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March 1, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 1, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, here it is.
The official threatening notice from the town about sea turtle lights.
I guess they've got to go off starting tonight.
Through October 31st, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October.
Eight months.
Eight months.
I was irritated before the program began.
Now I'm double irritated.
Greetings, welcome back.
L. Rushbow here.
EIB Network 800-282-2882.
The name of the big company selling carbon offsets is TerraPass.
They're out in California.
I'll have details coming up here in just a second.
I gotta read this to you.
This is from uh the town of Palm Beach.com uh to uh people live on the ocean.
To protect endangered sea turtles, which nest on local beaches and the hatchlings which come from those nests, the town council adopted an ordinance requiring all oceanfront property owners to ensure that their lights are not visible from the beach at any time from March 1st through October 31st.
Artificial lighting confuses the sea turtle hatchlings, causing them to veer off course from their intended destination directly to the Atlantic Ocean.
It is believed that the resulting disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings from artificial lighting sources is a major cause in the decline of the sea turtle populations worldwide.
Artificial lighting.
Artificial lighting.
To comply with the lights out policy, oceanfront property owners are requested to shield or redirect any lights illuminating any area of the beach or water that may be used by nesting sea turtles or simply turn off the lights during the period of March 1 through October 31.
Some limited use of low pressure sodium lights or yellow bug lights may not be a threat to turtles.
The uh rule of thumb is when in doubt, turn it out.
The cooperation and compliance of the public will be appreciated.
And then they note that they will mail a threatening notice to accompany the email.
Umtice that it is believed.
It is believed that the resulting disorientation of sea turtle.
Let me tell you a couple stories.
I know this I've sometimes it's an indulgence on my part to bleed on you people with the personal little irritants that I have, but there is a there's a construction project happening on the beach.
Right now, on the beach.
And it is going to go on until April 30th.
And you can read about it every day in a local squire, the little little little little paper here.
And you can say that they they have to be through with the project by April 30th, because that's when the turtles arrive.
Yet we have turned out the lights in the back starting on March 1st.
I don't have any lights that illuminate the beach.
I don't have any lights that illuminate the ocean.
So it's a little conflicting here or confusing because it says anything that they could see from the beach versus, you know, I've gone down to the beach, I've laid down on the beach, I've put myself in the same position as a turtle or a hatchling.
And from where if you lay down on a beach, uh can't see the lights in my butt still got to go out.
And they're I have them.
They're decorative, they're, you know, I uh I like the way the landscaping is lit, and I I it's also security.
Uh eight months out of the year.
The turtles don't show up until May.
This is this is how the environmentalist wackos have succeeded in intimidating the town.
They go down there and they bellyache and moan at town council hearings and so forth, and just to get rid of them, they come up with these regulations.
And by the way, I've got nothing against sea turtles.
Let me tell you a quick little story.
When my house was being constructed, no lights anywhere at all at night.
Zip zero nada.
And we show up one day, and the contractor says, You got a problem here.
What?
And there were some dead sea turtle hatchlings, some babies uh on the construction site.
And I said, Well, what's the problem?
Well, they showed up here.
I said, Well, we didn't have any lights on last night.
How does this happen?
So the next night we studied things, and uh there was a moon.
The moon was at twelve o'clock high.
And the moon ain't artificial light.
And plus uh if you get a cloudy day, the lights of West Palm Beach will illuminate the overcast, and that's anyway.
I know I've there's no hope.
This is a losing cause uh, but it just it's these bureaucracies and these rules, particularly when it comes to the environment.
And I've been down, by the way, I have watched, I have seen it happen.
I've seen these giant sea turtles arrive.
Uh the earliest I've seen one arrive where I live is Memorial Day weekend.
Showed up, and it was a big mama, and it labored all the way up the beach.
It's a big beach at our house, like 75 yards from the waterline to the dune.
It's all beach.
Uh and it's it's that because they dredge the inlet nearby and they put the sand on our beach, and it's good beach.
