Politifact Finds Obama’s Tire-Inflation ClaimTrue

As Obama said, these guys take pride in being ignorant.

And gas will still be near $4 a gallon.
BTW: the CNN ponts say Obama’s figures assume one in four tires is at least eight pounds under pressure, in other words, it requires extreme cases. CNN is not exactly in the McCain camp.
So it’s your tire gauge against their tire gauge.
Meanwhile, gas is still near $4 a gallon and the best you have is a tire gauge. It’s not that it’s not smart; it’s that it isn’t something we don’t all know. I just don’t think you base a Presidential candidacy on telling America they are stupid, ignorant and don’t take care of their cars.

And yet you stamped a big red “FALSE” on it on GMA.
Great job informing the public of the subtleties of these issues.

Of course, Obama speaks the truth, per usual.
So what should the repubs do with all those silly pressure gauges? Hmm…

BTW – Since the McCain camp is offering tire gauges – I urge everyone to demand one. It can’t hurt to have an extra one, right?
QT

Of course, Obama speaks the truth, per usual.
So what should the repubs do with all those silly pressure gauges? Hmm…

Len-
I don’t think that Obama is saying that Americans are stupid, but he is saying something that not all people know, believe it or not. And besides, even if people do know it, it doesn’t mean that people are following it, and the point of reiteration is to get people to follow it.
There are many things that people do that increase our national gas usage, including speeding. We all know that speeding increases consumption. Have we stopped speeding? Nope. If we did, they wouldn’t still be telling us.
I guess it’s better to say that, Obama knows that we’re not stupid, but he also knows that, by nature, humans are pretty stubborn.
And besides, there HAS to be some ignorant bastards out there, or Bush wouldn’t have gotten re-elected on his platform of fearmongering in 2004.

Obama was asked what a person could do personally to help the energy crisis. Obama said inflate your tires.
Thinking he did otherwise is ignorant.

McCain can’t handle his handlers. He doesn’t even know what is going on.

@jason: I don’t think Obama telling people they are ‘typically bitter’ or “It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant” or those awful remarks in Germany are exactly him handing out diplomas.
This man has done nothing but look down on the voters since his campaign began. He is using every divisive symbol he can find and his supporters are doing the same.
Old wrinkly white man? C’mon. That’s really a fine way to rally the seniors to vote for Obama.

len,
Your posts noting that CNN said “Obama’s figures assume one in four tires is at least eight pounds under pressure”.
Can’t that be translated to (or, isn’t it equivalent to) all four tires merely two pounds under pressure?
I ride bicycle almost everyday for 15 miles. Yes, it takes a lot more work to complete that 15 miles when tire pressure is lower. I usually keep it at fifty pounds (yes, bike tires at fifty pounds). By the third day, it will reach forty pounds, and bike slows down quicker and takes harder pedaling to move.
So… properly inflate your car tires and improve your car’s mileage.
I can get further with less pedaling if I stand on the pedal when going through bouncy road.
So…. replace bad shocks and struts and improve your car’s mileage.

decentAmerican, you and the Republican Party are the ones grasping at straws. Would you care to elaborate upon your ‘one scientist’? I have heard Obama’s plan vindicated by economists, motor authorities, and Bush the elder’s own energy solutions. You propose ‘one scientist’ as the counter? You’re going to have to do better. At least provide a source. 11,000 years? That sounds like the rate assuming only one car drove continuously for that time. However, we’re talking 300 million people doing their little part to make their nation richer. A small number multiplied by 300 million is likely to be rather large.
The claim that tire inflation is Obama’s ‘real’ solution is pathetic. Honestly. Get a brain. That’s straight from McCain’s mouth and you obviously didn’t bother to check it.
Do yourself a favor and admit that he’s right on this one. Save yourself and the country a little gas. Either that or show some sources. I can make things up too: one scientist said if I pick my nose 3 times a day, the energy crisis will go away by Labor Day.
McCain flipped on offshore drilling. He said ‘I am opposed’ and did a 180 to ‘We need to drill. Right here. Right now.’ Obama effectively said, ‘I still don’t like offshore drilling, but I can compromise to get some more responsible energy legislation passed along with it.’ That’s not a flipflop. That’s an entirely reasonable attempt to create a solution when Republicans have been blaming Democrats for not falling in love with their terrible plan and going along with it 100%.

