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Nov. 28, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 28, 2008, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Greetings, my friends.
We're constantly prepping this program, even after it starts.
Greetings, my friends, and great to have you with us.
It's Rush Limboy, and I am serving humanity on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday!
Snurgly shaking his head in there.
The only guy that doesn't like Open Line Friday is Snugly.
This ought to be easier for you on Friday than Monday through Thursday.
Whatever you want to talk about, folks, that's the difference.
Monday through Thursday, we only talk about things that interest me.
I'm not going to sit here and be bored all day and fake it.
But on Friday, I will.
Nah, just can I love you and you know that.
Whatever you wish to talk about for the most part, we're not going to complain about the electric bill.
Everybody's electric bill is going up.
800-282-2882 is the number.
Email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Look, before we get to the campaign stuff, there's some stuff in the stack here, news stuff I just want to touch on.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, the economic news has resulted in experts being shocked.
U.S. producer prices unexpectedly soared at their highest annual rate 27 years last month as rising wholesale prices for energy spread to a variety of products.
Right.
That means inflation's going up.
Now, why is anybody surprised at this when we have an economic circumstance like we do?
Shouldn't people have been expecting with energy costs going up?
Shouldn't people, experts, have been expecting that other prices would go up as well?
Why is every economic report listed as a shock or surprise to the experts?
And again, ladies and gentlemen, it is just unconscionable what we are doing to our children.
I am reminded of the great Meryl Streep during the Owl hoax asking on 60 Minutes, what are we doing to our children?
From Providence, Rhode Island.
Faced with soaring diesel fuel costs, SCRUL districts are forcing students to use the old-fashioned way to get to class on their own two feet.
Many screws are eliminating or reducing bus service because fuel had jumped to $4.50 a gallon.
In California, it's happening.
Worried parents in Massachusetts have called Walk Boston, a nonprofit group that promotes walking, asking for help after their communities cut back on busing.
Health advocates long have encouraged students to walk, of course, stressing the fitness benefits.
But the screwal and transportation officials say they fear that abruptly reducing bus service could lower attendance rates, increase traffic congestion.
How's that with fewer buses on the road?
What?
Parents driving them to school?
Oh, well, so what?
The parents are driving anyway.
Somebody's leaving that house to go to work, we damn well hope.
If you remove a screw bus from the road, you're adding 40 to 50 cars in the morning and in the afternoon, said Bob Riley.
Look at all this is skirting the point.
I mean, this is all being reported from the context of how painful it's going to be on the adults and how painful it's going to be on the people who are not parents as their traffic's going to go up.
What about the children?
What are we doing?
We already know that they are having to wear last year's clothes.
You know how humiliating that is for your average high school kid?
I don't care whether they're all, you know not they're all not doing it.
The rich are being able and are able to buy their kids new clothes.
And so once again, the stigma of being poor or middle class will shock these kids right in the eye.
And we don't care.
We're doing it out of selfishness.
The Capistrano United School kids can get jobs.
Snirdly?
Snirdly, Snirdly, you are exhibiting an insensitivity that stuns me.
Kids work?
You have lost touch with what America is.
It's better.
Well, you may have paid for your clothes, and it doesn't happen that way anymore.
I am just, I'm stunned what we're doing to our kids.
We're making them walk farther to the bus stop.
We're making them wear last year's clothes, and it's happening all over the country.
The Capistrano United School District, Orange County, has eliminated 44 of its 62 bus routes to save an estimated $3.5 million.
The cuts will affect an estimated 5,000 students from kindergarten all the way to high school.
Leaders in three communities served by that district in Orange County, California, have threatened lawsuits saying that the screw-all officials are ignoring traffic and pollution implications while cutting bus service is unpopular.
The spokesman said that it's better than firing teachers and increasing class sizes.
Small towns feeling the pinch, too, short on cash.
Screw-all officials in Shirley, Massachusetts, it's about 40 miles northwest of Boston, are going from eight buses to four to start the screw year.
Students who live within two miles must walk, must bike, or get a ride, folks.
These kinds of hardships have not been known to exist in our country for I don't know how many years.
And now we simply tell them to walk two miles in Boston.
Cold, snow.
Well, it may cure the childhood obesity crisis, but it's going to increase pollution and cause global warming with all the additional cars and then the traffic and then the road rage and so forth.
Parents in Shirley are worried about safety and seeking help from Walk Boston.
You believe this, there is a special interest group called Walk Boston, and its job is to help people walk.
