Republicans to Kick Obama’s Tires

(Sorry, “hear”, not “here.”)

As an American driver, the difference is obvious. The tune up and air check for tires, directly saves money in MY POCKET. The value of the oil pumped offshore doesn’t mean it goes to an American gas station.
Why would Exxon ship here if it gets more at the pump elsewhere.
I guess when McCain says we need to try ALL options, he didn’t include proper air in tires. Just the options that his handlers tell him are important or the oil companys pay him to tout.

The joke is fine but the facts are otherwise. Vehicle maintenance is the best way for individuals to get relief at the pump to the extend individuals can influence their own situation.
The Republicans will fall into the trap that McCain is all about Big Oil if they continue to use a humiliation strategy.
There are two horns to the energy dilemma: individual efforts and national efforts.
We owe it to people to ensure they get the facts on how to save energy. We owe it to the world to begin today on a national strategy to conserve, cultivate new energy sources and eliminate our dependency on foreign sources.

Jake,
The funny thing is that you predicted–quite accurately–that this would happen.
Does anyone recall the last time a US presidential election was won on policy discussions, rather character assassination and demagoguery?

We will not save 800,000 barrels of oil a day.
Jack assumes no one is taking care of tires. some do and even lot of cars are monitored by Chip today.
Obama is preaching like Jesus to heal the nation.
We have 3 trillion Barrels of oil and enough for next 2000 years.
John McCain says, Oil is for short-term solution and he has a long term solution too.
Obama supporters, What the short-term solution from your Lord, Nothing. Empty Suit

…about 800,000 barrels of oil a day!
Republicans only like so-called energy “solutions” that line the pockets of Big Oil. Having two oil men sitting in the Oval Office has done us a lot of good. We don’t need another.

Obama deserves to be ridiculed for these remarks. He didn’t simply ask Americans to do their part by inflating their tires. He falsely stated – twice – that doing so would replace all the oil that domestic drilling would produce. Either Obama is woefully ignorant or he thinks voters are.

“McCain=Bush=Oil companies. Repeat…
Now THAT is what Americans will remember.”
Actually, no matter how often you repeat it it isn’t that noticeable. Voters assume both candidates are in the hands of big donors. Obama comes off hokey claiming he is all grass roots when the facts say otherwise. McCain needs to be careful with his strategy of not insisting on personal responsibility. We are a great nation made up of strong smart people well capable of stepping up to the challenge. It is not a sacrifice to care for one’s own situation.
They will remember that Obama is unwilling to assume reponsbility for his own actions regards the energy crisis and simply says No to the reasonable achievable means. And they will remember he deliberately deprived Michigan and Florida of representation to win the primary then demanded they be reinstated to help him in the general election.
In short, in the words of Robert Preston in Victoria Victoria, “they’ll say HE’s a phony”.

Lance D
We have 2 trillion barrels of oil enough for next 2000 years. We all know about polution, But does lord Obama has any other technology working today other than Oil.
McCain has long terms solution also like Nuclear,Wind, Solar.

Obama did say inflating tires and getting costly unecessary tune-ups would save as much gas as what can be drillied. Now will he have us wearing WIN buttons to make the cost go down?

I am a Democrat, and had made up my mind to vote for the Democrat, no matter which nominee won. I’m rethinking that position. I’m tired of hearing Bush = McCain. That’s a load of bull, and it’s an insult to my intelligence for Obama, McCaskill & Co. to keep repeating it. I hate it when politicians assume I’m an idiot. I’m also extremely upset that Obama insinuated John McCain and his campaign are racists. If the McCain camp or the national Republican Party had actually done something that was racist, I’d be the first to condemn them. I don’t think the Republicans are any better than the Democrats, but I sure am disappointed in my own party this year. I’ve never not voted in an election, but I just can’t see voting for Obama. I can’t vote Republican, either. And Ralph Nader is an idiot. Where does that leave me? I guess I’ll have to vote Democratic for state and national offices, and leave the presidential line blank. I will NEVER vote for a Republican, but I will also NEVER vote for a black man who acts as if anyone who disagrees with him is a racist. Am I the only white person in this country who is sick of this crap?

