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Aug. 31, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2005, Wednesday, Hour #3
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There we go.
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We were talking last hour about the energy problems that we're all going to face here.
And again, I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I'm going to make this point a number of times because that's what drives it home.
We have an energy problem here, but it's not one of supply.
We've got plenty of supply.
We have plenty of oil.
The problem is not Saudis.
The problem is not OPEC.
The problem is not dependence on foreign oil.
The problem is the environmental left in this country.
A bunch of bureaucrats and courts, judges and so forth that are making energy policy.
They're unelected.
A bunch of people that stand in the way of progress.
They're not oriented toward capitalism.
They blame fossil fuels for the hurricane.
They blame global warming and all this.
We're in the midst of a disaster, a human disaster, unlike most of us have seen in our lifetimes in this country.
And you can look at this and you can know that the key to this, the key to recovery, the key to rebuilding, is going to be energy.
Excellent opportunity for the president to take action here to make energy more easily distributed.
Do it with executive orders, canceling temporarily some of these restrictions and regulations that are onerous, getting rid of some taxes temporarily if they're worried about high cost, doing whatever we can to get these oil rigs back up and running and the refineries back up and running.
We're talking about the refineries.
And I was mentioning to you the domino effect of all this.
Listen, it hasn't hit everybody yet.
It's obviously, they're doing a good job of containing it in the area of destruction, but it's going to have domino effects.
Extensive damage caused by Hurricane Katrina Vandenhoe to oil platforms and refineries in the Gulf of Mexico sent crude oil prices briefly surging above 70 bucks today.
But prices turned lower after a top U.S. energy official said the government would release oil from its reserves.
All right.
I think we don't need to do that, but it's been done since too late.
We don't have a supply problem.
Let me illustrate for you the depth of this.
It's not a supply problem.
Eight refineries were shut down due to Hurricane Katrina van den Hoovel.
Half of these refineries, four of them, produce gasoline.
Vienna's PVM Oil Associates additionally reported at least three others flooded and power failures sidelining others for an unknown length of time.
The damage translated into an estimated 30 million barrel loss in gasoline output, a problem that cannot be solved by increasing crude production or siphoning oil from the U.S. Petroleum Reserve.
30 million barrel loss of gasoline.
Folks, this is going to hit us all.
It's going to manifest itself in two ways.
Higher prices and lower supply, but not because we don't have any.
It's because the distribution process is upset.
These refineries, four of the eight that have been taken out that are out of action right now, are strictly gasoline.
So we need more refinery.
I mean, we're at refining capacity now.
We can't refine any more than we were.
Our refineries run at 98%, and that's all that they can safely run.
We haven't built a refinery in 10 to 15 years.
If anything illustrates the need to have more refineries, is it not this?
And guess who will oppose it when the process gets started or when the suggestion is made?
And in there, we have an opportunity.
Here from the New York Times today, damage to economy is deep and wide is the headline.
But if you read the story, you'll see that it exactly what I've been saying all week, that the damage is short-term, that rebuilding will have a positive effect on growth over the next few months.
Here's the nut paragraph.
The typical pattern with a natural disaster like this is that the regional economy gets clobbered, but you can barely see it in the national statistics, said the chief economist at Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts.
This time it's very different because of the impact on the energy infrastructure.
And then the story, I'm not going to read the whole story to you, but it does go on to say exactly what I've said, that there will be rebuilding, and it will have positive effects on.
How can it not?
Look at what's going to take place.
So again, I'm an optimist.
I don't look for optimistic things at the expense of reality, but we know that there is a cycle that's going to take place here, and there will be an economic blip that goes down.
And even with all this, economic confidence, according to the conference board, remains high, and overall economic activity remains high.
I mentioned yesterday, too, this is another one of the domino effects.
People in certain parts of the country make fun of the South.
Let's just be honest about it.
And certain people will look at a city like New Orleans and think it's nothing but a city of decadence and parties and football games and this sort of stuff.
