Obama: “In the Coming Days It’s Going to Be Interesting Watching this Debate Between John McCain and John McCain”

and Obama also said it was a replacement for drilling new oil. Boy he looks like a dimwit by keeping harping on it. and by the way -air is not free anymore -it cost 75 cents or a dollar at most stations.

The sad fact is that Obama’s “energy” proposals were mainly about inflating tires. It was only this week that he started to try to include more specifics. What Barry learned too late was that you can’t run a general election campaign by being vague. So McCain jumped on him for it.

Obama did not say it was a replacement for drilling.
From his website here is the glance of hies energy goals:
Reduce the Burden of Rising Gas Prices on Working Families
Reduce Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2050
Invest in a Clean Energy Future
Support Next Generation Biofuels
Set America on Path to Oil Independence
Improve Energy Efficiency 50 Percent by 2030
Restore U.S. Leadership on Climate Change
Now go read the plan, get educated before commenting.

jpt: “It’s about what tactics the candidate is comfortable using. ”
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I would say both candidates have used some jabs against the other, with Obama’s campaign constantly and wrongly invoking McCain’s “100 years” comment earlier in the campaign, picturing him with Bush, and using the words same OLD politics.
I don’t know if either one is especially comfortable doing it, but it seems pollyanna-ish at this point to assume the two sides are going to represent the other side entirely fairly.
That’s why we need a fair press, and that’s why I’m glad to have Jake Tapper.

What dishonest posters here. Obama has touted conservation and green technology since last year. He has always been for increasing auto mileage standards for years while McCain has been against it. Obama has understood our energy problems while McCain has been supporting a war in Iraq to protect Mideast Oil. McCain just wants to drill, drill, drill even though that will not help us right now. McCain has taken big big money from Big Oil. He is in their pocket. I think the tire gauge is just a tactic to divert attention from Obama’s energy rebate, stop oil speculators and tax windfall profits plan. McCain really does not have a plan.

“Now go read the plan, get educated before commenting.”
Those are not goals, but not an actual roadmap of how to achieve it.
Oy vey, I guess our country is due for a meltdown.

If you think that allowing oil companies to drill off shore will save you a dime tomorrow, next yeat, or in ten years you’re mistaken. In fact in twenty years it may only save you thirty cents on a gallon.
You fools would sell out what’s left of our environment for that?
Great plan.

It’s very simple. Obama wanted to change demand for oil. McCain wanted to change both supply AND demand. Do you really believe that McCain is not for saving energy and reducing consumption? OF COURSE HE IS! Most politicians worth his salt are! The difference is taht McCain understands that you have to attack a problem from both supply and demand. Obama does not understand taht, he just wanted to attack the problem from Demand side. However, this week he realized he was wrong and tried to incorporate McCain’s plan as well.
Obama won the nomination by being ideological with his base, but he’s gonna lose it in the general because that is not what Americans want.

“and I don’t disagree with that”
“let’s do that”
McCain did not say keeping your tires properly inflated is a bad idea. More media lying

Bottom line is tire inflation doesn’t cut it as BHO has suggested. The more Obama talks about this, the better McCain looks.
The country overwhelmingly favors additional drilling for US oil. McCain has a comprehensive plan while Obama is stuck behind Pelosi’s refusal drill.

geevil,
He never said it was a replacement for drilling new Oil. He was only suggesting an alternative way to save energy which has been advocated by Experts before now.
Please lets get our facts right and stop playing dumb politics with the lifes of Americans.
Off-Drilling will solve the problem marginally and in the short run. But the environmental degradation it will bring about will far out-weigh its benefits.
Please becareful what you wish for because it may come back to hunt you and I.

“Well, if you can pretend that that is the entirety of Obama’s plan, I can pretend that it isn’t in McCains plan, cant I?”
McCain has been more specific with his energy plan. Obama tried to unveil his this week, for the first time, and he failed because people realized that he was just touting important parts of John McCain’s plan!

Padhorn,
Some People who thinks that the easiest way is the best way out overwhelmimngly favors additional drilling for US oil.
I will suggest that the Dems back down and vote in favor of Off-Shore drilling so that those that are being misled to think that Off-Shore drilling holds the solution to Energy Crises will once and for all see their folly.

Just another example of BO “open mouth, ad lib” in between the parts his advisers teleprompt him to say.