We have 2 trillion barrels of oil enough for next 2000 years. We all know about polution, But does Obama has any other technology working today other than Oil.
McCain has long terms solution also like Nuclear,Wind, Solar.
John,
What is the shor-term solution for Energy crisis other than Oil. McCain has long term solutions too like Nuclear,Wind,Solar, etc
Does Obama have any short-term solution for next 5-10 years.
Can you tell the reason why Obama opposes Nuclear
Tim
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The short and long term solution is you should both leave your SUVs home and take the public transport.
You see the problem with your line of argument is consume more, don’t change your habit. More over, your flawed logic assumes that for the next 2000 years the American oil consumption will stay as it is now. Which is clearly wrong again by your line of argument and thinking.
It doesn’t matter if the US have 2 trillions of oil offshore, if Americans keep increasing their consumption exponentially, it won’t make any difference.

“What is the shor-term solution for Energy crisis other than Oil. McCain has long term solutions too like Nuclear,Wind,Solar, etc
Does Obama have any short-term solution for next 5-10 years.”
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Tim,
There’s isn’t a short term solution to the energy crisis we’re in. Additional drilling is not a short term fix. We will not reap dividends for that for another 7-10 years.
In the meantime, conservation is the answer until adequate green technologies come on line.
Anyone who’s saying additional drilling is a “short term fix” is lying. Period.

Who voted for the Cheney Energy Bill? Obama.
Who is getting money from Big Oil Bundlers?
Obama.
Who is having a problem with inflation?
Obama.

McCain has been voting against American’s for 23 years. Not one vote of his or the Republicans have been for the people in the last 8 years. It is all about money and who gets it. It really upsets me when people come onto this site and speak of this man. Do you people not realize McCain, Bush, Chaney…created this world you now live in? They started the war, they destroyed our economy, the gas companies are richer, the housing… I can go on. And now, that it is time to vote for office they are acting like they are our saviors??? Really, they are going to save us now from what they created to begin with. They are using their bad judgments and decision that they have made this past 8 years and putting them all on Obama. Crazy isn’t it. Now they want to save you, and you are going to believe them, and when McCain gets back into office it will crap as usual. I am so confused as to how you people are viewing all of this. The created the messes they are now wanting to save us from???

“CARS DO NOT NEED TUNE-UPS ANYMORE.”
Not quite true. Loss of compression is a real problem in tightly engineered cars. Oil still needs to be changed regularly. Tires at the right inflation for the specific make of tires (not car, but tires) change road handling and do help gas mileage. Plugs are good for a very long time but wire corrosion still creates misfires. It isn’t a tune-up as much as scheduled inspections and maintenance. When you buy the car, don’t swap the five year maintenance for a built-in mp3 stereo. You swapped savings for a crappy sound.
IOW, no it is not as big a deal as Obama claims but it is not negligible and it varies by year, make, model, driving area (in-town or interstate) and driving habits (do you accelerate hard then brake hard). Don’t lose the facts in the campaign. We have real pain; let’s talk about real solutions for individuals and for the nation.
My Dad was a master mechanic. He predicted everything we are seeing right now. When young, I didn’t listen. Now it’s nice to know the old folks really do know. You folks spending your time belittling McCain’s age don’t. You really don’t.

Last night on TV, one car expert stated that biofuels are bad for engines. Too much moisture gets into engine parts and causes sludge to build up. One should use a gas additive if using biofuel so the guy said. This will actually make car operation costs higher.

there are a half dozen cars that could be put into production in less than 6 months that run entirely on electricity and meet the needs of 95% of all drivers. 200+ mile range on a single charge, 75mph+, 4-6 passengers, plug it in at night for at least 6 hours to get a full charge. No new tech needed. Mandate Zero Emissions now!

Republicans are mocking something that brings actual relief to people? Why didn’t they do anything when they were in control?

