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Barack Obama: I said you know what you can inflate your tires to the proper levels and that if everybody in America inflated their…

On the recordAugust 4, 2008
I said you know what you can inflate your tires to the proper levels and that if everybody in America inflated their tires to the proper level, we would actually probably save more oil than all the oil that we get from John McCain drilling right below his feet there.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama highlights the importance of proper tire inflation as a practical step for energy conservation, contrasting it with McCain's drilling proposals.

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