BO’s $1000 energy relief rebate= Can I buy your vote?

The problem with Obama`s tire pressure scam is that his projected oil savings assumes we are all nincompoops driving around with under iflated tires.

Obviously McBush and RNC know better about tires than NASCAR and Triple A.
Just like he knows the difference between Sunni & Shia.
All right minded literate people know that Obama’s plan does not only involve inflating tires. BTW I am a proud Republican.

You gotta hear Paris’ energy policy ad. The GOP gang might want to reconsider John McCain and think about Paris instead. Aside from being able to speak English she seems to be a heck of a lot smarter than McCain..plus she’s prettier…maybe that will help you win the White House again. Never know…it might be worth a try cause you can’t win with McDummy!

It isn’t nearly as amusing as watching Obama twirl like a weathervane with whichever way the wind of opinion blows.

My point geevill is all this “drill here, drill now” is McCain crapola because they are drilling here and now.

Paris Hilton’s energy plan is much better than “the old wrinkly dudes.”

Hope Hussein, you said that “Obama did NOT say inflating your tires was a substitute for drilling” then went on to say “he said the amount of oil that consumers could conserve… could yield as much as off shore drilling”.
Those two statements draw one and the same conclusion as stated by Obama: “we could save ALL the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires”.

McCain needs to raise fears about electing a man they don’t know who has only a few years of experience in federal office. (Indeed, Obama’s only been in the Senate since 2005, and he spent most of 2007 and 2008 running for president, paying almost no attention to his duties in the Senate, as witness his absentee record.)
These fears will focus on two key areas: the economy and national security.
People need to know what the impact of doubling the tax on capital gains would be — how it would drive investment out of the country and cost us one to two points a year in economic growth for the rest of the decade.
Voters should know how Obama can’t possibly finance his programs — particularly his health-insurance schemes — with the tax hikes he’s advocating. They need to ponder the impact of these tax hikes on an already slowing economy, it’s legitimate to fear a new depression, not just a recession.
Economics is a field voters don’t know much about and, consequently, fear greatly. Obama can capitalize on the current hard times, but he can lose big time if the impact of his tax policies is explained.
On national security, events could take over and put the issue center stage. McCain must lay the groundwork to take advantage of whatever situation develops. He needs to hammer home the accusation that Obama is “naive” and “inexperienced” — both of which are obviously true.

Yup – guess I must have missed something because I haven’t heard Lame Brain McCain offer any “specifics” on his solutions.

Geevill,
If you know better than Obama, then perhaps you should be running for president yourself.

geevill I took my car in for scheduled maintance 1 1/2 years ago and dropped at the dealers, I asked them to check and see why my gas milage wasn’t hitting the 32 MPG I had been getting, on the highway and 26 MPG in city traffic. When i picked up my car the next day I was told there was only one reason they could find for my lousy gas milage, under inflated tires. I have kept up regular tire pressure checks twice weekly since and my milage is right on all the time. So stick that info where your conservative sun don’t shine.

The best the conservative can do is attempt to be high school cut down artists, and that routine is getting very tiresome and lame.

Jake, it’s really a simple thing. You and the rest of the media have conveniently forgotten what Obama originally said. He said that inflating tires could save as much oil as *all* the drilling they are talking about. This is what the McCain campaign is making fun of, because it was a statement that is wrong by a magnitude. When juxtaposed with the original statement, the McCain campaign response is totally justified, whether inflating tires to proper levels is a good idea (which, of course, it is) or not.

Mike Wallace must be a real proud parent, know what a prostitute for ther Republican Party his son & Fox news are.

A rule-of-thumb for prudent individuals is not a national energy policy. You can be in favor of the rule-of-thumb on an individual basis, yet oppose an argument that suggests the rule-of-thumb should substitute or augment a national strategy. Barring a reason to believe that there’s a “market failure” in air delivery, there is no reason for tire inflation levels to play any role in the national debate on energy.

Obama said we could save as much energy by inflating our tires as we could by drilling for more oil. This is wrong we all know it, and it does not help us get off our addiction to foreign oil.

At least mccain is providing some good material for Leno, Letterman, etc.. You really can’t make this stuff up, it’s too good.

