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Aug. 5, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 5, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So guess what, folks?
The drive-by media.
Both the AP, maybe it's Reuters, one of the two, and Time Magazine.
Are now providing cover for the Messiah, suggesting in two separate stories, that inflating your tires to the right pressure will make a difference in drilling.
It's just unbelievable how these drive-by people are doing everything they can to keep this guy protected from himself.
Greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up, ensconced firmly in the prestigious Attila the Hun chair here at the uh Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program today, 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Try this headline from the Rocky Mountain News.
With the Democrat National Convention in mind, the city of Denver has banned carrying urine and feces.
A story written by Daniel Chacon.
Let me share parts of this story with you.
Pooh and P dominated a public hearing Monday on a new law that prohibits people from carrying certain items if they intend to use them for nefarious purposes.
The law crafted in advance of the Democrat National Convention was adopted unanimously by the City Council, but not before a hearing laced with comedy and profanity.
Representatives from some of the groups planning large-scale protests during the Democrat National Convention this month said the ordinance was unnecessary and accused city officials of fear-mongering.
The intent of this ordinance is to try to smear protesters and make them look as if they're somehow criminal or somehow gonna engage in some kind of gross conduct, said Glim Spagnuolo, an organizer with the Recreate 68 alliance.
Why would they think that, Glenn?
The name of your group is Recreate 68.
What happened in 68?
Utter chaos.
Bombs, tear gas, all kinds of burning fires, raging fires, and automobiles in Chicago 68.
Recreate 68.
So now they can't tell you that you can't carry poop and pee around and you get mad about it.
You mean you intended to?
No, Mr. Lombaugh, that's not it.
We're just we're death afraid of what this is going to make people think about.
Don't worry about that, Glenn.
People already have you people sized up.
And we're hoping you perform, baby.
We hope Recreate 68 means exactly what it says.
What was the name of that weapon that these these protest?
The crap cannon.
The protesters were afraid that the cops had this device called a crap cannon that was gonna they it sent out certain kind of waves and it caused the uh protesters to lose control of their bowels.
So there may not be any need, Glenn, to carry feces around.
You may just be able to bend down on the street and pick some up here after the crap cannon has been used on you people at the Democrats.
And you imagine the City Council having to pass laws and you cannot, I guess if you you can carry feces and pee around if you don't plan on using them for nefarious purposes, but if you plan on using them for nefarious purposes, you can't do it.
Oh, this is just too good.
I don't know who's gonna check this.
Now the uh the ordinance, the ordinance makes it illegal to carry certain items like chains, padlocks, carbiners, or carabiners, whatever.
What is that?
What's a car is that a car what's a carabiner, carbiner?
C-A-R-A-B-I-N-E-R.
You ever heard of that?
Uh anyway, you can't have one of those.
You can't have other locking devices either.
It also prohibits the possession of noxious substances.
Two of the most frequently used examples of a noxious substance are a bucket of urine and a feces bomb.
And uh, this is what protesters have been known to use, so they've been told they can't do this.
Safety manager Al Le Cabe said the law will be applied in situations when certain items are going to be used in a disruptive way.
Said officers will consider the totality of the circumstances.
Well, uh by the way, he said our intent for this bill is not about suppressing or chilling First Amendment rights.
Of course not.
Constitution clearly says you can run around and throw feces at people as an expression of free speech.
Uh Mount.
Oh, the when you when you when they climb mountains, the mountain climber tool, okay, a carabiner, whatever it is.
Okay.
Um the uh uh situation when certain items are going to be used in a disruptive way.
Can you imagine City Council debating this?
At least they voted unanimously for it.
Here's a shocker, folks.
I know you won't believe this.
This is from a clanching newspapers with four days left before the start of the 2008 summer Olympics.
ChICOM officials have not lived up to key promises they made to win the right to host the Olympics, including widening press freedoms, cleaning up their capital city's polluted air, and respecting human rights.
No, I am shocked.
I cannot believe this.
They lied to us.
The ChICOMs lied.
The ChICOMs lied to the world, not just to us.
The Chiccoms lied to the media.
The ChICOMs lied to the drive-by.
The drive-by's thought they're going to have all kinds of new openness and access, and they're being shut down or they're being severely limited.
The failures, according to Jack Chang and Tim Johnson and McClancy newspapers, were evident yesterday.
A thick pall of smog covered Beijing raising concern.
Did you see our bicycle team got off wearing black face masks to protect their respiratory systems?
