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Aug. 7, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 7, 2008, Thursday, Hour #3
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Okay, welcome back, folks.
We are here and ready to go for the final hour of today's excursion into broadcast excellence, hosted by me, L. Rushmo.
Great to have you here.
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Email address Lrushbo at EIB net.com.
It's true.
Forbes magazine says that Buffalo, New York, is among the top ten fastest dying cities in America.
Forbes created its list of metropolitan areas facing rapid declines through analysis of census unemployment and annualized gross domestic product data, which is all well and good, ladies and gentlemen.
But I wish they would also factor in what the tax rates are.
Both the uh the state and the city and all whatever whatever regulations that people face.
And of course, which political party is in power in these in these cities.
For example, look at Detroit.
You know what the burning question is in Detroit today, folks?
If you haven't heard this, uh Kwame Fitzpatrick.
Uh he ditched his bail for a day trip to Windsor.
And he got back, judge said, You're going to jail, mayor.
You're going to jail.
And he did a deep apology.
He said, I didn't mean it.
I was sorry that's not the Kwame No, and so forth.
Judge said, nope, you're going to jail.
So the big question in Detroit today is will their mayor be out of jail in time to campaign for Obama.
Burning question in Detroit.
It says that it's on everybody's mind.
Speaking of Obama, an attorney who volunteered to help him improve his relationship with Muslim and Arab Americans has resigned from the campaign amid questions about his connection to a fundamentalist Imam.
Mason Asbahi started as the campaign's outreach coordinator in July 26th.
He resigned in a letter to the campaign Monday.
He said he was stepping down to avoid distracting from Barack Obama's message of change.
Asbahi is an associate in the Chicago law firm Schiff Harden, said in his letter that he served on the board of the Dow Jones Islamic Index Fund for a few weeks.
But he resigned as, quote, I became aware of public allegations against another member of the board.
This this story, by the way, this is not even half the story.
When the this is an AP story that I just read to you by Nedra Pickler, but the original AP story on this was an abomination.
It was it was this this guy's a member of the Communist Party for crying out loud.
This guy's a CPUSA guy.
Obama has a guy from the Communist Party as an advisor on outreach to Muslims.
And that is what has forced him to resign when that became known.
Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media tracked this down.
Uh and and uh and followed it tremendously.
We've got a great report on it.
We'll link to it at Rush Limbaugh.com.
But yet another Obama advisor throws himself under the bus this time before Obama gets to it.
I guess we could say, ladies and gentlemen, that um Obama's Muslim thing didn't work.
Right, Robert from Detroit?
Didn't Robert tell me that we attempted to establish Obama as a Muslim, which we never have done on this program.
That's we've never gone there.
But apparently it did Obama did.
Obama tried to establish his Muslim reach out, the guy's a communist.
And somehow, Robert, it just didn't work out there.
By the way, Obama is uh in in early September.
I don't know if he's going over.
I hope he does.
George Clooney is throwing a $1,000 plate fundraiser for Obama in Switzerland.
Wait, it's $10,000 a plate.
1,000 to get you in, 10,000 if you want to eat.
And there is this is from uh the website called Hollyscope, uh, Holly Scoop Entertainment.
Let's see, he'll be hosting a fundraiser for Barack Obama in Geneva in early September.
Not just any.
Well, I I I hope Obama goes.
I don't there I can't tell if Obama's actually going to attend it from uh this story.
But can you imagine Obama getting on OFS One to fly to Geneva for a fundraiser after having told a seven-year-old little girl in Elkart, Indiana yesterday that his country isn't what it once was, and after ripping his own country in Germany a week ago,
going over to Switzerland for a Hollywood fundraiser hosted by George Clooney, who uh once told CNN, I feel at times that you you can you can harm the person you're trying to help, and I don't want to damage anybody, which is why he's not publicly on the campaign, and which is why he's doing the fundraiser in Switzerland.
So at least there's progress.
At least it knows it's gonna hurt, but maybe not hurt as much if it takes place in Geneva to the audio sound bites, let's go back to Elkhart, Indiana yesterday at a campaign event, Senator Barack Obama.
As president, I will put the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector behind a single overarching goal.
In ten years, we're gonna eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela.
All of it.
What is what is this magic ten years?
Ten years we're gonna destroy the oceans, ten years uh we've got no hope of surviving ten years, now we've got ten years to get off of Middle Eastern Venezuela.