Yes, there may some truth in Obama’s claim providing you are driving your vehicle with your pressure at 24 lbs in stead of 32 lbs. Just for the fun, I lowered my pressure by 8 lbs (needed to make the claim) and it was very obvious and the vehicle was hard to steer. So most drivers would know the tires needed attention. Still think proper inflating tires will not make that much difference in gas usage. One side of my tires were almost flat.

Some degree of under-inflation is surely optimal. No evidence has been presented that the current degree of underinflation is not the optimal level.
It is trivially true that we could consume less oil if we fully inflated all of our tires. But this statement entirely misses the point of why we consume oil: to add convenience to our lives. Avoiding the trouble of daily monitoring of our tires is just one example of that. Perhaps we could trim 3% off our gas bill by doing that. I’m sure we could also trim 3% off our gas bill by biking to work a few times a month, too. Neither “conservation” idea necessarily presents a reasonable solution to our energy needs.

Gimme a break: drill here, drill now. Invest in nuclear energy, and clean coal.

Wow, what compelling information, NOT! The underlying assumptions are unreal and takes an extreme degree of faith about what proper inflation will give you and a tuned engine. The man is still a fraud and a stooge to the leftist who seemed to delight in us being dependent upon someone else for energy.

Under Obama, will the government force us to inflate our tires?

decentAmerican, I just went to Power Line.
Even from the ‘calculations’ of a clearly pro-Bush, extremely conservative blog, he was willing to allow 90,000,000 barrels a year.
Dude. This is bad…how? This starts taking effect NOW. It takes effect the second people pump their tires up a bit. Even if Obama’s incorrect about how much oil would be saved as opposed to offshore drilling, it WILL take at least 5 years before the new sites start producing. This is readily admitted from the mouth of Bush himself.

MORE ELITISM AND STUPIDITY FROM OBAMA
He thinks we are too dumb to maintain proper tire pressure. Actually he is the dumb one, he should have suggested PROPER pressure. Too much air is dangerous.

The moment we start drilling, speculators will panic and start selling their oil futures. This will result in the price of oil going down.

Nosy Obama should mind his own business. I’ll take care of my own tires. His job is to drill for more oil, as well as explore alternative energy.

The only thing that is inflated is Prof. Obama’s ego. What’s next, Dr, Obama will educate us on how to efficiently use toilet paper?

The tire gauge is a measure we can use, for sure, but the GOP is just using it as a distraction. They’re digging in and throwing up distractions like this to protect Holy Big Oil. The GOP has no policy leg to stand on because the drill everywhere, keep up the oil addiction plan they propose is not only wrong, it’s immoral. It’s great for Big Oil and the GOP but a DISASTER FOR AMERICA! The GOP typically just sees the energy crisis as an opportunity to make more huge profits for their pals not as an opportunity to seize the moment to move beyond oil into the exciting new alternative energies of the future. It’s a BushGOP scam can’t we all see that by now.

Its good to see the mass media is on board supporting another Obama fantasy.

There will be some who OVERINFLATE tires due to Obama’s suggestion. Again, note this can be dangerous. Politics aside, he should have clarified.

Even Bush’s energy Dept says proper pressure will save 3-4%, and most people DON’T check their air regularly… so, as a public service, for the proud GOP cultists out there in Bloglandistan, who will buy anything the GOP sells… try this:
Let’s see… if I spend $100 per week on gas, I’ll save $3 per week, by inflating my tires properly… $156 per year. That’s one-and-a-half weeks of gas, I’ve saved. Let’s say just 10 million people do the same, that would be a savings to those people, of $1,560,000,000 – - that’s $1.56 billion saved.
No wonder the GOP is making fun of it, that’s $1.56 billion that wouldn’t be going into Big Oil, or OPEC’s pockets.
So, the question is who are the GOP trying to fool, by mocking Obama?
And who is actually ignorant enough, to enjoy being played for a fool, by the GOP?

I love reading all these posts. The Republicans lie so much about Obama, they must be paid McCain bloggers. How scared they are!
Obama/Sebelius 08

Nothing but net!!!!!

