Showing posts with label gas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gas. Show all posts
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Obama Says Tire Pressure Is the Key to Energy Independence
By Ken Shepherd"There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy," Obama said. "Making sure your tires are properly inflated - simple thing. But we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling - if everybody was just inflating their tires? And getting regular tune-ups? You'd actually save just as much!"
Yes, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) actually suggested on the campaign trail that inflating your tires will save as much oil as can be procured by expanding domestic oil drilling, a suggestion that is downright laughable and mathematically impossible (see below the page break for more on that).
So where are the mainstream media on this?
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Exxon Leaving Retail Gas Business
(HOUSTON) — Exxon Mobil is getting out of the retail gasoline business, a market where profits have gotten tougher because of high crude oil prices.
The world's largest publicly traded oil company said Thursday it will sell its 820-company owned stations and another 1,400 outlets operated by dealers to gasoline distributors across the U.S...
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