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July 29, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 29, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Well, the Justice Department has announced the indictment of Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator.
I'm not yet sure just what the indictment is about.
I've seen two different things.
They're being indicted for shady deals with lobbyists.
Remember, they raided his house.
And then another report says that he's going to be indicted for false statements, which is like the Martha Stewart indictment.
And they've got a press conference coming up at 1.20 this afternoon, just shortly 15 or so minutes from now to explain the indictment of Ted Stevens, longest-serving Republican in the Senate.
Have you heard the latest about Steve Fawcett?
The balloonist, this adventurer.
He went up in this experimental airplane and went down, and they searched him, searched all his time.
They think now he faked it.
They think Steve Fawcett faked it.
Fawcett's a friend of Richard Branson, the Virgin Airlines and music and everything else, entrepreneur, first man to fly nonstop around the earth in a hot air balloon, went missing last September when his final flight in a light plane over the Nevada desert went missing.
Lieutenant Colonel Cynthia Ryan, U.S. Civil Air Patrol, has said Fawcett, whose body your plane was never found, could still be alive.
I've been doing this search and rescue for 14 years.
Fawcett could have been found, should have been found, but they haven't found any wreckage.
They haven't found one morsel from the airplane in which he was traveling.
It's not like we didn't have our eyes open.
We found six other planes while we were looking for him.
We were pretty good at what we do.
Well, wait a minute.
If they found six other planes while looking for him, how long have those six other planes been out there?
You mean they might have missed those six other planes?
They weren't looking for those, so I guess they couldn't say they missed them.
But anyway, the rumor is, ladies and gentlemen, that he's purposely skipped out on a bunch of debts and affairs, deals, and stuff that were cramping his style.
And that his wife out there thinking he's dead and so forth, but he may have faked this whole thing just to escape a lot of pressures that have been placed on him.
By the way, welcome and Sir Rush Lindbaugh program, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, our 20th anniversary week celebration underway.
20 years on the network, celebrated this Friday, August the 8th.
Let me check real quickly here the crude oil price, see what it is now.
We're at 121.74.
It's been down as low as $120 a barrel today.
It is continuing to slide, and a lot of people say, okay, what's making this happen?
Now, see, it's interesting to follow this.
You know, the thigh bones connected to the tailbone or whatever, supply and demand.
It works.
Now, the Democrats in the drive-bys, of course, need a villain when the oil price and the gasoline price go up.
And they usually attack big oil.
But of late, they've been going after the speculators.
Well, now, all of a sudden, the speculators, I mean, somebody, I mean, they're selling, and it's from a high of $145 down to $121.
Now, what has happened?
What's happened?
By the way, I remind you, and I said these high prices cannot be supported for very long by the market.
I mean, they have not stopped speculating snurdily.
They're speculating the price is going to go down now, not up.
They haven't stopped speculating.
There's a lot of all kinds of speculating going on out there.
They haven't stopped speculating.
There's now speculating the price is going to go down.
Why?
What's causing this to happen?
Well, there are a whole bunch of factors.
There's more supply on the market.
People are driving less.
People are flying less.
There's far more supply out there.
We don't have any kind of a supply problem.
So supply and demand, it makes sense.
Gasoline prices are falling a little bit too.
But you've had two things out there.
You've had President Bush with a press conference canceling his dad's executive order that prohibited offshore drilling.
That caused, I think, a huge impact on the speculation market, even though it was not followed by any substantive action from Congress.
Then, yesterday, Harry Reid caved on some drilling aspects of legislation because the Democrats are getting heat about this.
The Democrats are running scared.
They have not wanted, neither Pelosi nor Reed have wanted any votes on drilling on any legislation in the House or Senate because they know a lot of their members would cave and vote with the Republicans on this.
This still is.
I don't care if oil is down from 145 to 121.
I don't care if gasoline is down from 405 to 398, whatever it is.
This is still the salient issue with the American people, economics and gasoline.
They are still driving less, and they don't want to drive less.
They don't like the impact that these prices are making.
And so anybody standing in the way of something easily understandable-more supply, less cost.
Anybody standing in the way is going to take heat.
So Harry Reed and Jeff Bingaman, or Bingham, I should say, is the Energy and Natural Resources Committee chairman of the Senate, have put together a bill that would open nearly a billion new acres off the coast of Alaska for study as well as accelerating Gulf of Mexico leases.