And so they've been asked for help to help the students walk.
As a single working mother, Mary Day said that she can drop her children off at school in the morning, but she can't pick them up.
Her street runs parallel to train tracks.
She fears her nine-year-old and 12-year-old sons will be tempted to take shortcuts by darting across the tracks outside the official crossings.
Mary, tell them not to.
Just tell them not to.
I remember being a kid.
Are you going to walk a half mile down the street to cross it the appropriate way when you can see a clear way right there?
Her youngest son, Quincy, isn't thrilled with the idea of walking, especially when the weather gets cold.
I don't like it, he said.
It takes like 20 minutes to do it.
He's exactly right.
We're pushing these kids too hard.
Well, I just do not understand why we are pushing these kids so hard.
It is, I just, what's becoming of us as a nation, ladies and gentlemen?
We lost our hearts.
Have we lost our soul?
Whereas everything used to be for the children, now it seems it's screw the children.
The New York Sun Today, interesting story on economics.
Increase is seen in wealth of autocracies.
The Council on Foreign Relations, also known as the CFR, just released a new research report that will be shocking to many people, but no surprise to Fullstein students here at the EIB, Limbaugh Institute.
The wealth of autocratic governments is soaring, and the wealth of liberal democracies is collapsing.
As recently as 2003, democracies had $400 billion worth of more wealth than autocracies, $600 billion to $200 billion.
Today, the autocratic governments have almost $1 trillion more wealth than democracy.
And, you know, trillions, billions, hard to compare on radio.
Last year alone, autocratic assets grew 60% and Democrat assets, Democratic assets, shrunk 7%.
Now, this doesn't sound good, right?
This doesn't sound good.
But I think maybe we could all use a little translation here.
After all, what is an autocratic government?
And what is a liberal democracy?
Well, for the purposes of this story, autocratic governments are oil-producing nations, and liberal democracies are wimps like us waiting for alternative energy solutions.
So once again, I remind you of what our liberals have yet to figure out.
Autocratic government's doing everything they can to produce more energy from existing sources.
Our government's doing everything they can to prevent more energy from existing sources, and it is leading to a huge...
You want to talk about...
Boone Pickens talks about the transfer of wealth.
This is a transfer of wealth because we're getting, they're seizing wealth.
It's not even a transfer.
The autocratic, the oil-producing nations are simply seizing it.
And by the way, New York Times today, a story that essentially says Rush Limbaugh is right, that this peak oil theory is misplaced, that it's misguided.
As oil giants lose influence, supply drops is the headline.
Here's the nut of the story.
Sluggish supplies have prompted a cottage industry of doomsday predictions that the world's oil production has reached a peak.
But many energy experts say these peak oil theories are misplaced.
They say that the world is not running out of oil.
Rather, the companies that know the most about how to produce it are running out of places to drill.
There's still a lot of oil to develop out there, which is why we don't call this geological peak oil, especially in places like Venezuela, Russia, Iran, and Iraq, said Arjun Murthy, an energy analyst at Goldman Sachs.
What we have now is geopolitical peak oil.
We don't have geological peak oil.
Where's all kinds of oil out there?
It's just that the liberal democracies are standing in the way of getting it.
And the oil-producing nations are not plus as more like Venezuela when they start nationalizing all the oil that they have and kicking out oil companies in terms of exploration and there's less defined and so forth.
And in the midst of all this, big oil still continues to get the blame.
This is hilarious.
This is from the Allentown Morning Call.
Walt Nedlinger spent years trying to keep a Walmart anchored shopping complex being built near his Wind Gap home.
The traffic would have been suffocating for their little community, neighbors argued.
So when the massive retailer and its partners packed up their plans and left Plainfield Township last year, Nedlinger was ecstatic.
He figured he'd wait for the next plan to come along and remembers thinking, what could be worse than Walmart?
Well, over the past year, Nedlinger says he's gotten an answer.
RPM recycling, the metal shredding plant on the same land that the Walmart was going to go on, causes daily noise that sounds like a freight train rumbling down the street and frequent explosions that shake Nedlinger's walls.
Last week, a fire at the recycling plant inflamed growing tensions between residents who say the plant has ruined their neighborhood.
And RPM co-owner Nolan Perrin who says he spent 200 grand to help calm the noise and wonders why he's being criticized for bringing industry to an industrial park.
Nedlinger said the shredding operations payback for opposition to the Walmart project.
What could be worse than Walmart?