Yes, Mr. Snurdy, program observer with a question.
What's the question, sir?
Uh well, the uh you mean Chavez or Obama in charge of the privatism?
Yes, no, he's a full resource of the federal government.
He said, as president, I will put the full sources of the federal government, the full energy of the private sector.
Oh, oh, oh, I see your point.
I see your point.
Uh, Associated Press Post Office posts one billion dollar loss.
The Postal Service had a net loss of more than a billion dollars in the third quarter of this fiscal year, the agency said that yesterday, for the quarter ended June 30th, the loss was 1.1 billion.
Now, this is the same people that some of you might want the government to run your health care.
Uh this is the same government, Barack Obama is gonna use the full resources of to see to it in ten years that we don't need, and we're not gonna get any oil from Venezuela or the Middle East.
Again, I I go back uh to yesterday.
Um when this guy starts talking about energy and oil, I get incredulous, and I start losing my coherence because it's just mind-numbingly stupid.
However, however, it's like when Obama goes out and seven-year-old little girl, Mr. Obama, Mr. Obama, why why do you want me president?
Because uh country not what it once was.
Country's gonna be a lot better than what it is.
While you and I sit here and absorb that, you have to understand that the Kook fringe base of Obama is out there cheering because they've been mad at him for all the flip-flops, and now when he goes out and rips the country, he couldn't care less what the seven-year-old girl thinks about it.
But this stupid insane lunatics that make up the Democrat base are standing up and cheering.
They do live in an alternative universe.
So Obama's we're gonna get rid of all the oil from the Middle East and from Venezuela in ten years.
This is just numbingly dumb.
Uh how are we going to do this?
Just what are we going to replace all of that oil with tire gauges uh answer here?
They're not gonna pull this off.
Uh tire gauges won't create any energy.
Uh what are we gonna uh uh what are you gonna do?
Where are we gonna get he's not gonna let us drill anywhere?
So where are we we can't drill our way out of this?
And as I said so eloquently, and if I say brilliantly let yesterday, we can't inflate ourselves out of this either.
But this is just a platitude.
It's a pandering applause line rooted in the Democrat Party's war on energy.
Oil as the big demon.
Now the next soundbite, this sound bite is the one in which he explains how he's going to do it.
How he's going to eliminate the need for all of the oil from the Middle East and from Venezuela.
To do this, we're going to invest $150 billion over the next decade and leverage billions of dollars more in private capital to harness American energy and create five million jobs in the process.
Jobs that cannot be outsourced, good paying jobs that will be created right here in Indiana and all across the United States of America.
Oh, yeah, right oh, right, oh, right, oh, right on.
Pipe Dream City.
We're going to invest $150 billion over the next decade.
That's $15 billion a year.
When we're talking energy, folks, that's chump change.
Can I be honest with you?
$15 billion a year with new energy?
So it chump change.
What are we going to do that we haven't done yet?
We're already doing wind.
You know what we got for it?
We're already doing solar.
You know what we got for it?
It may work down the road.
I'm not ridiculing it, but there's nothing out there to replace oil zilch.
Zero nada.
We're going to invest $150 billion.
That's that's your money, and then we're going to leverage billions of dollars more in private capital.
What's that mean?
We're going to create, like the Federal Department of Tire Pressure.
What are we going to do?
How are we going to leverage private capital?
Obama's government's going to tell the private sector what to do?
Or is he going to be create a sort of a Fannie Mae Freddie Mac situation for energy?
Just be front groups for channeling campaign contributions to uh to Democrats.
Yesterday, also in Elkhart, Indiana, here is Obama discussing oil in Iraq.
Some of you may have read in the newspaper.
Iraq has been getting a windfall because of rising oil prices.
They have a 79 billion dollar budget surplus.
At a time when we're spending $10 billion a month in Iraq, they've got almost $80 billion that's not being invested in services for suffering Iraqis or reconstruction.
That simply isn't true.
It is being spent that way.
But wait a minute.
Oh, that's beside the point.
I thought it was immoral to go to war for oil.
And now we got Iraq pumping oil to the tune of a 79 billion dollar surplus.
And he's he hates that oil too.
Hates Iraqi oil.
They're having a windfall.
Iraq has been getting a windfall because of rising oil prices.
Let me once again define a windfall profit for you.
A windfall profit is when you are an individual or an entity that reaps financial rewards, and having had done nothing associated with the activity producing those rewards.