And that the Gulf Coast is nothing more than a resort area for people to go live in.
It's a working coast.
And one of the examples I gave yesterday was grain being shipped down the Mississippi River to the port of New Orleans.
Grain is just one example.
And the hurricane has interrupted farm shipments through New Orleans, where more than half of the nation's grain exports depart for overseas.
It's too early to know the damage to shipping terminals or other facilities, government officials said yesterday.
But it'll probably be a ripple effect, said Paul Rode, the president of MARC 2000, a St. Louis-based Shippers Coalition.
As the Port of New Orleans puts itself back together, that'll determine how quickly it's going to be able to process products.
In the worst case scenario, snarled river traffic would force shippers to rely on rail or truck transportation.
They're more expensive options, particularly with fuel costs rising.
So just another illustration here of the domino effect that will eventually make itself known to people outside the immediate region that suffered the hit, the New Orleans area and the Gulf Coast.
A lot of people have been writing to me, email, rush.
I've been seeing these graphics on television that were New Orleans is below sea level.
Why'd they build a city below sea level?
Well, they didn't.
See, you need some history.
If you watch television, I'm not blaming TV, but there's a limited context there.
You look at the graphics and they'll show you on one side Lake Poncha Train, on the other side, the Mississippi River, the ocean, rather, or the river, and they'll then show you New Orleans is below the levels of both.
And you say, well, who was an idiot that built this?
When New Orleans was founded, it was above sea level.
The problem is that the land has subsided.
New Orleans is on a silt bed built up over thousands of years of annual Mississippi River floods.
It's in a delta.
You know, all the sludge that's in the Mississippi River is just deposited there at the mouth, and that creates the Mississippi Delta.
So they channelized the river.
They channeled the river, and they built the levees because the floods could no longer deposit their silt in the city site because the city was there, and it blew all the silt blew out to sea instead.
This is also why New Orleans is so far inland now.
When it was originally founded, New Orleans was much closer to the ocean.
The other major reason for subsidence is that people needed potable water, so they drilled wells and they started pumping out the water, and that caused the land to subside as well.
So, you know, they built the city there, and the city displaced, and the water had to go somewhere, and the city sunk gradually, like Venice is.
And so they had to build the levees after New Orleans was built.
They just didn't want to shut down the city.
And, you know, with all that's gone on down there, the natural process of creating the delta, they've diverted the flow of the river, and the natural delta creating process doesn't happen as it used to.
And so they made these accommodations with the levees, but they built into category three strength.
And for the last 40 years, they've been saying, we've been telling you for years and years and years, these things are not big enough.
For 40 years, people have been complaining.
They didn't do anything about it.
If they're only good to Cat 3 and you need to build them to Cat 5, for the last 40 years, nobody took action to build them to Cat 5.
So we rolled the dice.
And this is what happened.
Now, one other point about this, because the militant environmentalist left, seeking the occasion of this hurricane to blame Bush and advance their political agenda.
It's global warming.
It's burning fossil fuels.
It's all these other things.
When you look at the hurricane, which is not a man-made event, a hurricane is strictly a force of nature.
When you look at the destruction of this hurricane, a natural force, would one of you militant environmentalists care to tell me where man has done this kind of destruction in a matter of 12 or 14 hours?
I would like to know.
And I also want to renew, since nobody's taken me up on it, my request.
We know that the New Madrid Fault near Missouri, where I grew up, big, big fault.
There have been predictions for years of a major earthquake there.
Same thing with the San Andreas Fault.
According to the left, we probably are responsible for these faults.
We're probably responsible.
What do we do to stop this?
It hasn't happened.
We've got plenty of time.
Apparently, we've been predicting for decades these two earthquakes, but they haven't happened.
What do we do to stop the earthquakes?
If we're causing all these things, if man is responsible, certainly we can stop these upcoming earthquakes, and there will be more hurricanes.
