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June 13, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2008, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, wrapping up another sterling, excellent, fun-filled, thrill-packed, exciting week of broadcast excellence on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday!
Right now, here's the telephone number, 800-282-2882 and the email address El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
We go to the phones.
You can talk about whatever you wish to talk about.
Feel free.
It's our favorite day of the week.
Well, that's tough to say.
We like them all, actually.
Oh, favorite day of the week, except for Mr. Snerdley, who finds it his most challenging.
Again, 800-282-2882.
All right, let me tell you what else is shaking out there.
In addition to the Obama campaign lying about who started a rumor about his wife, Michelle Mybel, supposedly going off on some rant at the pulpit at their wacko church and using the term whitey to describe white people.
Nobody on our side ever said it was true.
Nobody on our side ever said they'd seen it.
Democrats put it out.
This is all being done on purpose so as to discredit any critic of Obama at any time on anything.
That's what this is about.
Now, there's another little controversy that's hilarious and it's brewing out there.
And this, by the way, all this happening to the Messiah who is going to unite us.
Apparently, earlier this week on Fox, Michelle Malkin appeared as a Fox News contributor, a guest analyst.
And whoever was composing the graphics that you see on the bottom of the screen put something up that said something along the lines of Michelle is Obama's baby's mama or baby mama, Obama's baby mama.
Now, the root of this, and the Obama camp is just livid, and they're accusing Michelle Malkin of saying it.
She didn't say it.
She didn't even know it was on the screen when she was watching.
Somebody at the Chiron department back at Fox put it up there.
Don't know how it happened, but it did.
When you say that somebody is somebody, baby mama, it's considered to be somewhat insulting, although I don't know why I should insult anybody with pop culture the way it is today.
But it's considered to be insulting because it means that the baby is not the product of a loving marriage.
So, I mean, we have a number of births that don't come from loving marriages, and they are celebrated, Hollywood and this kind of thing.
Drive-bys go nuts over, you know, who's messing with who.
So anyway, this is, so in case you haven't heard it, on Fox News, there was a graphic, and it said Obama's baby mama.
It had a picture of Michelle Mybel.
In case you didn't hear about this, well, if they want me to spread rumors, I'll spread truth.
This actually happened.
It was on the Fox News channel.
A little graphic that said, under a picture of Michelle Mybel, it said, Obama's baby mama.
And of course, Obama's baby mama is upset about it.
And of course, Obama is upset about it.
And the website, the anti-smear webs, they're all upset about it as well.
So this is, this is the, it's funny to watch this stuff.
What I think is hilarious about it is that it's all happening to this guy, this Moses, this Messiah that has all these great qualities that can unite everybody behind him.
There is no evidence of it.
The guy's a myth.
He's a 100% total myth caricatured and created by a bunch of handlers.
ExxonMobil said yesterday it's getting out of the retail gasoline business in the United States as sky-high crude oil prices are squeezing margins.
Did you hear this, Snerdly?
Would somebody send this story to Senator McCain?
They are getting out of the retail gasoline business because it's not profitable.
There isn't a large enough profit margin in it.
Those branded service stations, ExxonMobil service stations, may be the most public aspect of Exxon's business, but they account for a small part of the company's profits.
Did you hear that?
Gasoline sales account for a small part of their profit.
It's such a small part.
It's a windfall, Limboy.
I'm telling you, it's a windfall.
When I say it, it's true.
No, sir.
Their profits in gasoline are so small that they are not worth the hassle to earn.
And so they're going to sell them.
Again, I ask, you talk about windfall profits.
Some Belgian bunch wants to buy Anheuser-Busch for $46 billion in some change.
Have we ever investigated the obscene profits of beer manufacturers?
Have we ever investigated the obscene profits of beer distributors?
A license to print money.
You don't have to know diddly squat.
You get the franchise to be a beer distributor for AB, as McCain's wife is.
Will we ever investigate those profits?
As obscene, as outrageous.
