Barack Obama Watch: Inflate Your Tires or Drill?

Remember when Barack Obama downplayed the idea of domestic offshore oil production and recommended Americans simply “inflate your tires” or have regular car tuneups?

Remember how he was ridiculed by John McCain, Rush Limbaugh and the GOP?

The facts show why.

Motorists could save more than 1 billion gallons of fuel a year, right now. But expanded offshore drilling would eventually produce even more.

But we also figure that expanded offshore drilling is projected to produce far more oil eventually than can be saved by proper tire inflation – nearly three times as much even by the conservative estimate of government experts, and more than 10 times as much if an industry-endorsed estimate is correct. And even taking into account additional fuel savings from tune-ups, which Obama also mentioned, he greatly exaggerated.

Americans want (as demonstrated in the polls) more domestic oil production. It is a national security issue.

Barack Obama’s energy solutions are naive and simplistic.

There is little doubt that America will need to increase domestic oil discovery and production if America wishes to maintain its quality of life. The facts are facts.