What can we do today to stop them?
I patiently await your answers.
We'll be back.
We didn't carry any of it.
I'm going to wait for sound bites of it.
But all of the secretaries of the affected federal cabinet levels here had a joint press conference to announce what they were doing in dealing with the problem.
And apparently, Cookie tells me that Michael Cherdoff, the Homeland Security Director, was just fabulous in this thing.
So we'll get some bites on this and share them with you as time unfolds today.
Meanwhile, to Orlando, Stan's been waiting for a long time.
I appreciate your patience, Stan.
Thanks for calling.
Hi, thank you, Rush.
Super Ditto, sir, from Hurricane Thrashed, but now rebuilt Central Florida.
Thank you, sir.
First time caller, longtime listener.
I just wanted to mention, sir, that I saw a CNN last night, and I saw Governor Barber's neighbor, Louisiana Governor Blanco, and I was pretty frustrated and disappointed.
I think what we're witnessing, if I may be so bold, is a failure of leadership.
I listen closely to her words.
While we're trying to do this, we're thinking about doing that, and we might do this.
We might go here, we might go there, and everybody needs to evacuate.
Well, how are people going to evacuate now at this point?
They have no means.
Their cars are 12 feet underwater.
There's no gasoline.
It's easy words to say, but it's like, no, you know, that time has passed.
Where's the leadership that's going to take charge and get the issue moving?
Also, the governor of New Orleans, when the storm was churning up in the Gulf, he was saying, we have our plan.
We know what we're going to do.
We're ready for this to hit wherever it may.
And then now nothing.
Well, the mayor of New Orleans, I remember this.
He was begging people to get out of town.
I don't know what more he could have done.
I've seen Mayor or Governor Blanco on television, and I think I don't know whether she's doing a good job or not.
I haven't come to that conclusion yet.
I just think everybody's sort of in their own level of shock.
This is where these people live, and they're looking at it every day, and they see the destruction and the death and everything, and they're frustrated.
Well, I know it's hard to criticize at the height of a burgeoning crisis here, but what people look for is someone to come to the fore, a la Rudy Giuliani, that knows what he's going to do.
He's issuing orders.
He's issuing commands to subordinates, and they're taking their charge and going out and doing things.
And I'm not so sure that we see that happening.
Well, I think you will.
I think the federal people that had their joint press conference today had some pretty substantive ideas, and they were pretty decisive about what they're going to do.
And there is now an evac plan for the people in New Orleans.
They're going to bust them all over to Texas to Houston and put them in the Astrodome.
They're going to go from the Superdome to the Astrodome.
It's going to be the Mayor of New Orleans saying maybe thousands dead before this is all over with.
Same thing in Mississippi, by the way.
That probably will be the case.
There won't be any electricity or power in New Orleans for two months or maybe three.
The airport won't open for commercial traffic for two months.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of these deadlines are moved up a bit.
I think some of this will happen a little quicker than they think right now once you're in the midst of this.
I think it looks bleak and all is lost.
But they will find a way to get as many people out of New Orleans as they can.
But one thing that I agree with you about, Stan, and this is just, I say this with my intelligence guided by experience.
I'm sorry.
I'm just a big believer in the people who make this country work.
And as I said earlier, if you're watching any of the efforts on television now for rescues and the attempts to plug these breaches, the seawalls and the levees, you don't see the environmentalists.
You don't see the elite left down there.
You see people whose names you'll never know, whose faces you won't see.
You see the military.
You see representatives of corporate America, volunteers, various charities and so forth.
And they're going to all work hard and put this back together.
somebody at some point is going to emerge here as the person that's getting it done.
At some point, that will happen.
It hasn't happened yet, sort of along the lines of Giuliani in New York, but not necessarily in an exact replicated fashion.
I just think at some point as this thing unfolds, there will be a single person who leaps to the forefront simply by virtue of their leadership and their ability to inspire confidence and their ability to motivate.
