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Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in on this fiasco tire inflation….so I included the article below to express my feelings.
NEW YORK (CNN) — Call our politicians and tell them to stay on vacation. Call the caribou roaming in Alaska and tell them they’re safe. Call the Saudi king and tell him what you really think of his oil.
I, Glenn Beck, a recovering alcoholic rodeo clown, have come up with a solution to America’s energy crisis…and you’re wearing it.
Look at yourself right now. You’ve probably got on a shirt, socks, shoes, jewelry, maybe even some pants. Do you have any idea how much all of that weighs?
If people really loved America, they would strip down, leave their clothes at home, and drive around buck naked. That would decrease the weight of our cars, which would increase our gas mileage so dramatically that we probably wouldn’t have to drill for any new oil!
Genius, right?
Of course, my idea has about as much of a chance to make a real difference in our energy crisis as the suggestion that Barack Obama recently made.
“Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing,” Obama said. “But we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups. You could actually save just as much.”
When The Associated Press asked Obama’s campaign for the figures they used to make that claim, they couldn’t produce any — but plenty of other people have.
It turns out that about two-thirds of vehicles already have properly inflated tires. That means we’d likely save somewhere around 800,000 barrels of oil a day if everyone else also complied. Meanwhile, the U.S. Minerals Management Service estimates that there are about 86 billion barrels of oil in the areas that we’re not allowed to drill. You do the math.
But, facts aside, Obama seemed to be stunned that Republicans would dare ridicule an idea as revolutionary as checking your tire pressure. “They’re making fun of a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption,” he complained.
No, what they’re making fun of is that a guy who, less than two months earlier, was against the gas tax holiday because it was a “gimmick,” has suddenly embraced what is essentially a gimmick.
No one, including John McCain, disputes that keeping your tires inflated will help you get better gas mileage. But so will emptying your trunk, buying a hybrid, not using the heat, and driving naked. The point is that none of those things are solutions; they’re unsustainable gimmicks that distract people from solving the underlying crisis. They’re also exactly the type of things that Obama once claimed he was against.
But, of course, the adoring mainstream media doesn’t want to talk about that, they just want to defend Obama’s honor.
Michael Grunwald recently wrote an article titled, “The Tire-Gauge Solution: No Joke,” that probably would’ve been harsher on Obama if it was written by Barack himself. It’s more love-sonnet than journalism.
“Meanwhile,” he wrote, “efficiency experts say that keeping tires inflated can improve gas mileage 3 percent and regular maintenance can add another 4 percent. Many drivers already follow their advice, but if everyone did, we could immediately reduce demand several percentage points. In other words: Obama is right.”
Of course he’s right; he’s Barack Obama, savior of the universe! But one phrase that he used deserves a little more attention: “but if everyone did.”
“But if everyone” donated their organs then people wouldn’t die waiting for them.
“But if everyone” ate only lettuce then our health care system would be fixed.
“But if everyone” just sent me one dollar then I’d retire with $300 million in the bank.
Of course, the reality is that people still die waiting for organs, obesity is an epidemic, and I’m still writing these columns. That’s why saying “but if everyone did” is such a red herring.
Grunwald went on to suggest that perhaps we’re just over-thinking this whole “energy crisis” thing. “It’s a pretty simple concept,” he wrote. “If our use of fossil fuels is increasing our reliance on Middle Eastern dictators while destroying the planet, maybe we ought to use less.”
Welcome back to Fantasy Land. Saying “we ought to” is exactly the same as “but if everyone” — a way to make a ridiculous point sound plausible. It’s like saying: We ought to all live in peace and harmony. It’s not that easy.
But let’s follow his yellow brick road for a second anyway. If we all put on our Jimmy Carter sweaters and used less oil, we’d still need millions of barrels. How about making sure those barrels come from America by starting to drill for it now? We’ll never be truly free until we’re completely free from Middle Eastern oil.
Not surprisingly, drilling was nowhere to be found in the article, but Grunwald did include plenty of other, “simple” things we can do:
“We can use those twisty carbon fluorescent light bulbs. We can unplug our televisions, computers and phone chargers when we’re not using them.”
He’s living in a dream world! Not only is unplugging a television not going to do a darn thing, it’s annoying and almost no one in their right mind will ever, ever, ever, ever do it! Ever!
And finally, just in case you weren’t yet sure if Grunwald’s article was essentially a commercial for Obama, here’s how he ended it:
“It’s sad to see (McCain’s) campaign adopting the politics of the tire gauge, promoting the fallacy that Americans are powerless to address their own energy problems. Because the truth is: Yes, we can…”
Hmm, let me think, where have I heard “Yes we can” before? Ohhh, that’s right, it’s what Obama supporters chant at his speeches.
Is Obama’s energy policy solely based on tire gauges? No. But can we criticize him for embracing the same kind of gimmicky stall tactics that have gotten us to this place?
Yes. Yes we can.
WTF??!!?!
That’s all.
Thanks
Such an amazing video.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Hey Gen X, could u drop your little selfishness for about 2 seconds and stand up for a senior citizen! I mean… the fact that I had to say something to finally get people to give up their seats is ridiculous. The pic is of the older couple and the douchebags that wouldn’t move.
Ray Charles was a genius, and so is this song!
I know, can’t stop posting political stuff today, but I read this and again, got really upset, because everyone deserves to vote, no matter who they are! This just makes me really mad and sad at our government, and especially the Congress that was going to change things.
Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, on July 8 introduced a resolution demanding that the Defense Department better enable U.S. military personnel overseas to vote in the November elections. That act was followed by silence. Democrats normally leap on an opportunity to find fault with the Bush Pentagon. But not a single Democrat joined Blunt as a co-sponsor, and an all-Republican proposal cannot pass in the Democratic-controlled House.Nobody who has studied the question objectively sees any improvement since 2006, and that is a scandal. Retired U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Charles Henry wrote in the July issue of the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings: “While virtually everyone involved … seems to agree that military people deserve at least equal opportunity when it comes to having their votes counted, indications are that in November 2008, many thousands of service members who try to vote will do so in vain.”
Analysis by the federal Election Assistance Commission, rejecting inflated Defense Department voting claims, estimated overseas and absentee military voting for the 2006 midterm elections at a disgracefully low 5.5 percent. The quality of voting statistics is so poor that there is no way to tell how many of the slightly over 330,000 votes actually were sent in by the absentee military voters and their dependents and how many by civilian Americans living abroad — 6 million all total.
Read it from a soliders perspective.
So if you make a lot of money then those who don’t make a lot of money can share your hard work?? Man, I am going to need another job?
Obama’s ‘emergency’ economic plan
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.” Details are in this six-page policy paper. The first part of Obama’s plan is an emergency energy rebate ($500 to individual workers, $1,000 to families) as soon as this fall. “This rebate will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next four months,” Obama said. “Or, if you live in a state where it gets very cold in the winter, it will be enough to cover the entire increase in your heating bills. Or you could use the rebate for any of your other bills or even to pay down debt Read the rest here |
Now I know that it is inevitable that you need to bring a drink on the metro but not during rush hour. This girl brought her ice coffee and too many times have I been spilled on by those who are above the metro rules.
Man I sound bitter… I need coffee!
Dear box blocker,
Could you learn that the two white lines that pedestrians walk through is not a parking space for your busted crap vehic! Oh and blaring a Aaron carter song doesn’t help your street cred either.
