constantly set up the strawman that it is an either/or proposition when we can easily do both and more. Rather than piss and moan about 2% here and 3% there, why not do everything and aim for a 10% - 20% impact that starts low but continues to ramp up as longer term solutions begin to bear fruit. That will guarentee that the price will be impacted immediately and continuously as the demand drops.

Conservation
Solar
Wind
Geothermal
OCS drilling
ANWR drilling
etc.

DO IT ALL! DO IT NOW!

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

You can't "save" energy; you can only use less of it, and that in general will make us less productive, which is the real goal of the lefties.  Their "big lie" is that we're wasting energy, which just isn't true; we're using all the energy we should be using.  Without knowing exactly how many cars and trucks there are with significantly low tire pressure, there is no way to calculate any possible "savings" in that area, either.

Is Obama running for Garage Mechanic or President of the United States?

Obama also needs to speak out strongly against using "jackrabbit starts" when driving from a redlight.

Stay tuned for Obama Energy Plan Part 2:

Mandatory carpooling, reinstatement of multiple occupancy-only lanes, 55 mph national speed limit, odd/even days gas rationing.

And my personal favorite, NO LEFT TURNS

Our economy is addicted to oil about the same way our bodies are addicted to blood. And the Democrat solution is for us to accept chronic anemia.

The real heroin of our economy is government spending.

Here's the unconvenient detail Obama fails to share with his audience: the less we use, the less taxes Congress can collect which makes their revenue drop. Next stop: raising the gas tax. Thus the more we cut back we'll actually be punished by being charged even more.

Congress will get their same income no matter what and we'll be left sitting at home with poisonous light bulbs and the thermostat set on 80. Ahh, that's change I can really believe in.

The real problem with the attacks on his tire-gauge plan is that
efforts to improve conservation and efficiency happen to be the best
approaches to dealing with the energy crisis — the cheapest, cleanest,
quickest and easiest ways to ease our addiction to oil, reduce our pain
at the pump and address global warming. It's a pretty simple concept:
if our use of fossil fuels is increasing our reliance on Middle Eastern
dictators while destroying the planet, maybe we ought to use less.

The problem with this is considering the desire for cheap, clean energy an addiction. Clean, cheap energy is key to economic prosperity and is the easiest way to enable the most people to live free and prosper personally.

Technology has enabled us to use fossil fuels in clean, environmentally-friendly ways. Among fossil fuels, oil remains cheap and efficient. Given the economic importance of cheap, efficient energy, oil is not addiction. It is a necessity for any country that wants its citizens to be free, independent and prosperous.

...with misinflated tires.  So it is true that if people just paid more attention to simple maintenance issues, they'd get far better mileage and we'd be using somewhat less oil.

Compare this to the misinformation regarding reinstating the 55-MPH speed limit: The vast majority of miles driven daily in America are not driven on highways, but are local in-town miles.  Reducing the interstate speed limit would result in a marginal reducition in oil consumption nationwide.

We'd save far more oil just inflating our tires than messing with the speed limits.

Its so hard for ordinary people to think like a liberal it so chaotic they live in their own fantasy world. Don't try to understand them, just enjoy the stupidity of it all. 

"The One" recommends using HOT AIR for proper tire inflation

If people inflate their tires fully, like Obama calls for, won't "Big Air" profit obscenely?

McNotObama '08

...had made such a suggestion he would've been laughed out of politics within a week.  There would be jokes on late night TV for months, numerous allusions to Marie Antoinette, and accusations that he was completely out of touch with reality and the common man.   Experts would be paraded on the major networks for weeks on end saying that the whole idea was preposterous.  25 years down the road he would be forever known as the Tire Guage senator and upon his death commentators would speak of this one thing he was infamous for.

But when the Messiah proposes it, attention must be paid.

as an experienced auto tech this is criminal to mislead the public on such a grand scale to push this kind of lie. sure inflating tires help and tune ups help but to exaggerate things to the scale they are proposing is downright a fradulent scam. i would love that everyone would spend the next 2 weeks recording their mpg in their average travels and then do exactly what glory to he that be obama says, and compare your results at the pump, them multiply that results by millions and you will come nowhere near the socialist dream is claiming.

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