It is thus, and therefore impossible for oil companies to have windfall profits.
Unless you want to talk about windfall losses, which they also incur, cyclical basis.
But you cannot, it's impossible for the Iraqis to have a windfall.
This is just more psychobabble from the left that is designed to get as many of Obama's supporters, Democrats, liberals as possible, hating capitalism.
Back in a moment.
Ladies and gentlemen, pardon me for just a moment here.
I have a message for the Messiah, the most merciful Lord Barack Obama.
Senator Obama, you say we're going to eliminate the need for all oil from Venezuela in 10 years and from the Middle East in 10 years.
And you're going to do this by investing $150 billion in whatever.
Senator Obama.
We could eliminate, I have looked this up.
We could eliminate the need for Venezuelan oil by drilling in an war by starting the process today.
And isn't it interesting, Senator Obama, based on your own rhetoric and that of the Democrat Party, you say, well, hell's Mills, if we start drilling today, it's not the answer.
Can't drill our way out of this way.
Not going to get any new oil for ten years.
Well, according to your plan, we're not going to need any new oil for ten years.
We're not going to need it till you get rid of Venezuelan oil.
So it seems like it'd be perfect time to go for and war.
And war comes online just at the same time you want to stop using oil from Venezuela.
Bingo.
And by the way, Senator Obama, six more and wars, and we could eliminate the need for Saudi and Middle Eastern oil.
Just six more and wars.
But of course, with Senator Obama, we can't have new oil in our energy plan.
Now it's got to be something that hadn't been invented yet and that doesn't work, but that we can waste a whole lot of money on.
Here is Gordon in Lakeland, Florida.
I'm glad you waited, Gordon.
Thanks very much.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm I'm a true conservative down here in Lakeland.
And um it's very rare that I think that I catch you in a mistake.
And it's probably even rarer that you actually are, but um I'd like to respectfully dissent with you on two points.
First, yesterday you said that um you disagreed with some points of Paris Hilton's plan.
Okay, I put that in quotes.
And um you said that you did not think that alternative energy would work, and today it sounded like don't take this the wrong way.
It sounded like you were flip-flopping just a little bit and saying that maybe way on down the line, uh solar and um wind could work.
And Sean Hannity and I are true conservatives, and we look forward in the future.
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but just like drilling is something that we need to start doing.
I believe that we should start doing alternative energy.
We're doing it.
Okay, okay, so I don't really disagree with you.
I think I'm misunderstood.
But the other point of disagreement is this.
Um early on you said that Hillary Clinton was the weaker of the two candidates to support her in the primary, and it sounds like you're flip-flopping on that point.
Um, am I correct in my assumption here?
No, I don't I'm I'm I'm I'm clueless.
You're a great solid hundred percent conservative by your own admission.
Right.
Uh I have said nothing of the sort on either of your points.
I am not opposed to alternative energy.
I'm the guy who says that necessity's the mother of invention.
And when the time comes and when we really need these things, it's gonna happen because we're free.
We're Americans.
We have the ingenuity, we have the creativity as long as people like Barack Obama are not in the way.
But the flat out reality is there is nothing anywhere on the horizon that will replace oil.
We've got pipe dreams about hydrogen, pipe dreams about uh hybrids and so forth, and they can take up a slack, put up a portion of the of the, but it's nothing's gonna replace oil.
Oil is too too ingrained in our in in all of our society culture in business.
It's so many products are made with oil.
This is this whole thing of getting rid of oil is absurd.
And I don't care, you may, you may be able to fly around or drive around in a hydrogen car or a hydrogen bus or what have you somewhere down the road, but you're never gonna have air transit rely on that.
There's gonna something's gonna happen.
I happen to think actually, that some bright-eyed wizard of smart is gonna find out how to use seawater to replace most of our energy needs.
Now, I think that's gonna happen.
That's just me, as is my gut instinct.
I'm not a scientist, and I don't play one on the radio.
Now, as for Mrs. Mrs. Clinton, being the weaker of the I I am totally confused by the point of Operation Chaos was to create the chaos by keeping her in the race, Regardless who got the nomination.
We weren't interested in who got the nomination.
A liberal's a liberal.
It doesn't matter.
I know you're a good conservative, but you gotta work on it.
Listening.
Okay, we're back at the cutting edge, societal evolution, Rush Limbaugh.
By the way.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, Brett Favre's private jet just landed at a private airport in Morristown, New Jersey.