This is uh but the ChICOMs say, don't worry, we're we're gonna get rid of the smog and we're gonna get rid of the rain.
We we've got this handled.
Uh near Tiananmen Square in the heart of the city, police scuffled with protesters who said they were evected from their homes to make way for games-related development.
Chinese censors continue to block access to politically sensitive websites for thousands of foreign journalists gathered at the Olympic press.
Well, they lied to us.
They lied to the world.
Can't believe it.
Obama's sinking in the polls.
Zogby, offering more evidence that voters are becoming disenchanted with the Messiah.
The net result, Zogby found, is a race that's neck and neck, with McCain supported by 42%, Obama by 41%, libertarian Bob Barr by 2%, and Ralph Nader by 2%.
Another 13% supported other candidates who said they didn't know.
Uh Zagby called the results a notable turnaround from a July survey he did that showed Obama leading 46-36.
See, there's that precious ten points.
And that that 10 points is artificial.
He's going to have to have a 15-point lead, or this is moot.
Don't doubt me.
Some of the groups among whom Obama has lost ground among voters aged 18 to 29.
Obama lost 16%.
McGain gained 20%.
Obama still leads 49 to 38.
Among women, McCain gained 10 points.
Obama now leads 43.
Among independents, Obama lost an 11-point lead.
They're now tied.
That's got to shake them up.
That has to shake them up.
Among Democrats, Obama's support dropped from 83 to 74%.
Hey, explain that.
Don't ask folks.
Trust your instincts.
You know.
Among Catholics, Obama lost the 11-point lead he had in July, now trails McCain by 15.
In the Catholic vote.
The question, obviously, according to uh the gang at power line is whether that erosion will continue.
As voters continue to learn more about Obama and see him less as a media phenomenon and more as a conventional very liberal Democrat.
Yeah, I I think um the lack of substance, the flip-flop.
Everybody's getting concerned about his flip-flopping now.
Even the drive bys are starting to comment on it.
You know, these policy pirouettes.
Time magazine.
Michael Grunwald, headline, the tire gauge solution is no joke.
How out of touch is Barack Obama?
Well, he's so out of touch he suggested that if all Americans inflated their tires properly and took their cars for regular tune-ups, they can save as much oil as new offshore drilling would produce.
Gleeful Republicans have made this their daily talking point.
Rush Limbaugh is having a field day.
Make that a field week, Michael.
And the Republican National Committee sending tire gauges labeled Obama's energy plan to Washington reporters.
But he says, who's really out of touch?
You see where we're headed here, ladies and gentlemen.
The Bush administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling.
I'm not going to read this whole.
They go on to try to make the case that Obama is closer to right than I am, that this whole thing is a joke.
In fact, Obama's actual energy plan is much more than a tire gauge, writes the sycophantic Michael Grunwald.
But that's not what's so pernicious about the tire gauge attacks.
Politics ain't beanbag.
Obama has defended himself against worse smears.
Smears.
There's no smear here, Michael.
See, this is another classic example.
Attack a Democrat for what he says or what he do, what he does, and make it truthful, and it is a smear.
It is an attack.
The real problem with the attacks on his tire gauge plan is that efforts to improve conservation and efficiency happen to be the best approaches to dealing with the energy cr.
No, they don't.
Nothing against conservation, Mr. Grunwald, but you cannot grow.
An economy like this country's with conservation.
It ain't gonna happen.
It isn't gonna work.
You gotta bone up.
I mean, you drive-by people are exhibiting your own selves to be rather ignorant about some basic fundamentals.
Not in politics, but in economics.
So they're he's worried that all these attacks on Obama and his tire gauge thing will dissuade people from conserving.
Hey, Michael, you know, you gotta realize, like President Bush said, these people in the country know what to do in crises, quote unquote.
They're driving less, Michael.
They're already doing it without somebody telling them to.
Uh they're flying less, Michael.
The airlines have parked over 400 airplanes.
Uh, they're buying less, Michael.
Uh, in fact, the oil price is coming down.
I got a story from the AP here.
Sorry, it's Fortune magazine.
Oil prices are falling sharply, and that's good news, but not nearly as good as you think, because lower oil prices, according to drive-by's, may now lead to a recession.
Yes, my friends.
Sit tight, be patient, and I will explain this.
As far as Michael Grunwald at times says, the tire gauge is really a symbol of a very serious piece of good news.
We can use significantly less energy without significantly changing our lifestyle.
The energy guru Amory Lovins.
So he's all worried that making fun of the tire gauge is going to dissuade these you people, you idiots.
