{"id":3039,"date":"2008-08-09T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2008-08-09T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T16:37:04","slug":"dont-get-duped-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3039","title":{"rendered":"Don’t get duped – Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"

StarTribune’s Letter of the Day<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So John McCain is making money by mocking Barack Obama’s suggestion to save fuel by making sure our tires are properly inflated and getting regular tuneups. An Aug. 5 article said McCain’s presidential campaign is offering supporters tire gauges labeled “Obama Energy Plan” in exchange for a $25 donation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A fairly brilliant campaign strategy, actually.<\/p>\n

Obama’s gaffe revealed\u00a0Obama’s energy policy is full of hot air. The reality is, the technology to replace our dependence on fossil fuel is years away and keeping our tires full of Obama’s rhetoric is no solution.<\/p>\n

As a drivers education instructor, I used textbooks that teach important strategies on improving gas mileage in any vehicle. These strategies include properly inflating your tires, having regular tuneups and using your cruise control whenever possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Textbooks. Indeed. I was looking in the owner’s manual of my 2006 Chrysler 300C\u00a0for “Tune-Ups”. Obama used to drive the same car until he parked it far away and put a Hybrid in his driveway for appearances sake.<\/p>\n

It seems modern cars don’t require tune-ups. Haven’t for years.<\/p>\n

Properly inflated tires can save between .06 and 2.25 percent depending on who you talk to. Last time I checked, fuel prices have increased a few magnitudes more than that.<\/p>\n

It’s not that keeping your car in good working order, including keeping your tires inflated is not valid advice. It’s just that Obama was caught grabbing at straws while McCain took the high (or at least popular) ground on energy. Now\u00a0Obama is slowly flopping over on drilling because it is needed, sooner than later, and the American people decidedly agree.<\/p>\n

This tactic of making fun of tried and true research sounds eerily familiar. Remember how President Bush’s cronies distorted and discredited research on global warming? Look where that has gotten us. It seems rather than come up with effective, researched plans of their own, the conservative Republicans would rather make trivial attacks to win over voters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, yes. Global Warming. It’s Bush’s cronies?\u00a0Conservatives are disgusted with Bush’s stance on Global Warming (same\u00a0goes for McCain by the way).<\/p>\n

How about the UN’s own IPCC stating that temperatures have been dropping<\/em> of late. The UN is hardly a bastion of conservative thought.<\/p>\n

Don’t hang your hat on Global Warming. The “science” behind the hysteria will soon prove to be as empty as Obama’s energy policies.<\/p>\n

Wake up, voters! Don’t get duped again by Karl Rove and his surrogates’ tactics.<\/p>\n

MARK VOSSEN, ST. MICHAEL<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a little warm milk, Mr. Vossen. Time for your nap. Nighty night.<\/p>\n

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StarTribune’s Letter of the Day: So John McCain is making money by mocking Barack Obama’s suggestion to save fuel by making sure our tires are properly inflated and getting regular tuneups. An Aug. 5 article said McCain’s presidential campaign is offering supporters tire gauges labeled “Obama Energy Plan” in exchange for a $25 donation. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}