And I don't know who the person is, but these situations, these circumstances always seem to bring such a person forth.
I don't know even from where this person will come, but at some point that will happen.
And I don't know at what stage.
I think somebody's probably doing it now.
Somebody is, you know, all these efforts are very coordinated.
All of these efforts to plug the breaches, all these rescue efforts, all of these, you know, the helicopter flights over these areas that are flooded.
There's a system to this so that they don't duplicate and miss certain areas at the same time.
There's an exact pattern.
There are plans for things like this, and they're being executed.
And as time goes on, we will learn who or what devised the plan, what agency or who did it.
But at some point, there will be a figure who will emerge in all of this that is considered the inspiration and the motivation for getting it all done.
The fact that it hasn't happened now, I think, is probably, Stan, more your conclusion here that the governors and the mayors are not doing much.
But I think it's really premature to be critical.
There's all the time in the world to find the reasons for this and then fix them later.
And that will be done.
Here's Carol in Zealand, Michigan.
Welcome to the program.
It's great to have you with us.
Hello, Rush, and Didos Maximus.
Thank you.
My question as I'm watching all of this unfold on television is, where is Hollywood in all of this?
Shouldn't they be organizing a relief effort?
They're usually quick to jump into this, and this is certainly a worthy occasion.
Well, do you mean Hollywood's quick to jump?
What do you mean?
Well, you know, all the aging rock bands try to get out there and get some publicity, but I mean, they could use their celebrity to organize some relief effort.
They're quick enough to run to Crawford, Texas.
You think Al Sharpton or Martin Sheen could at least send some bottled water over there?
These people don't fix anything.
You know, let them do their rock.
I was going to come here and make a joke today that the U.N. ought to spearhead the relief effort, the collection of money around the world, and the dispersal of aid and benefits.
But I hadn't gotten the point that I'm ready to joke about it.
I was going to say, no, we need a concert by Bono and Bob Geldof, a concert for relief.
To illustrate that that's not how things get done.
But now I understand NBC is going to do a concert.
As for Hollywood, Hollywood's planning right now, probably writing the script for the movie on global warming that caused this while Bush is on vacation.
That will be Hollywood's contribution.
Cable networks are showing President Bush landing now at Andrews Air Force Base.
CNN says Bush landing, returning from vacation.
Fox says that President Bush will speak on hurricane relief at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
ABC News on their website to show you that there is a template.
And this is in direct contradiction with what the New York Times said this morning in their own story.
But to illustrate the template, ABC actually has a story on its website, the poor are hardest hit in this hurricane.
You know, they old joke that I've told you about the media and, you know, God, let me tell you the joke real quick.
This illustrates the template, in case you haven't heard it.
God is watching the Oprah Winfrey show one day and followed by Dr. Phil and figures that's it.
The human race has blown it.
And it's time to end it all because they just can't handle it anymore.
It's been bad enough up to now, but watching the Oprah shows, that's it.
So God calls a reporter at the New York Times and says, I've had it.
The human race has blown this experiment and I'm ending the planet tomorrow.
And the New York Times reporter says, ooh, wow, can I have an exclusive on that?
And God says, no, I'm calling some other newspapers.
The Times guy tries to talk God out of it, but God refuses.
So he's going to call the other newspapers.
The Times guy gives up and hangs up.
God calls Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Washington Post.
The next day, all the newspapers run their headlines.
The New York Times, God says world to end tomorrow, details page A10.
The USA Today headline, we're done.
Wall Street Journal headline, God says world to end tomorrow, markets to close early.
The Washington Post headline, God says world to end tomorrow, women and minorities hardest hit.
Lo and behold, here comes ABC News with a story headlining the hurricane, Katrina van den Hoovel, the poor are hardest hit.
I ask you to look at the devastation in any of these affected areas and tell me that you can draw a distinction here between anybody being less hard hit or more hard hit than anybody else.
