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Let me check the oil price real quickly here, folks.
117.79.
And in a lot of places out there, gasoline has now fallen below the $4 tipping point price level.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, it was not all that long ago that I suggested to you that these inordinately high prices of petroleum and related products, led by the oil price approaching $150, just could not be supported by the market.
Now, we've got, what do we have here?
We have a bubble bursting, perhaps.
I mean, the speculators are getting out of this.
There's something going on.
I remember passing along a story to you three weeks ago about jet fuel and how the price of jet fuel was coming down because all these airplanes have been parked by the airlines, leading to a lot less jet fuel being purchased.
And that story was a Bloomberg story.
And it just, right in the middle of the story, with hardly any fanfare at all, predicted an oil barrel price of $90 by January because of all this.
I don't know if that's accurately projected or not.
But if this keeps going, folks, we're going to be looking at a bailout of big oil.
They're going to be looking at a bailout of ExxonMobil and Shell and the British Petroleum conglomerate.
At any rate, we'll have more on this and the whole energy thing because the Obama camp continues to push the tire gauge.
I mean, this is incredible.
They continue to push this tire gauge thing as an energy plan.
They claim to have found proof somewhere that over-inflating your tires, if we all did it, would save something like 50,000 gallons or barrels a day or some such thing.
It's just absurd.
And the drive-bys continue to circle the wagons around Obama's tire gauge thing.
And then, I mean, McCain continues to make fun of it.
But McCain went out there.
This is just mind-blowing.
McCain, discussing this, said he agreed with Obama that inflating tires could save some energy, could save some gasoline.
And then he went on to disagree with him about something else.
It just, I mean, issues are delivered here on a silver platter.
And the McCain campaign does some great things producing some ads.
But this guy, when he goes off script, people are wondering, does he have it in him to lead a campaign which is going to mock the phoniness and the hypocrisy of the Messiah?
Oh, we got a lot on the plate today.
Plus, everybody is chatting in one way or another about Paris Hilton, the Celebi Tardard's retort to the McCain ad that had her and Brittany Spears in that commercial about making fun of what happened over in Germany, one of the 200,000 people.
Here is, if you haven't heard this, this is Paris Hilton's ad.
It's at funnyordie.com, which is a website that's been put together by a bunch of former Saturday Night Live people.
Hey America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity too.
Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy.
I'm just hot.
But then that wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I'm running for president.
So thanks for the endorsement, white-haired dude.
And I want America to know that I'm like totally ready to lead.
Okay, so here's my energy policy.
Barack wants to focus on new technologies to cut foreign oil dependency, and McCain wants offshore drilling.
Well, why don't we do a hybrid of both candidates' ideas?
We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars.
That way, the offshore drilling carries us until the new technologies kick in, which will then create new jobs and energy independence.
Energy crisis solved.
I'll see you at the debates.
She called both candidates BI itches there.
We bleeped that up because of our standards on this program.
Now, actually, when you listen to this, the first thing you realize is that Paris Hilton didn't write it, but that she delivered it pretty well.
It's pretty well done, and it's pretty funny, and it's a great retort.
But now, we've got Paris Hilton in the presidential campaign.
I don't know for how long, but she's in there.
Now, you just heard what she said about her own energy plan, which on the face of it sounds somewhat reasonable.
It's not, but it sounds reasonable.
Takes elements of both sides.
We keep drilling here, and that'll tide us over till all these miraculous new things come to fruition, which they won't anytime soon.
Here is, listen to Laura DeAndrea Tyson, who was one of Clinton's primary economic advisors and who's now on the Messiah's team.
And by the way, this again dispels the notion there's anything new and unique, untried in the Obama camp.
This was yesterday on DNC TV.
The anchor Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, asks Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Obama economic advisor, Obama, who voted for the energy bill in 2005, which Democrats have long called the Cheney Energy Bill, because it came out of his task force.
So isn't the Messiah a little bit vulnerable on that?
We need a multifaceted energy policy.
It includes some drilling, bringing a million electric battery vehicles onto the roadways by 2015.
Increasing our dependence on renewable energy in electricity, doubling it to 10% within the first term of the Obama administration.
