Obama and numbers
May. 11th, 2007 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stevenehrbarObama said, " "While our fuel standards haven't moved from 27.5 miles per gallon in two decades, both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon."
The response from Toyota spokesman Mike Michelsm "I'm not sure where he got that figure. No carmaker gets 45 m.p.g. Ours is closer to 30 m.p.g."
In another case, Obama said, "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died—an entire town destroyed."
The tornado disaster actually killed twelve people, three orders of magnitude fewer. (The deadliest tornado outbreak in the 20th Century, the April 3–4, 1974, “Super Tornado Outbreak”, killed 330 people. Hurricane Katrina caused 1,723 deaths.)
The response from Toyota spokesman Mike Michelsm "I'm not sure where he got that figure. No carmaker gets 45 m.p.g. Ours is closer to 30 m.p.g."
In another case, Obama said, "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died—an entire town destroyed."
The tornado disaster actually killed twelve people, three orders of magnitude fewer. (The deadliest tornado outbreak in the 20th Century, the April 3–4, 1974, “Super Tornado Outbreak”, killed 330 people. Hurricane Katrina caused 1,723 deaths.)