The legislation drafted by Dingy Harry and Jeff Bingaman, Democrat New Mexico, would open nearly a billion new acres off the coast of Alaska to study it for drilling.
It would also dramatically accelerate oil leases in the western and central Gulf of Mexico.
The lout, Senator Frank Lautenberg, Democrat, New Jersey, I am unalterably opposed to drilling.
He's a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, cited a massive oil spill that closed nearly 100 miles of the Mississippi River last week.
It was not an oil, it was not a, it happened on the river.
It did not happen in the Gulf.
And it was not an oil derrick or a platform or a well that sprung the leak.
Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat Washington, urged Reed to be very careful about drilling off the coast of Alaska.
Reed could also face resistance from the Democrats who opposed drilling off Alaska's shores.
Now, the Democrats are sticking out their chins, begging to be walloped on this issue.
This is Rick Moran writing the American Thinker, but I'm telling you, we've been trying here to emphasize to the Republicans what a fabulous dynamic issue they have here against the Democrats and Obama, not just the presidential race, but in House and Senate races as well.
There's no question the Democrats want you to suffer.
There's no question they want these prices remaining high.
They want you angry.
They want you angry at Bush, the incumbent Republicans.
They want you fit to be tied, and you should be at them.
So when Harry Reid announces that he's going to open, he's going to agree to open nearly a billion new acres off the coast of Alaska to study for drilling and accelerate oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico, bam, another three bucks came off the barrel price of oil.
So the whole concept here of drill, drill, drill, drill here, drill now, drill fast is paying off.
In fact, what's audio soundbite?
Let me find the audio soundbite here.
Backing all of this up, it looks like number 18.
Find audio soundbite number 18.
This is this morning on the Fox News channel's Fox and Friends, a portion of an exchange between the co-host Steve Docey and the Weekly Standard's Bill Crystal about the price of oil.
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh the other day driving in, and I heard him talk about how the Republicans have got a gift of sorts right now, and that is the fact that they've got a really good issue that they can beat up the Democrats with, and that is oil.
I agree.
I was on a panel with a Democrat the other day, and he told me privately that the one issue there at the Democrats polling shows is really breaking through is energy and drilling.
Americans just don't understand why the Democrats are preventing what looks like environmentally safe drilling in places where there could be oil and places where oil could be extracted from, like the oil shale in Colorado and elsewhere, when we're short of energy and when we're paying $4 a gallon.
So I think it's an awfully good issue for the Republicans.
Amen, bro.
It is a huge issue for the Republicans.
It's just going to take a little assertiveness going on offense, but it's made to order and is evidenced by Harry Reid caving on the issues that he did yesterday.
And he had to do that in order to keep some Democrats in his fold.
Should this ever come to a vote?
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Hey, Rush, it's your friend Sean Hannity, and I just want to say congratulations on 20 years of hosting excellence in broadcasting.
Now, I know you love Golf Rush.
You are the tiger woods of our industry.
And I know many of us, we owe you a debt of gratitude for paving the way for all of us.
Thanks for all you do.
We love the program.
Here's to another great 20 years.
Well, thank you very much, Sean.
He was right about something.
We are very good friends and now in the same stable, so to speak.
But yeah, we are celebrating our 20th anniversary here.
You all know how I don't like birthdays.
I'm starting to quake in my boots.
I know we're going to play these things in the first break of the first hour.
And I just, it's just, to see a simple thank you seems so insufficient here.
What are you guys, I'm sure they're making snarky comments.
I can see their facial expressions.
Yeah, I know.
That's why I said, don't just wait until Friday.
I mean, you know, we're just the waiting pool here today.
It'll start intensifying tomorrow and then reach the crescendo on Friday.
We are back, 800-282-2882.
If you'd like to be on the program, this is Don in Lake Ronkonkoma in New York.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Mega, 20th anniversary Dido's Rush.
Thank you.
You know, you're here at the 20th and 21st century equivalent to our founding father Thomas Paine.
Wow.
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate that.
Well, you're always dishing out conservative and moral common sense on a daily basis.
And like Thomas Paine, you have ignited a nation through your ideas and opinions.
Thank you.
You're welcome, sir.
Thank you again.
You know, if Barack Obama had spent the last 20 years listening to you instead of Jeremiah Wright, and in so doing embraced some of the conservatism, this would be a far more interesting political hand.
That's an excellent, excellent point.
And it illustrates, again, that his associations do indeed matter.
Yep.