All right, now, I don't care what she said.
I want to compare the way she sounds with Paris Hilton.
Now, we've got to be fair here.
Paris Hilton was reading obviously a teleprompter.
I doubt that she memorized the lines, but she might have.
I don't know.
We just heard from here.
In fact, Mike, why don't you play number 10 again?
And in a very short period of time after that, we'll play Paris Hilton.
So 10 and 11 are the soundbites here.
And you just compare which of these two women, the Obama economic advisor or Paris Hilton, sounds the more intelligent.
We need a multifaceted energy policy.
It includes some drilling, bringing a million electric battery vehicles onto the roadways by 2015.
Increasing our dependence on renewable energy in electricity, doubling it to 10% within the first term of the Obama administration.
Here's Paris Hilton.
We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars.
That way, the offshore drilling carries us until the new technologies kick in.
Which woman sounds the more intelligent here?
I mean, you got to give it to Paris Hilton, don't you?
I mean, a straight up and down vote, you got to say that Paris Hilton sounds a little bit more cogent, a little bit more informed, a little bit more confident, a little bit more up to speed than Laura DeAndrea Tyson.
Plus, Paris Hilton has the added benefit of being hot.
But that didn't influence my vote.
I'm just...
Now, beyond this, beyond the fact that we have proclaimed...
What do you mean, only me?
Only...
Mm-hmm.
Well, I'm not trying to inflate Paris Hilton to intelligence.
I'm just doing it side-by-side here, and I'm telling you how I hear it.
You know, I'm a social commentator, I'm an observer, and I hear these things, and it seems to me that Paris Hilton sounds a little bit brighter, more informed, more confident on the issue than Laura DeAndrea Tyson, who's Obama's economic babe.
Now, aside from that, I know it may sound funny, but it's true.
Aside from that, the policies are identical.
What Laura DeAndrea Tyson said and what Paris Hilton said are identical.
And so, is Paris Hilton actually a celebratard or is she an Obama advisor?
Or whoever wrote it for her is an Obama advisor.
Anyway, quick time out.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
And we are back, El Rushbo, on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
When the Messiah, the Lord Barack Obama the most merciful, made his summer intern tour to the Middle East and to Europe, with all of that fawning, sycophantic media coverage, I used a word to describe what would be the fallout of this.
And that word is backlash.
I said there will be a backlash against the drive-by media and a backlash against the Messiah.
It looks like I was right.
Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half of the people in the country say that they're tired of hearing about him.
With Election Day still three months away, 48%, this is a Pew Research Center poll, 48% said they are hearing too much about the Messiah and the same about McCain.
But the point is, everybody that's just, they're overdoing this.
Everybody is having, or a lot of people having a backlash, Obama this, Obama that.
And it has to do with the way Obama is being covered.
It is an amazing thing to watch.
And this poll was taken, by the way, from August 1st through the 4th.
It was a telephone poll, 1,004 adults, and the margin of error was minus, plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Well, despite the fact that people are fed up with hearing about the Obama, we still, and the Messiah, we still, my friends must talk about what's happening with him in the news, and let's go right to the tire gauge business.
We have a montage of the drive-by media circling the wagons on this.
If engines were tuned up and tires fully inflated, would save 800,000 new barrels of oil a day.
Would it produce the savings Obama is citing?
3 or 4% in overall oil consumption?
The answer is yes.
Truth is properly inflating your tires will do more for saving money on gas than anything the politicians are going to do right now.
Everybody and their grandmother knows you inflate tires.
This is, this is, this is surreal.
This is unreal.
Notice how the drive-bys, by the way, let me tell you who the drive-bys were.
They're Jake Tapper.
Excuse me, friends, a little hoarse today.
I was up late last night, very, very late last night, working hard preparing today's program.
We had Jake Tapper, CNN's Tom Foreman.
Craig Crawford is the guy who said, the truth is, properly inflating your tire, do more for saving money.
I'm getting anything.
Politics are going to do right now.
How many of you, ladies and gentlemen, are driving around on flat tires?
I need a show of hands.
How many of you are not inflating your tires?
Do you understand how absurd this is?
I know they've got a website that they're citing.
