"I don't think he has a compass when it comes to this issue. He's obviously thrashing about to catch up to the idea of the week," he said of Obama's energy plan outlined on Monday. "We're glad he's migrated more and more to Sen. McCain's position and vision for a better energy future. But it's obviously belated, it's obviously half-hazard."

Totally Agree! It seems that Obama is always trying to catch up with McCain's ideas....just proves that Obama is an "empty suit with no substance!"

"This icon of the tire pressure gauge is important," Pawlenty said. "Having tires properly inflated helps a little bit but that is not nearly anything close to the broad and comprehensive approach we need."

"Rather than talking about tire gauges, which is helpful to a small degree, he should be using his relationship with the Democratic leaders of Congress, Nancy Pelosi and the Senate leader, to get Congress to reconvene and deal with these issues in a crisis session this summer," Pawlenty said.

Obama is Pelosi's puppet!

What does a govenor know about washington politics anyway. Perhaps Pawlenty ought to let me show him how to use this tire gauge--I know of a perfectly good area that it would fit on him !!!

If everyone in this country actually used one of those little republicon props we would save the same amount of oil as McCain figures we can drill out of the ground. Obama says ignorant, I say willfully stupid, it's a republicon gene that makes em that way.

Obama;s health care plan "eat your vegatables"?

Who gives a damn what Pawlenty said.

The 3 or 4% being quoted only applies if NOBODY has their tyres properly inflated and engines not tuned.

If everybody already has, the savings are exactly nil

If as one would suspect the numbers fall between the two extremes, then you would have to accurately know those numbers to make any predictions, and nobody knows them.

If you arbitarily guessed at 50% then you would have to half the figures the Obama camp is quoting.

This sort of positioning major policy on rubbery figures (to use a pun!)is exactly what worries so many of us world wide about the alarmist human's causing global warming claims.

This isnt pragmatic policy its warm inner glow rhetoric at best, dangerous dreaming at worst.

Pawlenty is back-pedaling on this issue. Air pressure would be a good thing to advise motorists. Since we don't have a real leader in the White House maybe President Obama will have some influence.

From Time Magazine: Meanwhile, efficiency experts say that keeping tires inflated can improve gas mileage 3%, and regular maintenance can add another 4%. Many drivers already follow their advice, but if everyone did, we could immediately reduce demand several percentage points. In other words: Obama is right.

I'm still trying to figure out why mccain confused the Packers with the Steelers last month while speaking to a Pittsburgh crowd. He said he used the names of the famous Steelers Defensive line of the 1970's while being interrogated, too bad these guys weren't even playing when mccain was being interrogated. He is either going senile or he was trying to pull one over on the Pittsburgh crowd, either way this is BAD news for mc-more-war. You can check out the article by going into google and typing "mccain steelers" and picking the first link.
Obama 2008!!!

David from Texas --Well it's interesting that all the experts agree that inflating tires can save 3-4% of our gas usage! As for McCain actually having an energy plan, he wants drilling, which the oil companies can do now! They have millions of leases for off shore drilling rights! They want the rest so there is no competion which means we are at the mercy of their pricing! His other plan which was rather funny when he spoke about it was a call for more nuclear plants. He spoke about that at a plant that had a melt down...You and your ilk do nothing but find fault. I have asked this numerous times, WHAT IS MCCAINS PLAN FOR HEALTH CARE, THE ECONOMY, ENERGY besides things that benefit the oil companies! You do know McCain hasn't been to a senate vote since April, why wasn't he there fighting for this plan he thinks is so good? You really should attempt to educate yourselves before making comments...

Pawlenty, the Governor who vetoed a tax increase that would have repaired the bridges of his state -- one that then collapsed and killed 14 people -- is talking about good judgment.

I find that laughable and the comments above just plain stupid.

First, Obama's energy plan is much more developed than McCain's drill, drill, drill plan that won't give us any oil for 10 years.

Second, just what does McCain who hasn't been back to Congress in months expect them to do about the energy crisis in two weeks when the Administration (that McCain supported 90 percent of the time)hasn't done in almost eight years.

Best of all McCain was offering up his wife at the biker rally today in South Dakota.

The price of oil when Bush came in office was $27 a barrel, today it was $120 and the only reason the price hasn't gone up lately is because the dollar is so weak.

Pawlenty ...continuing the republicans attempt to dumb down America.

Mr. Paw-lenty (is plenty lame). Only a fool would keep talking against facts establishd many years ago.

Every study made to date concludes that proper air pressure in tires, conserves gas and extends tire life.

In case they don't know it, tires are petroleum also. How sad these guys are.
America is not as dumb as they think.
Make them pay across the board for insulting our intelligence. Vote democratic in every state, send all of them home without a job.

Remember the Enron scandal and the phony energy crisis. Here we go again.

The GOP, Gas and Oil party, does not discuss reducing consumption.

Americans use about 380 million gallons of gasoline a day.

Obama was asked what individuals can to save on gas. He gave couple of suggestions. Properly inflate tires and make the car is tuned up. Its estimated this would reduce our gasoline consumption by around 20 million gallons a day. A barrel of crude yields 19.5 gallons of gasoline. So we are looking at a savings 1 millon barrels a day.

The DOE estimates that the outer continent shelf will yield and extra 200,000 barrels a day by 2030.

So Americans have a choice, check your tire pressure, and make sure your car is tune up, or do nothing.

McCain blamed Obama for the rise in gasoline prices. So now we can credit Obama for the drop.
Obama's plunged two days in a row thanks to Obama. Look for lower gasoline prices in the weeks to come.
The thing to do now is call on Bush to reduce the strategic oil reserves by 10% 70 million barrels.

I can't stand either of these guys. I'm voting for Barr.

Next time you pretend to be me, try to spell my name right.

You are busted Obamabot -No one is voting for Barr.

It certainly takes a lot more than just a oil lease to start drilling. There is permit, after permit, after permit that has to be applied for and approved, there are environmental impact studies and statements, there are lawsuits by environmentalist and others, there needs to be a transportation system to get the oil to a refinery for processing. And the bottom line is--there must be enough oil there to make it worthwhile considering the costs.
Senator Obam'a plan is only a half plan at best. McCain has stated all energy sources should be developed. It has been the democrats and environmental people blocking more oil production in the US for years.

Obama made sense on the tire guage suggestion. However, the Republicans may still be right that that is a solution which is indicative of someone with big ideas to help America with big problems. Obama is NOT that person.

Pawlenty? What a f*cking d*ckhead. I hope the grumpy old man picks him as a running mate. They deserve each other.

Obama is so inexperienced and unqualified. It baffles me how my former party chose this guy
Superdelegates it is not too late!
pick hillary and crush Mccain
pic obama and mccain will crush him