Just last week, he claimed that if only Americans would inflate their tires properly and get regular tune-ups, "we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling."***Senators demand action now on a balanced energy plan. (Gee where's Dick? Where's Barack?) UPDATE: Even greenies in California think Rahmbo's idea for natural gas powered vehicles is a bad one:This is bizarre. By any reasonable calculation of annual tire-inflation and tune-up savings, the Outer Continental Shelf holds nearly a hundred times as much oil. As for oil shale, also under federal moratorium, after a thousand years of driving with Obama-inflated tires and Obama-tuned engines, we would still have saved only one-fifth the oil shale available in the United States.
But forget the math. Why is this issue either/or? Who's against properly inflated tires? Let's start a national campaign, Cuban-style, with giant venceremos posters lining the highways. ("Inflate your tires. Victory or death!")
Natural gas used to be viewed as a good alternative to diesel in heavy-duty trucks, but this has changed as new truck engines have become much more efficient, and as refiners have produced cleaner-burning diesels, said
Patricia Monahan , deputy director for clean vehicles at the Union of Concerned Scientists inSan Francisco ."The jury is out as to which is cleaner," Monahan said, referring to natural gas versus diesel. She added that natural gas is best used to replace coal for power generation, and that other alternative vehicles running on solar-generated electricity, renewable diesel or fuel cells would be superior to those fueled by natural gas.
Hey Rahmbo--greenies in California (and a majority of Californians now) support offshore drilling--how about you?
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