They've got a website they're citing that says all of this is true.
This tire gauge business inflating your tires.
It's absurd.
For this fact, as it is now being presented to be true, we have to know how many Americans are driving around on flat tires or under inflated tires.
And we can't possibly know that.
Wouldn't we assume, ladies and gentlemen, that most people are driving around with tires that are properly inflated?
So what is this is this is so the Obama comes out and makes this ridiculous to anybody who wants to buy into this and the media especially sycophants.
These people are going to die of anal poisoning, as I have suggested.
Circling the wagons to try to make us believe that we don't need to drill for any more oil because all we have to do is properly inflate our tires.
You know what this reminds me of?
It reminds me of one of the early days in the 1990s in the environmentalist wacko movement.
They tried in Southern California to shut down backyard barbecuing between 5 and 7 o'clock because the theory was that if everybody in Southern California, L.A. on down to San Diego, fired up their charcoal briquettes at 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the effect on the atmosphere would be disastrous and incalculable.
And they actually had people believing this for a while.
And they went about it by saying, well, yeah, yeah, I know you think you just got your little Weber back there and you throw your briquettes in there, throw in your rons and lighter fuel, light it up.
What possible damage?
But imagine millions doing it at the same time.
Oh, yeah, I hadn't thought about that.
People actually bought into this for a while.
Now, of course, that's histoire because it was all BS.
I just, the more this oil debate, if you were listening yesterday, you know how absolutely incredulous I am about this.
This whole business that oil has become the enemy.
And I'll tell you why.
I figured I asked yesterday, how in the world can an entire political party and ideological movement develop a hatred for a commodity?
It's akin to hating soybeans.
It's akin to hating sugar or cotton.
How can this happen?
Well, there is a key element in the hatred of oil, and that is the stupid, ignorant belief that it is contributing to the destruction of the planet.
It is organic.
Oil is a more natural substance than ethanol.
Ethanol is not made by the Earth.
We have to mix various elements in order to create ethanol.
And ethanol is just moonshine.
That's all it is.
It's just high-octane corn liquor.
Pretty soon you get to give your car a sobriety test in addition to you if you get caught weaving along.
So this hatred for oil, aside from the environmental concerns, but you know what else it is, folks?
Get what else it is?
They don't control it.
The left doesn't control it.
The left and the Democrat Party don't control oil.
Oil is the fuel of the engine of freedom.
And they don't like it.
And they don't control it.
Anything they don't control, any industry.
Look at their enemies list.
It's every successful corporation or genre of business that you can imagine.
And it's just, but it's irrational.
As so much of the left these days is, it is irrational.
Now, this tire gauge business is a clear illustration of the agenda-driven nature of the Obama sycophants in the drive-by media.
To actually say, as play this montage again, Jake Tapper, Tom Foreman of CNN, Craig Crawford, and some talk show hosted.
If engines were tuned up and tires fully inflated, would save 800,000 new barrels of oil a day.
Would it produce the savings Obama is citing?
3 or 4% in overall oil consumption.
The answer is yes.
Truth is, properly inflating your tires will do more for saving money on gas than anything the politicians are going to do right now.
Everybody and their grandmother knows you inflate tires.
Exactly right.
So who's driving around on flat tires?
Here's the Mathia himself doubling down on his own gaffes because of his arrogance.
This is in Berea, Ohio yesterday at a town meeting.
If everybody in America inflated their tires to the proper level, we would actually probably save more oil than all the oil that we'd get from John McCain drilling right below his feet there, wherever it is that he was going to, wherever he was going to drill.
Go ahead, Bremer.
They're making fun of a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4%.
It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant.
You know?
I mean, they think it's funny that they're making fun of something that is actually true.
They need to do their homework because this is serious business.
Instead of running ads about Paris Hilton and Brittany Spears, they should go talk to some energy experts and actually make a difference.
Okay, so he's doubled down here on his own gaffe and he's out there selling the idea.
Isn't it interesting that Tom Foreman of CNN used the same 3 or 4% overall oil consumption figure that Obama used in the double-down comment yesterday at a town meeting in Berea, Ohio?
It is just, it's breathtaking.