Out of the roughly 12,000 ExxonMobil branded stations in the United States, Exxon owns about 2,200.
Exxon plans to sell those stations over several years.
They include about 820 stations they also operate.
The company will maintain the Exxon and Mobile brands.
So no matter who owns it, you're still going to think it's ExxonMobil.
Consumers will still be buying gasoline at stations that carry the Exxon and mobile names, but they will not be owned by the company.
Service stations have struggled even with a $4 a gallon plus gasoline price because they've not been able to pass along to consumers their additional costs from soaring crude oil.
Now, you might ask, well, why is that?
Why is that?
How come they can't pass along?
Because all it takes is for somebody down the street to cut it a nickel.
And you lose when prices are this high and are causing this much an intrusion, this large an intrusion in the way people live.
By the time if you're driving a big hog around there and it takes 80 to 100 bucks to fill up and a nickel reduction in the price will make that $100 $90, you'll do it.
And there are little games that are being played.
There's competition in gasoline, despite what people think.
There's competition in retail gasoline.
There are a lot of different companies that refine it and supply it.
And so the operators are not able to pass it on.
In a lot of these quick shop operations where you got gas pumps and you go inside and you spend like $45 for a couple Twinkies, the gasoline is the loss leader.
Well, it is, Snerdly.
What are you sitting in there laughing about?
Whatever you go in there and buy, okay.
I'm telling you, it's true.
Do you know how expensive the little munchy items you are, you get inside?
What do you think?
That's what carries the freight for these guys because this story's true.
The margin in gasoline, no matter how high the price gets, is not that great because it still costs them.
I mean, their wholesale price increases accordingly and proportionally.
So there's so much misunderstood about this.
The sad thing is, the sad, sad, sad, the really, the really potentially dangerous thing is that the greatest degree of misunderstanding happens to reside inside the skulls of the two presidential candidates we have to choose from this year.
Ladies and gentlemen, I, your host, Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, depression, torture, humiliation, stupid Supreme Court decisions, and even the good times.
I have a fast fix for energy, a fast fix for the energy prices.
There is no instant cure, as we know, for rising energy prices, but as your host, I, El Rushbo, have a plan to get on the right track sooner rather than later, as close to a quick fix as humanly possible.
It all starts with our gas stations.
We do have gas stations out there.
And these gas stations pump regular gas and they pump premium gas.
Some of them pump diesel.
On every pump, every pump that distributes regular gas, we post a picture of Harry Reed with the price appearing in his mouth.
On every premium pump, we post a picture of Nancy Pelosi with the price upticking in her wonderful smile.
Then you could drive up to any station and ask for a tank full of Reed, or you could ask for a tank full of Pelosi.
We would explore, we would drill, we would refine faster than a liberal can attack a Republican.
You gas station guys, you want to turn a profit in your business?
Go out and get some pictures of Reed and Pelosi.
Stick them on your pumps, put the price in there.
And then when the self-serve people come up, just make them say they want, you know, fill up with Reed, fill up with Pelosi.
Interesting.
One of the writers at the Limbaugh letter, Catherine Ernst, shh, just sent me the most fascinating thing.
Her subject line is, hey, dude.
What boss, what boss, I ask you, ladies and gentlemen, would smile when an employee addresses an email, hey, dude.
I smile.
I distinctly remember this because I'm from Illinois when Obama won his Senate seat in 2004.
At the victory party, Michelle introduced him to the crowd as my baby's daddy.
And she did so rather excitedly.
I grabbed the transcript off Nexus.
Here's an excerpt from CNN.
Wolf Blitzer.
We can take a look.
Maybe he will, maybe he won't.
But she looks like she's about to introduce him.
Let's listen in.
Michelle Obama, wife of Barack Obama.
And in the middle of her glowing, excited introduction of her husband, Barack Obama, she said, my baby daddy, Barack Obama, yeah.
She introduced her husband as my baby's daddy.
Barack Obama, Senator-elect Illinois.
