Ed Morrissey attempts to explain, as slow and clearly as possible, the gas gauge gag to the left. They’re completely missing the point here with their excuses. As I pointed out earlier, even Jonathan Martin attempts to bash McCain by saying his own surrogates have the same position as Obama.

Two more tire gauges needed for distribution

As Obama’s camp notes, Republican Gov’s Charlie Crist and Arnold Schwarzenegger both said in June that keeping tires inflated was one way to save on gas purchases.

Barack Obama’s campaign had this to say:

More tut-tutting from Team Obama and a reference to just who else has touted tire inflation.

“And while the McCain team is busy amusing themselves, the fact is that the idea they’re attacking is supported by, among others, top McCain surrogate Joe Lieberman, conference call host Mike Rogers, Governors Charlie Crist and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Department of Energy, and NASCAR—all of whom have urged Americans to help save energy by minding tire pressure,” says spokesman Hari Sevugan in an email.   “But hey, who ever let the facts—or supporters’ positions—get in the way of a political attack? Aboard the Low Road Express, that’s no problem at all.”

Now I know it’s difficult for you imbeciles to understand, but the attack isn’t on some claim that keeping your tires inflated helps increase fuel efficiency. Nobody’s debating that fact. The attack is on Obama’s assertion that inflating our tires would save the same amount of oil that we want to drill domestically:

There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy. 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!

That’s what’s being attacked here: The moronic claim that if we all just check our tire pressure, we’d be saving as much as we could drill. Everyone understand now? I swear, the next post on this is going to have a translation in 3 different languages, including Klingon.

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