{"id":16488,"date":"2008-08-05T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/16454.html"},"modified":"2008-08-05T15:45:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T19:45:46","slug":"tires-vs-light-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/tires-vs-light-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tires vs. light bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really<\/i> didn’t intend to return to the whole “tire gauge” nonsense, but let’s do one more. This one’s amusing.<\/p>\n

After Barack Obama noted that routine auto maintenance can improve fuel efficiency, John McCain told a group of voters<\/a>, “[Obama] suggested we put air in our tires to save on gas. My friends, let’s do that, but do you think that’s enough to break our dependence on Middle Eastern oil? I don’t think so.”<\/p>\n

And what is<\/i> enough to break our dependence on Middle Eastern oil? Turning off our lights<\/a> a little sooner.<\/p>\n

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For those who can’t watch clips online, McCain said in April, “I’m sorry to tell you that the price of oil — as far as I can tell — is not gonna go down anytime soon until we eliminate our dependency on it. We can do that as a nation — we can turn out the lights five minutes earlier, we don’t have to drive the extra block.”<\/p>\n

What’s wrong with this? Nothing in particular. In fact, it’s probably about as sensible as what Obama said about inflating our tires and getting regular tune-ups.<\/p>\n

The difference is, Dems didn’t spend a week getting “giddy” about using lightbulbs as a political prop and insisting that McCain’s entire energy policy is composed of turning off the lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really didn’t intend to return to the whole “tire gauge” nonsense, but let’s do one more. This one’s amusing. After Barack Obama noted that routine auto maintenance can improve fuel efficiency, John McCain told a group of voters, “[Obama] suggested we put air in our tires to save on gas. My friends, let’s do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}