Uh uh and as the the this sea turtle just used the back fins and and and and dug a perfectly circular hole in the sand, laid the eggs, covered them up, and then uh you could just see the fatigue in this poor turtle just making its way back to the water.
And we went up and we touched it, uh, didn't care, it was not intimidated or any of that sort of thing.
Uh and this was at one o'clock in the morning when this happened.
Uh we had a scout out there watching.
Gave the scout a bottle of wine and said, shout if you see a turtle.
Bam, it happened.
And so uh seen it two or two or three times.
The hatchlings, they they show up in July.
June, July, sometimes in August.
I know it's a minor problem.
But it touched the big city.
We all did.
There's about there's about ten of us down there.
Uh put our hands on the shell of the city.
Oh, huge you didn't have to bend over.
It was huge.
Well, they haven't passed an ordinance say we can't do it.
People know Mac, they didn't get Max Mayfield.
Max Mayfield was nabbed because he caught one of these big ugly groupers that's protected and he dragged it into the boat to take a picture of it.
And that's what you're not allowed to do.
You can't take the grouper out of the water when you released it.
But um, no, we didn't interfere with the turtle at all.
We didn't get in the turtle's way.
We were on the side.
We were following the turtle as it was making its way back to the Atlantic.
We were not stalking turtle.
Turtle didn't care.
Turtle was so tired, just wanted to get out of there, but uh nobody was harming the turtle.
We were watching nature.
We were all we were all amazed by it.
You know, the fact of the matter is that uh this is this is just nature.
90% of the hatchlings don't survive the minute they get to the ocean, here comes a shark or something.
Or some other sea creature that eats them, but uh some of them do, uh obviously.
All right, here are the details and offsets.
This is a good story from December 19th of 2006 to show you how old the program is, San Francisco Chronicle.
The fight against global warming has created its own odd market, one in which companies sell their ability to remove greenhouse gases from the air.
Some of those companies plant trees to absorb carbon dioxide.
Others create systems to capture methane produced by dairy cows.
Some build windmills to generate electricity that otherwise would come from power plants, burning coal or natural gas.
Do you people realize how absurd that paragraph is?
They plant trees to absorb carbon dioxide.
This is what Schwarzenegger is.
He put his private jet on the on the on the carbon registry, and this outfit called TerraPass promises to go out and plant X number of trees for every carbon footprint that uh that Schwarzenegger's plane leaves.
Second aspect of the paragraph, others create systems to capture methane produced by dairy cows.
What this means, ladies, may I be blunt.
What this means is that somebody somewhere claims to have a system to go out and extract the methane from cow farts.
Now, do you people know how many head of livestock there are in this country?
Would somebody explain to me the system whereby this is done in such a way that it makes an iota's worth of diff difference?
Uh I that's what I'm asking.
How do you how do you know when it is happened?
I mean, obviously I guess you can smell it, but what it it's a no, don't give the sly look of the cow.
That the cows don't give you a sly look when they do that.
That reminds me of another silly story.
Somewhere in Pennsylvania, some cow fell through a uh a lake, had a thin sheet of ice, and a farmer called a rescue team and brought a tow truck out and they're dragging this cow out of there.
And a reporter writes that other cows were looking on with concern and fear.
The other cows had no clue what was going on.
They're not that smart.
They're sitting around chewing their cud trying to figure out what all the commotion's about.
But if you just imagine what is the what's the machine?
What is the machine that traps methane from cow uh uh uh gas?
The you understand how preposterous this is.
And then uh windmills to generate electricity that otherwise would come from power plants burning coal or would somebody show me the evidence, somebody tell me, somebody show me anywhere where one windmill has reduced one watt of power output from any power plant anywhere.
Dutch don't even use windmills for anything anymore other than portraits.
Now, who buys these carbon offsets?
Well, companies or individuals who want to offset the amount of carbon dioxide they pump into the atmosphere as part of their everyday lives.
The market got one of its biggest boosts last week.
This is a December 19th, 2006 story, uh, when PGE, Pacific Gas and Electric jumped in.