Blow ‘em up ’till they’re good and round
Add ten, maybe twenty or thirty pound.
Go truckin’ down the road
You’ll hear them explode,
An’ likely you may never be found…
Just joking, Proper pressure is what the man should have suggested.

brandon:
“Swoosh and Obama scores!!!! ”
Only as you and others of similar ilk see it. Obama should have recommended PROPER air pressure.

If I do not drive at all I will save 4856.00 per year. if 100,000,000 million people do the same will save
4,856,000,000. Wow Stop driving now. Mr. O is right. Stop driving. Stop working. The Government will take care of you from birth to grave. A perfect socialist nation. Stop Driving, Stop Working, Stop Eating, The world will be a better place. I Love Mr. O.

To Everyone Claiming “It’s Not True” – ask yourself – WHAT’S not true? It’s not true that this is something that individual Americans can do to help with the energy crisis, while our elected officials work on larger solutions?
It’s not similar to small personal changes like recycling, switching to florescent light bulbs and showering more than taking baths?
This only becomes a matter of “true” and “untrue” if you actually believe that Americans can do NOTHING to help the situation – and that we are only victims waiting for our elected officials to save us.
I’m very glad that Obama is running on the platform that WE can do this TOGETHER.
QT

QT
“I’m very glad that Obama is running on the platform that WE can do this TOGETHER.”
But when do we experience that epiphany he spoke of?

Now let’s talk about that $79 billion budget surplus, in Iraq, thanks to oil.
The Iraqis still haven’t spent anything on their national rebuilding effort
Everybody still convinced that you should be footing the bill for Iraq’s reconstruction while the Iraqi government lavishes itself in nightclubs in London (because that’s where they actually live, the most of them, when they’re not ‘governing’)

QT:
“I’m very glad that Obama is running on the platform that WE can do this TOGETHER.”
Again, when do we experience that epiphany Obama spoke of?

My tires are properly inflated, and my car needs a tuneup every 100,000 miles. Guess I saved nothing. If 100,000,000 also save nothing. The total savings will be 0. Mr. O has NO Clue. What is a liberal with a brain
Answer: 1 in a 1,000,000

If Mr O only fears when the truth is on his side, he must live in total fear.

LOL the McSame campaign is so lame. There isn’t one study that can dispute that proper tire inflations will contribute to fuel conservation.
I am so tires of whacked republican rhetoric and NO SOLUTIONS that I could puke.
I would not trust anyone affiliated with the republican party and I pray that Americans make them pay for spreading propoganda.
My vote goes to Barack Obama and I believe he will serve our country better than McSame.
McSame has run a very empty campaign so far filled with negative attacks and no solutions for any of our current problems as I stated earlier.
McLame is hell bent on “winning” the war in Iraq, which by the way should have NEVER happened. They invaded another country under false pretenses and the truth is coming out.
The old man keeps his message the same McLame is McSame as Bush / Cheney. They are totally dishonest people.

Here’s a plan! How about inflating our tires and drilling? How about building 45 new nuclear power plants and building wind farms? How about Oil Shale and Ethanol? How about Clean Coal and Solar? How about Natural Gas and Fuel Cell?
Notice the keyword in every question, “all”. How about doing it all and all?

Rock on Senator Obama!
Aside from ABC (thank you Jake Tapper) proving the tire inflation tip to be factual, but I was stoked to see Obama DROP THE GLOVES – finally – today!
The McLame commercial that made a weak attempt to try and separate himself from Bush was by far my favorite for today.
Senator Obama swiftly came out with a commercial that slammed McLame’s comments into the dirt.
Obama’s campaign needs to learn a lesson from what they’ve seen in the past three days. McLame’s negative ads worked, but when Obama fights back with all of the ammunition that he’s armed with (and he has a LOT) it is EFFECTIVE!
Keep it up! And keep those McLame/Bush comparisons coming in!
McLame “I voted with president Bush more than 90% of the time”
LOL – that video needs to roll DAILY, on the hour!

When we get Steam powered trucks I will know we are serious about alternative energy. Stanley steamer cars could go 150 MPH. They required some tinkering, but nowadays with current electronics, no problem. You can make water boil with many items found in garbage dumps. Yes, some of them would pollute. Some would not.