And in fact, the New York Times had a headline today that actually confirms a joke that I make about liberals.
The story that I said, that liberals define equality as spreading misery equally.
I have the exact headline by a New York Times and a story by James Dow today, the actual headline, the misery is spread equally.
Folks, do I know these people or do I know these people?
I know these people like every square inch of my glorious naked body, not just the back of my hand.
Here's Carol in Redmond, Washington.
Nice to have you on the program with us.
Hello.
Hello there.
Nice to be there.
Thank you.
I live in the great old Northwest, about as blue as you can get.
The environmental wackos here are trying to get you out of your cars, building HOV lanes, bus transportation, building light rail and everything.
Well, what happens to those without cars when it's time to evacuate?
Oh, it's, you know.
Let me tell you, oops, hang on just a second.
Drop the one o'clock cigar, but I saved it.
Let me tell you something else.
They're trying to get us out of our SUVs.
What is it that's able to traverse down there in all this?
Only the SUV.
Right.
And they're trying to get rid of the military.
They hate the military.
San Francisco will not let the USS Iowa come dock.
What do you see down there spearheading the relief efforts?
You see military people in uniform, military vehicles, Navy ships.
I'm telling you, this whole episode has the potential, Carol, to illustrate the absolute folly and danger of the left.
Did you want to hear how I found out about you?
Oh, I'd love to hear.
I always love to hear about things like that.
Well, and this is my husband is listening on the internet.
My husband now was my boyfriend then, and we got into the car to go out for dinner one night.
Ho, ho, ho.
When was then?
2001.
2001.
It's going to be four years ago.
For those of you in Rio Lindo, okay.
And we got in the car to go out for a dinner date, and he turned on the car radio.
And I said, oh, no, you're not going to make me listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Well, I listened to you for a half an hour, and I was hooked.
That's all it took.
Wow.
That's all it took.
Sometimes it takes people to take about 10 minutes.
10 minutes.
Well, I appreciate it.
It takes some people six weeks to fully get it.
Yeah, well, we're 24-7 members, and we have Club Getmo Gear, and we think you're number one.
And you're in Redmond, Washington, where you are in enemy territory.
Majorly.
Totally.
But see, you were once the enemy.
Actually, I was.
And most of my family still is.
Well, I'm just curious, what was it in those 10 minutes or 30 minutes, whatever it was, that caused you to do your 180?
Everything you said was right.
Everything you said was true.
So you obviously had not listened before that.
You had just heard what critics of mine had said and then thought that they were right.
Exactly.
And what were some of those things?
Do you remember?
Oh, the usual what people say is the ad hominem, oh, he's an idiot.
Oh, he's stupid.
Oh, all he does is yell.
He hates women.
He's racist, sexist, those sorts of things.
Never anything specific.
Never anything specific.
And I just tell my friends, listen, just listen.
Well, thank you.
And thank your husband.
Oh, definitely.
Thank you.
Because that was, I mean, how close do you all were getting married when he turned on the radio that night going for dinner?
We had just started dating.
Okay, so, I mean, it wasn't that big a risk, turn on the radio at that point, but still a risk.
Because he obviously liked you very much, was going to fall in love with you someday, and that could have just turned you off.
You know, these ideological differences to some couples can provide a problem.
Yep.
Well, we're right together on this and has been, got married in 2003, and we're very happy.
Thank you, Carol, very much.
I really appreciate all of that.
Thanks very much for the call.
She's exactly right.
All these things that the left wants us to do away with, how would we be dealing with what's going on in the Gulf Coast if they had ever succeeded?
Here's Jim, a trucker in Ames, Iowa.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Hi, Don Rush.
Good, sir.
Fine caller.
Yeah, you were talking before about how we may have a problem with supplies and that.
Can I read you my Qualcomm?
That's our satellite thing that we have.
Wait a minute.
I'm having trouble.
Folly, can I read your call?