If McCain does not like Obama’s idea of proper tire pressure, then why does the US Department of Energy and NASCAR — make the same recommendations to save gas. McCain is “out to lunch” and should be committed.

MCCAIN IS DEBATING HIMSELF ? YOU KNOW WHY BECAUSE OBAMA IS ABSENT OR IS IT “PRESENT’. OBAMA, “THE ONE” IS OVERSEAS SPEAKING TO CITIZENS OF THE “WORLD”
MCCAIN IS FOR AMERICA
OBAMA’S ELITIST BUS IS ABOUT TO CRASH.
SOMEONE IS SAYING “BRING HILLARY QUICK!”
TJ, THE CLINTONITE,SAAYING OBAMA IS READY TO DEBATE NOW. THE “ONE ” IS COMING DOWN TO EARTH, THE POLLS ARE REAL..

It’s not McCain who agrees with Obama, it’s Obama who agrees with McCain, at least today. Tomorrow, he’ll likely have a different opinion.

Jake, why don’t you mention in the article that John McCain has been for energy independence since Obama was a kid in college. Funny how none of you like to point out that one of the few Democrats who voted for the Bush/Cheney Energy bill was the Great One, Obama. John McCain was one of the Republicans who went against his own party and voted against it. Sure would like to see some real journalism during this election. Obama is such a FRAUD, it makes me miss Hillary.

geevill: “I have kept up regular tire pressure checks twice weekly since and my milage is right on all the time. So stick that info where your conservative sun don’t shine”
There ya go!! Geevil proves it. Obama’s tire inflation plan is the secret to energy independence.

geevil: “and by the way -air is not free anymore -it cost 75 cents or a dollar at most stations.”
You have to pay for air in the US??!!!!!!!!!!!
When will the Republicans start allowing Big Oil to charge you for sunlight?

McCain is neither an intellectual (fifth from the bottom of the class at Annapolis) nor honest–so intellectual honesty for him is a very strange concept indeed! This man lacks integrity, even to the point of suggesting that his wife participate in a nude contest. Currently, he goes where he can find a ready-made crowd; Obama is the big buzz who creates a huge crowd just by showing up. McCain is all worked up and seeking identification with macho crowds such as bikers. Some of these groups have generally been associated with criminal activities such as drug trafficking and prostitution. However, by such an identification and by code communication, McCain wants to translate working class authoritarianism into working class votes, with all the racial over-tones implied in the modus operandi of bikers. Unfortunately for McCain (a man of patrician background and privileges), he is so far no winning the working class votes. But his present antics shows clearly again that he will say and do anything to get elected President of the United States. In doing so, he has damaged his old propagandized brand as a maverick beyond repair.

Actually the disconnect is between dirty Rovian campaigning and a confused, pandering candidate who can’t stay on message.

Yup said, “It was only this week that he started to try to include more specifics”
That is untrue. In fact, OBAMA has had an energy since early in the primaries. Facts aren’t things you can just make up, or whatever spills out of Sean Hannity’s mouth. No, facts are facts. Obama has put forth a plan to spend over $150 billion on new energy sources, and that’s more than McCain’s plan. Instead of spouting off GOP talking points, why don’t you do a little research, read what the candidates actually have to say on issues? Oh, that’s right, it’s easier to let the GOP, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly do your thinking for you.

Hy Jake
You are growing on me !! ha ha
I think you are a shoe in for Meet the Press – now on to your question.
I am no McCain fan – but I despise Obama – ok with that out of the way.
They are both doing what politicans always have done
I cannot believe this is the 1st time McCain hedged since being described as the straight talker – we know for sure its not Oz’s first time.
So – while it is an interesting NIT to pick – discussing it won’t change the fact that both of these canddiates are capable of doing more than a man on the street to get elected.
The nuances you point out here are baby food compared to what is yet to come = from BOTH of them – But thats just my belief – Heck – PARIS looked more ready for POTUS in her clip (8-> !! just kidding – but you get my point I hope.

McCain debated with himself and the American people.
Obama debated with GOD. Obama is the Chosen One.

McCain the true elitist. He’s far wealthier than Obama, he’s been going to classy expensive Washington smooze dinners for very a long time, wears $500 shoes, married to a high society wealthy wife, came from a well-off family that was well established in the halls of power, McCain’s as elitist as you get.