Thank you, Illinois.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Illinois.
You know what?
I'm thinking I might have seen this.
Not that I remember she said my baby's daddy, but what I remember, but if this is what I saw, if it wasn't this, it was another event.
But I remember she did some rousing introduction of this guy.
I mean, it was one of the best introductions I've ever heard.
She was calling him my man.
I love this guy.
My man.
She might have said, my baby's daddy.
Barack Obama.
He came out and didn't even acknowledge her.
And I thought, how in the world does you not thank your wife after an introduction like that?
So I may have seen this.
Anyway, Obama said, thank you.
Illinois, thank you.
Thank you, Illinois.
I don't know about you, but I'm still fired up.
I'm fired up.
Look at this crowd.
Thank you, Illinois.
Let me begin by thanking all the people who have been involved in this effort from downstate to upstate, city, suburb, from every community throughout the state.
Let me say how grateful I am to all of you for the extraordinary privilege of standing here this evening as your senator-elect.
Let me thank, because I'll forget later on, it's a thankless task.
Let me thank right now the best political staff that's been put together in this state.
They're wonderful.
You know who you are.
You guys have been outstanding.
I appreciate all of you.
Let me also thank my pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ, fellow Trinitarians out there.
Let me thank all the elected officials who have stood by me through thick and through thin.
But most of all, let me thank my family.
So this is 2004.
This is four years ago.
And Michelle introduces him as my baby's daddy.
Right.
So we'll find a way to get that on the Obama website in the form of a comment.
Here is Pete in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Pete, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Well, Rush, how are you doing?
Just fine, sir.
Thank you.
It's an honor to speak to you, and thank you, and thank God for your presence.
I don't know where we'd be without you.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you very much.
Rush, if I may, I just have two points, and the second one will be quick.
The first one a little longer.
The Supreme Court's decision, I mean, with Gitmo and habeas corpus, I am outraged beyond anything I can think of.
For them to confer our constitutional rights that we have fought for and died for on those barbarians is just beyond the pill.
And these people could not possibly, these five liberal elitists, five lawyers, could not possibly have shown a greater disdain for the Constitution and still say they love America.
It's impossible.
You can't.
Liberals always bristle when we say you don't love America.
Guess what?
Actions speak louder than words.
And thanks to this grateful decision, Rush, lawyers now are going to be more involved with what we do with POWs than the military.
How insane is that?
And soldiers are going to mirandize these guys?
Rush, the physical danger to America is better enough.
Well, wait a minute.
We don't know we're going to get there.
That's an extreme place this could end up.
It's possible.
It's possible.
Absolutely.
It's possible.
And fair enough, but it just shows how outrageous, outrageous this entire decision is.
And once again, activist judges have totally disregarded the will of the vast majority of people and done what they want.
No, there's more to this than that.
I mean, you've got, if you look at Kennedy's opinion, Justice Kennedy's opinion.
Yes, I did.
He basically says that the integrity of the Constitution is more important than any little upheaval in American life that might come along.
And that's when it's most important.
Kennedy is a model.
He's not a liberal activist judge, I don't think.
I've known him, haven't seen him in a while, but he was in Sacramento when I was at law school out there when he was appointed.
But it's with the liberal activists.
They have succeeded here in doing what they've been trying to do ever since the Iraq War started, and that's take the prosecution of the war out of the hands of the commander-in-chief and put it in the hands of judges.
In this case, the Jihad 5.
That's exactly right.
But it's purposeful.
It's not a mistake.
It's not a mistake.
It is a purposeful uphealing, upheaval of the United States Constitution.
And the only remedy for this, there's only one remedy, a president who is going to appoint different kinds of people to the Supreme Court.
That's it.
That's the only remedy.
Lindsey Gramnesty is even mad about this because he was involved in writing the congressional law that the Supreme Court demanded before this decision.
And they still said it's unconstitutional.
So he said that they're going back to the drawing board.
Yeah, it's just they never even gave that opportunity, an opportunity to play out.