Here's a guy going on to Walmart.
Fights and succeeds to keep Walmart out and then gets the, of course, politically correct recycling plant and it recycles methyl.
This is funny.
I about peed my pants when I read.
I just love this kind of jabbing these people, learning lessons the hard way.
Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network coming to you from the illustrious and distinguished Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You have people who ever wondered why my brain is so big, you ever wondered why and how I can do this program with half my brain tied behind my back and still outshine them all?
The answer right here in this story, scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain.
Those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage.
Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk, and fish.
Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anemia and inflammation of the nervous system.
Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin.
So I eat a lot of meat.
I actually eat liver and onions a lot too.
Brain is huge.
This is why folks, not only did I suggest that you buy Allen Brothers, it's why I'm one of their biggest customers.
I am one of their biggest.
I just, well, normally I'm a skeptic of health news, but when I have me as a testimonial to the accuracy of the story, of course I'm going to believe the story.
A lot of my friends have big heads, and a lot of them eat meat, and you got to have a big head means you got a big brain in there.
Let's go to Bill in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.
Bill, you're next on the EIB network.
Okay.
Hi.
Hello.
Rush.
Yeah.
Hi.
Oh, Rush here.
Yeah, good.
Well, what's the big deal about kids walking to and from school?
Dear me, they have to walk.
Let's see.
At one time when I was a kid, we're talking 50 years ago.
10 miles in the snow.
Both ways against the wind.
Yeah.
And I'm in Minnesota, so that's saying something.
I believe you.
But they are missing out on the opportunity.
Here, you got all these left-wing drive-bys bemoaning the fact, and especially in California.
I can understand that after you spend a couple of months there, you know that nobody walks, everybody drives.
Bill, Bill, Bill, let me let me.
Perhaps I wasn't clear.
You know, I pride myself in being a master communicator, and you I confused you, and that's not good.
My point was this: we are the richest country on earth.
We, in political terms, for the past 15, 20 years, have done everything for the children.
We have pampered them.
We have spoiled them.
We have made them think that our country's very existence is for their benefit.
And now, all of a sudden, when energy prices get too high, mean adults just throw the kids under the bus, except there's no bus.
The kids are being made to walk.
What has happened to our heart and soul and our conscience, making them go to school two years in a row with the same clothes in a nation that does everything for the children?
We're losing what made us us.
I had to walk to school too.
I had to walk a long ways to my bus stop, especially when it snowed.
And sometimes when I snowed, they never cancel school, very rarely.
And sometimes I'd go stand at a bus stop and a bus wouldn't show up and I'd have to walk all the way to school.
And people who were being driven to school by their parents would roll down their windows.
Other students would laugh at me and humiliate me because I had to take the Hoof Express.
And we've gotten past that.
We're now imposing hardships on our children, making them walk for something as silly as pollution.
Gas prices.
We're going to increase the chance some of these kids will be hit by cars because we're going to put more cars out there with parents taking kids to school.
Not only that, school lunch has gone up in some places 70 cents, where it used to be $1.30, now it's $2, $2 for lunch in the United States of America.
My God, ladies and gentlemen, what has become of us?
And then there's this story from Live Science.
As summer vacation ends and the children head back to class, they might need a new school supply, face masks.
About one-third of American schools are within an air pollution danger zone near major highways, and the pollutants that stream from cars and trucks, according to a new study from the UC Cincinnati Childhood Allergy and Air Pollution Study, has shown that exposure of school-aged children to traffic pollutants near made roads is associated with a greater risk of developing asthma and other respiratory problems later in life.
This is a major public health concern that should be given serious consideration in future urban development, transportation planning, and environmental policies, said the study leader.
Other research has also shown children are exposed to pollution on school buses, and that one way to reduce their exposure is to stop idling the buses as they wait for their charges to board.
We had no idea we're killing our kids with idling school buses.
Now we're going to turn them off and restart them after the kids.
Except there aren't going to be any buses anymore because they're pulling back on bus service for kids because of high energy prices.
And of course, there's no mention in this story, ladies and gentlemen, of the stupid mandate from years ago to bus kids all over creation for societal reasons that the liberals made up.
Most kids could be going to a school up the street.
But no.
At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, we need to rethink the way we're dealing with the kids.
We're pushing them too hard.
Hardships like walking an extra block or two to the high schools just too much.
Ladies and gentlemen, I, your host, Rush Limbaugh, your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, depression, torture, humiliation, stupid Supreme Court decisions, and even the good times.