The utility, California's largest, announced a program that will let its customers calculate and offset the amount of carbon dioxide their power supply produces.
That's right.
There's a website you can go now and calculate your own carbon footprint.
The average residential customer who volunteers for the program will spend an estimated $4.31 cents every month with the exact figure based on how much electricity and natural gas the person uses.
Businesses that buy power from PGE also can participate.
So you volunteer to calculate and offset the amount of carbon dioxide that your power supply produces, and if you volunteer to do this, you will get charged an estimated $4.31 cents every month for the privilege.
And if you care more, you can give more.
That's absolutely right.
If you care more, you can give more than the $4.31.
Executives at uh San Francisco's PGE expected about 4% of their customers to sign up in the next three years, generating 20 million dollars.
The money will be spent restoring or conserving California forests.
Is this not a scam?
Is this not one of the greatest scams you have ever heard come down the pike?
And now the power companies are in on it so they can get the benefit of caring as well.
Nothing compels people to join the program, which is scheduled to begin this spring, like all companies participating in the new market.
PGE is uh betting on the all-truism of its customers.
They're not betting on that.
They're betting on the stupidity of their customers, falling prey to all these horror stories.
You know what if if you people do this, here's what I want you to do.
You people out in California buying this program.
I want you after a certain pasch time, call PG and go see your trees.
Demand to see your trees.
The trees that they have planted in your name, demand to see them.
You are going to be paying $4.31 to offset your carbon footprint.
You demand to see the tree.
You demand to see the machine that's extracting the methane and doing what with it, by the way, from cow farts.
You demand to see all of this.
You're paying for.
And then while you're at it, demand that you have your power in an account with no social security number.
This is big uh in in banking now.
Any number of uh of potentials.
Now, the uh average consumer wants to be part of the solution.
This is a quote now.
They want it to be easy and they want it to be clear, said Tom Arnold.
Tom Arnold is uh uh started a company in Menlo Park called Terapass, uh, giving people a way to calculate how much carbon dioxide they pump into the environment.
They can then pay money through TerraPass to fund projects that'll offset greenhouse gases.
In the two years since it formed, TerraPass has signed up 26,000 sucker customers and funded eleven projects involving wind power, energy efficiency, and the capture of methane from cows.
The small company privately held has not yet turned to profit, although it hopes to do so in the first quarter of two thousand seven.
No, it's not the Tom.
We can't let the the times just no, it's not the Tom Arnold's topic.
We like to say in theory, we're for profit, uh, Tom Arnold said.
Let's just go on a little long here.
We we've got to we've got to go to commercial break.
You don't be a sap on this, folks.
Please just don't.
And we are back serving humanity, executing a signed host duties flawlessly, Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB network.
Uh posted today at 1 30 on the hotline.
Last evening I referred to American casualties in Iraq as wasted.
I should have used the word sacrificed as I have in the past.
No one appreciates and honors more than I do the selfless patriotism of American servicemen and women in the Iraq wall.
We owe them a debt we can never fully repay, and America's leaders owe them as well as the American people, our best judgment and honest appraisal of the progress of the war in which they continue to sacrifice.
As I have said many times, I believe we have made many mistakes in the prosecution of the war.
With a new commanding general and a new strategy, we are now trying to correct those mistakes, and I believe we have a realistic chance to succeed.
That does not change the fact, however, that we have made many mistakes in the past, and we've paid a grievous price for those mistakes in the lives of the men and women who have died to protect our interest in Iraq and defend the rest of us from the even greater threat that we uh would face if we are defeated there.
So I knew this is what it was.
This is McCain apologizing for his use of the word wasted lives last night on um on Letterman with his informal announcement for the uh for the presidency.
And as I I told somebody he was he's he used wasted in the context that he doesn't believe the strategy up to now has been one of uh oriented toward victory.
Uh but he has apologized for it.
Uh Democrat National Committee demanded that he apologize.
Uh I'm sure others and their discussions of this uh raised consciousness in the McCain campaign.