I actually broke into news coverage on the cable news networks to report this with a helicopter shot of Brett Favre getting off of the airplane with his wife and look like what may have been a daughter.
Uh yeah, I know they're t the networks are getting tired of Obama too.
And so any respite is fine.
Listen to former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich.
Who was on DNC TV yesterday, was on with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News watching them.
And she said, Do you really think that either of these energy plans, Obama's or McCain's will do anything in the short term to fix America's reliance on foreign oil?
In the short term, the only thing we can do with regard to reliance on foreign oil, Andrea, is help American consumers who are getting clobbered with four dollar a gallon prices.
I mean, what Obama is saying is uh you gotta tap the energy companies' gigantic profits.
I mean, uh ExxonMobil got twelve billion dollars in the first quarter.
We've never seen profits like this, and return it to consumers in the form of rebates.
There's a word for this, Andrea.
It's called socialism.
Pure unadulterated socialism.
Secretary Wright, uh Reich, uh, what have you?
I'm doing a bad job with names today.
I called Kwame Kilpatrick Fitzpatrick, but there's so many Patricks out there.
Doesn't matter.
Having a bad day here remembering details of things.
Anyway, because there's too much my brain's going faster than my mouth can keep up with, which normally does not happen.
One of the fastest mouths media.
But the uh federal government gets half of those profits it's called taxes.
Man, I'll tell you, this is this is just mind-boggling, and it gets worse.
Last night, Fox News channels your world with Neil Cavuto, he spoke to Frank Pallone, who's a Democrat member of Congress from New Jersey about Obama's windfall profits tax.
And Cavuto said to him, uh, are are you for or against the Messiah's windfall profits tax plan?
I mean, that that is in other words, to take some of the profits from the oil companies and use it to fund other things.
And they should be used for renewables.
I think that's a very good idea.
And again, we've we've had that on the floor and the Republicans uh opposed it.
Well, maybe they opposed it because it was a stupid idea, right?
I mean, is it possible?
No, it's a good idea.
Then what makes the oil money for renewables?
All right, now how long have you been in Congress?
Twenty years.
All right, so you just missed the wonderful Carter experience with the windfall profits tax, right?
This is uh unbelievable.
Take the profits and big oil and use them for renewables.
They just throw these words out.
Alternative energy.
You know, if if you if you want if you're at a bar, you guys, if you're at a bar anywhere and you want you to see attractive woman, you think she is a liberal, and you want to get to first base or maybe further, just go up and start talking about alternative energy or renewables, and you will not be able to get rid of her.
Just they just eat, they wrap this stuff up.
Renewables, oh yeah, we gotta do alternatives.
We've gotta do it.
So then Cavuto, who is who is just dumbfounded here, says, so this whole thing, Congressman, go away by taxing the oil companies, tapping the excess profits they have, never mind they pay a ton in taxes as it is, but you're arguing, look, they're making money hand over fist.
Let's take more of that money.
But you weren't around for the Carter years.
I looked at a little uh bit of history here.
That experience did not seem to go gangbusters.
You're willing to try that again.
You give that to renewables like solar and wind power.
You you're a Robin Hood now.
So you were gonna take from one group, assume that it will work better with another group, and you're going to pick and choose What I want to do is to give like incentives to homeowners and commercial uh properties to put in r renewables, whether it be solar or wind power or whatever.
Use that excess profit for that to give them, you know, some kind of subsidy or tax break if they put solar panels on their home.
This is uh uh again, we're in the we're in the mind box all that's already happening.
It is already happening, but it's it's like it's uh it's gonna take any country uh company, you know, go to the drug companies.
You gotta you're having excess uh profits, windfall profits, uh two pro your profits are too big according to us Democrats and us liberals.
You're probably so we're gonna take we're gonna take those profits and we're gonna and we're gonna apply it, something that has nothing to do with your business.
Sowi.
I'm telling folks.
I'm telling right August 7th, 2008, the Democrat Party is not going to win this year.
They are not they're not good this this this cannot happen.
This they if they keep this up, if they keep talking this way, they are going to lose the White House.
I don't know about congressional races and Senate races.
Got different dynamic going on there, because those races are not going to be nationalized.
Unfortunately, they should be, if there was any kind of strategy, but there isn't.
But this this stuff that these people are talking about, they're on the wrong side of this energy business.
The American people full well understand that taxing anybody is not going to lower the price of gasoline.