They just threw it out and decided it wasn't going to work.
Just if the president just refused to do this, I mean, doesn't he have that recourse to just bring this to a constitutional issue, a constitutional crisis?
Our entire republic, but the entire history, we've always said execution of wars is the commander-in-chief in the legislative and the judicial stay home.
And they've decided not to do that.
And I don't understand why the president would not say, you know what, I'm not going to do this.
I'm just not going to do this.
This is not right for the country.
It's not right for our security.
I'm not going to do it.
It's not who he is.
I know.
I know.
Rush, I know you're in rush for time.
If I can make one more quick point.
That Obama site, I went up and I looked, and of course, you're blamed for everything.
You know, you did global warming and you've done everything that's wrong with the entire world.
All conservatives are.
And I know you can't say this, but wouldn't it be just a shame if your entire listening audience at 3 p.m. Eastern today decided to go up and take a look at that Obama site?
I'm sure it could handle that kind of bandwidth, don't you think, Rush?
I don't think it'll be a problem at all.
Well, you want to shut down their server?
You know, why don't we let them know that we're out here, too?
They may own every television, but by God, there are some of us out here that understand the truth and are really tired of this.
And when is America going to wake up?
When are we going to start railing?
When are we going to start getting the muskets?
When are we going to start doing all the things that made this country great?
When is it going to happen?
When do we need to lose another city?
It's insane what these people are doing to our country.
It's just absolutely insane.
Well, I think that the statement that you've just made is pretty comprehensive.
Yep.
Well.
And as far as recommending a massive attack on the Obama website to shut it down, that won't last long, and they'll be back up and running.
And then they'll start attacking us for attacking their little website and so forth.
Well, I know that.
They won't shut it down.
We don't want to shut it down.
We want more and more people to see the absolute BS and lies that make up that website.
Well, your point is well taken.
There's no question about it.
But Rush, I'm going to let you go.
I know how much time you need, other people, but thank you again.
Keep up the battle.
Keep up the good fight.
We're going to win this eventually.
Thank you, Pete.
Appreciate it.
That's Pete from Norwalk, Connecticut, who wants to go out and grab the muskets and the pitchforks and wonders why nobody else is eager to join him out there on the front.
Pete, you're not alone.
Just trust me in your frustration level at least.
And we're back on Open Line Friday here on the cutting edge.
Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone to Royce City, Texas.
Jonathan, glad you called, sir.
Nice to have you here.
Yes, thank you.
I admire you a lot, and I really love your program.
Thank you, sir, very, very, very, very much.
I just wanted to tell you about a little incident I had at work with these light bulbs that all the Democrats and liberals are promoting, saying, you know, they're better for everybody.
You're talking about the compact fluorescent light bulbs.
That is correct.
What happened?
You were mandated at work to replace your incandescents with these compact fluorescents?
No, sir, not exactly.
What happened was I was straightening the stuff on the aisle, and I noticed that one of the boxes had fallen, and I picked it up to look at it, and one of the bulbs was broken on the inside.
And there was a little cut out in the cardboard box, and I realized I inhaled some of the fumes, and I immediately went and placed it in a plastic bag, and went and I. How did you know to do that?
Oh, I heard it on your program.
You knew that there was mercury in there, and that was potentially dangerous.
And if you broke it in your house, Jacola has met people.
Oh, I heard it on your program, of course.
And so, anyway, my eyes started burning immediately.
The back of my throat started getting dry.
Really?
That bulb had already fallen from the shelf.
You just happened to walk by and see it?
That's correct.
And I picked up the box.
And it had the bulb in it.
That's correct.
And basically, I went to my boss and I said, you know, hey, I think, you know, something happened.
I think we need to make an accident report.
And so we had to call a registered nurse through a hotline that we have at our work.
And I described my symptoms to the nurse.
And she said, put your boss back on the phone.
And she told my boss to call the paramedics right away and have them come treat me right there at the scene.
