Incidentally, it was Barack Obama's birthday today and the RNC put this up on their website:
Classy, beating a black man over his head with a long, blunt object. You know, sort of like the nightsticks that Southern white cops used to beat black men during the Civil Rights Era.Well, it turns out that Obama was right. Time is reporting that
[E]fficiency experts say that keeping tires inflated can improve gas mileage 3%, and regular maintenance can add another 4%. Many drivers already follow their advice, but if everyone did, we could immediately reduce demand several percentage points.
By the Bush Administration's estimates (probably on the extremely optimistic side), expanding off-shore drilling would provide us with only 1% of our oil demand in 20 years.
This is yet another demonstration that if elections were merely about facts, this thing would have been over a long time ago.
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This article caught my attention yesterday. I hope the calculations are solid and that maybe a small group of people drive their cars smarter. It's hard to think that people will change their habits though, especially living in New Haven where you can't go a single night without 10 cars/motorcycles screaming down the street to prove their manhood at 1AM. I'll bet they're getting great mileage as they floor it just to slam on the brakes 2 seconds later at a red light... ugh.
Its totally true, gas milage in my new car went from 22 to 28 MPG when i properly inflated my tires, they came flat from the dealer I found out.
And I also want to say that with my party alegience being at best apathetic, I am disgusted that McCain's entire platform to my knowledge is that when the price of gas goes up he wants to do more drilling and that this lunacy could possibly (and the fact that it does) sway the American voters just depresses me.
Guys, this is simple economics -- didn't Fabian "Warmduscher" Lange teach you anything? Drilling produces more supply, instantaneously. More supply lowers world prices, instantaneously. Low gas prices are good for the American people in the long term, and hence we will all be happy under McCain's plan.
Promoting individual responsibility is a ridiculous idea and an even worse campaign strategy -- we can't depend on fat and lazy Americans to do the right thing, or even the sensible thing. Anyone who says otherwise has already let the terrorists win. Forever.
Also, my car came with its tires underinflated at the factory as well. It really freaked me out right before a long trip that a huge yellow exclamation point lit up on the dash. Bastards. It still gets around 37 mpg though. I'm surprised that yours is and was so low, Brian.
37? Hybrids don't have shit on you.
It's a big car, 4 door sedan. Sticker says highway should be 31, to be honest I have not yet gone through a full tank of gas since I loaded up last week (18 gallon tank FTW), but that is in commuter traffic for more than 2 hours a day.
i'd vote mccain just for the lulz. he seems a better fit for this country anyway, 'bama's just too good.
My mpg is infinity on Danny's bike city and highway(lol I should ride it out on I-95 and get murdered). I guess you could count the cost of the food to supply the calories I'm burning. It's seriously awesome to be a pedestrian/bicyclist with all this gas price bullshit right now. If only I wasn't in New Haven where crossing the road is like playing Frogger.
Speaking of Frogger, Mass Effect has a lot of lockers you have to security unlock open to reach the Circus of Values inside and it is just a giant game of frogger every time.
What really pisses me off about the Republican platform is that they mock conservation. As if it were such a crime to ask Americans to be smarter with their gasoline and energy consumption. Just unplugging your TV when you're not watching, turning off your computer at night, and turning up the fridge a little bit saves so much energy. Nevermind inflating your car's tires, which costs literally $0 and could save you hundreds over the course of the year...
Jimmy Carter was so right in his famously-criticized "sweater speech." If only this country would have heeded his words instead of voting that idiot, senile cowboy actor into office.
(I deleted my previous post because of several embarassing typos)
Alas, it's doesn't cost literally nothing to fill your tires. It's $0.75 most places, and it's much easier to whip out a credit card and pay $30 for extra gas than to scrounge around for three quarters.
Usually I try to walk to work, so I do my part -- not to help the environment per se, but to slow its inevitable death march ever so slightly and save money. That travel method also gets infinite mpg. DECE.
fyi brian, the best gear in the game is the spectre stuff you buy at C-Sec when you hit a certain level. assault rifle that never overheats or loses accuracy ftw.
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