http://campaignspot.nationalreview.c...IzMzk3ZGQ4ZmU=
, damn, this mofo is smart!
Proper Tire Inflation? Great. How About the Other Two out of Every Three Drivers?
The RNC is chuckling over Obama calling for voters to make “sure your tires are properly inflated” because “we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires.”
RNC spokesman Alex Conant responds, “Obama’s solution to America’s energy crisis is inflating tires?! Maybe he’s been out of the country too long.”
I'll give Obama a smidgen of credit, in that yes, having properly inflated tires can get you a few more miles per gallon.
"Running a tire 20 percent underinflated - only 5 to 7 pounds per square inch (psi) - can increase fuel consumption by 10 percent. That can easily cost motorists two or three miles per gallon. Not only that, but running underinflated also reduces the tire's tread life," said Bob Toth, Goodyear's general manager, auto tires.
However, this doesn't mean everybody can inflate their tires and get more mpg tomorrow. Survey information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that about one in every three cars has a significantly under inflated tire.
I'm doing a back-of-the-envelope calculation of how many gallons of gasoline that would save, daily and annually. But one of the problems of trying to contrast that total with the amount of oil produced domestically is that because of bans on exploration, it's tough to get a solid number of how many gallons of gasoline could be produced, daily and annually, by additional drilling.
Back in 2006, I was underwhelmed when Democrat leaders' national security plan included a federal "tire fuel efficiency program."
UPDATE: This article from U.S. News and World Report says the average worker commutes 33 miles between work and home each day and that the average car gets about 24 miles per gallon. Thus, the average worker is using 1.375 gallons per day.
Let’s be generous and say a properly inflated tire gives a full extra three miles per gallon. So a commuter who had previously insufficiently inflated tires starts using 1.22 gallons per day. They’re saving .153 gallons per day.
This 2003 press release puts the number of commuters in America at a little over 129 million. So we have one third of those commuters – 43 million – saving .153 gallons per day, or almost 6.58 million gallons.
(If the benefit of properly inflated tires is at the lower end of the estimate, only an extra two miles per gallon, it would save 4.94 million gallons.) That is a nice healthy amount, even if getting 100 percent tire inflation compliance in the country is an impossible dream.
But this 2006 report from the federal Minerals Management Service puts the recoverable oil from the Outer Continental Shelf at just under 86 billion barrels of oil; one barrel of crude oil yields approximately 19.6 gallons of finished motor gasoline.
So it would indeed be nice if Americans pumped up their tires sufficiently, and we started seeing some of that 4.9 million to 6.5 million gallons saved per day. But why it has to be an either/or in regards to the 1.6 trillion gallons of gasoline in the OCS (not even getting into ANWR), as Obama insists, is not clear.
UPDATE: The PowerLine guys and Hot Air do their own calculations — and their sources state, "Proper inflation can also improve gas mileage by more than 3%, when maintained regularly."
Hmm. In my math above, I've got it improving gas mileage 8.3 to 12.5 percent...
"UPDATE: This article from U.S. News and World Report says the average worker commutes 33 miles between work and home each day and that the average car gets about 24 miles per gallon. Thus, the average worker is using 1.375 gallons per day."
Wow. So cars are getting 24 mpg while they're sitting in gridlock traffic moving about 2 mph for the better part of an hour (or two)? His logic is faultless.
How dare Obama offer up a solution that anyone can accomplish for themselves! Next he'll be suggesting we get tune ups and keep our speed down on the highway. That unbelievable bas !
Republican Health Care Solution: wear sunscreen (well, says McCain)
both are excellent ideas btw. that's bi-partisan ship for you
You mean mainting your car helps with gas mileage? How dare Obama bring that up!
Oh the Horrah!!
The funny part about all of this is that there are commercials by Gov. Perry and Pres. Bush reminding everyone to inflate their tires.
I hear them on the radio all the time.
But, apparently, it's only stupid if Obama says it.
Idiocy, pure idiocy.
it's all that Obama experience, can't you just hear it, "inflate your tires".
Jimmy Carter wearing a sweater and telling Americans to bundle up to save money on heat PART II.
An energy saving tip that doesn't require new taxes or a massive govt. subsidy.
Naturally, the board Republicans hate it.
no we love it and we're damn proud Obama is reminding us.what's next, brushing your teeth prevents tooth decay.
Because I oppose John McCain, I will NOT wear sunscreen!
What? Damn, if I'd have know that, I would have started a thread mocking both of them for doing that.
You don't know how the country responded to Carter when he did this do you?
so you're saying Obama's campaign consist of Public Service Annoucements?
Obama, McCain, Bush, Perry, et al...their campaigns/offices consist of a lot of different things, including occasionally using their public stature to disseminate public service announcements.
How dare they?
HOW DARE THEY?!!!!
his campaign is a public service announcement?
you like acting retarted?How dare they?
HOW DARE THEY?!!!!
McCain told Americans to wear sunscreen. Is his campaing a public service announcement?
Re ed, indeed.
Once again, this is bull .
The people of our great country should not be troubled with taking care of their own vehicles. They already have too many things to worry about in this troubling mean country. It is up to our parents, aka government officials, to ensure our tires never deflate by themselves.
The tire companies are obviously responsible for this. They deflate them on purpose, to increase wear time, in order to get people to buy tires at a greater pace.
I hereby call for the nationalization of our tire companies funded through tax dollars to ensure this problem will never plague citizens of the world ever again.
Together we roll, divided we deflate. All for one, one for all. Yes we can.
God bless.
Assuming the worst about someone you don't like, and then attributing things to that person that they never actually said is a popular activity around these parts.
Bush? The only thing I have heard him say is that American's have enough sense to figure things out for themselves without being told.
Obama hasn't figured that out yet. Of course with all Obama's hot air he could fill all the tires in the U.S. with hot air left over. And I am sure he will come up with a government plan to pay for those tune-ups.
I've heard it half a billion times on the radio.Bush? The only thing I have heard him say is that American's have enough sense to figure things out for themselves without being told.
Obama hasn't figured that out yet. Of course with all Obama's hot air he could fill all the tires in the U.S. with hot air left over. And I am sure he will come up with a government plan to pay for those tune-ups.
What's so different about him doing it?
From the Department of Energy:
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/maintain.shtmlYou can improve your gas mileage by around 3.3 percent by keeping your tires inflated to the proper pressure. Under-inflated tires can lower gas mileage by 0.4 percent for every 1 psi drop in pressure of all four tires. Properly inflated tires are safer and last longer.
Fuel Economy Benefit: up to 3%
Equivalent Gasoline Savings: up to $0.12/gallon
^^^^
Hey, Ray . . . are you somehow going to say that the Department of Energy is controlled by Democrats and therefore posted that on thier site?
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