And so the ambulance showed their truck and they put me in the ambulance.
They hooked me up, wires and everything.
All this for a broken light bulb?
That's correct.
And then they said, you know, we think you need to, they said, we can't tell you what to do, but you should probably go to the emergency room.
They said, we can take you, or we'll tell your boss to let you go or have somebody take you.
However you want to do it, we'll get you there.
And they told me that on the way en route to where I work, they had to call poison control and find out exactly what they were supposed to do because even the paramedics didn't know what they were supposed to do.
And what they described to me, they described the wrong kind of light bulb.
They described the really long, like the eight-foot-long light bulb that you would see in a warehouse or something.
Yeah, the standard fluorescence.
That's correct.
So anyway, I told him, you know, I just want to go to the emergency room and I'll go by myself.
And finally got to the emergency room and the doctor walked in and he's like, you know, how did you, what makes you think you inhaled mercury vapor?
And I was like, well, you know, told him about the light bulb and he basically looked at me and said, I've never seen anybody treated, ever seen anybody that's inhaled mercury vapor before.
Said, honestly, I don't know what to tell you.
I'm going to have to go look this up in a book.
I'll be right back.
Now, wait a second.
Yeah.
The EMS guys didn't know what to do with mercury poisoning and the doctor didn't?
That's correct.
The doctor in the emergency room.
Where is Royce City, Texas?
It's near Rockwall.
Oh!
Well, hell yes.
Okay.
Yeah, there you go.
Rockwall, Texas.
We all know where that is.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay, by Dallas.
But so anyway, he left, and, you know, I guess he checked my, you know, my, listen to my breathing and everything, make sure, you know, I wasn't going to die.
And he just said, he's like, there's really nothing that I can do for you.
There's nothing I can give you or prescribe for you.
He said, I don't even think we have the necessary equipment to run tests if you were dangerously exposed to this stuff here at the hospital.
We would have to take blood and mail it somewhere and have get the results back on the next day if I wanted to do that.
And I was like, okay, you know, that's great.
Now, Jonathan, I've got to tell you, some people here are listening to this and not believing it.
Yeah.
Now, we've heard stories that if you do have a compact fluorescent in your house, and if it breaks, that you are to call a hazmet people.
But mercury vapors?
Yes, sir.
Mercury vapors?
Well, how come it only affected you?
Were you the only one in the room?
I was the only one on the aisle, but as soon as I placed it in the plastic bag, I gave it to the individual who's supposed to defect the item out and seal it up and keep it protected.
And it was a short time after that where that individual started hyperventilating and couldn't breathe, and they almost had to call paramedics back again for her.
Well, how long did it take you to recover since nobody could do anything for you?
Just a few hours and a pounding headache and some Tylenol.
Wow.
America is at risk here, folks.
I didn't have any idea that it was this severe.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are not prepared for the coming crisis.
Do you feel like you made a sacrifice that, nevertheless, Jonathan, was important to help save the planet?
No, I do not.
I felt endangered.
Well, this is an incredible story.
I had no idea that it could cause this kind of problem and that the medical community had no idea what to do.
John, let me make you a suggestion.
Do you mind if I, I mean, since the medical community was not able to help you by their own admission, the EMS guys didn't know what to do.
Your ER doctor didn't know what to do.
Correct.
Do not stop being monitored.
Okay.
Continue to be monitored long term.
We don't know yet the full effects of this.
I agree.
You've been an unwitting guinea pig, but you can perform a service with the ongoing regular monitoring of whatever levels, bodily fluids and this kind of thing.
Do you know a good trial lawyer?
I don't.
I could find one, though.
Well, you might call John Edwards.
Yeah, there you go.
Out of work.
I'm just kidding about the trial lawyer business, but you might want to, it's like, you know, we have a program here, Keep Our Own Kids Safe.
Right.
And the Keep Our Own Kids Safe program is an awareness program to alert parents to the dangers of soccer, the dangers to damaging the head of these young kids who go out and play.