It's breathtaking.
The debate for the presidency of the United States is now focused on tire gauges replacing the development of sources of energy.
It's just, I think I'm going nuts.
I have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
El Rush Bull behind the golden EIB microphone, starting on our 21st year of broadcast excellence.
Here's more on this tire gauge business.
This is in El Cart, Indiana.
Obama continuing to make fun of the whole notion of drilling for oil.
I asked him yesterday to keep this up.
Keep laughing at the notion people want to take steps to lower gasoline prices and energy price.
You keep laughing at it, Obama.
Go ahead.
You laugh at that.
The American people need to see you laughing at it and making fun of that concept.
As often as possible, we're going to help.
Here's this little bite from this morning.
George Bush's own energy department will tell you that you will not see a drop of oil from offshore drilling for seven years.
Seven years, and that even when full production is gone, 20 years from now, it would make just a marginal difference in terms of the price of gas.
But nevertheless, John McCain stood in a building somewhere and he said, We're going to drill here and drill now.
And I don't know what he knew was below there.
Sophistry, ladies and gentlemen.
This is childish immaturity from the Democrat presidential nominee, the Messiah Barack Obama.
This is true, childish immaturity, this kind of comment.
And they keep reiterating this seven to ten year business and drilling.
Now, get what they're saying.
They're saying you properly inflating your tires will save more oil than anything we're going to drill for.
Now, here, that's an interesting timeline thing, by the way, to show you the sycophancy of the drive-by media.
When Obama first made this comment, he said, if we inflated our tires properly and got tune-ups, why we would save more oil than we are going to get by any new drilling, which was just off the charts absurd.
Later, it has been modified by Obama to be this 3% to 4% business.
And the drive-bys are right in line with it, continuing to ignore what he originally said about this.
And they think they're on a roll over tire gauges.
Once again, it boils down to something very crucial.
Conservation is great, and I'm not opposed to it.
Neither is anybody else.
Conservation doesn't equal growth.
You strip all this away, and you still are left with a Democrat Party at war demonizing oil, demonizing energy, doing their best to make you hate it.
They want people hating oil just as they want people to hate George W. Bush.
One more Obama bite.
And this is interesting too, because I mentioned this at the beginning of the program: how McCain's out there agreeing with Obama, but only partly.
Last night, after all that, Senator McCain actually said he agreed that keeping our tires inflated was a good idea.
Which makes sense because it turns out NASCAR, which knows something about tires, apparently said the same thing.
So did the AAA.
And so in the coming days, it's going to be interesting to watch this debate between John McCain and John McCain.
Now, you know, while I would love to see McCain, I think McCain debates himself anyway already, and has been doing so for quite a while.
But ladies and gentlemen, the Triple A and NASCAR are not saying that properly inflated tires will replace drilling for oil.
They are not saying that.
We've known for how long, of course, you got to have air in your tires.
Gee, this is so.
I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, for appearing so hysterical about this, trying to remain coherent because this just defies any reason whatsoever that we're even having this debate.
People are actually debating the concept of tire gauges replacing drilling for oil.
That's what this boils down to.
Now, this is the McCain business.
McCain did say, I have the quote.
McCain said, yes, yes, I agree.
I agree with the AAA.
We should all inflate our tires.
And that's what the drive-by's are reporting.
The drive-by is reporting that that's what McCain said.
We should all inflate our tires.
They'll say, hey, McCain agrees with Obama.
The rest of the quote, after McCain said, yeah, I don't disagree with inflating tires.
The AAA strongly recommends it.
But I also don't think that's a way to become energy independent, said McCain.
And they're leaving that out.
The drive-bys are leaving that out of his quote.
So he doesn't agree with Obama, thank God, on this.
He agrees with him on too many other things.
His leading vice presidential candidate, Tim Polenti, the governor of Minnesota is out there praising Obama today.
I don't know about what.
I just saw the graphic.
Now, listen to this, though.
Yesterday and Good Morning, America, on ABC, the reporter Jake Tapper, who was part of our montage earlier, circling.
And I like Jake.
I think Jake's pretty good.
They've got this website.
