserving of ridicule. Jim Geraghty calculated at the time that, assuming a 10% improvement in gas efficiency, we could ...

Obama ignores facts, blames GOP
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... ignorant, you know? They think it’s 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 ...

8/6: This Mule's Got Some Kick After All
Blogometer — ... to save money on gas. If inflating tires works, which it does, they'll notice it all right." Conservative bloggers used the occasion to reiterate why they think Obama's original "tire gauge" remarks were inaccurate and foolish. Dismissing Obama's retort as a red herring, Red State 's Kevin Holtsberry : "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 ...