Tires!! Outrageous!!
Actually, if you look at the full context of the remark, he wasn’t even suggesting tire inflation as a solution. He was saying it would be just as effective as offshore drilling–not very effective as an overall solution.
But of course, leave it to the right wing noise machine and media quislings to take the remark out of context, just like they took the “I have become a symbol” remark out of context.

In other words, not effective at all.
Actually, if Republicans were actually serious about providing consumers with relief, then they’d release oil from the strategic reserve.
But they’re not interested in providing relief. They just want a political weapon–even if their solution does nothing for anyone for seven years.
Is this a made-up controversy, or what? Par for the course for the right wing noise machine.

@John: “Price will come down asap if oil speculators can see any future increase in oil supply such as off shore”
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In 2006, two years ago, we opened most of the Gulf of Mexico with its estimated 41 billion barrels of oil.
Oil prices since then have doubled.
The remaining prohibited coastal areas have only 18 billion barrels of oil.

Does anyone know where Obama stands on anything?
You can’t become president on an ambiguous platform!
A Democrat who is paying attention.

“Does anyone know where Obama stands on anything?”
Probably many don’t, because we’ve been discussing Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton, tire inflation, and how “uppity” Obama is.

JJ, just keep pulling out the race card; we understand that it’s all you’ve got at his point. Obama supporters love to point out what an idiot Bush is. Fact check: his educational background is similar to Obama’s, proof that education doesn’t equal intelligence – or common sense either for that matter.
And for the record, Obama isn’t a former University of Chicago law professor. That’s another one of his lies. He was a senior lecturer. It was only when he pushed the “professor” label that the University obliged him by playing along, which must have thrilled their professors who had actually worked to earn that title. Of course, maybe UC isn’t too picky – Bill Ayers is a professor there.

“Obama’s Energy Plan”: New Engraved Tire Gauges!

Republicans to kick Obama’s tires from Political Punch reports that the RNC is handing out tire gauges to reporters and to attendees at an Obama event in Michigan. The gauges are engraved with Obama’s Energy Plan. Hopefully these can be

292 Million barrels of oil a year just by taking better care of our vehicles?
I guess our society is a wasteful, behemoth of greed and lazyness.
nice.

“JJ, just keep pulling out the race card, we understand that it’s all you’ve got at his point.”
Sorry, yeah, the Republicans are just rolling in political capital. Everyone just loooves them some Iraq War and corrupt GOP politicians.
As for him being a “visiting lecturer” or an “adjunct professor”, or whatever, who cares? The guy is no slouch.
But as for the “race card,” right, we would never expect the party who invented “strapping young bucks” collecting food stamps in Philadelphia, Mississippi, or Willie Horton, or “call me, Harold Ford,” to be playing with racial politics. Of course not. The well-documented southern strategy is just a figment of everyone’s imagination. Even if the late Lee Atwater made it perfectly crystal-clear when he confessed what he was doing.
I expect we’ll see a lot more Atwater/Rove/Schmidt tactics to come…

Probably the same people who mocked Jimmy Carter for suggesting an increase in mileage standards for cars.
If the Big Three had listened, the US might have become the top auto manufacturer in the world.
I’m tired of the republican mantra that always thinks the only solution is big business, grow our way out of a mess.
My suspicion is the prime benefactor of additional drilling will be the oil companies who’ll be selling to meet the increased demand from the 3 billion people living in India and China.

My electricity rates have really gone up in the last three years and even faster since they now use some wind turbine generated electricity. If I can’t afford to keep my whole house air conditioned (Only living room and kitchen now)in the summertime, how can I afford to ‘fill up’ an electric car? And what would a fill up cost for a $200 mile trip?? Just curious.