So uh there it is.
Uh David in Laguna Beach, California.
I appreciate your patience in waiting.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Thanks, Russ.
How are you today?
Oh, I I'm I'm uh I'm fine.
I just I just know I'm gonna be the target of the town of Tom Beach uh for a month here.
And my lights and so forth.
I'm thinking of what it here's what I'm thinking of doing.
I'm thinking of hiring a guy and going out on the ocean every night on a boat from sundown to sun up with nothing but a bright light out there.
So that uh I can say, look, there's light out there, and it's artificial light, and you guys say artificial light attracts turtles, and I'm gonna have a guy out there so that the brightest light the turtles are gonna see will be the light from the ocean where they're supposed to go.
That sounds like a great idea.
Yeah, it's gonna cost me a lot of money, but that's what I'm thinking of doing.
And I'll pass an ordinance saying you can't have lights on in the ocean.
For some other reason.
Anyway, other other than that, I'm uh I'm fine.
Fantastic.
Hey, I was watching the HBO documentary on uh the horrors of Abu Gras.
Abu Graham.
And um as I was watching the show, I I I knew what they were trying to do.
They were trying to, you know, make me feel bad for everything that was going on there, but I I have to tell you that that never happened.
Um, you like torture?
Uh of course I don't like torture, but I like results.
And um when we are in a situation where we are interrogating people and we need to get results.
Well, that's interesting.
I I don't mean to cut short, but I've got to because of time.
So you watched it, they tried to make you feel guilty, and you didn't feel guilty.
The program backfired on you.
Uh, probably the case with most people on your side of the aisle.
Back in just a sec.
Uh Rush Limboy, living legend and your guiding light.
Here we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
The fastest three hours in media ray in Tampa.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Cal Rushbo.
Hey, I won't say earlier in the program.
You were talking about the fact that you really can't you're not going to throw your support by any uh in back of any candidate at this point.
And when you said that, I couldn't have agreed with you more.
Uh right now, currently in this political environment that we're in, I don't hear any candidates talking about things that truly matter to Americans.
They talk about things that matter to illegal aliens.
They talk about things that matter to um not so much to our national security.
And when I say that, I mean the big picture.
I mean, you know, Iraq and Iran, that's one thing, but there are other players that are doing things right now that are far more dangerous to like Russia, China, you know, India.
They all got together and had a Powell Ow.
I don't hear any of these guys talking about truly what matters to America and protecting and preserving our American dream and our American way of life.
Why do you think that is?
Because I think they're pandering.
I think they're nothing but a bunch of, as you say, linguini-spined individuals that if they stood up with a true thought, stood on two feet and said that thought and meant that thought and stood by that thought, that that it it would cause them to not be, you know, a talking head on all the twenty-four-hour news channels.
It would cause them to not be as popular.
Well, uh look, I think you have a point up to a point.
I I haven't followed everything that um that they have been saying.
I look at uh this is probably going to shock some of you and disappoint uh some of you and sadden others of you, but I just have to tell you there is not one aspect of the presidential race right now that I care about.
It's too soon.
I just I'm sorry.
I don't want to spend the next ten months of the first primary.
I just I I am not going to turn this program over to the presidential campaign of uh of of two thousand eight yet.
Uh I just it's I've always followed my instincts, and I got my instinct says it's too soon to do this, there's something not right about all of this happening right.
Now uh uh on the other side of that, understand what's happening now is important uh from a marketing standpoint.
The candidates are out there making their statements, but I think to the extent that you're right.
Uh my my fear is that the campaign is is being waged for the media.
Absolutely.
Uh everybody is convinced uh the it's gotta have media approval, or at least they can't have the media out there slicing and dicing them to shreds every day.
So there's uh there's a little uh uh shall we say media offset uh going on as as part of the uh campaigns.
Plus, you know, you've got candidates going to Iowa and you've going to New Hampshire, and when when they do that, because of the site of the first uh the cauc eye on the uh first primary.