Rush, besides your accomplishment of growing and holding the largest talk radio audience ever, and as well as maintaining a loyal staff.
Yes.
What event in the last 20 years stands out as your most accessible or gratifying to you?
I'd love to know.
There's been so many over the years that I've been captivated.
I've been a 20-year listener.
Well, now, you say there have been so many.
You know, when I get questions like this, a brain freeze sets in, and I can't remember all of the things that may have happened.
Can I help you?
You give me some things on your mind, yeah.
The Barbara Shona charity, remember the woman that was killed by the Cougar?
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Your leukemia charity event, your Rush on Broadway event for Katrina victims, the Anne's Bake sale, the optimism surrounding your determination to overcome your deafness, the Clinton years and impeachment, the 2000 election fiasco, the 9-11 attacks in the aftermath.
Wait, wait a minute.
You said the most.
Well, getting us through it.
Oh, I thought you said, well, I misunderstood that.
What was the most gratifying thing that I thought you'd asked that had happened in the last 20 years?
And all those, I mean, all those are extremely gratifying.
That's all I could think of off the top.
Well, no one else, too, Rush.
You are still the king of the eBay auctions with that Schmearlen?
No, I've been edged out by $100,000.
I don't think so because I have to disagree, Rush, because you went into that auction knowing that you were going to match it.
Well, true.
I did match it.
And so the total amount raised was double what lunch with Warren Buffett got, yes.
But the amount that was actually pledged was $100,000 more for Buffett.
eBay made a big deal out of everybody knowing that.
They had to.
What I was going to say when I misunderstood your question, what I was going to say, and it's really hard to pick one or two things here.
I know.
It's harder even to remember all the things.
Yeah.
I'd been so many.
What took me so long to get on a success track in this business, I started radio in 1967.
It wasn't until 1984 that I started to experience any kind of success.
So the whole ride here has been that you've shared.
Yeah, but none of that should be discarded.
But I'll tell you, I think early on that the thing that probably solidified it for me was when my first and second books came out.
Those books both sold 2.5 million copies hardcover.
And the second one did that in eight weeks.
So it was actually on the New York Times bestseller list far less than the first one was.
It was on for a year because it just kept going.
And the reason it's one thing to turn on the radio and listen, but it's another thing to go to a bookstore and actually engage in the physical act of buying a book.
And that's, you know, those two things were profound because I had no such expectation.
I have both of your books out autographed by you, Rush.
Well, you do.
Well, congratulations.
I thank you, too.
But when those events happened, that's sort of being slapped upside the head and say, hey, this is real.
And it's got some staying power.
And it was the first.
I remember the first book party, first party for the party for the first book, and it was at 21.
And I was so woefully unprepared for all of this.
I mean, I just was so naive, which is nothing wrong with it.
You have to live through things to learn them.
But, I mean, I had invaded, again, the literary crowd, the publishing business.
And there were people that were not happy about this.
There were some bookstore owners that weren't happy about it.
There were some bookstores.
You people remember that tried to buy them.
You had to go to the fiction section.
You had to go to the cooking section.
They'd put them upside down.
And even in New York, outside Coliseum Books near 7th Avenue, they had people standing guard.
If you went in and tried to buy my book, they would try to intimidate you from doing so.
There were feminist-oriented bookshops in California that would not stock it.
And yet it just sold through the roof, and the second one did too.
I mean, if you combine the hardcover and the paperback, over 9 million copies of those two books are in print.
So this book party, was at 21, and I remember, don't remember the gentleman's name, remember his face.
I think he was with, at the time, Time magazine, Time Warner, some executive there.
And he came up to me and says, how do you feel about this?
How do you feel about this many of your books being sold?
And I said, you know, I'm kind of humbled by it.
And he just could not understand.
He's humbled.
You are humbled by it?
Why, nobody can believe this.
And you're humble.
I said, yes, I'm humble, but what do you, well, he could not understand that I, what I was trying to say was that what I just told you, it's one thing to turn on the radio and listen to it, to go out, two and a half million people, go out and buy a book when the only books that sold in those quantities were fiction books by people like Grisham and Tom Clancy.
Yeah, I was humble, but he did not understand the emotion that I had about this.
And I remember a lot of other people, I mean, the book party was very nice, and it was fun, but you could just tell that most of the people there just could not believe this.
They were not really understanding it.
They were a little bit excited because of what it might mean for the nonfiction publishing business.
But even at that, it was a strange experience.
