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No. A tire filled with nitrogen has the same rolling resistance and other characteristics that a tire filled with an equal amount of ordinary air has. The nitrogen you pump into your tires isn't 100 percent percent pure but typically around 93 percent to 95 percent nitrogen. The oxygen you breathe and pump into your tires is 78 percent nitrogen, so the difference isn't huge.
However, the benefit of nitrogen is that it…