All the media guys have got this website somewhere which purports the Bush Energy Department that purports to say that inflating tires will save all the, it may, but it doesn't replace drilling for oil, which is Obama's point.
It doesn't replace new sources of energy, period.
And the idea that it's 800,000 barrels, did you 800,000?
Who said?
Go back to the original pic.
Yeah, it was Tapper.
800,000.
We said 800,000 new barrels of oil a day.
Do you know how many barrels of oil we import a day?
I looked it up.
Do you know how many barrels of oil we import a day?
About 10 million.
49% of it comes in the Western Hemisphere.
But that's another discussion.
So we import 10 million barrels of oil.
Properly inflated tires almost would reduce that to only 9 million a day.
Is that what we are to believe here?
The only way that could be is if people are driving around on flat tires and nobody's driving around.
The assumption is that nobody's driving around on correctly inflated tires.
This is just plain stupid.
And the way these people circle the wagons and fall in for this, and they are supposed to be journalists.
I mean, at least intelligent people.
I know they're in the tank for Obama.
And I know that they want Obama to win.
And they think his candidacy is historic.
But for crying out loud, I would not throw my reputation away.
I would not dare do what they are doing with my own reputation.
This is just.
Anyway, good morning, America.
Jake Tapper interviewing Ann Mathias.
She's with the Stanford group.
And this is what Ann Mathias said.
Unless everybody in the country is driving, you know, a 1969 Chevy Impala or something like that with the tires at half inflation, you're not going to realize as much savings as he's talking about.
Precisely.
Jake and Jake Tapper was doing the interview with her.
I like Jake.
In fact, at one time, just to share a personal thought with you, I thought Jake should be considered to replace Tim Russert.
This is just mind-boggling because she's exactly right.
I don't know what the Stanford group is, and I don't know who Ann Mathias is, but I'll bet she knows what I am and what the EIB network is.
And we're both on the same page here.
If everybody's driving around on flat tires, friends, then this stuff matters.
And it's a tune-up business.
We dealt with that yesterday in great detail.
Cars don't get tune-ups since 1985.
Here's go to the phone.
San Bernardino, California.
This is Dave.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Good morning, Rush.
How are you doing today?
And dandy, sir.
The over-inflation of the tire thing.
I'm a licensed mechanic for 25 years here in California.
It's an old trick the mechanics used to do to give you the impression that you got better gas mileage when they weren't tuning up your vehicle.
You can check with the Bureau of Automotive Repair.
It's an illegal procedure here.
Wait, wait, I lost you.
We're talking tune-ups or tire inflation.
Tire inflation.
Now, the whole thing is saving barrels of oil, right?
Yeah, what you're talking about.
25 years, old trick mechanics used to do start this again.
Okay.
During the smog check program, the old Bar 90.
Let's see.
Cars would come in with bad emissions.
The mechanic would sell him a tune-up, not perform it, over-inflate the tires so that the customer thought that he was getting better gas mileage.
Okay, okay.
So they'd come in and ask for a tune-up, the mechanic would fake the tune-up and charge for it.
Right.
Which doesn't save on.
Well, no, but I've run into this so many times.
I mean, this is mechanic tells you you need a tune-up.
What are you going to do?
You can't go do it yourself.
Most people can't.
Say, okay, yeah, fix it.
At any rate.
At any rate.
But there's a whole point of it.
I'm just a little nervous being on the phone, but you can do some research on that.
And it wouldn't save on a million barrels of oil a day or such.
Of course not.
So you would over-inflate the tires so the customer would think he's getting got a tune-up because his gas mileage would be better.
Right.
When in fact, the car wasn't fixed.
There's more emissions.
You're not saving, we're not saving any fuel.
Yeah.
You know, this is getting even more absurd.
This is just.
Don't be nervous out there, Dave.
I appreciate the call.
I just, I didn't hear a couple things you said in the first go-around.
It was my fault, not yours.
I am tempted.
I am tempted to actually go out and over-inflate my tires and deal with the dashboard warnings that I will get.
And I want to see if my mileage increases from what I'm getting now, which is about seven and a half miles a gallon to eight miles.
I want to see.
I just, I know they say this, and I know that, but I don't believe it's noticeable.