Here are Obama’s proposals:
1. “Build fuel-efficient cars and have one million 150 mile-per-gallon plug-in hybrids on the roads within six years”
Who buys them and what do they cost to produce? Do we incentivize American-owned industry or rely on foreign cara manufacturers? Do we cut a deal for cars manufacturers that are foreign-owned but produced in the US? One million seems to be targeting a wealthy buyer? Is this savings for the well-off while gas prices rise?
2. “Require that 10 percent of the country’s energy come from renewable sources by the end of his first term”
Details matter. What combination of renewables and in what locations in the country? Like the million proposed above, the wealthy can afford the home retrofits. Will there be incentives? Who qualifies?
3. “Call on businesses, government and the American people to meet the goal of reducing the demand for electricity 15 percent by the end of the next decade.”
Is this to reduce the carbon emissions or coal plants? Do we do as they do in New York and dress skimpier in the heat? Are there incentives?
Who pays for the incentives? Where do we get the money for tax breaks?
He has put plans for policies on the table. What about them? So far it appears he is only targeting changes to the well-off and leaving the other classes to fend for themselves. Once again elite solutions from an elitist.
But, it’s not useful to dismiss it out of hand. It is very useful to analyze and look for details.

WHAT about HEATING oil, especially in the northern US??
Fall is falling, and it’ll be getting COLD, REALLY cold for many — not to mention, which of course The CHANGEling doesn’t, the “homeless” whose ranks will be swollen by the mortgage mess — come the November election.

Probably the same people who mocked Jimmy Carter for suggesting an increase in mileage standards for cars.
Posted by: Citizen Voter | Aug 4, 2008
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You, as 0-bama wants you to believe, have completely missed the point.
An important fact is that the oil-dependence and energy crisis is not an inflating-your-tire problem, nor a developing-solar-cells problem, nor a wind-mill problem, nor a corn-for-ethanol problem.
You can have all those things add together, and achieved 100% of capacity, and that’s still not going to provide more than 20%, at best, of your, i.e., this country’s, energy need, just in the 21st century.
Does this phony 0-bama have any idea, any clue, what a future energy policy would be like? Zero. He only has an air-solution.
McCain is disappoint as well, but at least he is 45 steps ahead of 0-bama, in that he proposes to build 45 nuclear power plants in the next 20 years.
He needs to propose to spend 1 trillion dollars in the next 20 years to solve the “energy problem” once for all, and that solution, and the only solution, is nuclear energy. And, it is an unlimited, CLEAN, unlike 0-bama supporters trying to scare you, energy source.

Belle Star, you can thank Bush for that. Don’t forget to vote for McBush come November and vote for giving MORE tax cuts to the rich and giving 4 billion in subsidies to Big Oil. Their profits were really really meager this year, poor guys.
The Rich is the Real Welfare Queen, Taxpayers should do everything they can to support them.

Stop picking on poor Barak. Having zero energy experience is hard. Just because he is borrowing Bush’s AIR-IN-EVERY-TIRE energy plan doesn’t mean he’s a bad person. Once he’s in the White House I’m sure he’ll come up with something.

“Belle Star, you can thank Bush for that [presumably "the mortgage mess"].”

“I hope America is looking for hard truths about the American future…”

@Ien “are these figures the same at scale?”
Figures will only improve for electric vehicles (EV’s) with scale.
For one, power plants are much more efficient in releasing the energy potential of carbon based fuel then internal combustion engines (ICE’s) ever will. (FYI, ICE’s are only 20% effient, 80% of the potential energy is wasted)
With increase in EV’s, demand for oil will drop and prices will drop but electricity will benefit more from that than gaspowered cars will.
When you include solar, wind, wave, and nuclear for that matter, into the mix, the gap between EV’s and ICEV’s will even more tilt in favor of EV’s.
The problem with nuclear are still the same though: it’s a limited resource which we will have depleted fairly soon (investments will be wasted by then), we still don’t know what to do with it’s waste and we will burden thousands of future generations with dealing with it. And that’s not even adressing issues with national security and safety. How will you prevent rogue states from also switching to nuclear when you state nuclear is essential for energy demands? Giving them the fuel and the capacity to upgrade their nuclear fuel to weapons grade nuclear?
Riddle me that. The US is allowed to switch to nuclear energy but NK and Iran are not?

and air costs 75 cents at most stations here.