The second book party was out in Los Angeles, and that one, that was really odd.
I mean, I had to leave my own book party early because there were so many people showed up that I had no clue were going to be there, that I had no, I didn't invite them to know who they were.
It was just an autographed photo session, and I just, I got, I got swamped and swarmed, and I handed it out, I went to Chasin's and had an adult beverage.
Hello, Rush.
This is Camille Paglia, a staunch supporter of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
Many congratulations on your amazing career as a political analyst and ACE broadcaster.
You single-handedly saved and revolutionized AM Radio.
Zowie, Camille Paglia, she is in the tank for Obama.
I read her stuff religiously.
She does like Pelosi.
She likes Obama and likes me too.
In fact, I'll tell you a funny story about Camille Paglia.
Shortly after a profile of me by 60 Minutes, I guess a couple years after that, they had an anniversary of their own bash at a Temple of Dendar at the Museum on Fifth Avenue.
And they invited me to attend.
And by this time, folks, I was up to speed.
So I was suspicious of this.
I mean, 60 Minutes had profiled a lot of people, and they wanted me there.
And when they, you know, they had all their former hosts that are no longer worked there, plus their current hosts go up and make little speeches, and they showed highlights and clips of 60 Minutes from previous episodes, and they showed nothing from mine, which didn't surprise me.
So I took a guest.
I took the editor of my two books, Judith Regan.
And when we finished the presentation that they did in their highlight reel, the women went into dinner, which had been catered in the Temple of Dendar.
And they had seated me at Camille Paglia's table.
Because Camille is a famous lesbian and a famous liberal.
And these guys at 60 Minutes thought that there was going to be fireworks because of their preconceived notions of me.
And Steve Croft, who had done the profile of me, kept circling my table all during dinner.
And Andy Rooney kept, you know, looking over now and then.
And I finally figured out what had gone.
These people were expecting this table to be thrown upside down by me, expecting me to storm out of there or get into some big fight with Camille Paglia.
When Camille Paglia saw me, she demanded I come sit next to her for a while.
And so we started talking about the First Amendment and free speech.
And our table probably had more fun than anybody else that night at the 60 Minutes Anniversary Party at the Temple of Dendar.
And Croft kept walking around looking for the fireworks to break out.
And I've stayed in touch with Camille Paglia ever since.
And she's her little jokes.
She listens to the program occasionally.
She teaches at Philadelphia, the University of the Arts.
And I remember there was, I better check my memory to get this.
I don't have to get it half right.
But I think her partner was doing, I can't remember what it was, but it involved Clinton and sex.
And I advised Camille, do it.
Put that display on.
Put that on display wherever you're going to do it.
Down in the village or someplace.
And she heard of it.
Yeah, I gave her a cigar.
I gave her a cigar.
Yeah, she's cool.
And she's very smart.
She's very fast and a delight to chat with.
But I'll never forget all these 60 Minutes people expecting fireworks at the Temple of Dendar during their anniversary bash at the museum.
Eileen in Wales, South Wales, New York.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I hope you have 20 more.
I waited for you for 30 years.
I voted for Barry Goldwater, so I know how old I am.
Wow.
I was watching MSNBC last night, which I don't do too often.
And Obama was being interviewed by someone about why he didn't go visit the soldiers.
Yes.
And he said, he started to fumble around and gave the same answers.
And then his voice kind of lowered.
And he said, I did go to Walter Reed recently, and I visited, but I didn't say anything to anybody.
And then I remembered that you had said a couple days ago that it would have been nice if he had visited them and hadn't said anything about it.
And I thought, yeah, well, you've said something about it now.
This is an ongoing controversy that is surrounding Obama, and that is his bailing out of two troop visits while in Germany to instead work out.
But he picked right up on what you suggested.
Well, they all listen.
You know, they will never admit it, but they all monitor.
They got somebody out there monitoring to see what's said here.
And if I come up with a good idea, they'll use it, like using the homeless in Denver, rather than trying to sweep them off the streets.
But this business with the soldiers, now, this to me is interesting because as is the case with every Obama quote-unquote controversy, this thing has more tentacles to it.
And trying to understand it and get your arms around it is next to impossible because so many people say so many different things.
And the original aspect gets obscured.
Now, the original thing, the point about which everybody is arguing is the original report, Obama was slated to go see some sick soldiers, recovering soldiers at two hospitals in Germany and bailed out.