And um obviously you know if you if you lose both of those, you're in you're in deep doo doo.
If you enter both and lose both, you're in deep do-do.
So they're out there pandering to those particular voters, and they got polsters in those states determining what's important to people in those states.
Uh and and the uh national, the rest of it's running around raising money.
Uh so it that that's why right now it's uh uh to me it's it's uh I don't say it other than it's it's just a little uh premature.
Uh as to whether or not candidates are ever gonna get around to talking about what you want and the things that you mentioned, like the problems with Russia.
Uh frank, I don't expect to hear that from uh anybody.
Uh I don't know why I say that.
I just I I don't expect to hear it.
I I think there is a a tiptoe mentality, and let's not ruffle feathers, let's not get people all worked up about various things.
And I and I see it in in the way Iraq is being approached uh uh by so many people and the associated alliances that uh Syria and Iran have in this whole situation.
That's being avoided uh as as well.
And there will be a day of reckoning on all of these things uh at some point down the line, I don't know how soon, some of it maybe not in our lifetimes.
But give you an example here of um just what you're you're talking a little bit about there, Ray.
This is a story from the Houston Chronicle from uh yesterday.
The Senate's march to overhaul the nation's immigration laws is starting in somewhat rocky fashion with Senator John Corning of Texas and other leading Republicans complaining they've been shut out of the bill writing process.
It's not a good way to try to build consensus to solve problems by withholding information, Cornan said on Wednesday, as the Senate Judiciary Committee began debate.
Even the committee's top Republican, Arlan Spector complained that he'd been frozen out of the talks on a bill that is sconsored by uh co-sponsored by one of his colleagues, John McCain.
Uh McCain and Ted Kennedy are negotiating the immigration bill in the Senate, and it is closeted.
Uh Corny inspector are just two who are being shut out of the debate.
Kennedy and McCain will unveil the bill as early as next week.
Senate leaders hope the Judiciary Committee will approve the bill this month, paving the way for a vote by the full Senate in April.
Now this bill reprises, reprises much of what the Senate approved in May of last year.
A path to citizenship for most of the estimated twelve million illegal aliens and immigrants, a guest worker program for future foreign workers, and heightened immigration enforcement.
Though Congress is now in Democrat hands, Republican support will be essential to deliver a bill to President Bush's desk.
Last year's overhaul foundered amid arguments between enforcement-minded Republicans in the House and legalization friendly Republicans in the Senate.
So to illustrate your point, uh here you have McCain who informally announced his candidacy last night on the Letterman show.
Somebody's got to help me.
I haven't heard him talk much about his immigration bill in public on the campaign stump, have you?
And of course, Ted Kennedy's not talking about it.
They're not talking about it, period.
It's going on behind closed doors.
And they're even shutting out some Republicans on the uh committee.
So that's sort of illustrative of what Ray in Tampa was talking about.
Chris in uh in Utica, New York.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIV network.
Hi, thanks for taking my call, right?
You bet.
I was hoping for a little bit of advice.
For what?
Well, tonight I'm going to be hosting a radio show on my college campus.
And I was hoping that since you excel in broadcasting, you could give me a few tips.
Well, what are you going to talk about?
Well, I'm doing straight news for the first half hour, and then we're gonna have a bit of a debate.
Me and a liberal we're gonna debate unions.
You know, debate unions.
Is there anything exciting happening in state news uh for the f how how long is your show?
It's only an hour.
It's an hour.
So half of it's gonna be devoted to state news.
Is d is there anything exciting in state news, or is this a you have to do this because whoever your boss is is requiring it be done?
Yes.
I work with another guy in well, I will be.
This is gonna be my first night.
He has it set up so that we do straight news first a couple of years.
Oh, st oh okay.
I was gonna say you're gonna do in state news, nobody's gonna listen.
Right.
I'm sorry.
Uh you're gonna do straight news.
Oh, okay.
Is it gonna be news you care about?
Yes.
Are you gonna be able to comment on the news or are you just going to be like an uninf uh unopinionated presenter of the news?
