Please Read... I Just Realized Something Very Ironic (Obama Should Have Pointed This Out)

[Yes We Did]

Okay, So McCreepy wanted to do the gas tax holiday thing, which would in theory save you... $.18 per gallon tops provided that the oil companies didn't just jack up the price to compensate.

Well, now you have McCreepy & Co. cracking fun of Obama... and the rest of the country, for saying that you can save 4% by simply keeping your tires inflated properly.

Well, at $4.50 a gallon, that saves you $.18 per gallon also.

So, inflating your tires properly saves you more than the BEST case scenario for the Gas Tax Holiday, and that is savings that you can get all year round; not just for the summer.

Now, scratch your head and be amazed at the utter stupidity of John McCain.



***I am sending this to all the blogs and as many MSM outlets as I can think of. We should try to get this out there!

[Catch22Dem]

1. Nice catch. Recommended

[LSparkle]

2. I'm glad Obama is calling this for what it is: willful ignorance

These people are PROUD of being dumb, just like their
lyingassbastard leader (Chimperor) and nominee (Bomb
Bomb).

[BelligerentIgnorance]

45. I would even go a step further and call it "belligerent" ignorance...

...and then I'd go a step further to build this site about what this tire gauge incident exposed about the Republican party: Belligerent Ignorance

[MadMaddie]

3. And that is why Obama called them on it....

today....and it was great. He also laughed at them....that was the best.

[skids]

4. Which is why we need "Pump The Vote" events...

...bunches of Obama supporters in Church and Community Center parking lots on the side of well traveled roads waving signs that say "get your tires inflated free" and talking the drivers up and handing out campaign materials and registering people to vote.

With a grassroots campaign like Obama's you could hit a whole lot of cars.

You might even be able to come up with some astounding number of barrels of oil you saved before the election.

[cyndensco]

11. That is an EXCELLENT idea!

Like telling them, "back at ya."

[skids]

12. I made it a thread...

...and actually as it turns out when I posted it among other ramblings at dkos someone had posted it as a thread by itself there at nearly exactly the same time. So I used their diary....

K&R it if you will, maybe we can build some momentum -- at least enough to find enough people living in one spot to pull off one event, video it, and post it to YouTube.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6593701

[Bobbie Jo]

18. ...and throw in a nice "holiday" ribbon.

good to go..:party:

[Yes We Did]

26. Just hold up a sign that says 18 cents off each gallon...

That's all it would take.

[ecstatic]

5. So true, but if the MSM doesn't bring that point up

it's like the point doesn't exist.

[nickyt]

6. Good cypherin' there, demdog! This is a keeper -

[Ilsa]

7. #4 recommended. I wish media would pick up on this. nt

[Yes We Did]

8. I just sent it out.

Rawstory, DailyKos, AmericaBlog, Huffpo...

We should all make this point to them an the MSM.

[Doctor_J]

9. Yeah, McSame's base are really tuned into irony

:eyes:

You think they could stay awake through, much less comprehend, your paragraph above?

[cyndensco]

10. And, according to your figuring, we'd save .02/gallon personally

and still be able to maintain our highways and keep the road crews employed.

[Yes We Did]

14. Amazing what happens when you actually think...

And use those.... those.... oh yeah, facts.

[Kweli4Real]

34. And more ...

It won't end. You keep getting the savings well beyond the sunset of the Tax Holiday.

[Brundle_Fly]

13. worse than that

it supplies a better road too independence that the offshore drilling...

they say that if they began now offshore drilling it would take over a decade to provide any relief at the pump.... ( and that depends on the world oil market as the oil would go into a international fund not directly to the US. ) We all know the Big Oil co's would of course do the right thing.... HAHAHAHA... sigh...

but say it all went into the US market, in 10-15 years if might relieve the US citizens about 4-10% in relief... if you inflated your tires well over that time in 10 years you would have reduced about almost 20% of the need for incoming foreign oil...

just sayin'

[Yes We Did]

17. Shhhh......... it's a secret.

And a fact... We're not supposed to notice.

[stevedeshazer]

15. Good insight

You're right.

Recommended.

[beac]

16. K&R!

[RNdaSilva]

19. Boost...

[davidpdx]

20. Good point

I also liked the pump up the vote idea that was brought up by someone else.

Boy is McCain going to have to start thinking before he opens his trap and inserts his foot again (and again and again).

[Orsino]

21. Well done!

K&R.

edit: and monitoring tire inflation saves gas indefinitely, not just for the duration of some Washingtonian "holiday" fad.

[Yes We Did]

22. Yeah, I added that last night.

And fixed my numbers. The gas tax is 18%, not 16%... but at that rate, McLame's plan breaks even... or would have anyway. But only, as you said it, for the summer.

[tekisui]

23. And, tire inflation doesn't require laying off workers and sacrificing

highway projects.

[Yes We Did]

24. Extremely valid point.

[progressoid]

25. Oh SNAP!

[applegrove]

27. Also the gas tax holiday means the oil corporations make the same

amount of money. The tire gage means big oil makes less money as people will need less gas.

[Yes We Did]

31. Exactly, because they just jack up the prices to cover the tax break.

[applegrove]

37. They may not jack up the prices but they are still making the same profit

they were before...perhaps even more of a profit as people perhaps buy more gas as it is a tiny bit cheaper.

The GOP position on oil was written by the oil industry. That is what "a ceo president" is all about. McCain will be more of the same.

[hisownpetard]

28. Good job, demdog!

:hi: :thumbsup:

[me b zola]

29. K&R

Yep, I've been thinking about this, too. I just get worn down by the idiocy of the republican talking points, the media who perpetuates them, and the idiots who buy into them.

Good on ya for pointing this out. :thumbsup:

[wowimthere]

30. K&R Well STATED. I like the slogan "McCreepy". It fits.

[dwahzon]

32. good calculator work there.

Thanks for adding it up.

[Yes We Did]

33. It just kind of hit me...

Funny how stuff like that happens. I wish Obama would bring this up... Just say how ironic it is that McCain thumbs his nose at an action that would actually save people more money than his bull sh*t "holiday"

[redqueen]

36. I hope he does... the timing is perfect for it.

:thumbsup:

[northernlights]

35. a nice added bonus

that is waaay too complex for their very feeble minds to comprehend:

Inflating your tires also reduces the gas you use.

Reducing demand brings prices down.

So not only are you saving 18 cents/gallon year round, you're helping to cut the cost/gallon.

(Or maybe their feeble minds get it. And of course cutting consumption is the *last* thing they want to accomplish!)

[Catamount]

38. One more k&r--good job!

[Yes We Did]

39. Woot Woot!

"I made it... I made it to the deep end... Hoooray for me!" Eric Cartman

Love getting on the first page!

[Dystopian]

43. #60 just for you. eom.

peace~

[baldguy]

40. Big oil wants us to feel helpless in the face of the disaster THEY CREATED.

ON PURPOSE

[creeksneakers2]

41. Good point ! n/t

[yardwork]

42. This is really good! I'm going to borrow it. Thanks!

[BelligerentIgnorance]

44. His campaign's belligerence and ignorance has INSPIRED...

.... me to build this site: Belligerent Ignorance