He didn't go, as the original report said, because he chose to work out.
Then they said, why?
Well, we didn't want to, the Obama campaign said, we didn't want to make this a political event.
That would have been bad form.
And the Pentagon got involved.
And they said, well, he can't bring certain people with him because if he does, then if he brings campaign people, even military people that are retired, that are serving in advisory roles, and that would be a campaign event.
We can't have that because the military can't show preference.
And then somebody said, well, and you can't bring the media.
There won't be any pictures.
Then people say, aha, that's why he didn't go because there's no photo op here.
And so there's no value in it.
Now, I suspect, and now the campaign's denying that.
The Pentagon's saying one thing.
The Obama campaign is saying another.
The whole thing's gotten so cloudy and murky that people have forgotten what the first thing is.
The only thing you need to remember is that he had scheduled two troop visits and you figure, hospital visits, and you figure this has been squared up with the Pentagon.
The military was running this trip.
And then all of a sudden he doesn't go.
He canceled the trips.
Now, that's all you need to know.
Everything after that is simply CYA.
He didn't go.
There were ways he could have gone.
He could have gone with nobody knowing.
And he could have said so later.
And he could have said so in a flowering speech.
He could have used it in a very up even-handed way.
He didn't need to come out of there and make a press conference a minute.
He walked out.
He could have talked about, he was on a fact-finding trip, right?
This is all about fact-finding.
Okay, so go visit these two hospitals, take a limited number of people in there with you, walk out, go back to your next appointment, fly on to London, Germany, France, wherever.
And at some point later on down the road, you explain what you did.
But he didn't.
And so the excuses have mounted.
And with everything that happens with Obama, we get an excuse.
We get an excuse for Jeremiah Wright.
We get an excuse for Bill Ayers.
We get an excuse for his misstatements about timetables in Iraq.
We get an excuse after excuse after excuse for the things this guy says that are inconsistent, for the behavior that is inconsistent, for the things that make no sense.
And like this prayer that was ostensibly stolen by a yeshiva student in Israel, when in fact there can be no doubt.
This is a Democrat Party political campaign.
Could be no doubt that the intention of that prayer was to be made public by Hooker by Crooks somehow, some way.
And it eventually was.
So mission accomplished.
Everything that follows that is just a bunch of noise.
Fact is, people saw the prayer.
And the reason they want the prayer out there is to do battle with the notion that exists somewhere in the blogosphere that he's a Muslim.
There's a surprising high number of people who think that.
So they want to battle that.
So everything here is stagecraft.
And when the stagecraft couldn't be pulled off as they originally wanted it by visiting sick troops, then pull out of there.
Just don't go.
And understand that you're going to have your way with the drive-by media covering for you, fulminating over your explanation and amplifying it and putting it out there.
And the Republican is going to be left appearing like a bunch of chihuahuas, yapping at his ankles, when he's going to be given the moral high ground of not wanting to politicize a trip to sick, recovering wounded soldiers.
Well, the fact is he bailed because there was nothing in it for him, even though there was.
He could have used whatever he had gleaned in a very classy way in a future speech at his convention or what have you.
And he could have made new news.
He could have snuck in there.
Even he could have gone in there without cameras.
You know, they've got body watch people on him in the media.
They would have seen him gone in there.
It would have been even better if he'd have gone in there without a camera crew, without anybody documenting it.
Stay in there for whatever length of time, come out.
What'd you do in there?
I saw some sick troops.
I saw some wounded.
Can you imagine a drive-by putting that story?
It was a totally blown opportunity.
This comes from the arrogance and the condescension that exists, I think, primarily as general attitudes that leftists have, particularly those with egos the size of Obama.
So he's on MSNBC last night and he had to let the cat out of the bag.
Well, I've been to Walter Reed.
Been to Walter Reed.
See, somebody, they don't do everything right in this campaign, and everybody thinks that this is a well-oiled machine that makes no mistakes and that everything that happens is the result of a brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed plan.
And it is not.
Brief timeout back after this.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh with talent on loan from a god.
One thing about Obama and the troops, you know, earlier on in this little photo op tour that he had, by the way, this was not a resume-enhancing trip.
People have to understand this.
This was photo-op, photo-op, photo-op, photo-op.
That's all this was about.
And when there was no chance for a photo op with the troops, don't go see the troops.
Because Obama was with the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He was playing basketball with them.
Remember that?
He got off the plane walking a tarmac with them.