I have a fast fix for energy.
A fast fix for the energy prices.
There is no instant cure, as we know, for rising energy prices, but as your host, I, El Rushbo, have a plan to get on the right track sooner rather than later.
As close to a quick fix as humanly possible.
It all starts with our gas stations.
We do have gas stations out there.
And these gas stations pump regular gas and they pump premium gas.
Some of them pump diesel.
On every pump, every pump that distributes regular gas, we post a picture of Harry Reed with the price appearing in his mouth.
On every premium pump, we post a picture of Nancy Pelosi with the price upticking in her wonderful smile.
That you could drive up to any station and ask for a tank full of Reed, or you could ask for a tank full of Pelosi.
We would explore, we would drill, we would refine faster than a liberal can attack a Republican.
You gas station guys, you want to turn a profit in your business?
Go out and get some pictures of Reed and Pelosi.
Stick them on your pumps, put the price in there.
And then when the self-serve people come up, just make them say they want, you know, fill up with Reed, fill up with Pelosi.
Royce City, Texas.
Jonathan, glad you called, sir.
Nice to have you here.
Yes, thank you.
I admire you a lot, and I really love your program.
Thank you, sir, very, very, very, very much.
I just wanted to tell you about a little incident I had at work with these light bulbs that all the Democrats and liberals are promoting, saying, you know, they're better for everybody.
You're talking about the compact fluorescent light bulbs.
That is correct.
What happened?
You were mandated at work to replace your incandescents with these compact fluorescents?
No, sir, not exactly.
What happened was I was straightening the stuff on the aisle, and I noticed that one of the boxes had fallen, and I picked it up to look at it, and one of the bulbs was broken on the inside.
And there's a little cutout in the cardboard box, and I realized I inhaled some of the fumes, and I immediately went and placed it in a plastic bag and, you know, went and I...
How did you know to do that?
Oh, I heard it on your program, of course.
You knew that there was mercury in there, and that it was potentially dangerous.
And if you broke it in your house, Jacola has met people.
Well, I heard it on your program, of course.
And so anyway, my eyes started burning immediately.
The back of my throat started getting dry.
Really?
That bulb had already fallen from the shelf.
You just happened to walk by and see it?
That's correct.
And I picked up the box.
And it had the bulb in it.
That's correct.
And basically, I went to my boss and I said, you know, hey, I think, you know, something happened.
I think we need to make an accident report.
And so we had to call a registered nurse through a hotline that we have at our work.
And I described my symptoms to the nurse.
And she said, put your boss back on the phone.
And she told my boss to call the paramedics right away and have them come treat me right there at the scene.
And so the ambulance showed their truck and they put me in the ambulance.
They hooked me up wires and everything.
All this for a broken light bulb?
That's correct.
And then they said, you know, we think you need to, they said, we can't tell you what to do, but you should probably go to the emergency room.
They said, we can take you, or we'll tell your boss to let you go or have somebody take you.
However you want to do it, we'll get you there.
And they told me that on the way en route to where I work, they had to call poison control and find out exactly what they were supposed to do because even the paramedics didn't know what they were supposed to do.
And what they described to me, they described the wrong kind of light bulb.
They described the really long, like the eight-foot-long light bulbs that you would see in a warehouse or something.
Yeah, the standard fluorescents.
That's correct.
And so anyway, I told them, you know, I just want to go to the emergency room and I'll go by myself.
Finally, I got to the emergency room, and the doctor walked in, and he's like, You know, how'd you, what makes you think you inhaled mercury vapor?
And I was like, Well, you know, told him about the light bulb, and he basically looked at me and said, I've never seen anybody treated, ever seen anybody that's inhaled mercury vapor before.
Said, I honestly, I don't know what to tell you.
I'm going to have to go look this up in a book.
I'll be right back.
Now, wait a second.
Yeah.
The EMS guys didn't know what to do with mercury poisoning, and the doctor didn't?
That's correct.
The doctor in the emergency room.
Where is Royce City, Texas?
It's near Rockwall.
Oh.
Well, hell yes.
Okay.
Yeah, there you go.
Rockwall, Texas.
We all know where that is.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay, by Dallas.
But so anyway, he left, and I guess he checked my, you know, my listened to my breathing and everything, make sure, you know, I wasn't going to die.
And he just said, he's like, there's really nothing that I can do for you.
There's nothing I can give you or prescribe for you.
