Gingrich, Hannity: Tire Inflation Benefits “Big Oil”
By Kay Steiger - Aug 20th, 2008 at 11:39 amVia Steve Benen, here’s Newt Gingrich on Sean Hannity’s show giggling about Barack Obama’s suggestion that properly inflating your tires can help you save gas:
Gingrich says that because gas stations make a bigger profit on the tire inflation service (duh) than on gasoline, somehow Obama is promoting “Big Oil.” Apparently Gingrich doesn’t understand that oil companies don’t distribute air compressors.
Isn’t Gingrich supposed to be a “visionary” who is promoting sound environmental policy? Oh yeah, that’s right–Gingrich is just another conservative who takes up the mantle of environmentalism when it’s popular but doesn’t actually show any real commitment to changing environmental policy. Gingrich goes along with Hannity’s “more drilling” mantra even though science shows that drilling would do little to impact the price of gasoline. Gingrich shows here that he’s the same old partisan hack he’s always been.
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