They point out that Obama not only voted against a ban on so-called partial-birth abortion, a procedure the late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York once called “too close to infanticide,” but opposed a bill to protect the life of an infant who survived a late-term abortion

You guys must be afraid of Obama because he looks different and has a funny name.
Forget that he has very liitle experience, spins everything, and won’t take a stand, vote for him out of pity.

Belle Star wrote:
Checking tire pressure isn’t a particularly pleasant procedure, and requires getting down on the ground — something of which the hothouse politicians are probably quite unaware.
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OMG! How lazy can you be? Seriously, no wonder so many Americans so fat, it’s this type of thinking!

My goodness but McCain is turning this election into a freakin’ circus side show full of lies…so much for a respectful campaign, huh

Why don’t you point out that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlie Crist, Joe Lieberman (check his website!) and Nascar happen to agree with Obama?

Bring back the good ole days. I could fill up Ford Fairlane with $2.00 worth of gas and an attendant would check under the hood of all fluids, clean my windshield and check my tire pressure and wave me off with a smile. Now–well, it certainly is different. And since it has been a few years since a tank of gas cost $2.00, I can not check my tires with a gauge now. And I ain’t fat or lazy.

Really mrspeel? The all say that inflating your tires will replace ALL of the oil that could be gotten by domestic drilling? I seriously doubt that; those guys aren’t that stupid. Remember, the problem isn’t that Obama wants us to inflate our tires; it’s that he insisted – twice – that doing so would eliminate ANY gains made by domestic drilling. That’s just ignorant.
Did you know that John McCain agreed that keeping our tires properly inflated is something we can all do to conserve gas? But he went on to say that of course we still need to apply the three-prong approach of “Conserve More, Produce More, Invent More” to tackle our energy problems.
McCain – Right for America!

interesting. 800,000 barrels of oil a day? that’s how much ANWR is alleged to be able to pump out *at it’s peak*.
the right, eager to miss the point, has just demonstrated the great weakness in their idea that we can “drill our way out of this mess”; if we can save the equivilent of one ANWR merely by keeping our tires properly inflated, then domestic drilling isn’t exactly gonna do anything at all in the long run, is it?

McCain: “there he goes again, accusing me of making fun of his name.”

Bet those gauges the Republicans are handing out were not made in America.

On a very serious note; does anyone remember “Vote for Micky Mouse?” I do. Not a bad idea. I have never been so concerned for the USA as I am now. We should start all over and find new candidates to run for the Presidency. When Obama speaks I literally hear bla, bla, bla, bla, bla. My ears are hurting from the same chatter over and over. Honestly, I don’t know what to think of McCain, is he the lesser of the two evils? Maybe! GOD HELP US!!!!

They will remember that Obama is unwilling to assume reponsbility for his own actions regards the energy crisis and simply says No to the reasonable achievable means

It isn’t “reasonably achievable” or “assuming responsibility” to keep your tires inflated? What a country we’ve become.

Well, I guess his poll numbers are worrying him. He is turning in his tire gauge, and is “open” to off shore drilling. Everyday, this guy shows us what a typical politician he is, even though he continues to hand out the kool aid, saying he is not. While Hillary, the one he painted as “the one who would do anything to get elected”, shows us she is the heart and conscience of the american people. Guess that explains why the PUMA movement and The Denver Group continue to grow.

Anyone who read Exxon’s quarterly report would not be calling for more drilling. They readily admit they are not drilling at capacity. Even if they wanted to drill the offshore sites in question, the amount of oil added to the market in 10 years will be dwarfed by the demand expected to be coming out of China and India. In short, another dumb idea proposed by Republicans because it sounds good, and they can trick their gullible voters into believing it is “common sense.”
That Republicans would mock Obama’s real common sense solutions, one of which would save 800,000 barrels a day at no cost, is evidence of their pettiness, immaturity, and lack of ideas. Republicans: great at campaigning, terrible at governing.

