Recently Barack Obama responded to a simple question asking what a person could do in the short-term to help save gas in their car. He correctly answered that an easy thing you could do is make sure your tires are inflated.
Properly inflating your tires will indeed save you somewhere around 3-4% in your gas mileage, or about 3 to 4 times as much oil as we have available in ANWR, if we were to wait the 10 years it would take to get it out of there.
McCain and his campaign staff, as well as others on the right, however, pounced, thinking Obama had made a big campaign goof. They bought tire gauges and had "Obama's Energy Plan" printed on them and passed them out. They made fun in the press, despite the fact that McCain later admitted Obama was correct. Rush Limbaugh got on his show and in his usual bloated, misinformed and self-important way declared that Obama wanted people to OVERinflate their tires.
Ummm... you know I'm here to help, but really!! Doesn't everyone know that PROPERLY inflating your tires does indeed help save gas? Doesn't everybody with a brain know that?? And more importantly, doesn't everybody know that OVERinflating your tires is not only not going to save you gas, but is downright dangerous? Do I really have to explain this?? Apparently McCain and his staffers who ordered the ridiculous tire gauges in the first place didn't know. Could they not have called AAA? A tire store? Google'd it, for crying out loud??!! And does this not show once and for all that Rush Limbaugh is, in fact, an idiot? As if we needed further proof.
