While Joe Lieberman may be a recent convert (along with McCain) to the necessity of offshore drilling, the independent senator has long advocated a smarter approach to the nation’s tire fleet. Lieberman’s own website still features several press releases that treat tire efficiency as a smart idea — even a critical national security issue.

Nestled within the “Vehicle and Fuel Choices for American Security Act of 2005,” which Lieberman introduced in the Senate, section 201 requires the creation of a “national tire fuel efficiency program for tires designed for the use on passenger cars and light trucks.”

It doesn’t stop there, either. Lieberman is on record going as far back as 2001 touting the significant role tire efficiency can play in any plan to reduce the nation’s dependency on foreign oil. In a 2001 press release arguing against exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Senator said: “Increasing the fuel efficiency of replacement tires for our cars to the same level as those sold on new automobiles will save drivers $90 in fuel costs over the lifetime of the tires and will save the U.S. more than 70 times the amount of oil we might find in the Refuge.”

On the other hand, I remember seeing that second one on the news, and I just took it as him saying that he was going to do those things (because he was assuming he was going to be president, just because he beat Hillary). It was more metaphor and rhetoric than actual claims.

Massive deficit causes massive loaning which causes the demand for currency other than dollars to rise (massively). The relative value of the dollar plummets in comparison.

Okay, compare the numbers for us. I love how people ranting about statistics always conveniently forget to include the actual numbers.

(Also, a “war on terror”, as I remember it, was never a huge part of Clinton’s agenda. Yet somehow people are so much more terrified these days. Funny that.)

“Center of terrorist activity”? Gods, I also love how people seem to think that the Middle East is nothing but a sandy cesspit of anti-American bigotry, ski masks and Russian assault rifles. Terrorism has no center, no really clear leaders or even people that are identifiable before it’s too late. That’s why it’s scary. That’s why they call it “terror”.

(The theoretical problem with the lifting of the ban is that it puts deadlier weapons into places where they might be accidentally abused. But the numbers say different: I recall statistics from a few years ago, Canada had something like 65 people killed by firearms and the US had 11,000. While Canada has more people and the same amount of guns. Anyway, screw that. Second Amendment, baby. And yeah if you ban it it just gets cheaper on the black market.)

Kthxbai.

Let’
s see if Obama can even last until November before the public recognise him for r the empty suit that he is.

(1) It assumes that almost everyone has their tyres incorrectly inflated
(2) Even if all the tyres were correctly inflated, the fuel savings would be insignificant compared to overall consumption.

But the downside has been eight years of deranged liberal whining.

So far, Obama has said that there are 57 states (or maybe 58), that the gas price crisis can be solved by inflating tires, and that the oceans stopped rising when he got more delegates than Hillary.

And that’s just a few of his gaffes. Obama has no achievements and has had everything handed to him on a plate.

( See LOLDog to understand that)