You morons from conserving.
So that's step one in uh in bailing Obama out of the fire.
And then the AP actually does a fact check on inflated tires.
John McCain and his Republican Party are gleefully mocking Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama suggesting that properly inflated tires could help save oil.
The thing is there's some truth to it.
It's not what he said.
Drive-based have to protect their little guy here.
But that's not what he said.
He said you could save as much as we would gain by drilling.
Obama may have exaggerated when he said simply inflating tires and getting tune-ups would save just as much oil as the offshore drilling McCain is proposing.
But automotive experts long have suggested those steps to cut gasoline bills.
The Obama campaign could not provide figures to back up his claim that inflating tires and getting tune-ups would save just as much as oil as could be produced by offshore drilling.
But McCain wants to lift the ban on offshore drilling to alleviate high gas prices.
Obama said last week he'd be So circle the wagons, try to protect the guy.
And now, by the way, everything the Republicans do is racist.
There's a new uh new claim now that the uh you know, all this this these stories about Obama being too skinny, that they're that they're racist as well.
So when the Democrats cannot beat conservatives on substance, it's time to start name-calling conservatives racists, bigots, uh, sexists, homophobes, so forth.
All right, quick timeout, we'll come back.
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On loan from God, I kid you not, oil prices.
This is from Fortune magazine.
It's from uh uh yesterday, last night actually.
Oil prices are falling sharply, and that's good news, but not nearly as good as you might think.
No doubt the drop, which is let me check it.
We'll see what it is.
It was down to one eighteen earlier.
And we're at 11961 right now.
So the uh the drop down to 119 a barrel by midday yesterday gives strapped customers relief at the gas pump.
Prices have dropped below four bucks a gallon could be headed toward three fifty, going by trading in wholesale futures markets.
Any decline will be welcomed by Americans struggling under the burden of falling house prices, rising layoffs, and stagnant wages.
But falling oil prices also suggest that the recession the U.S. has so far avoided is well on its way as consumers pull back from the spending spree that drove economic growth earlier this decade.
A weakening economy will mean more layoffs, further pressuring already reduced spending.
Yeah, there's there's no doubt that gasoline prices dipping below 390 a gallon.
We have a bit of a reprieve on the energy front, said David Rosenberg, an economist at Merrill Lynch.
But the reality is that this is a chicken and egg game because the decline is reflecting the consumer recession.
Americans are driving four percent less now than they were a year ago.
While energy use in inflation adjusted terms has dropped two percent, an event he calls extremely rare.
Why why isn't everybody happy about this?
Isn't everything that's happening here exactly what we have been preached to for decades we should do?
We should stop driving, we should buy smaller cars, we should use less gasoline, we should stop spending so much money, period.
We should start saving, we should stop consuming.
This is what the left has been telling us.
And now that it's happening, now they say we're it's it's causing us to head into recession.
Is it any wonder that people in this country are are are confused about what their economic circumstances are when this kind of stuff gets reported.
Meanwhile, the uh weak economy is spurring more companies to cut back.
Outplacement firm Challenger Graham Christmas said Monday that layoff announcements jumped twenty-six percent from a month ago in July.
The unemployment rate recently hit a four-year high at 5.7%.
How low can it go?
Well, one unhappy fact is that a drop in the price of oil will not bring back many of the jobs lost over the past year to the energy cost surge.
Even where gas default of three dollars a gallon, a move that is by no means assured, no one is going to beat a path to the dealership to buy pickups and SUVs that are now in many cases being phased out.
On a happier note, there is hope that the decline in oil prices has just begun.
So look at what we got here to start the program.
We got you can't carry urine and poop at the Democrat National Convention.
We have two arms of the drive-by media suggesting that Obama is actually quite brilliant and on to something.
By telling us to inflate our tires, properly get tune-ups, and we could save as much oil, i.e.
gasoline, as that we would get if we drilled, which is patently ridiculous and absurd, and yet they're circling the wagons to do it.
Now, after how many months of stress, pressure, due to the high oil price, now that it has fallen from what?
What did he get up to?
148, 150, now that it's come down, 150 to 119, all of a sudden it proves we're heading into recession.
Now I know what the economists are saying, and this is where I think these people get a little too smart by half.
The statistics that they cite, people uh using four percent less gasoline, and spending two percent less overall is a function of affordability.
It's a function of price.
I told you when that gasoline at barrel price got up when it was flirting with one fifteen, everybody was predicting two hundred.
I said the market won't support that.
