Politifact Finds Obama's Tire-Inflation ClaimTrue

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.

DOE says we could save 1.2 billion gallons of gas a year by properly inflating our tires. We used 142 billion gallons of gas last year. You do the math. Also most cars do not need a regular tune up since we started using on board computers many years ago. I guess Obama's driver didn't explain this to him.

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.

Inflating your tires is not Obama's energy policy! He was just stating that if everyone were to do this simple tiny thing, the country would save more oil than any offshore drilling would provide. It's a criticism of how superficial and ineffective McCain's policy of drilling for offshore oil is. It sounds good, but looking at the details you see there is too little oil offshore and it will take too long to extract.

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

Almost everything the Republicans do has a deeply sexual subtext, usually compensating for inadequacies of one kind or another. 'Drilling' in all the forbidden sites couldn't be clearer. In fact, how much or little it produces is not the point; it's the defiance and willfulness that counts with them.

It's like torture. For the the active combat military, current and historical, torture is a loser . . . no credible information and the likelihood that one's own men will be treated the same way. But for those who need to demonstrate strength they don't have (keyboard kommandos, think tank drivers, cowardly bullies, etc) torturing or supporting it covers deepest doubts. The violation is the end itself, not information. And it is satisfying for them. They project (!) in the only way they can.

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.

Elitist: "WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IN AMERICA IF WE HAD AN INTELLIGENT PRESIDENT?

AN INTELLIGENT PLAN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE.

Obama 08"

Back to the Carter days...inflation 13%, interest rates 21%, hostage crisis - 400 plus days, military - gutted, foreign policy - just like Obama's. White House tennis court schedule - covered like a blanket.

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???

WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IN AMERICA IF WE HAD AN INTELLIGENT PRESIDENT?

AN INTELLIGENT PLAN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE.

Obama 08

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!

All I have to say is you McCain supporters must love to suffer. 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, there is no such thing as a middle class and you mean to tell me that you will vote for another 8 years of suffering? There will be no America left when McCain gets finished becasue thanks to Bush we are owned by China and they will claim their debt and take this land. I hope all of you racist fools can deal with the wasteland America will become I mean look at China, they don't even have clean air to breath! You people must love to suffer is all I have to say. McCain is a vote for death!

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.

Yes, it looks to be "true"-as in, "in the realm of possibility," which is a far cry from something that could actually be a viable response to a need for more oil.

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.

dl, you don't really want to go into bad relationships, do you?

Rev. Wright
Bill Ayers
Tony Rezko

For more, see "Obama Nation". It includes many more with footnotes.

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)

The truth will set you free.

Obama/Biden '08/'12

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

Obama" "A light will shine down... from somewhere' It will light upon you. You will experience an epiphany.. You will say to yourself, 'I have to vote for Barack' "