And it's not going to produce any more oil.
They know that.
This is not complex.
This is more of this arrogance that I talked about earlier.
The Democrats thinking every American agrees with them.
Meanwhile, the number one book coming up on the New York Times bestseller list is going to be an anti Obama book, while Nancy Pelosi's big book has sold two thousand copies or twenty seven hundred seven hundred copies or what have you.
Phil in Iowa City, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Mega diddles, Rush.
Thank you.
Or maybe I should say, Mega, I can't get a wink of sleep because I don't have a sleep number bed diddles to you.
And congratulations on your twenty years of excellence and broadcast.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thanks much.
Well, Rush, I called because I I got a little uh upset when you got the had the other African American caller on the line and he said that Operation Chaos was a failure.
I'm gonna tell you Operation Chaos, and I know you know it already was a success.
And it still is working.
As soon as uh I was listening to you one day on the radio and you said Hillary Clinton is out of money.
Everybody send us some money.
Or maybe we shouldn't say we're sending them some money.
I got on the phone and called my wife, because I drive 18 wheel over the road and told my wife to send Hillary a hundred a hundred dollars.
Mark, wait, no, wait, wait, wait a second.
Let me let's let's retrace.
I said the one thing as the commanding officer of Operation Chaos, I will not issue orders for you to send her money.
That will be an elective decision.
If you wish to do that, I will not stop you.
But I would never ever order operatives of Operation Chaos to send Hillary Clinton money.
Well, maybe I said it wrong, Rush.
But you did say r uh Hillary's out of money.
She was out of money.
And I say, well, I'm gonna send her a hundred dollars.
My question is, because everybody I talk to, and I'm a I'm an African American, everybody that I talk to, uh when I start talking about Obama, one of the questions I ask is, how much money have you sent this campaign?
And everybody I talked to haven't sent them anything.
Well, where's this four hundred million dollars coming from?
Well, uh, with the New York Times has a story on that, and it's apparently coming from uh big donors.
Big, big big donors.
They put this story out that most of his donors are these twenty-five dollars and under donors, but I don't know that that's true anymore.
What was the uh what was the the New York Times story?
So Anyway, th nothing about that has made sense.
The economy is supposedly in a tank.
Uh people are scrimping and saving it's either eat dog food or buy medicine or what have you, and yet all these people came up with all this money to send Obama.
It was always been it's always been strange to me.
I gotta take quick timeout here, folks, but we Have more right on the other side of this windfall profit timeout.
And we are back.
I need to correct something.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, the uh the mentor, the or the uh the Muslim outreach uh advisor that uh resigned the Obama campaign was not the guy in the story Cliff Kincaid did who was the the uh the the member of the communist party.
Uh and it was this whole thing started with a fraudulent AP story about uh this trying to paper over another one of Obama's mentors, and it was Cliff Kinca that uncovered this at uh Accuracy in Media.
And he writes the inflin influential AP wire service has belatedly run a story about Barack Obama's Marxist mentor without mentioning the smoking gun evidence that the mentor Frank Marshall Davis was a communist party member.
The uh dishonest story, which is on the AP website represents damage control for the Obama campaign was written by the AP writer Sudin Thanawala.
So anyway, the the Muslim guy was not the communist uh member, it was another one of Obama's mentors who was a member of the uh of the Communist Party.
As I say, we will we'll link to this uh at uh Rush Limbaugh.com later.
It's a convoluted six page long story.
It's very difficult to synthesize this uh down to uh something take this, make this it's it's complex to make it understandable.
You have the upshot of it, and there are two aspects to it.
A, he had a communist party member as a mentor, which shouldn't surprise anybody, and second, the AP try to cover it up and try to whitewash it in a way that uh made it look something to be other than it is, and Kincaid has getting six pages here of uh evidence to uh to back that up.
Lowell in uh Romeo, Michigan, your next sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh mega twenty-year dittoes.
Thank you.
And uh for what it's worth, I think you're grossly underpaid.
I'd like to respond to Kendrick at the bottom of your uh second hour.
Yes.
Uh my grandparents were both born in different countries.
Uh I'm a first generation uh American on my father's side who came from Canada in Winnipeg, and I'm a second generation American uh from my mother's side.
Uh she was born in a in America, but my uh grandparents were born in Sweden.
They're all gone now.
But if I had 15 minutes with them, I'd spend the whole time thanking them for coming to America so that I could be born here.