He said, I don't even think we have the necessary equipment to run tests if you were dangerously exposed to this stuff here at the hospital.
We would have to take blood and mail it somewhere and have get the results back on the next day if I wanted to do that.
And I was like, okay, you know, that's great.
Now, Jonathan, I've got to tell you, some people here are listening to this and not believing it.
Yeah.
Now, we've heard stories that if you do have a compact fluorescent in your house and if it breaks, that you are to call a hazmat people.
But mercury vapors?
Yes, sir.
That's what I'm saying.
Mercury vapors?
Well, how come it only affected you?
Were you the only one in the room?
I was the only one on the aisle, but as soon as I placed it in the plastic bag, I gave it to the individual who's supposed to defect the item out and seal it up and keep it protected.
And it was a short time after that where that individual started hyperventilating and couldn't breathe.
And they almost had to call the paramedics back again for her.
Well, how long did it take you to recover since nobody could do anything for you?
Just a few hours and a pounding headache and some Tylenol.
Wow.
America is at risk here, folks.
I didn't have any idea that it was this severe.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are not prepared for the coming crisis.
Do you feel like you made a sacrifice that, nevertheless, Jonathan, was important to help save the planet?
No, I do not.
I felt endangered.
Well, this is an incredible story.
I had no idea that it could cause this kind of problem, and that the medical community had no idea what to do.
John, let me make you a suggestion.
Do you mind if I, I mean, since the medical community was not able to help you, by their own admission, EMS guys didn't know what to do.
Your ER doctor didn't know what to do.
Correct.
Do not stop being monitored.
Okay.
Continue to be monitored long term.
We don't know yet the full effects of this.
I agree.
You've been an unwitting guinea pig, but you can perform a service with the ongoing regular monitoring of whatever levels, bodily fluids and this kind of thing.
Do you know a good trial lawyer?
I don't.
I could find one, though.
Oh, you might call John Edwards.
Yeah, there you go.
Out of work.
Yeah.
I mean, if something like this can happen, a compact fluorescent bulb and the medical community in Rockwall, Texas does not know how to deal with it.
Well, I'm glad you had the courage to pick up that light bulb.
That was a great act of courage.
You saved somebody else from perhaps getting real sick.
You saw it.
Knew you knew because you had listened to this program, you took a risk that was sacrificial on your part, and you paid the price.
I did.
But you have lived to tell the story to help others survive this kind of tragedy down the road.
I did.
I hope so.
Well, you did.
You're to be applauded.
Thank you very much.
All right, John.
Thank you.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
I just went to the Consumer Product Safety Commission website.
Jonathan, I don't know how long ago this happened that you got your mercury vapor poisoning out there in Rockwall, Texas.
But according to what I have just read on the Consumer Product Safety Commission website, mercury vapors are hazardous.
You need to close your store and lock it down for a while.
Well, listen to this.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is alerting consumers that mercury vapors, which have no odor, are hazardous.
The CPSC recommends that consumers avoid breathing mercury vapors.
Too late for you, Jonathan.
Most uses of mercury that expose consumers to fumes are banned, except the compact fluorescent light bulb, which we are being forced over time to put in our homes.
However, some ethnic traditions encourage the sprinkling of mercury around the house for religious reasons.
This is hazardous because people, especially the obligatory young children, could breathe the mercury vapors.
Mercury can cause serious and permanent nerve and kidney damage.
Mercury poisoning has these symptoms.
Rapid heartbeats, sweating, irritability, or hostility, withdrawal or shyness, memory loss, peeling of hands and feet, leg pain, slight hand tremors, difficulty with fine motor control like handwriting, sleeplessness, and headaches.
Young children and children born to women exposed during pregnancy may be especially sensitive.
If you believe you have mercury poisoning, see a doctor.
If mercury has been sprinkled in your house, open all the windows so the mercury vapors can escape.
It may take several days of ventilation to eliminate the mercury.
If you have questions about how to clean up and dispose of mercury, call your local health department.
They will send the hazmat team.
To avoid mercury poisoning, do not sprinkle mercury around the house or expose people in the home to mercury.
They have just put weapons.
These things are now going to innovate.
You let the word spread on how toxic these light bulbs are.
You average house, how many arguments take place between husband and wife and the 2.8 kids.
Somebody gets mad, unscrews a light bulb, and throws it at somebody else.
Again, the environmentalist wackos.
Forcing the incandescent bulb by 2012, you're not going to be allowed to have it, folks.