“It isn’t “reasonably achievable” or “assuming responsibility” to keep your tires inflated?”
Quoting out of context? The mail said that is exactly personal responsibility. The quote was aimed at the problem of the national situation with respect to reducing dependence while simultaneouly reducing emissions. We have to do both because otherwise we reduce usage while simultaneously paying India and China to do the same. In effect, we put the strap to the backs of the Americans.
I don’t think once they realize that, they’ll be too happy about it. If we want to reduce emissions AND dependence, we have to reduce consumption and that means alternative energy sources with lower carbon footprints. We’ve no choice but to solve the hard problems at the national scale. So I’m looking for ‘reasonable means’ from the government. Right now, nuclear is the first best option followed by the investments in alternative fuels. We know the hybrids and the EVs work. The trick is to make them affordable.
But cars aren’t our only problem.
What do we about the very big very electicity hungry server farms that make the web possible? Metered usage?
No free lunch.

if everyone kept their tires properly inflated, by 2032 we’d have saved about 7 billion barrels of oil …

just thinking,
I still maintain that riley is not a racist for saying that someone looks different and has a funny name. Get it? Riley is NOT a racist. NOT. A. RACIST. Okay?
Riley is not a racist.

bhrandom:
Come Come!
“what are you even talking about
mccain put obamas face on a dollar bill, mccain has interjected race into the election, he does it and then when obama responds, he claims it was obama”
It WAS Obama who started it!
He plastered his face and ears over his presumptuously re-designed Presidential Seal.
But when McCain carried the joke further… and put his face on a HUNDRED dollar bill…. Obama cries RACISM!
Frankly, I think it was very kind of McCain to portray Obama on the face of a C-Note; I would not have been so generous.
CLINTON OR MCCAIN
BUT ALWAYS
COUNTRY OVER BROKEN DOWN DNC WITH IT’S PLETHORA OF WHINERS AND SERIOUS LACK OF A SENSE OF HUMOR!

The air pressure recommendation comes from the U.S. Energy Dept. and the EPA. It’s also been suggested by NASCAR and the Rebublican
Governors of California and Florida.
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I think you’re missing the CONTEXT here. Of course everyone admits that properly inflating your tires is a good idea. But to make it part of a plan to break our dependence on foreign oil is utter nonsense – and justifiably scorned.

Obama has enough “hot air” to fill every tire in America.

“Keep in mind, we are only 5% of the world population, but we consume 25% of the oil. Does that sound right to you?”
This statement galls me to no end! Yeah we may use 25% of oil but we supply ALL OF THE ASSISTANCE to anyone who is in need. We are the LEADING nation in disaster assistance as well as other humanitarian concerns. We are the leading supplier of food and other resources throughout the world. We seem to be defending every half wit dictator around the world. We never say no when someone asks us for help. WE supply most of not all of the technology to these other countries to get their dang oil out of the ground in the first place. HELL they should be GIVING US OIL for God’s sake just out of gratitude! But what do we get from our so called leaders? AMERICA SUCKS! Well I do not believe AMERICA SUCKS! In fact if AMERICA would stop doing what AMERICA does best the rest of the world would fade into oblivion IMO!

John, why not. After all, inflating tires gets us as much ‘mileage’ as McCains oil leases. So if inflating tires is utter nonsense, offshore oil drilling is so insignificant that it is nonsense as well. That was Obama’s original point. Its even worse, since giving oil companies offshore leases in no way insures actual drilling, as we all know.
Obama’s scornful dismissal of McCain’s plan by comparing it to inflating tires is pretty much on the mark.
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First of all, inflating tires WON’T save the amount of oil that could be extracted from the OCS (please read Jake’s post above that indicates Obama’s “original point” is wrong). Second, is the government going to mandate tire inflation standards and then be able to make sure everyone complies? That is totally unrealistic. Third, you’re saying the government shouldn’t grant oil leases because the oil companies might not drill there anyway. That is absurd.