{"id":442,"date":"2008-08-07T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2008-08-07T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:01:08","slug":"Drudge-and-the-tire-gauge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/Drudge-and-the-tire-gauge\/","title":{"rendered":"Drudge and the tire gauge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely quote Matt Drudge but this is beyond ridiculous<\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:321 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"616\" height=\"197\" style=\"border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/drudge.tire.1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[late insert &#8212;-dumbass &#8211; drudge]<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Drudge, it&#8217;s come to this, the lowly tire gauge. It is a simple device to measure air pressure in a tire. It is one of those basic inventions that make a huge difference on humanity, kind of like the concept of a basic electronic transistor. You know, like the transistor that enables you to operate Drudge.com<\/p>\n<p>you probably wouldn&#8217;t know how big of a difference a deflated tire can mean because you drive a car, which means you push your foot down on the gas accelerator to compensate for such a deflated tire, and therefore don&#8217;t really know how it feels, or how much it burns<\/p>\n<p>But for people who ride a bike, we can tell you with some very accurate results just how much extra energy it takes to get from point A to point B on a half inflated tire as opposed to a full inflated one<\/p>\n<p>It most certainly is something that is measurable in a scientific study and has been done many times before<\/p>\n<p>In fact, don&#8217;t even ask me about it, ask the long haul truckers you reported about recently, Drudge. Remember them? Those that went on strike about the oil prices?..Ask them about tire pressure..They&#8217;ll tell ya<\/p>\n<p>You know, the same truckers that bring your food to your local supermarket every day?<\/p>\n<p>yeah, those people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely quote Matt Drudge but this is beyond ridiculous [late insert &#8212;-dumbass &#8211; drudge] Yes, Drudge, it&#8217;s come to this, the lowly tire gauge. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-misc","tag-5-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}