It's far more dangerous than football out there.
And I remember I had one guy call me.
He didn't think that our program was worth it.
The Keep Our Own Kids Safe program.
He thought that it was much ado about nothing and that I just had a bias against soccer.
And he told me that he had been hit repeatedly.
He'd played soccer a lot.
He'd had a lot of headshots.
He'd done a lot of this and he was no worse than where.
And I said, well, the thing is that the victims are the last to know.
I told him to continue to consult family members to tell him if there had been any changes in his behavior.
Because he'd been, it admitted to me that he'd been beating himself upside the head with a soccer ball for a long time, and he thought he was normal.
But the victim's the last to know.
You might think you're normal when you're not.
I agree.
I mean, if something like this can happen, a compact fluorescent bulb, and the medical community in Rockwall, Texas does not know how to deal with it.
This is frightening stuff.
It is.
Well, I'm glad you had the courage to pick up that light bulb.
That was a great act of courage.
You saved somebody else from perhaps getting real sick.
You saw it.
You knew.
You knew because you had listened to this program, you took a risk that was sacrificial on your part, and you paid the price.
I did.
But you have lived to tell the story to help others survive this kind of tragedy down the road.
I did.
I hope so.
Well, you did.
You're going to be applauded.
Thank you very much.
All right, Jonathan.
Thank you.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
I just went to the Consumer Product Safety Commission website.
Jonathan, I don't know how long ago this happened that you got your mercury vapor poisoning out there in Rockwall, Texas.
But according to what I have just read on the Consumer Product Safety Commission website, mercury vapors are hazardous.
You need to close your store and lock it down for a while.
Well, listen to this.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is alerting consumers that mercury vapors, which have no odor, are hazardous.
The CPSC recommends that consumers avoid breathing mercury vapors.
Too late for you, Jonathan.
Most uses of mercury that expose consumers to fumes are banned, except the compact fluorescent light bulb, which we are being forced over time to put in our homes.
However, some ethnic traditions encourage the sprinkling of mercury around the house for religious reasons.
This is hazardous because people, especially the obligatory young children, could breathe the mercury vapors.
Mercury can cause serious and permanent nerve and kidney damage.
Mercury poisoning has these symptoms: rapid heartbeats, sweating, irritability, or hostility, withdrawal or shyness, memory loss, peeling of hands and feet, leg pain, slight hand tremors, difficulty with fine motor control like handwriting, sleeplessness, and headaches.
Young children and children born to women exposed during pregnancy may be especially sensitive.
If you believe you have mercury poisoning, see a doctor.
If mercury has been sprinkled in your house, open all the windows so the mercury vapors can escape.
It may take several days of ventilation to eliminate the mercury.
If you have questions about how to clean up and dispose of mercury, call your local health department.
They will send the hazmat team.
To avoid mercury poisoning, do not sprinkle mercury around the house or expose people in the home to mercury.
They have just put weapons.
These things are now going to end.
You let the word spread on how toxic these light bulbs are.
You average house, how many arguments take place between husband and wife and the 2.8 kids.
Somebody gets mad, unscrews a light bulb, and throws it at somebody else.
Again, the environmentalist wackos.
Forcing the incandescent bulb by 2012, you're not going to be allowed to have it, folks.
Whether you got turtles on your beach or not.
John in Buffalo, New York, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Great to be with you.
Hey, those conditions you were just talking about, I thought I usually just got those from talking to the Democrats and liberals.
What, the mercury vapors?
Yeah.
Yeah, sort of similar.
They are very similar.
Hey, Rush, I just wanted to comment on what you were talking about earlier.
I used to own a branded gas station up here in Western New York by Buffalo, and you're absolutely right.
The amount of money you make on gasoline today is infinitesimal.
It's just tiny.
And you have to make all your money on the groceries.
And even then, that's a challenge because you've got to deal with theft and shrinkage and spoilage.
And it's a very tough business to be in these days.