Travis, have you been in a coma the past month?
If you’re a mcsame supporter, you should know that your man has slammed drilling for 26.5 years.
He only changed his mind when he was lured in by the millions he was given to endorse the plan, and by the meeting he had with mister bush a week prior to flipping on drilling. Two weeks ago.
Twenty six years of a documented ANTI-DRILLING voting record.
The balding one thought he found a real winner when he flip-flopped, but he has 26 years of a hardcord anti-drilling stance.

so, how many of you all are actually going to go out and check your tires and drive slower? because typically most people only do that once or twice and stop driving slower after about a week. the truth is it wont end up saving much money at all both side need to stop trying to spend money on oil period and find a new way to power vehicles
like the hydrogen cell cars that only emit water.

Oil companines already have 70 million acres of land to drill on. Appeasing them with a few million more isn’t going to do anything. Oil companines have to be willing to drill which they are not because they refuse to drill for millions of barrels of oil on land they already have.
This is why windfall profits are important it taxes money from oil companines and uses it to invest in energy production instead of CEO pay, stock buy backs and speculation.
This is also why anti-speculation measures are important becaues the Oil companies waste 55% of their profits on speculation when that money could be usded.
The Bush Mccain oil lobby Offshore drilling plan is a farce. It won’t lead to any improvement or relieve ever.

What a bunch of dummies the public can be. Everyone has known for years to properly inflate your tires. My Grandfather taught me that in the 1970′s oil crisis.
This is as big a news flash that cigarretes are bad for you.
Obama is a fool, but he is lucky that he has 100 million other fools to follow him.
SUre, everyone that doesn’t inflate your tires properly- go do that. Then lets drill for oil here in the USA, and seek out alternative energies- including a better car battery to store them.
Note- Obama is coming around after weeks of floundering to the same conclusion McCain has had.
Do we really need another fool for a president?

Yes and not eating fast food is the right healthy choice. Recycling can help clean up the environment, do you see the majority of people doing it? No. And yes Obama is right, but he didn’t find a solution nor something that people will listen and say wow yeah i forgot about that, gonna start doing that as of now. Get a life Obama, come up with more realistic goals to help the economy. If you want to be presidential material then act like one.

again, I laugh, out loud, at the completely deluded Obama supporters! We ALL know the importance of inflating our tires, every time we get a maintenance visit, they check for pressure. The power to do that has been in us all along. WHAT exactly has Obama said that was earth shattering? And IF this power was in us all along, WHY do we STILL rely on foreign oil, and our economy is going down the tubes due to gas prices? Do you honestly think that Obama will wave his magic cape, and all tire pressures will be perfect?????
Honestly, you will grasp at anything! Face the truth, your Obama is a jibbering buffoon!

When did all of you forget that the whole oil production is just that a production? Hollywood couldn’t write it any better! They are ***** you and all you can argue about is which gas will go up or down. OF COURSE its not going to go down. Once you all realize that this is nothing less than a hold up we can start moving together as a nation to solve the problem they created and the scam we pay for.

We have failed on energy policy for three decades now which includes both Republican and Democratic Presidents and Republican and Democratic controlled Congresses. There’s enough blame to go around for both parties.
Just as is the case with the subprime housing crisis. The deregulation of the banking industry in 1999 under the Clinton administration has it’s part to play in the mess we are in right now also.

Travis: You want to include some facts with diatribe? Like how lng nw offshore fields are going to last us, where they are, what their reservoir capacity is (forget California – no one is going to risk drilling off the most expensive real estate in the world). And I’d like to see some economic numbers too. The problem isn’t supply – the problem is that for better or worse it’s a free market economy and the petroleum companies are going to charge what they want.
And while we’re talking about inane political suggestions – what kind of a man, let alone a presidential candidate, would suggest that his wife engage in a topless beauty pageant in South Dakota – like John McCain did today? If last week wasn’t creepy enough (even the Hiltons were offended), this one makes me feel like taking a good long shower. What a couple of sleezebags.

It amazes me how everyone is treating BO’s epiphany of tire air/tune-ups as if he just discovered a cure for cancer. Dude, that’s like saying “If you close your windows when the ac is on, you might save a few bucks.” Is he really that dumb to push that during a speech? But get at the real problem, these keep up with the Jones’ wannabee Hummer drivers and say “Hey, how about buying smaller vehicles with better mileage” and he’d lose the US auto industry votes. Tick tock, tick tock, BO.

