The Young Turks

Seriously, you can't be this stupid.

You think recommending people check their air pressure in their tires to save a few bucks on gas is the same as Marie Antoinette (allegedly) saying "Let them eat cake" about the starving French poor?

Her apparent inability to understand that people can't just go out and get luxuries without a second thought is the equivalent of Obama giving you a money saving car maintenance tip?

Did you think of this yourself or did you hear it on Rush?

My money is on Rush.  Damn, how much hillbilly heroin was he pumping today?  Or maybe he has a big "raping little Caribbean girls" trip coming up and can't focus cause this is just stupid. 

"Like lipstick on a pig"

CNN Poll, July 27-29. (8-10 days after DRILL!!!! chant starts).

Who would better handle gas prices?  Obama 51, McCain 40.

Of course that was after the McCain blitz but before everyone learned McCain was bribed by the most despised people in America to flip-flop.

Ken now is trying to pivot away from the GOP's failed argument and talk about jobs.

Who would better handle jobs?  Obama 57, McCain 38.

So even if you are right, Ken, (and you are wrong) it ain't helping your guy!

you, of course, are incapable of (b). all you can do it run up credit card debt, and then bitch-and-moan, with no apparent sense of shame and on a public forum to boot, about high interest rates.

secondly, if (c) were really so easy, all americans would already have been following it anyway for decades (the facts have been known for a long time).

maybe americans aren't following proper car maintenance and driving procedures because it is not quite as simple as you assume it is to keep the discipline.

or maybe you are suggesting that all americans are about as dumb as you are---they are ignorant about basic physics, mechanics, engineering, etc. this is not surprising considering how many schools teach creationism with more fervour than they teach science.

they need borat the messiah to finally tell them to inflate their tires before they will all suddenly see the light and attain salvation.

maybe borat's next speech should be about how to lower credit card interest rates by "not fucking spending money you don't fucking have". 

i will accept your statement above that the voter's question was (a) "what can i, an individual, do about the energy crisis", and not (the infinitely more reasonable, albeit inappropriate for a political rally) (b) "what can i, an individual, do about high energy costs".

if the question were (b), borat's answer about inflating tires, driving at moderate speeds without frequent start/stop accelerations, weather-proofing one's home, wearing a sweater and turning down the thermostat, are all relevant answers, although, as i said, not something a presidential candidate should be bothered with during campaign speeches.

the question, however, was (a), not about energy "costs", but about the energy "crisis".

if borat were even halfway honest, he would have shot-down this questioner's inflated sense of self-importance by saying the truth---there is _nothing_ an individual can do in their daily lives (not involving coercion or large-scale societal control and change) to address the energy "crisis"---i mean, that is why it is a fricking _CRISIS_.

the amount of energy being consumed by americans, and the energy needs being projected for the near-term and long-term future, along with the energy needs of the rest of the world, are so immense that individual behavior changes like inflating tires are a drop in the bucket.

understanding this requires numeracy---the ability to grasp the absolute value and relative scale of the numbers involved. either borat is a moron, or else panders to morons, by throwing out some silly talking point about tire pressure.

the utter silliness of such proposals is staggering.