There's no place else in the world I'd rather be.
Every day when I pray, I thank God that I'm an American, and that's where I was born.
And I think if he had that attitude, he would have a whole different life.
Well, but yeah, but he's not raised with that attitude.
I don't think we have we have uh observed on this program over the years, because I frankly I've been curious.
We've we've had callers like Kendrick call in and I've I've asked him uh or asked them have you noticed, for example, the Asians uh that emigrate to this country who end up practically owning all the enrollment at places like Stanford and the univers University of California at Berkeley.
Now, how is it that people who weren't born here can emigrate and start running rings around in terms of education performance, start running rings around people who were born here, whatever race.
And see, that the key is they weren't born here.
Uh Kendrick would tell you that black people born here are raised with the notion that because of slavery in the past, that they have no chance that this is a racist.
They're raised to be mad.
They're raised to be angry and to feel inferior.
It's a tragedy.
I mean, it's a genuine tragedy, and this has been sponsored.
This has been promoted by the Democratic Party.
It has been one of their political purposes in order to secure that vote every four years.
It really has been a track.
The things that have been done in the name of power for the Democrat Party to the black population in this country are just this side of uh of criminal.
Jerry in Chicago, you're up next, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey.
Uh congratulations on your first twenty years.
Thank you very much, sir.
I just wanted to tell you, I've heard a number of times you mentioned the Barack Obama's limited Experience.
I think you should dwell on his experience.
He spent a number of years in the Chicago in the uh state ill Illinois State Legislature, which is one of the most ineffective, dysfunctional legislatures in the country.
Last session, the only thing they passed was a raise for themselves.
Yeah.
He also voted against a bill that would make criminal the uh the uh killing of a uh of a fetus born alive.
Other words, a baby.
Yes.
But uh again, I think you should focus more on that.
Well, we could do that.
We could focus on his experience as a uh community organizer as uh as well.
But if we do that, we're gonna, you know, that can be done.
Obama's experience can be done in the opening segment of one hour, and then we're done.
There's nothing to talk about in terms of Obama's experience.
Anyway, anyway, we got the new GM car.
Now I'm bringing this up because we've had I I'm I'm I'm so sick and tired of all of this talk here about tire gauges and raping the oil companies of their profits and so forth.
And everybody's we've got to get better gas monitoring.
General Motors is working on it.
We just got the uh the the uh the the vibe.
In fact, Mamon, the broadcast engineer, had to go to Seattle over the weekend.
He rented one because he knew that they gave us one down here in Florida to drive, and he was jealous.
He went on, he paid for his, he was stunned.
He sent me a note this morning at how little gasoline it used.
Well, everybody's talking about all these alternative fuels, and everybody's talking about all these new energy.
My friends, we have domestic automobile manufacturers like General Motors who are already producing cars that get far more gas mileage than you might know.
And they're working on all of these new technologies to help everybody use less gasoline, and gee, they they do hope someday to get the cars that don't have any gasoline, but we're nowhere don't use gasoline, but we're we're nowhere near that.
So if you're gonna sit you sit around and wait for some miracle alternative or renewable fuel.
Trust me when I tell you, it's not on the horizon.
Not for your car.
But General Motors is already on the case, manufacturing all kinds of cars that get great gas mileage at whatever price.
Mike, Cincinnati, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Rush, it's a great pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I want to make a point to uh illustrate the lunacy of the opposition to getting the oil out of the ground here in the United States.
Uh yeah, imagine if you will, for a moment that uh the substance we call oil was uh an industrial byproduct that we had no use for and we needed to dispose of it.
That's what it used to be once.
Yeah, and uh, and suppose we propose to put the oil in the ground in Anwar and uh in Colorado in that shale.
Can you imagine the environmental uproar that there would be to put the stuff back on the ground?
Uh you know, that's if I'm if I'm getting your point, that's an interesting point.
Oil is horrible, it's destructive, and the left and the environment wouldn't no more let us dispose of it than they will let us drill for it.
So wherever oil is, it's destroying the planet.
Uh this it's all just so absurd.
Like I say, folks, I'm a reasonably intelligent guy, 57 years old.
And I can't believe.
This is like we're in the first grade again at 57 years old.
You believe it's all it's gonna be Friday tomorrow?
Open line Friday tomorrow.
Start thinking today about what you want to ask me tomorrow.
Little prep would help.
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