Obama has a Fix for oil prices

[Getback]

Okay, hope I don't duplicate 10 threads.

But Obama, being the genius he is, has come up with a way to save gas and reduce drilling. Why he says make sure your tires are inflated correctly. Pure genius I tell you. 

[Jackal1]

The cat is the next thing to Einstein .

 

[avionix]

Ain't it though.  You know that the RNC is giving tire pressure gauges away that say "Obama's Energy Plan" away for a $25 donation.  Need to send mine in.  That will be a collectors item.

[mora]

I was part of the test crew(man it sucked) which measured the tire pressures of thousands of motorists and checked them against recommendations. The results were appalling. If everybody would have correctly inflated tires the total save could be up to 5%. In the EU onboard monitoring system will become mandatory in 2012.

Just some background information. Dunno what omamabama said and couldn't care less.

[Rolex]

Sen. Obama said this: "There are things that you can do individually though to save energy. Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, 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."
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Off-shore drilling in the lower 48 states will yield approximately 200,000 barrels of oil per day... 20 years from now.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html

27% of American cars would improve mileage by 3% by properly inflating tires, reducing oil consumption approximately 800,000 barrels per day immediately. That doesn't include the 4% improvement from tune ups.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/maintain.shtml

There's never an Einstein around when you need one to do the math. Maybe Paris Hilton will be along to explain it. 

[midnight Target]

Woohoo..... funnay stuff right there..

LOL.. next thing you know he'll be talking about "time horizons" for pulling the troops out of Iraq. Comedy gold I tell ya!

[CAP1]

Sen. Obama said this: "There are things that you can do individually though to save energy. Making sure your tires are properly inflated, simple thing, 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."
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Off-shore drilling in the lower 48 states will yield approximately 200,000 barrels of oil per day... 20 years from now.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ongr.html

27% of American cars would improve mileage by 3% by properly inflating tires, reducing oil consumption approximately 800,000 barrels per day immediately. That doesn't include the 4% improvement from tune ups.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/maintain.shtml

There's never an Einstein around when you need one to do the math. Maybe Paris Hilton will be along to explain it. 

it's already common knowledge to inflate tires properly.

 just for the record, my dakota calls for 32 i think on the door.....max pressure is listed at 40 or 45 i think. i put mine at 40, and am averaging 2mpg more than when they're set at 35.  it mostly doesn't get done due to laziness, or the shops not checking it as they should during an oil change service.

 i somehow suspect that drilling would yield a bit more than 200k barrels. they should also consider re-starting the pumps on old wells too.

 there's really no such thing as a "tune up" anymore. there's nothign to adjust at all. there's only spark plugs, and air filters, and in some cases a fuel filter although dodge at least went to in-tank filters.

[Slamfire]

Okay, hope I don't duplicate 10 threads.

But Obama, being the genius he is, has come up with a way to save gas and reduce drilling. Why he says make sure your tires are inflated correctly. Pure genius I tell you. 

I wonder if he'll do like Jimmy Carter and urge everyone to buy a sweater.

[Toad]

Hmmmmm... .how to expand the Federal nanny state power even more? That is the question.

Clearly, it would be a benefit if all the dumbaxes would properly inflate their tires. Undeniable.

Now, here's the plan: Oil dependence is a national security issue. So, we make a new, huge sub-department under the Department of Homeland Security, the Tire Inflation Agency. Initials are, obviously, TIA which in Spanish means "aunt".

We then hire a few hundred thousand welfare moms (known as Tias or Aunties) at a good government wage, arm them with digital tire pressure gauges and send them out to randomly check parked cars where ever they are parked. City streets, chuch parking lots, malls, movie theaters, etc., etc. When ever a vehicle is found with under inflated tires, a ticket/fine is issued, just like a parking ticket. Scale the fines, the more underinflated you are, the more you pay.

This is win/win/win. We get hundreds of thousands of people off welfare at a good government wage with good government benefits. We save a bajillion gallons of fuel by having our tires properly inflated AND as a bonus, the fines go to pay the wages of the Aunties.

It'll be a good thing to have our Aunties monitoring our tire pressure.

The quadruple bonus is a larger Federal government with more intrusion into your daily life. Who could fail to love this plan?

[john9001]

this is a national emergency, we need to set up tire pressure check points and fine everyone with under inflated tires.

[Rolex]

With global consumption of about 75 million barrels per day, even a million barrels per day coming on line years from now is a drop in the bucket and will have minimal effect on oil prices.

Here is another question: why do people think that all the oil pumped will stay in the US? Now, you may be scratching your head, thinking I'm goofy, but who exactly will own that oil? The leases will be to the same multinational companies who control it now.

Exxon Mobile has no allegiance to the US. They have an allegiance to themselves, their stockholders and their brethren in the industry. That oil will be part of the global supply and not earmarked just for US consumption. Once again, the impact at the pump for everyone will be minimal.

The oil companies will be the winners, as they always are. And the government will rake in tens of billions from the leases, but the public will not benefit one iota from it. The taxpayers never do. The cycle never ends of you being hoodwinked into transferring the riches of public resources to the pockets of large companies by congressional edict.

Politicians and the media are nothing but trolls, drawing you into their web of lies. You grasp at these petty issues and divisiveness and do the bidding of politicians as fanboys, falling into one camp or the other, oblivious to fact that neither of the two people propped up before you are worth a damn.

Have any of you ever had a gas station tell you that they are out of gas? There just isn't enough and you'll have to line up for some tomorrow or the next day? I don't think so. There is no gasoline shortage or oil shortage. The demand is met every day. It's amazing that they have gotten you to quibble about something you can buy as much as you want. You pay more for a gallon of water at the convenient store or a coffee at Starbucks than you do for a gallon of gas, but are being manipulated like trained monkeys to screech about gasoline.

Most of the rest of the world pays much more than you do for gas. I was paying about $4 per gallon for the last 10 years and paying about $7 per gallon now. Shut up already about gas prices.

If $4 per gallon is making you go broke, you have bigger fish to fry. About 50 million people in the US still have no health insurance. What is up with that? The true national debt, including unfunded Social Security and Medicare obligation is now $330,000 per person. You have a family of four? You are $1.3 million in debt if you want to get Social Security and Medicare when you retire.

And you're complaining about $4 per gallon gas?  

Vote all the bastards out and start again. Your problem is not gas prices, your problem is a government spending money that you haven't even earned yet, but they intend to confiscate from you.

[Dnil]

toad, that scared me.


hold me?

[Mojava]

 Here you go, I'll interpret what Obama said, for those of you that have a hard time figuring it out.

 Obama:  Drilling for oil will only be a drop in the bucket, we need to develop new ways of dealing with the energy crisis.
 
 Drama queen much?
 

[Toad]

Vote all the bastards out and start again. Your problem is not gas prices, your problem is a government spending money that you haven't even earned yet, but they intend to confiscate from you.

The cold hard truth. Vote Libertarian; tell them you're mad as hell and you're not going to take it anymore!

[Slamfire]

Hmmmmm... .how to expand the Federal nanny state power even more? That is the question.

Damn Toad... I'm glad you don't work for them....