@emm-
You might want to get your facts straight. The Union Carbide disaster in India was a pesticide manufacturing plant.

The inflating tire thing may be true but checking the air in your tires is something everyone already does. There may be a few people out there that don’t but it would make no significant impact on saving oil.

Oh your forgot to mention the MERCURY used in batteties. It does not kill immediatly like SULFURIC ACID fumes but is just as dangerouns
200 billion electric cars spewing out SULFURIC ACID the waste byproduct of batteries being used. This is the future Obama HOPES for. This many cars spewing out SULFURIC ACID will destroy your lungs in a matter of minutes and destroy all plants and animals,
YEAH OBAMA and his ELECTRIC Hybrid CARD

ok like this is a new discovery…sort of like gore invented the internet? my gramps always said properly inflated tires and frequent oil changes will help you get better gas mileage.

Oh Sonia, please don’t while like the little old man mcLame does!
Indeed just this one little tip from Barack along with his stellar energy plan has done him quite well today.
We should all be proud!
And where was the McGaffe today? Trying to get his wife entered into a topless/seductive banana eating contest with the bikers in South Dakota.
Go to church you old filthy man!!!

Roger:
That was Bruce’s post. Kind of confusing. I made the same mistake yesterday.

The most important election in our lifetime will be noted as the time of flip-flop. I am so tired of the overuse of this phrase. Hopefully by tomorrow it will materialize into a cliche, hopefully.

I think this is fascinating. The GOP have managed to convince everyone that offshore drilling is the only way to solve the energy crisis, and so any othewr ideas are just laughed off. Just shows how much power over the GOP it appears that the oil companies have. Do we really want 4 more years of oil companies with such influence over our lives?
I think Obama is correct in that a more comprehensive energy policy is needed that moves us away from oil consumption. I don’t think thats easy, but just think of what a boost US industry could have if it was the one making moves away from oil based solutions. Imagine the boost of GM were the first to develop a fully non oil based car, or if the US insisted all new build housing included solar panels for instance.

this is not a new discovery …
and not new that the GOP actually makes fun of it…
remember this IS the party that gave us George W. Bush.
and now they are offering McCain.

McCain has had a comprehensive energy plan all along. It’s Obama who is scrambling to catch up by playing Follow The Leader. But Obama’s supporters never let facts stand in the way of their idolation of him.

Marylou
McCain has had a “comprehensive” energy policy that was written by Phil Gramm, Randy Scheunemann and Mr. Black…
all past lobbyists for oil and energy…
and three of the main heads of McCain’s attempt at the white house.
that’s why he had an “energy policy” fro the start…and one that includes very little from the old “green” John McCain.
His 2 big attempts at dealing with the gas prices come from the oil industries platform…gas tax holiday and off shore drilling.
So stop trying to spin… it is not the Obama supporters who are lying… it is the Mccain campaign that is either lying…misinformed…or just plain consistently ignorant as they were when they voted for George Bush.

My real question is not what McCain has done since we all know that McCain was willing to give his life for our country.
The question is what has Obama done about the Energy Problem other than JUST WORDS

What even funnier that Obama played the RACE CARD on Bill Clinton DEMOCRAT.
Even funnier is Obama ditched REAL AMERICAN wounded SOLIDERS in Germany over roaring crowds of Germans for a PHOTO OP

“Even funnier is Obama ditched REAL AMERICAN wounded SOLIDERS in Germany over roaring crowds of Germans for a PHOTO OP”
Even funnier is that — like the claim that Obama said tire inflation would end our dependence on foreign oil — is an outright lie.
Even the McCain campaign’s own blog has admitted that was a lie.

You know one of the joys of getting older is that you have seen the same efforts before. American’s have a LOVE AFFAIR with their cars. In California in the 60′s the push was to get the drivers out of their cars, take the bus, catch a ride with a friend—none of this moved the general public—and they spent a lot of money and effort to accomplish it. Obama is taking the same approach again already tried, sad but true. And, Jake although you say that tune-ups and inflated tires will save more energy than off-shore drilling, that is just plain (no comment appropriate). If we are indeed in hard times and people do not have the extra monies to fill up their gas tanks (and such a bad crisis that Obama wants to take the oil reserves) then of course, people will not have monies for a tune-up for their cars and will spend this money on food or energy costs. Obama’s plan (read from his website) indicates that he will reduce our oil dependency by 35% by the year 2030. That is 22 years from now and we still will be dependent on the Middle East—that is just crazy talk too. Start drilling now, which should have been done years ago and get our best technology experts moving into areas to change our dependency on oil, now. We cannot afford to wait to 2030 to see if we have reduced our oil dependency.