Uh-huh.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, well, here's the thing about that.
Remember Andrea Mitchell, NBC Names, Washington, complaining that all those pictures were provided to the military.
And the military was doing all the interviews in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And it was fake journalism, she said, fake interviews.
And so it was managed.
So we don't know how much it was genuine, how much it was put up.
The military managing this thing.
The military wants to stay out of politics.
You know, it could well be, ladies and gentlemen, and look at this is when Obama creates this kind of vacuum on a story like this and tries to obfuscate and confuse the answer, then it automatically leads to speculation by informed, intelligent people like you and me.
Maybe, just to throw out a possibility here, maybe Obama, the most merciful Messiah, Lord Barack Obama, chose not to go to the hospital, the two hospitals in Germany, because he didn't want to run the risk that the troops don't like him.
I mean, the troops are not idiots.
These people, they've been wounded.
They watch the news.
They know the Democrat Party has invested in defeat.
They know that Obama is still invested in defeat.
They know that Obama, the Democrats, if they can, will still secure defeat in Iraq.
If they can hang it, it's Bush's war.
Bush's war.
I've been to Afghanistan.
I know they watch the news.
They're not ignorant of what is happening.
They remember Harry Reid waving a white flag.
This war is lost.
They remember Harry Reid.
They remember Pelosi.
They remember Murtha.
And they've got, don't forget Obama, who's out there saying before he gets to Germany that the troops really didn't even do all that much to bring about the success of the surge.
So it's possible.
It's possible that the troops really didn't.
He was afraid.
It's not that they wouldn't see him.
Maybe he's afraid he would get less than a welcomed treatment.
Never know.
Here is Woody, Woody calling from Fort Myers, Florida.
Woody, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Ditto's from Florida, Rush, and it's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
I'll make it short.
Rush, the price of fuel, when it was steadily climbing up and up and up, my business requires me to fill my vehicles up every day.
It was killing me.
Every day it would go up with the price of oil.
And now I believe you said that oil is down to $121 this morning, and I believe the high was $160.
That translates, I believe, into 25%.
But yet, it takes a while for that to drop back down, Rush.
I don't understand that.
But actually, wait a second.
I want to get on your wrong side here, Woody, but I...
You couldn't do that, Roger.
Well...
Well, okay, good.
Correct me if I'm wrong, though.
I don't think that the price of gasoline ever got as high as it should have been with the oil price as high as it was.
$147 to $150 a barrel.
The price of gasoline did not reflect that.
It had gone up fast.
There's no question that the gasoline price had skyrocketed up as the oil price went up.
But it never got as high as it should.
It eventually stopped.
The tipping point's $4.
The national average stopped at $4.05 a gallon.
It could have gone to $5 or at least $4.50 a gallon had it kept up with the price on the spot market.
Well, I should have started this out by saying I don't use gas.
I use diesel.
And that is a whole nother thing.
Well, no, yeah, that is.
That's a whole different.
Not only is it different in terms of the price, but the taxes on diesel are far higher.
Federal taxes on diesel are far higher than on gasoline.
Now, the, I forget who puts out the number, but the national average, regular unleaded, which who the hell buys that anymore?
Well, percentage of the.
What are you, Dawn?
You don't buy regular unleaded.
What are you driving?
You put regular.
Are you putting regular unleaded in these General Motors cars?
Oh, no!
No!
Shouldn't have said that much.
It's down to 394 gallon.
Anyway, regular unleaded is now a 394 gallon.
Down from its top of 405s.
You know, it's probably not going to drop as quickly unless if the drop continues.
See, the drop is not happening as fast as the rise.
The decrease in price of oil is not happening as it shot up.
It's not at the same speed.
But look at, here's the point.
Here's the point about it.
Regardless of this explanation, you are right about one thing.
And that is it's still way too high.
It has gotten artificially up there for a whole bunch of reasons, and people are tired of it.
And they see now the price is coming down because of the laws of supply and demand.
That means, I mean, if the president can sit there and say, okay, I'm getting rid of this executive order banning billing, drilling, and if Harry Reid can open up more leases and the Democrats agree with it, and the price drops at combined $12 a barrel, the American people can see that if we commit to drilling equally more supply, that we're eventually going to be on the right road and the right path to increasing supply and lowering the price, which is what we want.
Boy, am I catching it from everybody here on the staff and the email?
Everybody claims they use regular unleaded.
You people are driving cheap cars if you are.
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