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Originally Posted by forseti-6
Well I felt his saying that was insulting the intelligence of the crowd. He's assuming no one has properly inflated tires and no one takes their cars for service. Now I'm sure some people drive with near flats and don't change their filters and oil, I'd be willing to bet most people take care of their cars.
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For the record, from a
GAO report (pdf):
More than one quarter of cars and about a third of light trucks have one or more tires underinflated 8 psi or more below the recommended level.
The Department of Energy’s designated economist on this issue indicated that, of the 130 billion gallons of fuel that the Transportation Research Board (TRB) estimated were used in passenger cars and light trucks in 2005, about 1.2 billion gallons were wasted as a result of driving on underinflated tires.
Thats a helluva lot of wasted gas!
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Originally Posted by guy44
As far as healthcare...well, I can't imagine there's any more to explain after the primaries. I'm pretty sure I heard Obama discuss every inch of his proposals. But I'm pretty eager to hear him compare his proposals to McCains in the debates...
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I agree their respective healthcare plans have been laid out pretty well....at least the underlying basics.
McCain's wants to give $2500 individual tax credit ($5000 for families) to buy health insurance outside of the work place....and pay for it by cutting the current tax incentives to employers...which would adversely impact employed-based health plans....and someone should tell him you cant buy comprehensive family health insurance for $5000/year (the average cost of family health care coverage is about $12,000/yr).
Obama wants to cover all kids w/o insurance by including them in SCHIP and strengthen employer-based plans with additional tax incentives to employers to keep premiums (employees share) from increasing and to provide a program for small businesses w/o plans to join pools to provide coverage to employees. He would pay for it with the significantly increased revenue generated by restoring the tax rate on the top 1% to pre-2000 levels (as currently required by law)....but he is spreading that anticipated increased tax revenue kinda thin to pay for alot of programs and initiatives.