This concerns me because for some time the McCain campaign has in so many ways said that “we are not in ‘big oil’s pocket”, but for them to not to consider the tire-inflation (let alone do research on it) and keep pushing the off-shore drilling as the best current solution makes me question not only where they get their information from but in whose interests are they doing making their energy policies.

JOhn McCain sold his soul to be President.
His top advisors are ex lobbyists for oil, energy and banking industry.
Some of the biggest and baddest people who dealt us the hand we have.
That is the truth
Gramm… Enron loophole and banking deregulation
Scheunneman..President of “The Committee for Liberation of Iraq” made up of lobbyist and pols they gave money to
Black
the biggest lobbyist around… google Black and Guinea to see soem of his handiwork for oil rich nation.
That is where this energy policy and Mccain gas tax holiday and lifting the entire federal ban against off shore drilling comes from.
(the oil companies want access to state officials with their lobbyists and moolah)…
don’t be fooled again
the oil companies know this may be the last chance for them to get to unfettered access to the shores…
and McCain sold his soul to be President.

If McCain had suggested it first the Obama camp and the media would have done the same thing–probably more criticism.
It is Obama’s all knowing attitude and mocking manner that turns me off. I thought most Americans already knew that taking care of their cars helped gas. But to hear this sarcastic jerk tell us what to do–a complete turn off.
And then to have Obama flip and support drilling–and to dangle a $1000 carrot that will hurt us later.
Obama has no integrity.

I will show you 1 source that says Obama is right and I will show you how Bill Cliton said the RACE CARD was used against him by Obama and the MEDIA

In my opinion, John McCain is an American hero.
Unfortunately, I also believe John McCain sold his soul to be President.

riley: “It is Obama’s all knowing attitude and mocking manner that turns me off. I thought most Americans already knew that taking care of their cars helped gas. But to hear this sarcastic jerk tell us what to do–a complete turn off.”
I think that statement is very narrow-pointed. Did you see the town-hall meeting where Obama suggested tire-inflation to an individual who asked what they could do individually to help? He didn’t sound sarcastic. What you call sarcasm many would call sincerely answering a person’s question based on research someone may have done. If you knew that taking care of your car helps conserve gas, good. But don’t assume all your fellow Americans did. And you speak of him mocking (‘shoe on the other foot’) but McCain for the past few days have mocked Obama claiming that tire-inflation was Obama’s only strategy for the oil situation, which isn’t true. So don’t make this one-sided because they both had a part in whatever mockery or sarcasm is being thrown around.

Look at the polls cynics with john mccain being so well known and second time running mccain should be blowing obama away,With brittany spears, paris hilton, moses, and now being ignorant about the tire inflation which is TRUE!!!OBAMA WAS RIGHT people are seeing mccain is a crazy old man nothing presidental about him!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, TR!!!

“Thank you, TR!!!”
Unfortunately, the comment you’re thanking me for has been deleted.
Why? It was a link to NASCAR’s statement that tire inflation will improve fuel economy. How does that violate site rules?

So inflating our tires is going to yield 80Billion barrels of oil, which is located off shore?
Please you can not estimate this because how do they how many people have under inflated tires?
Tuneups, i do not know about you but my car has only recommended tuneups every 25,000 miles. most modern cars do not get tuned up the same way.
Hey maybe the Messiah can fill our tire with his hot air that he speaks!!

“So inflating our tires is going to yield 80Billion barrels of oil, which is located off shore?”
You might want to direct that question to the Bush Administration’s Department of Energy. They’re the ones who say tire inflation will save a lot now, and they’re the ones who say we wouldn’t see any relief at the gas pumps from offshore drilling until 2030.
That’s not a liberal talking. That’s not a journalist fact-checking. That is the Department of Energy of the George W. Bush Administration.
Are they part of the conspiracy, too?