My comes a satellite thing that have I have What about Qualcomm?
What am I having trouble understanding what you're saying, Jim?
Could you start again?
We're having supply problems on the right.
All right.
Okay.
He's on a cell phone, obviously.
He's on a I think he's complaining about his Qualcomm cell phone because what the transcriber has him saying is, can I read you my call?
Come, that's our satellite thing that we have.
That's what it sounded like to Rachel in there.
But apparently, what did he want to say?
Well, Brett, what?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Here's what he wanted to say.
Jim's a trucker.
And he was told to top off the tanks in his truck as he heads toward the East Coast with his load and to expect shortages and rationing.
That's what.
Now, that's just what he's been told.
This is a classic example of what I'm talking about that's going to be out there, folks, the domino effect on this.
There's going to be all kinds of this once people re-you can't shut down refinery capacity to the tune of 30 million barrels of gasoline and have it not affect every aspect of this country.
And that's, I'm telling you, there is just a golden opportunity here.
We need more refineries.
We need more refining capacity.
And if there's ever an indication needs to be built, this is it.
And I just hope somebody has the guts to propose it so that the left and the environmentalists stand up and say, no, global warming, environmental destruction, and let them be seen for the obstructionists and the anti-capitalists that they are.
Such a golden, golden opportunity.
Sorry, Jim, that we had the communication problems, but hopefully you can call back.
A quick timeout here, folks, back in just seconds.
Stay with us.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
I want to start with number 15 first.
Oh, man, this is so cool.
This is so cool.
I want you to listen to the EPA Administrator Steve Johnson.
Today, I'm exercising my authority under the Clean Air Act to temporarily waive specific standards for gasoline and diesel fuels to ensure that the Hurricane Katrina natural disaster does not result in serious fuel supply interruptions around the country.
As we're all well aware, we're seeing increasing serious impacts from the hurricane in a number of fuel markets around the United States.
Yesterday afternoon, I exercised this authority with respect to four states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
It has become clear that the consequences of the hurricane have become more widespread.
So today, I'm sending letters to the governors of the remaining 46 states and territories providing temporary relief from volatility and sulfur standards.
This action will result in a needed increase in fuel supply.
These waivers are necessary to ensure that fuel is available throughout the country to address public health issues and emergency vehicle supply needs.
Under the Clean Air Act Emergency Authority, I am making the waivers effective through September the 15th, 2005.
These waivers only apply to the volatility standards, the rate at which fuel evaporates, and the amount of sulfur in diesel fuel.
EPA is committed to working with our state and federal partners to address this extraordinary national disaster.
So the upshot of this is that the EPA administrator has taken the authority of the Clean Air Act and temporarily rescinded all these restrictions that retard distribution of gasoline.
It's only through September 15th of this year, but that's a start.
I want to predict there's going to be caterwalling about this.
The environmentalists are going to raise hell and they're going to start talking this is the kind of thing that will create even more global warming that'll cause more hurricanes, blah, I wish it were for a little longer because I think this is going to go on a little longer, this domino effect, but we'll see.
They may do this in stages.
Here's Michael Chertoff, who is the Homeland Security Director.
President Bush has declared a major disasters for affected areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama.
Along with these declarations, the full range of federal resources and capabilities is being directed, as we speak, to assist and protect those citizens who have borne the brunt of this catastrophe.
The Department of Homeland Security has declared this an incident of national significance.
The first ever use of this designation under the new National Response Plan.
The National Response Plan, which was stood up earlier this year, gives the Department of Homeland Security the lead responsibility to coordinate federal response and recovery efforts.
The plan is designed to bring together all federal resources to increase our ability to quickly get relief to those who need it most.
And finally, the Energy Secretary, Samuel Bodman, who actually followed the remarks by the EPA Administrator Steve Johnson.
I would like to thank particularly Administrator Johnson and his colleagues at EPA.