The experts are lining up behind OBAMA on issue after issue. Of course, the Republicans have angered a lot of people these last eight years so people are speaking out against the continued lies of the Republican Party. Plus OBAMA is smarter and obviously does the research. McBush is just a pandering politician with his head in the sand and so what does he know? McCane compared his Harley Rally to OBAMA’s Berlin rally. It was a pathetic unpresidential performance and I was embarrassed for him. OBAMA 2008!!

Think you’re “disconnect” analysis is on target. I believe John McCain’s a fundamentally decent, but flawed man who’s been led to believe that the only way to win is the Bush/Rove attack and slime nonsense.
He doesn’t seem comfortable with this stuff…perhaps because the people doing it for him now are the ones who did it to him in South Carolina in 2000.
It’s kind of sad and real disappointing.

Jake,
For once I agree with you. McCain’s debating with himself over who he is. Mr Straight Talk Express vs. Mr. Arshole Who Will Do Anything To Get Elected. But as Obama said, it’ll be fun to watch to see which one comes out on top. Methinks the latter.
And by the way, you keep missing one important point Obama is making – tire inflation saves us oil and brings down prices NOW, not 7 years from now when McCain’s in the box before he finally gets any effect from his drilling. Heck, the way things are going with Bush and McSame in power, we might all be in the box 7 years from now.

McCain has to debate…Himself…
Hum I hope he does not go Blind doing that
Mcsame is such a shame…….
Maybe he will ask Pairs Hilton if she
world be his VP…Well
its better than debating himself or whatever… LOL

I feel bad for the people who watch any extremist. I have no use for the far left or the far right news people. Limbaugh, Olbermann, etc., etc. do a great injustice to the election process with their slanted coverage of events. What happened to the days when journalists lambasted everyone despite their own personal preference politically? We need more people like Wolf Blitzer and less people like Limbaugh, hannity, olberman, matthews, and cooper. They are a joke to the journalism professionals across the country. And, what’s more, they are playing games with a very important election process. They should be ashamed of themselves! I will not have any of them on the televison in my house unless anyone in my family wants to see the television kicked in permanently!

My view, as a non-American observing from a distance, is that McCain is trivializing the energy debate to the point of trivializing his own candidacy, and — worst of all — Us Presidential elections (and the very Presidency to which the elections pertain). He seems rather like a Third World who has no respect for logic and reasonableness.
There’s plenty of those around. HE should be different — for Pete’s sake!
As I see it, amid all the buzz, he has roughly a 50-50 chance of being the next US President. Alright, let’s correct that to an eventual 47-53 chance, or thereabouts.
Consequently, leaders around the world must have begun to wonder — they would be wondering despondently were it not for the general thrust of those stats –if that is the same style (if style it be) he would use in prosecuting US foreign policy, and in particular dealing with world leaders who may happen to have strongly held opinions different from his. Will he seek to demean — and even to intimidate — them. Can he succeed? Will they let him? His first challenge might be Iraq itself, where the leaders are likely to call for a specific timetable for withdrawal, to be completed by the end of 2010. He asserts that Iraqi leaders will NOT insist on such a deadline — presumably if McCain in the White House, and presumably if it is the kind of Iraqi leaders a President McCain will insist on after January 20th.
McCain seems inclined, in a dangerously self-defeating way, to ignore Truth even when Truth stares him in the face.
As President, he would portray the US as mean-spirited and even small-minded — except that the US is so consequential in world affairs (just as China is about to become) that the rest of us can ill afford to give up on her.
What would await such a one, in a world increasingly interdependent and increasingly self-assured? Certainly something more consequential than Paris Hilton chide.
As things stand now, the world no doubt takes comfort in the unlikelihood of such a one — that is, let’s be blunt, in a McCain defeat in November. But does the world matter to the US? Of course it does. And if not, it should; and if shouldn’t, it will!

Mauri Yambo “rocks” !
You are a smarter and better analyst of the campaign than 75 percent of the Americans commenting on this board.
Thank you for sharing from overseas! Too bad you can’t vote in the election.

McCain has a “dry” sense of humor. It is a little more subtle than Obama, so don’t just assume that he doesn’t know what he is saying.

Mary Anne has some pure thoughts based on truths. It is good to know there are informed voters.