“Despite the Department of Energy stating that offshore drilling would not have much impact on oil production for over 20 years, John McCain continued to make the argument tonight that the U.S. could see an impact on gas prices in a matter of months once domestic oil drilling begins.”
Because they are talking about production (and it won’t take twenty years) and McCain is talking about prices. Note the fall in prices since the Bush Administration removed the executive ban on drilling and Obama belatedly admitted it was a good idea.
The current prices are a result of speculation in the oil commodities market. It is possible to bring prices down with pro-active steps such as offshore drilling. Obama’s and Pelosi’s refusal to take pro-active steps are keeping the prices artificially high. It is a cynical move that punishes Americans for the sake of their campaign.
Keeping tires inflated is common sense. That is why McCain made fun of it. Obama presented it like it was innovation. That is silliness on his part.

Why is it so amazing that Obama is aware that tires should be properly inflated? Everyone knows this -yet gas is $4.

Obama takes pride in being stupid and ignorant. Getting a tune up and inflating tires will not offset gas usage compared to amount gained by drilling off shore. It might save 1% to 2% only if every car on road needed a tune up and drove on very unflated tires.
I beleive all energy energy sources should be developed. (a mechanic)

Seriously,who did the research on this? How many tires nationwide are underinflated? What percentage of underinflation changes fuel efficiency by what percentage. Are all vehicles affected equally? If you can swallow this and call conservatives names at the same time you have serious gullibilty issues.

This from Powerline:
“Two points: First, even if Obama’s “3 to 4 percent” claim about tire inflation were true, it would not validate his original assertion that proper inflation would equal “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.” That assertion was, and remains, false.
Second, Obama’s claim that “every expert” says that tire inflation would “reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent” is ridiculous. No expert says any such thing. What experts do say is that properly inflated tires can improve gas mileage by approximately 3 percent compared to grossly under inflated tires. But since most people know this and inflate their tires, the actual potential savings is some much smaller amount. Moreover, the U.S. consumes around 20.7 million barrels of petroleum per day. Only about 9.3 million barrels per day are used in motor vehicles. So a 3 percent improvement in automobile mileage would correspond, at best, to a 1.3 percent reduction in total oil consumption.
Barack Obama’s ignorance on the subject of energy is remarkable.”
We can not inflate our way out of this.

Um excuse me Andy I think you better go and do your homework. The dems took over the house less than a year ago and put a stop to most of the mess okay! Furthermore you must spend no time in the lower income communities or work with the homeless, the uneducated, etc. You probably don’t even know what it means to suffer so until you go down and spend some time in a community that you will never grace with your presents you should keep your ignorance to yourself okay! Don’t get it twisted you only see what you want to see!

But the St. Petersburg Times’ Politifact site is being totally disingenuous. They actually reframed what Obama said.
Obama said: “We could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling…”.
“All the oil” refers to new domestic drilling off shore AND ON LAND.
Yet the St. Petersburg Times conveniently only factored off-shore drilling in its math. The St. Petersburg Times also doesn’t account for the fact that its math assumes EVERY driver is driving with under-inflated tires. Never mind tha tauto oil consumption is only a minority subset of total naitonal oil consumption.
“Politifact” my @ss. Come on Jake, why don’t YOU address these issues???

Past “People have been pulled down to their knees the last 8 years. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting stomped down under the ground”
This is demonstrably false. Maybe you should consider whether there is something about your own capabilities, Past, that makes you think this is true.

No one said Obama was wrong, just stupid. Inflate your tires is the dumbest energy policy I’ve ever heard.

I think Obamas going to kill many people with the advice that people should increase air pressure to increase mileage. Does he have any children.
Over inflated tires will increase mileage and will also increase fatal accidents.
Tire that are inflated properly or slightly under inflated have greater surface area touching the road which leads to shorter breaking distances and better handling during wet or icy conditions….. Why don’t you save some kids life. Pressure down.

I don’t get it. Your headline says that you found Obama’s tire preassure claims to be true. Then your second paragraph states the opposite ” our experts disagreed with Obama’s claim that this conservation method would save more energy than new off shore drilling would yield.”
which is it? Obama’s claim is rediculous. he claimed that “every expert agreed” I doubt he could find one.
Your reprint of the Bush admin’s claims that tire inflation would save 7 million gallons a day must be taking into the context of US consumption of about 400 million gallons per day. Do the math. Obama is ignorant of the facts.