I don't believe you would actually notice it.
Then to get into all of this, how do you keep your, how do you know when your tires are not losing?
What about wind?
If the wind's in your way, you got a headwind, you got two forces against you.
Then you've got roadway tension, and you've got wind tension.
This is all just, I cannot believe this whole thing.
As to mechanics lying to you about your car, hell Kansas City making no money, 1976, no, 79.
Old Pontiac Bonneville on its last legs, air conditioner's not working.
Then it starts doing all the engine just goes nuts.
I'm out near the Kansas City Royals Stadium at the time, Royal Stadium.
So I pull into this mechanic, this auto repair shop.
The mechanic had a plastic Jesus on the cash register.
I said, this is the place for me.
So I took it in there and the guy looked at it and said, you need a new disgronificator.
I've never heard of a disgruntled.
What do you need?
Well, you can't drive without it.
I mean, you're not, you could, you could leave here and you might get a couple, three miles, but you're going to be back here.
I said how much it costs, $800.
$800 for a disgruntificator.
And I didn't have another car to use.
I mean, I'm just, I'm in a jam here.
So I said, okay, go ahead and put it in.
So we've all had our experiences here.
Somebody tells you something's wrong with your car, you can't fix it yourself.
You just got to get it done.
And if it drives you, maybe you'll get a second opinion someplace.
Anyway, quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue here on the EIB network after this.
Ladies and gentlemen, look at me.
Look at me.
Don't doubt me.
We cannot inflate our way out of this.
Don't buy into that.
This is just, you know what, folks?
I think you have to be certifiably insane to be able to participate in this discussion.
Look at what is happening here.
We actually have the Democrat presidential candidate presenting to us a plan that could never be verified.
We will never know if everybody is doing it, properly inflating their tires.
It's a pipe dream versus something we do know because we're living it, and that is drilling for oil leads to gasoline.
We cannot inflate our way out of this, my friends.
This is just literally insane.
And I'm sounding so frustrated here because I'm not insane.
And therefore, discussing this is something I'm not used to.
I don't spend my time talking about stupid things very much.
And so I apologize for sounding so frustrated about this.
But there are some dangers.
You can over-inflate your tires and cause yourself real problems.
I don't know how many people, because Obama is saying, and he's a presidential candidate, he's a messiah.
I don't know how many people are going to start putting more air in their tires than they should.
How many of these people are going to have blowouts?
How many of these people are going to hydroplane through puddles of water, have accidents as a result?
And there's a host of other things bad that can happen when your tires are too full.
NASCAR, by the way, doesn't use air.
They use nitrogen.
Somebody needs to pass that.
Yeah, I think I'm right about this.
They use nitrogen.
It's a little bit more constant.
The pressure stays more constant.
It leaks less.
I'm not fully aware of all the details.
And there's some people that put nitrogen in their cars and tires instead of airs.
But you over-inflate your tire.
Be very careful about this, folks.
If you over-inflate your tires, you are reducing the ability of the tire to absorb road shocks.
This can result in a much harsher ride.
In fact, excessive over-inflation may lead to impact fracture or other casing failures in the tire.
I looked this up during the break.
We've got a potential health problem looming here if people fall into this trap and start thinking that Obama is going to increase their gas mileage by 30% or whatever.
You overinflate, you're going to cause wear and tear on the entire tire, which will result in premature removal of the tire, which means you've got to replace the tire, which means that big tire stands to profit from a number of people going out and over-inflating.
Everybody knows, folks.
Everybody knows that we need air in our tires.
But apparently Obama does not know that we need gasoline in our tanks.
And putting air in our tires does not put gasoline in our tanks.
We cannot inflate our way out of this.
And we're back El Rushboat serving humanity, trying to hold on to my sanity.
At the same time, let me ask you a quick question, Mr. Snerdley and the rest of you out there.
Anybody have any idea what tires are made of?
Yeah, but where do we get rubber?
What's rubber?
Where is, well, sometimes some trees.
Yes, petroleum.
Tires are made as a derivative, in many instances, of oil.
So somebody needs to tell this little messiah that in order to have tires to inflate, we got to drill for oil.