The aviation industry could not tolerate that.
They'd go out of business.
Well, lo and behold, we reached a tipping point and people started buying less for whatever reason.
And so when the supply is increased because people are buying less, guess what happens?
Price comes down exactly as it should.
And now we're being told that your driving less and spending less is due to the fact that you know that we're in a recession, when in fact it was nothing more than high prices.
Now the high prices have come down and they're trending even lower.
A correction is taking place.
And you are probably, many of you are probably excited about this.
I mean, the gat the way isn't that what this campaign, the seminal issue in the presidential campaign has been the gas price, and the Democrat Party's reluctance to do anything about it.
And now that the oil price is coming down and all the related good aspects to it, the media still has to tell us we're doomed.
Oh, yeah, Sir Douglas Quintet.
1965.
She's about a mover.
I wonder if the Democrats and the American leftist elitists and Obama want to continue emulating the Europeans.
Obama was recently in Germany, by the way, giving that great big speech to the celebards.
By the way, that's a d that that stupid column by Bob Herbert in the New York Times has now been picked up by the entire left wing drive-by chorus.
That Paris Hilton and Britney Spears ad is now the left says a racist ad.
It had three two or three phallic symbols in there, and two women, white women, known to be scantily clad at times, uh, in a commercial about Obama.
They got nothing, folks.
They've got nothing, if that's the best thing.
It still infuriates me.
Nothing racist in McCain's campaign.
The racism is all on the left.
Hell got Bill Clinton out there denying he's a racist for crying out loud.
It's the Democrats that have treated all of us to racism and sexism in this campaign.
But they've picked this up.
But here, Obama was in Germany.
Ladies and gentlemen, and gave a big speech over there, and of course, it was the thing that I think blew that these talk about inflating tires.
I don't think the tires are on the Obama campaign bus right now.
I think the tires have blown, and it was that trip.
But listen to this.
It is from Time magazine from Berlin.
Cheers and whoops resounded in small bars around Germany on Wednesday as the uh country's highest court gave smokers cause to light up for a celebratory puff.
In a nationally televised ruling, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled the unconstitutional, ruled unconstitutional a ban on smoking in small bars, forcing state legislators back to the drawing board in their efforts to protect public health.
And so now the enlightened European court system has told bar owners you can let people smoke in your bar.
In your small bar, it was unconstitutional to tell people they couldn't.
Something about private property.
Will the Supreme Court of the United States attempt to use this foreign law in adjudicating U.S. cases?
And will Obama come out now for smoking in American bars once again, particularly in Chicago and New York.
Because the enlightened Europeans and Germans have done so.
Ladies and gentlemen, our morning update today bounces off an associated press story that talks about not only are you suffering economic hardship, so are the wealthy.
The wealthy and the rich are finally beginning to share the pain that everybody else in this country is feeling.
They are hurting.
They are scrimping and scrap saving, and they're doing everything they can to make ends meet just like you.
Here's how bad it is, according to the AP.
They have decided, and the wealthy have decided to invest their money more conservatively.
In The past, the wealthy didn't care whether the money did well or not in the investments.
They just gave it to the broker and went to the golf course.
But now things have gotten so tight that the wealthy actually care whether or not their investments are growing.
Big, big change, obviously.
Everybody knows the wealthy don't care about their money.
They just give it to the broker, and if it loses some, fine, write it off, go play golf and buy another airplane.
But now those days are over, folks.
Those days are over.
Now they have to pay attention to their money and increasing its amount and size.
According to the Associated Press, the wealthy and the rich have cut back on all sorts of luxury items.
And they've cut back on their credit card spending.
In fact, a lot of the wealthy are in default at American Express.
I read the story.
Some American Express's uh uh financial problems right now are that the wealthy are simply saying to hell with the bill, like Aristotle O'Nassis always did.
You get to O'NASA's status and you never pay the bill anyway.
It's demeaning.
They just carry you.
You know, some some accountant will take care of it later, but O'NASA's never paid a bill.
You know, you need to give them the card and walk out with your own card after they chalk it up that you don't pay for.
Um now they are defaulting.
Some of the wealthy.
This is really, I mean, this is actually makes me sad.
When I see these next items, some of the some of the wealthy, some of the rich have um ask their personal shoppers to look for bargains.
This, I can't tell you how humiliating this is.
The wealthy are sending personal shoppers into Costco now, into Walmart, uh Target, Target, and so forth, uh, looking for bargains.
This has never happened before.