For the first half hour, I have to be unopinionated.
You're not allowed to be opinionated in the first half hour.
Right.
Well, that'll be good training because that's practically impossible.
Uh well, I believe I th if you're thinking engulged, engaged human being, it's impossible not to have an opinion about what you know, raise your eyebrow.
I know it's radio, raise your eyebrow, maybe pause now and then to convey your opinion in this.
You can there's any number of tricks.
Uh you can watch uh Charles Gibson learn how to do it.
Peter Jennings was great at it.
Uh Katie Curick uh doesn't have to, she's just blatant.
Uh but the here's look it, I think if this if this is your first show, you're gonna you're gonna have you've never done this before.
No.
All right.
Well, you're you're gonna have you're gonna have some nerves and you're gonna be worried about uh uh a number of uh extraneous things.
The thing that that uh that I would first advise you to do is be as informed on whatever the subject matter of the program is as possible, because that is where you get your confidence.
Yes.
So study be it be as informed on it as you can, and then project your voice with confidence.
Don't just speak in a normal monotone, but really project it and sound authoritative like you are the world's last and only authority.
Well, I figure um now that I've been on well, eight hundred radio stations right now.
Yeah, eight hundred or so according to others, yes.
Yes, it should be pretty easy going on just one tonight.
Yeah, that's true, because you know, you you uh I I've been a caller, and I know what it's like.
You're sitting out there and you're on hold, and sometimes you're on hold for minutes, sometimes um you know, close to an hour, and the the screener comes in and say, You're next, and then start getting nervous and so forth, and then the host goes to you, and uh you try not to clam up and forget what you were going to say and so forth.
That's why it's as crucial.
Be passionate and be informed about what you're saying, and those two things uh should should carry.
I'm not gonna get into actual broadcast techniques because those are things that you'll learn as you go along.
Okay, well, thank you very much, Russ.
All right, to confidence, projection, and passion.
Awesome.
And of course, being informed.
Can't replace that.
Definitely.
Happy happy to help out there, Chris.
A brief brief timeout here, ladies and gentlemen, and we'll be back and continue after this.
Okay, quickly uh some audio sound bites.
Uh Nancy Pelosi, one on Larry King live last night, uh talking about the uh the controversy here over uh the assignment of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana to uh uh the Homeland Security Committee was taken off Ways and Means.
This is Congressman William Jefferson Democrat Louisiana with ninety thousand dollars coal cash in a freezer.
Uh uh Ebskonna with a couple of uh rescue trucks during the Katrina aftermath to get something the size of a microwave out of his house down there, still hasn't been indicted.
Uh people wondering where the indictment is.
This is what Pelosi said.
I removed him from the Ways and Means Committee that had something to do with the accusations made against him.
Homeland Security does not.
So if you got if you got ninety thousand dollars of coal cash in a freezer, you can't be in the ways and means committee, but Homeland Security, no problem.
None whatsoever.
Roy Blunt called this ludicrous.
He is uh uh in the Republican leadership.
And the idea that Homeland Security is somehow less important than the tax writing committee, uh I think is a ludicrous idea.
Uh let's go back.
November 7th, 2006.
Just just just as to review.
Uh Nancy Pelosi's election night pledge.
Today, the American people voted for change, and they voted for Democrats to take our country in a new direction.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C. And the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.
Which is not possible given that they're Democrats.
But it's a nice, you know, gold star for effort.
All right.
So William Jefferson, Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, uh obviously uh uh involved in something here that's could soon uh see him under indictment.
Not good enough for the Ways and Means Committee, but no problem on Homeland Security.
However, Republicans raised hell about this.
As a result, Nancy Pelosi has postponed until at least next week.
Action uh on a resolution that would place embattled Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat Louisiana, on the Homeland Security Committee after Republicans said they would demand a roll call vote that could be potentially embarrassing for some Democrats.
Leadership aides confirmed today the vote has been tentatively scheduled for some time next week.
The reason it would be embarrassing for certain Democrats is that a lot of Democrats don't want to vote for the guy.
