Keeping your tires inflated is certainly a good thing, very few people will disagree. John McCain doesn’t disagree, neither do I. So when John McCain said “I agree with the American Automobile Association. We should all inflate our tires,” Barack Obama jumped on this as if it was some sort of flip flop. Of course its not a flip flop or reversal at all.
John McCain (and the Republican Party) have rightly attacked Barack Obama for saying:
We could save all the oil that their talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires… and… and… and getting regular tune-ups… you could actually save just as much.
Barack Obama didn’t say that keeping your tires inflated was a good idea. He didn’t even say that it would save a bit of gas. Both of those things McCain, the RNC, and countless others would agree with. But anyone with a brain won’t agree with what Obama actually said. Its preposterous to state that we can solve our energy problems by inflating our tires.
As I’ve mentioned before, keeping your car tuned-up and your tires properly inflated won’t solve the supply problems or make us energy independent. And it certainly won’t amount to the billions of gallons of oil available on the coastal shelf or in ANWR. Is it a good idea? Sure. Anything to make your car more efficient is a good idea, but its not nearly enough. Save what you can by keeping our tires inflated and start drilling at home so we can increase our energy independence and lower the prices on the world market.
Barack Obama is once again trying to change what he said or misrepresent the facts about someone else. And no surprise, the media gives him a free pass on it. So much for a candidate of change.
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