Let’s see now, I got out to my car, check the tire pressures, decide it is too low (I keep it way higher than they recommend anyway), go turn on my compressor to get some high pressure air, and the compressor comes on and runs and in so doing uses …. electricity.

Electricity produced by a coal fired plant. Not a nuclear plant because the environmentalists decided long ago that the far less polluting nuclear plants were Politically Incorrect.

Here locally, the people who moved in next door to a coal fired power plant and then discovered that someone had slipped the nasty thing in beside their houses, presumably in the middle of the night, and some 30 years before they ever showed up, finally got their wishes. The place is being torn down. It will be replaced by a far cleaner natural gas burning plant that will not be powered by the immense supplies of natural gas off Florida’s west coast. It seems that the people who live over there discovered that someone had slipped in a bunch of natural gas under their scenic seaside areas in the middle of the night about 3 billion years ago or so. I hate it when that happens.

Aside from all that nonsense, there is basic difference between producing more energy and using less of it. You can’t use less of what you don’t have in the first place.

By the way, Socialists concentrate on what people use and Capitalists concentrate on what people produce. That says it all right there when it comes to the Tire Pressure Versus Drilling Argument.