The wealthy, of course, look for the highest priced goods, go out and buy them, and then brag to everybody how much they cost.
But those days are over, ladies and gentlemen.
Personal shoppers who themselves have probably rarely been to a Target or a Walmart, have now had to A, find out where the nearest one is to the wealthy person they work for, and then they've had to go in there and look for bargains.
They're deal hunting.
The rich are.
This is especially devastating to learn.
The rich who have their own airplanes, their own private jets.
They uh they have told the uh flight attendants and the flight crew to forget fancy catering services offered by the various airports, and instead find a cheap deli near the airport and go there for some baloney sandwiches and cottage cheese, some dill pickles, and maybe some tomato mozzarella.
But no more fancy schmancy catered meals on the private jets.
Uh that's humiliating.
This is this is I hope they're able to remain anonymous.
Well, this is how obviously the Associated Press found out about this.
So the staff, the staffs of these people's private flight crews are obviously talking.
Then there was a story about this poor guy in Long Island uh put his mansion up for sale for nine million, had to sell it for seven.
That's an embarrassing thing for people to find out.
I mean, times are really tight for the rich, too.
Now, normally we've been told, or a lot of people have been told to celebrate this.
In fact, we had a phone call from an Obama supporter last week, who was all excited Obama's gonna raise taxes on the rich because it's going to improve his life.
Which is one of the most dunderheaded comments that I've heard in the last couple years on this program.
But he actually believed it.
This guy's actually the one who's going to get hurt if Obama starts raising taxes.
So, with this story that even the rich are suffering, and by the way, that was not the point of the story.
The point of the story is yet to come.
The rich are suffering, and we're all you all, we're all supposed to be happy.
Yeah, it's about time they found out what it's like.
Then the AP takes a curious turn, ladies and gentlemen, warning you not to celebrate any of this yet.
The scrimping Rich, according to AP, are contributing to your economic woes.
You know why?
Well, when the rich stop spending money as though it were water, everybody else's money dries up.
Why?
AP writes it ripples through the economy.
Quote, the problem is that when the wealthy get stingy, it trickles down to the rest of us.
This, ladies and gentlemen, constitutes journalistic malpractice.
The first half of the story, we're happy as hell at the richer hurting and suffering.
Now all of a sudden, because they're getting stingy, that's the word in the story.
These cruel people, they hate you when they're really rich.
They hate you when they're scrimping and saving.
They're stingy.
And you get hurt when they are stingy.
Because they're spending less, which means less opportunity for you to have more.
Now remember, the way the left and the drive-by's always attack trickle-down economics.
The theory of trickle-down economics, which has just been confirmed here by the witless reporters at the Associated Press, holds that the more money the wealthy have to dispose of as they wish, the more likely that will end up spread out trickling down through the economy, i.e., in new jobs, in business expansion, or in retail spending.
Now, if this is a simple question rooted in fundamental logic, if we are going to lament the rich getting stingy, meaning spending less money because times are tight for them.
Then why at the same time can't we recognize that tax cuts for the rich also benefit?
All of the rest of the people who are not.
So what you have is a glaring illustration of the utter agenda-driven focus of the media, their utter bias, and their genuine ignorance.
Somebody ought to realize at the editor level that this story contradicts about 25 years of news stories that AP has run.
The only thing consistent in this story is no matter what the rich do, they're still SOBs.
Let's see what's on the phones.
Sacramento, California, my adopted hometown.
This is David.
Nice to have you here, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Good morning, Russian submarine veteran veteran diddos to you, sir.
Thanks very much.
Yes, sir.
I'm an automotive instructor out here in Sacramento, and uh Obama's comments about regularly to uh regularly scheduled tune-ups is kind of uh idiotic because we don't do tune-ups anymore.
What is uh well, I'm just gonna get to that.
Uh well, some people's cars still require tune-ups.
Um but but what is an automotive instructor?
Uh I teach students uh how to become uh automotive technicians.
I.e.
mechanics.
Well, we try not to use that term anymore because of the uh the technical complexity of the automobile.
Well, I know these cars are basically chipsets now.
Right.
Uh it's like window washers are called vision control coordinators.
Well, it's a little bit more uh technical than that, but uh they have to the students nowadays, technicians really need to understand electronic diagnostics so much more than just uh changing breaks or whatever.
You gotta know far more than how to read in oscilloscope now, that's for damn sure.
That's absolutely a fact.
Okay, so you teach people to become automotive technicians, which basically um uh uh correct any of the high-tech problems that go wrong with today's modern automobile engines.
