Gas is heading toward $4.00 a gallon, maybe even $5.00.
What are we going to do?
Early in his term, President Obama suggested that if we would all properly inflate our tires, we would greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil, thusly reducing the price.
Based on this, I propose the Obama Air Force!
Not to be confused with the U.S. Air Force, the people that keep bad stuff from falling out of the sky, the Taliban living in caves and terrorist sleeping in a different place every night.
The Obama Air Force will consist of men and women armed with tire gauges and backpack mounted air compressors. The compressors will be solar powered, of course. They will patrol our streets and parking lots checking the tire pressure on all accessible vehicles and inflating them to the proper level. A fee or tax could be accessed for this service to pay for the program. Better call it a fee. He said he wasn’t going to raise taxes.
Doesn’t this make more sense than drilling new oil wells? No?
Remember: “The millionaires, who pay no income taxes, did not write the tax laws that allow them to legally pay no income taxes.”