The entire staff of the EPA has worked very hard to get this waiver through to increase the supply of gasoline throughout the nation.
And as I just spoke to Secretary Chertoff, in my view, this is really a big deal.
This is something that should materially change the supply of gasoline fuels in our country.
No question about it.
Absolutely no question about it.
We have 40 different formulations.
They can only lose a certain kind of formulation in Chicago.
In California, they have multiple formulations for different parts of the state.
So rescind these things temporarily to ease this distribution problem.
It is not a supply problem.
We have plenty of supply.
Well, the gasoline, it may be a supply problem temporarily because of the refineries in the Gulf that were affected, but it is going to profoundly improve the situation with the temporary rescinding of these restrictions.
And it's a great illustration of who's put them there.
You know, this has not happened legislatively.
This has happened via courts and activist bureaucrats and so forth with sympathies tied to militant leftist environmentalists.
So, I mean, this is cool.
That's one of the first things I said this morning ought to be done.
And Bamo, they had their press conference just earlier this hour.
Tina in Atlanta.
Nice to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush.
I'm a longtime listener.
I love your show.
I work in a city outside of Atlanta called Peachtree City.
And let me tell you, people are just going crazy here.
Gas has jumped from 249, 259 to 303.
Some places are up to 325.
People who are leaving where I'm working run into the gas station just to fill up their cars because they're afraid we're going to run out of gas.
Yep, topping off the tanks.
This is what happened.
Next thing we're going to hear, by the way, is what we can do to save gasoline, avoid jackrabbit starts, apply your brakes evenly, don't speed, blah, blah, blah.
And you're going to listen to all these.
And at the end of you say, I'm going to have to stop every 10 miles and siphon some fuel out of my tank.
I'm saving so much or it'll overflow.
But you know something, Tina, I saw your local paper there, the Urinal Constipation, had a story this morning about the interruption of pipelines.
Not only you got gasoline problems coming into the city, but jet fuel.
It's all brought in by pipeline, and there's some interruptions in the pipeline, obviously, because of the route that it takes through the Gulf Coast area.
Those refineries down there is where a lot of the Southeast gets its gasoline supply and jet fuel.
And that's why Florida has been included in this, too.
Hopefully the rescinding of these restrictions will allow gasoline from other parts of the country now to get into Atlanta rather than coming from the Gulf Coast area pipelines.
That's the purpose of rescinding the regulation.
But I'm not surprised to hear you say it because the newspaper in your town alluded to it today.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I'll be in my car and everything's topped off, but people just need to settle down.
We have gas and not to worry.
Well, but you know, I know it's easy to say people need to settle down, but all of this is going to illustrate the importance of energy to this country's progress and stability.
You know, this is, I'm telling you, there's an opportunity here, folks, to finally just discard the environmental left and have them categorized as the obstacles to progress that they are.
So, I mean, I'm not in favor of a lot of pain and suffering.
It's already going on down in New Orleans and Gulfport and Biloxi and places in Alabama.
But, you know, there are sometimes it takes things like this to actually show people, to illustrate.
I've been saying these things for 15 years, and sometimes people have to confront it themselves personally before they finally believe it.
I'm glad you called, Tina.
Thanks much.
I can just see the headlines in the paper tomorrow.
Limbaugh promotes suffering to make political point.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
Okay, that's unfortunately it.
There just isn't enough time here to take another phone call.
I'm getting all kinds of people with reports of gasoline at 349, 360 in Michigan, all over the place.
That's for you, Tina, in Atlanta.
It's as high as it is there in a lot of other places, too.
And it's probably going to go higher, folks.
But rescinding these restrictions is going to help some, particularly with distribution, which will then help with supply.
So we'll digest whatever happens between now and noon tomorrow, Eastern Time, and we'll kick it back up at that time all over again and put in perspective all that's happening.
And if the left keeps attacking, folks, I'm going to use this show to defend.
See you tomorrow.
Adiosam.
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