And I wasn't surprised at all when I heard Mobile say the other day they were getting rid of 800 of their company-owned stations.
Well, isn't it also true?
What's the average capacity?
Your gas station when you owned it, how many gallons could you put in your underground tanks to service your pumps?
You could put up to anywhere from, say, maybe 8,000 gallons up to about 20,000 gallons in your storage tanks in the ground.
But most people don't want to build a gas station unless they know it's going to do on a minimum of about 80,000 gallons a month.
And that bets a minimum.
Most people want to try to do about 150,000 gallons a month.
Okay, now, in this climate, without any interruptions, what's the normal rate that the tanker would show up and fill your tanks?
Once a week?
Once a week?
I've been out of it for a few years, Rush, but I would say when the tanker shows up and what you're selling at the pump, there's probably not more than maybe about a six-cent gallon profit for the local guy.
Right.
And when he shows up, you've got to be able to pay him.
You pay him a lot of money.
You have to make gas now.
They're paying OD.
Right.
You have to make a profit on the previous tank that you purchased.
Exactly.
In order to pay for the next one.
And you've got to have a next one or you don't have any business inside.
Exactly.
And a couple of other points, too, if I could just add, Rush.
Up here in the Buffalo area, we have the Indian reservations nearby.
And the Indians now are selling their gas for only about 2 to 5 cents less than what the normal branded stations are selling for.
But yet the Indians don't pay anywhere near the amount of taxes that a regular branded station does.
That's like cigarettes.
And it's all pure profit that goes in their pockets that the rest of the guys are stuck paying.
And see, that's all it takes.
And that's why you guys can't raise your prices enough in competition in order to make a significant profit.
I know a lot of people are going to be surprised to hear this.
John, they've seen gasoline prices way up here.
They're seeing oil company profits reported to be way sky high.
They're listening to these two presidential candidates talk about obscene windfall profits.
And today they're hearing that the profit for people that sell gasoline is nothing, and that Exxon wants to get out of that because the profits there are minuscule.
And I'm sure it's confusing to a lot of people.
I'm sure a lot of people don't believe this because it doesn't make sense to them.
But I'm glad you called and verified and validated what I said.
David in Maywood, New Jersey, Open Wine Friday, you're next.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I am an average American, and I am grateful for ExxonMobil.
And I consider this my Father's Day gift, so thank you.
I've been out of work for the past three months.
I've watched a lot more media than I ever thought I would.
And whenever the question is asked, what do we do about rising oil prices?
They have long-term solutions which are drill, of course.
But they seem to come up short with the short-term answer.
But I think it's the same answer.
Because when the world sees that the United States is determined to become the world's leader in energy, the price is going to fall.
And so I just think it's the same answer, just drill.
You are exactly.
Well, every project has a first step.
And you're not going to get started until the first step is taken.
But you are very shrewd out there, David.
Very shrewd because the argument that the environmentalist left and their willing accomplices, the leftists in the Democrat Party, are all saying, well, this is just ridiculous.
Drilling is not the answer.
And they've got this pet phrase that's designed to discourage the whole notion of drilling.
We can't drill our way out of this is their phrase.
We can't drill our way out of this.
Let me ask you people something.
We're citizens of what?
The United States of America.
Now, since when are we going to allow ourselves to be led by a bunch of people who say we can't when it comes to something that we've already done and that we have excelled at?
When did we decide we want to be led by a bunch of people who say that we are in a constant state of decline and we deserve to be in a constant state of decline?
When did we decide that we're going to be led by a bunch of people who say we can't?
In your personal life, do you hang around with people who say you can't do that?
We can't do that.
That's not inspiring.
Why in the name of hell would people vote for people who will tell you we can't do that?
We can't drill our way out of this.
Yes, the hell we can.
It's that simple.
And yes, the hell we should.
It's that simple.
Drill here, drill now, pay less.
We're the United States of America.
We can do it.
Hey, let me see if this headline grabs your attention.
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