Just for fun, over my lunch break today, while driving, I looked at the tires of other cars to see if they appeared properly inflated. Mostly at stop lights. Anyways, I must have ultimately seen about 200 other cars, and not one – not one – appeared to have tired that were not properly inflated. These stats Obama supporters are throwing out there presume everyone has flat tires, etc. It’s obviously not true! I’m going to keep doing this the next few weeks for fun, just to keep proving this point!

Principal,
I have one more thing to say to you and than I have to go because I have a life and can’t be in here all day like you. Keep up the good work for the McCain campaign. People have told the Hillary Supporters Count too group that it is this kind of behavior that is propelling them to not just stay home on election day, or not just write in Hillary Clinton’s name on election day, but it is actually tilting the scales enough for them that they are going to vote for John MCCain in November. On behalf of John McCain, I thank you for your unsolicited help! lololololololololol

McCain is a sensible politician. He is not all about drilling, but as most people open for alternative energies. But one task is to drill and rely on new technology. It’s Obama who has flip-flopped from no plan, to “people must shower less” and now open for lifting drilling ban.
Next step is what Obama’s done all along. Now, as he finally has a defensible position – which by the way is similar to McCains issue, he attacks McCain on a bogus nuance. Postering and in fact gambling that he wins on style.
And when the politics are similar, guess what: Obama wins on style. He is stylish, likable and totally wrong to be a leader.

Obama has now basically adopted Hillary’s platform. I hear he is now supporting nuclear power. Obama now wants all the FL and MI delegates fully seated at the convention. When fully seating them would have hurt him, he fought to keep them out, now that they might help him, he wants them counted. He is much more than a typical politician!

So, to all of you who think McCain’s foolish, mocking ads are going to work against Obama, keep hoping. They just make McCain look like a clown, and a stupid one at that. His campaign stinks. Wait until the debates. You will feel so sorry for the “old, white-haired, wrinkled guy” that you’ll turn your t.v.s off and cry yourselves to sleep. Oh, and that Sturgis thing yesterday, that should help McLame with his “base”. Real class, there!!

The Tire-Gauge Solution: No Joke… Reports show that Obama (once again) was right. Even some republicans now admit he is right on inflating your tires properly and doing the upkeep regularly on your vehicles will help bring the gas prices down lightyears compared to off shore drilling. Go Obama, they are following your lead every day boo… You go boy!!!

I disagree in Obama’s energy policy except for when he said, strategic oil reserves are for emergency only because I believe high cost of fuel is not considered an emergency but Obama has also changed his view on the use of strategic oil reserves. I am also surprised in the number of his flip-flops within the span of one week. He is now advocating the Clinton’s energy policy he criticized during the Democrat primary. Is this how Obama going to lead this country? I also disagree in his latest ad “in the pocket of big oil” because both him and McCain are on the receiving end of big oil contributions. In addition, Obama, not McCain, was the one who voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill. Furthermore, it seems Obama and the Democrats are not consistent with each other. ——————————————————————-***Obama is becoming more confusing, the more he changes his energy policy.

So Obama’s telling people something simple they can do themselves that could end up making a big difference–we need more of that these days, good for him. Everyone was asked to pitch in for World War II, and guess what? We won the war. We can win our independence from foreign oil too, if we have an active and involved President helping and encouraging us all to do our part. Keep your tires inflated and tune up your engine, and you’ll burn up less gas, save more money, and it’ll do a lot more to help our trade situation than just buying up more oil from Saudi Arabia and Russia, and more cheap crap from China.

Obama ditched women’s right issues during his term in the Illinois’s State Senate in order to avoid controversy so that he could climb the political ladder.

tom – Do you have a point or are you just spewing out the current memes from the right wing noise machine (“Chosen One” “Tire gauge”)?
Yes, Obama was chosen by the Democratic voters to be our nominee. That is called democracy. Do you have a problem with it?

geevill,
Get with it. All the experts have already weighed in. mccain has lost this one, air pressure and tune-ups have a significant effect on saving fuel. And the air is free, you are just paying for the equipment to have it delivered to you, you can always use your own pump.