And they would probably be muscled into having to do so uh by by Pelosi.
So um she has delayed her decision on Congressman William Jefferson Democrat, even though he was there.
I saw a picture of him that was participating in hearings on the uh web.
Anyway, Mark and Beton Ruse, Louisiana.
Hello, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi, Russ.
It's a real pleasure.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Um I just wanted to call to kind of clarify some some misconceptions that uh you in a previous caller seemed to have about emissions offsets and uh cap and trade programs.
And the uh the idea of a cap and trade program is that the governing body, and I guess for Kyoto, that would be the UN, allocates to facilities a certain number of allowances and credits that they're allowed to emit.
Wait, wait, wait.
The UN.
The UN uh allocates to facilities a certain number of allowances and credits they're allowed to emit.
That's correct.
The UN.
And then well, it it depends on the program.
Say uh Houston is in non-attainment under uh EPA for Knox and so the or nitrogen oxides, so the Texas uh Commission of Environmental Quality, they allocate emissions for for those, for NOx, not just in oxides.
So the UN does.
The UN tells Texas what its nitrogen oxide is.
No, no, no, no.
I'm just saying that for under Kyoto for carbon for the the countries that uh that have subscribed to Kyoto Protocol, I'm supposing that the UN would allocate those allowances.
And then and then once they're allocated.
But Kyoto is bogus.
Kyoto Koto.
I understand that.
I agree with you.
I mean, uh I'm I'm not disposing disputing that at all.
But um the mechanism is that they're allocated, and then the facilities can sell those on an open market to each other.
So the idea is that one facility that that reduces emissions by either being more efficient or shutting something down, would be able to sell uh a certain amount of those credits, usually measured in tons to another facility.
And um I know under Kyoto, some pollutants, some uh greenhouse gases, quote unquote, are considered uh more polluting than others or more more greenhouse effective than others, and so a facility that produces uh some of those chemicals actually has you know for one ton the ratio might be fifty to one or a hundred to one, depending on the chemical.
Right.
And so I know that in in particular India is really doing good on this because they produce some of those high polluting or or high greenhouse gas factor chemicals.
Um and so they really kind of cash in on that.
But I'm I believe that the company in California is basically just buying those credits from facilities and in countries that are subscribed to the to the treaty and passing and passing the costs on to you for buying those taking them off the market.
Right.
It's for suckers.
It is.
I mean it it it it does take the emissions credits off the market.
Well, you sound like you sound like you support this stuff.
This is for suckers.
No, no.
It's good for business, but it I don't support it at all.
It's a crock.
But um how's it good for business?
It keeps regulators off their uh rear ends?
Well, I'm I'm an environmental consultant, Rush.
So I mean overall it's it's it produces business.
Let me ask you a question.
If you're an environmental I just learned about have you ever heard of anaerobic digestion?
Sure.
What is it?
Anaerobic digestion is uh well it's it's respiration without oxygen.
So that's the way yeast produces alcohol.
But it's a way to take methane, it's a way to it's it it basically it it it helps cows uh expel gas without methane, right?
Um I I don't know the details on on that method uh if they're putting something in the feed to digest the methane.
Exactly right, exactly right.
They put something in the feed and digest the methane so they chew it into cud rather than expel it uh the tailpipe.
Right.
Okay.
Um that's I guess that's that's uh innovative approach.
But the the goal the global issue is a lot of things.
This sounds this sounds state of the art to me.
This is a fart blocker.
And we're we're garbon offsets, fart blockers, we've got anaerobic digestion, we got your thing with India and the UN.
I'll tell you what, I'm gonna drive with even less guilt than I have ever had when I leave today, folks, to go play golf where there is no manure on the golf course.
Back in just a second.
Stay with listen to me, folks.
These carbon credits, these offsets are nothing more than the precursor to an imposed tax on energy usage, maybe an international tax.
You are being set up.
I will explain this in greater detail tomorrow on Open Line Friday.
Looking forward to it.
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