And so there's no tune-ups.
I mean, there really there's there's no there's no there's not a tune-up in the sense that it used to be some years ago.
Right, that's correct.
Um, what we do now, uh other than just uh regularly scheduled maintenance, you know, like uh oil changes, uh air and fluid changes, those kinds of things, um, tune-ups really uh are a thing of the past because of the uh the onboard diagnostic systems that the uh onboard computers have, the computer basically tunes itself up constantly.
Yeah, what what uh what kind of cars are we discussing here?
I mean, the how uh how old of car do you have to go back to to find one that would require the Obama mandated tune up?
Prior to about 1985.
You kidding me?
No, sir.
Automobiles made from nineteen eighty-five do not need traditional tune-ups?
No, sir.
And especially nineteen ninety-six enough where the computer is better able to uh basically tune itself up with what we uh what we know as a strategy.
All right, so Obama doesn't even know about that.
So you don't even know we don't need tune.
Now let's go to the inflating tires for optimum pressure to save oil.
Could you shed some light as an expert?
Automotive technician instructor on Obama's claim here, because two stories of the drive-by media say that it really couldn't make a big difference.
Not as big as they're saying.
Um uh keeping tires properly inflated does help with uh with your average fuel mileage, but not to the degree that they say.
How does how does that work?
Is it is it a degree of drag and friction as the tires uh circle and travel over the road surface?
Yes, it is.
It is just what we call rolling resistance.
Rolling resistance, fine.
Now, does do we take time after factoring rolling resistance based on the proper inflation of tires, do we then factor whether or not we have headwinds or crosswinds, which will add air friction to the road friction, which might negate any savings made from properly inflated tires?
Well, um, especially with all the windmills that are out there that the left is creating creating all this new wind in the opposite direction is coming, if that wind from the new windmills happens to get in the way of a car with properly inflated tires traveling down interstate, say eighty, uh wouldn't it be safe to say that the effect of properly inflated tires could be negated?
Um we could say that.
The only the only wind resistance that is taken into account is wind resistance uh based off of the frontal area of the vehicle as it travels down the road.
Isn't well the frontal area of the vehicle, you the it's would it help then there for people who are driving pickups to lower the tailgate to reduce resistance?
That's uh that's long been a uh an idea, but it it really doesn't pan out.
It it's really uh um not as big an effect as people once thought it was.
It's it's really uh a non factor.
All right, now if your tires are properly inflated, uh what by the way, at what time in the driving history, when you start the car after you've driven it for a couple of minutes, when do you check the tire pressure to make sure it's proper?
Because of course the air in the tires is very cool first time you start it in the morning.
Doesn't take long to expand the air in those tires and therefore expand the tire pressure.
At what point do you is the optimum point to take the pressure and in and and make adjustments?
The optimum time is to take it at the before you even drive down the road because with with every mile that you travel, uh the temperature of the uh air inside the tire increases pressure by about uh I'll take that back.
Ten degrees in air temperature change increases pressure by one pound.
Right.
So the the manufactured suggested tire pressure for uh front left uh le uh the the rear left, front right, rear right, uh that should that should be done before you make a move.
So people people will need tire gauges at home.
Yes.
Now, if the tire pressures are low or high, well, let's say low.
If they're low, do they then not have to drive someplace on improperly inflated tires to get the correct amount of air put in there?
Unless they have a battery-powered uh air compressor in their trunk.
Well, no, they won't because that will require that will negate the whole point because you're using more power there.
We're trying to reduce our carbon footprints here.
Okay, now properly inflated tires from the get-go, how many miles driven at what speed will cause those tires to lose their proper inflation?
And therefore, how often should you stop to check on the properly inflated?
And if you've been driving, say an hour at 75 miles an hour, do you need to wait for half hour for the tires to cool to get a proper measurement of the inflated tires?
Um no, not really.
Um because the the inflation pressures that the manufacturers list on the vehicles are cold inflation pressures.
And as we drive during the day, of course the tires heat up, air pressure uh or air temperature heats up, and then air pressure goes up as well.
You really have to let the car sit for a good eight hours or so for the tires to properly cool up.
That's what I'm saying.
It does very, very uh uh impact a tremendous amount of uh people's time.
And then of course, if you happen to get in an accident, somebody rear-ends you, you happen to cut down a pedestrian or something, that that's that's gonna affect tire pressure too.
So a lot of variables.
Hey folks, get this.
I just was made aware that I have been requested by Al Jazeera to sit for an interview during the Republican National Convention.
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