I think McCain might have to change course a bit because the media is so overwhelmingly in the tank for Obama. It’s no secret. The media doesn’t care about objectivity. It’s all Obama all the time. That’s why a Rasmussen poll shows that the American people are tired of hearing about Obama. So, McCain may not be playing nice, but it might be what he has to do in this “in the tank” for Obama media/political context.
McCain 08! PUMA Democrat

Also, it’s not that experts don’t agree with the air pressure issue or that McCain disagrees. But, it just “sounds” like a foolish solution. And, that’s part of getting one’s message out to people–not making it sound foolish. Why even make a huge issue of tire inflation at this point? It makes Obama look silly.

Automobiles after 1985 don’t require tune-ups. Shady mechanic’s will convince you that your car needs a tune-up, then when nobody is watching- they will over inflate your tires and tell you that you’ll see the auto is getting better gas milage when you leave the shop so if you believe in the “air theory” make sure you ask to see all of the parts that they replaced.

Obama:
“A light will shine down… from somewhere. It will light upon you. You will experience an epiphany… You will say to yourself, ‘I have to vote for Barack’ ”
Rev Wright’s man alright..

Tommy Thompson:
“The fact of the matter is that Richard Nixon has cornered that market. In 1968 his campaign slogan was “Nixon’s the One” ”
You think Obama will follow more of Nixin’s doings?

notafool, thanks for the response.
So we complain about the sad state of affairs our country is in, namely our domestic and international economic woes but cannot shake our overdependence on hate and adulation.
By mentioning low employment numbers as proof our economy is solid is plain and simple limited and severly myopic. Gas prices are fueling the economic debate between McCain and McCain, the mortgage crisis didn’t just affect those who reside in the “COMMUNITY” ask Ed McMahon and a well to do friend of the family who’s husband is a broker and wife is in Real Estate. Americans are paying a hefty price. Look at CA where a Republican Governor Arnold the Terminator is poised to cut 200,000 jobs and downgrade pay for state employees to minimum wage.
Then for you to travel to China stating they are pro-America. Hell yeah, when we have mortaaged our souls to them in the name of paying for a war that never should have been authorized and never been waged since the wages are TOO HIGH!

Obama, did not make a big deal out of this issue, it was the McCain campaign in typical fashion taking something out of context and playing dirty childish politics, to create a diversion from the real issue. Surely, they know this is not his ENTIRE energly plan. McCain has completely let his campaign sink into the netherworld of negativity and it’s astonishing how he has turned on himself and his values in the desperate attempt to become president. There is a disconnect between the intellectually honest McCain and the presidential hopeful McCain.

Gallup poll shows:
Whites for Obama 39%
Whites for McCain 49%
Blacks for Obama 91%
Blacks for McCain 3%

Saw the townhalls on CNN website for both Obama and McCain today. The McCain one was a some plant in Ohio and the crowd was obviously employees who where not enthusiastic. There were about 20 people standing behind him looking like they did want to be there. It seems McCain can’t attract a crowd himself and needs to go to places where an audience can be compelled to be there, like at work, or someplace where a crowd is already there and he can shoehorn his way on the stage, like that biker thing in South Dakota. No wonder he calls Obama a celebrity, jealous much?

“Saw the townhalls on CNN website for both Obama and McCain today. The McCain one was a some plant in Ohio and the crowd was obviously employees who where not enthusiastic. There were about 20 people standing behind him looking like they did want to be there. It seems McCain can’t attract a crowd himself and needs to go to places where an audience can be compelled to be there, like at work, or someplace where a crowd is already there and he can shoehorn his way on the stage, like that biker thing in South Dakota. No wonder he calls Obama a celebrity, jealous much?”
It’s because real working class people are ACTUALLY AT WORK in the middle of a work day! Yeah those were plant workers, who else would be at that plant? Like Paris Hilton would say… “duh!”
The reason why Obama has bigger crowds is because they’re students or well-paid YUPPIES who don’t have jobs to go to.

Well at least McCain is man enough to debate!

I just heard Truman Burgess talked to Sean Hannity. He did not exactly tear up Hannity as Obama said. He couldn’t even provide a direct answer why he is supporting Obama. Sean treated Truman well. Truman seemed to be a cool guy. Barrack Obama is a total coward. Why send Truman Burgess to tear up Sean Hannity? He challenged Hannity so he should debate Hannity and answer the tough questions.

Here in California, Chevron has a radio spot saying that we could save gas by inflating our tires properly. Even BIG OIL agrees with this.

