McCain: I Don’t Disagree With Obama On Tire Pressures
McCain hit Obama pretty hard on his comments about solving America’s gas prices by encouraging people to properly inflate their tires, and now the left and the media (same difference) are hitting McCain back by saying that properly inflated tires do save people a lot of money on gas.
McCain is now responding to that by saying that he doesn’t disagree with Obama on tire inflation.
The problem is that the left is missing the point of McCain’s criticism. Here is what Obama actually said about tire inflation:
There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy. Making sure your tires are properly inflated — simple thing. But we could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling — if everybody was just inflating their tires? And getting regular tune-ups? You’d actually save just as much!
What McCain was hitting on was not the idea that proper tire inflation can help conserve fuel. What he was hitting on was the idea that it could conserve so much fuel that it would offset any new oil supplies we could get from domestic drilling.
This was a very stupid thing to suggest, and Obama (who still opposes domestic drilling despite recent waffling on the issue) deserved to be called out on it.
