The Center for Strategic and International Studies says that Americans could save around 800,000 barrels of oil per day by doing the things that Obama mentioned that individual Americans could do to help the oil situation -- inflate their tires, tune up their engines, change their air filters. The Bush Administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 bbl. per day by 2030.
In short, Obama was right that opening the coasts of Florida and California to drilling doesn't produce enough oil to drill us out of the hole, and while he has now said he's not opposed to doing this drilling as part of a larger energy solution, he is correct to state that we cannot drill our way out of this oil crisis. The United States uses 20 million barrels per day of oil, of which 70% is imported, so that makes it pretty much obvious that 200,000 barrels of oil are not going to solve the U.S. oil addiction problem without some serious conservation measures -- the simplest of which is the one that Obama suggested.
You don't have to ask me, just ask any mechanic. Or NASCAR. But I forget, that can't be true, because these are liberals, and anything a liberal says is by definition a lie. If, for example, a liberal said that the sky is blue, that's when we'd all know that it's actually purple, because by definition a liberal is a liar. Haven't you learned anything by listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity?! Yeppers, those liberals like those anti-American NASCAR fellers or George H.W. Bush (thanks Rook!) is just lyin' to us about tire pressure, yessiree!
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
I said this over at Bark Bark Woof Woof: George H. W. Bush made a television commercial about keeping tires properly inflated to save on gas milage while he was President.
ReplyDeleteYou could also ask... The Department of Energy.
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