Wow. People STILL think Obama’s plan is just about inflating tires?
Seriously, you need to go read his energy policy. There’s a pdf on HP that’s easily downloadable. It has a lot more to say on the issue of energy, and guess what? There’s nothing about inflating tires in it.
If you can’t educate yourself before posting, you really can’t be taken seriously.
As for Obama stealing McCain’s ideas… thanks for the laugh, i haven’t really had a good one all day. That did the trick, tho.

Edmunds tested various tires to see if inflation really had a significant effect on gas mileage. They lowered the pressure by as much as 8 psi and found no measurable difference in mileage – today’s tires have excellent rolling resistance properties even when underinflated. There is a significant safety issue at such low pressure because the tires can overheat and blow out. Net net, inflating tires won’t replace drilling, not even close.

trusthesky said: “Barack Obama is actually very immature when he pokes fun at people. Remember when he teased Hillary Clinton for trying to be an ‘Annie Oakley’?”
Immature? I thought it was very astute of him to reference someone OLD people would remember.

The amount of energy we would save by keeping our tires properly inflated is more than the most optimistic estimates (read: George Bush’s) of what we’d get from drilling in the long term (decades from now).
That’s the debate between John McCain and John McCain:
Reducing our demand by X barrels of oil a day will not help us achieve energy independence, while adding Y barrels of oil to our supply will. But X > Y.

McCain doesn’t want any air in the tires on which a discussion of the issues deciding the future of our country turn. He knows that the Republicans have broken through the rubber and been running on the rims for several years now. So, if his opponent tries to make a sensible point, however positioned it may be as only a partial answer, the corrupted McCain, these long decades separated from his heroic sojourn in the Hanoi Hilton, must ridicule any movement toward policies that would follow a rational path and use common sense to pull the nation away from his own party’s calamities.

McCain said it from the get go that this economics thing is not his game so why are you surprised. Have you forgotten how republicans mocked Obama when he said we need to start conserving our a/c and SUV use. Thats economics 101, hypocrites. Your ability to choose between wants and needs.

Obama is comfortable using the same tactics as every other politician, what he is not comfortable with is getting called on it.

THE WORST PART OF MCBUSHS “TIRE INFLATION” SCHEME……IS HE INSULTS OUR INTELLIGENCE. SUGGESTS THAT AMERICANS BELIEVE THIS IS OBAMA’S COMPLETE PLAN…..HE HAS INSULTED ME!

A debate between Primary Obama and Election Obama would be even more interesting

I think you might be reading too much into this.
The Republicans need continued support from Oil based industries. They are trying to depart with a gift of off shore drilling and stable consumption levels. Period.
We don’t need to shift dependence on foreign oil to dependence on domestic oil.
We need to delete dependence on any oil, one percent at a time.
Awareness measures like Obama’s gage/tuneup comment are powerful, and the Republicans know and fear it. My gosh, these guys faked us into a war over oil!
Notice oil price is going down latey? That’s because everyone is checking their gages, tuning up, commuting in groups, telecommuting, reducing trips, choosing alternates, just to name a few. Consumption is dropping, price too.
Republicans want that trend stopped; they think consumption levels can be maintained and create a price drop, thereby retaining more control in the future, thus the tactic.
Their economics are faulty, the grandstanding is shallow. Why keep oil at production at current levels when we know we don’t need it?
JPT, I think you fell for the distraction.

Sir, you failed to mention that Obama said inflating our tires and tuning our engines would TAKE THE PLACE OF ALL NEW DRILLING. That is why folks are laughing their heads off….Something I’m noticing about the Obama folks and Obama himself. No sense of humor. None. McCain and his folks thought the Paris Hilton ad was a stitch (besides, she supports McCain’s energy policy). Obama seems to have the self-effacement displayed by Richard Nixon. Just think. Richard Nixon’s personality and Jimmry Carter’s foreign and economic policies!

I am so exasperated. Doesn’t anyone remember why off shore drilling was banned in the 70s?
Do you really want a lot of people punching holes in a fragile continental shelf off the cost of California? I’m sure there are other places like in the bay of Mexico but really off the coast of California? Everyone knows that shelf is not stable and yet nobody is saying a word about it. If the worst happens what are you gonna say ..Opps?
Or do you just not care that it increases the possibility for dissaster? But hey less demand right?