Whether you got turtles on your beach or not.
John in Buffalo, New York, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Great to be with you.
Hey, those conditions you were just talking about, I thought I usually just got those from talking to the Democrats and liberals.
What, the mercury vapors?
Yeah.
Yeah, sort of similar.
They are very similar.
Hey, Russ, I just wanted to comment on what you were talking about earlier.
I used to own a branded gas station up here in Western New York by Buffalo, and you're absolutely right.
The amount of money you make on gasoline today is infinitesimal.
It's just tiny.
And you have to make all your money on the groceries.
And even then, that's a challenge because you've got to deal with theft and shrinkage and spoilage.
And it's a very tough business to be in these days.
And I wasn't surprised at all when I heard Mobile say the other day they were getting rid of 800 of their company-owned stations.
Well, isn't it also true?
What's the average capacity?
Your gas station when you owned it?
How many gallons could you put in your underground tanks to service your pumps?
You could put up to anywhere from, say, maybe 8,000 gallons up to about 20,000 gallons in your storage tanks in the ground.
But most people don't want to build a gas station unless they know it's going to do on a minimum of about 80,000 gallons a month.
And that's a minimum.
Most people want to try to do about 150,000 gallons a month.
Okay, now, in this climate, without any interruptions, what's the normal rate that the tanker would show up and fill your tanks?
Once a week?
Once a week?
I've been out of it for a few years, Rush, but I would say when the tanker shows up and what you're selling at the pump, there's probably not more than maybe about a six-cent gallon profit for the local guy.
Right.
And when he shows up, you've got to be able to pay him.
You pay him a lot of power.
You have to pay gas now.
They're paying.
You have to make a profit on the previous tank that you purchased.
Exactly.
In order to pay for the next one.
And you've got to have a next one or you don't have any business inside.
Exactly.
And a couple of other points, too, if I could just add, Rush.
Up here in the Buffalo area, we have the Indian reservations nearby, and the Indians now are selling their gas for only about two to five cents less than what the normal branded stations are selling for.
But yet the Indians don't pay anywhere near the amount of taxes that a regular branded station does.
That's like cigarettes.
And it's all pure profit that goes in their pockets that the rest of the guys are stuck paying.
And see, that's all it takes.
And that's why you guys can't raise your prices enough in competition in order to make a significant profit.
I know a lot of people are going to be surprised to hear this.
John, they're seeing gasoline prices way up here.
They're seeing oil company profits reported to be way sky high.
They're listening to these two presidential candidates talk about obscene windfall profits.
And today they're hearing that the profit for people that sell gasoline is nothing, and that Exxon wants to get out of that because the profits there are minuscule.
And I'm sure it's confusing to a lot of people.
I'm sure a lot of people don't believe this because it doesn't make sense to them.
But I'm glad you called and verified and validated what I said.
David in Maywood, New Jersey, Open Line Friday, you're next.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I am an average American, and I am grateful for ExxonMobil.
And I consider this my Father's Day gift, so thank you.
I've been out of work for the past three months.
I've watched a lot more media than I ever thought I would.
And whenever the question is asked, what do we do about rising oil prices?
They have long-term solutions which are drill, of course.
But they seem to come up short with the short-term answer.
But I think it's the same answer because when the world sees that the United States is determined to become the world's leader in energy, the price is going to fall.
And so I just think it's the same answer, just drill.
You are exactly.
Well, every project has a first step.
And you're not going to get started until the first step is taken.
But you are very shrewd out there, David.
Very shrewd, because the argument that the environmentalist left and their willing accomplices, the leftists of the Democrat Party, are all saying, well, this is just ridiculous.
Drilling is not the answer.
And they've got this pet phrase that's designed to discourage the whole notion of drilling.
We can't drill our way out of this is their phrase.
We can't drill our way out of this.
Let me ask you people something.
We're citizens of what?
The United States of America.
Now, since when are we going to allow ourselves to be led by a bunch of people who say we can't when it comes to something that we've already done and that we have excelled at?
When did we decide we want to be led by a bunch of people who say that we are in a constant state of decline and we deserve to be in a constant state of decline?
When did we decide that we're going to be led by a bunch of people who say we can't?
In your personal life, do you hang around with people who say, you can't do that?
We can't do that.
That's not inspiring.
Why in the name of hell would people vote for people who will tell you we can't do that?
We can't drill our way out of this.
Yes, the hell we can.
It's that simple.
And yes, the hell we should.
It's that simple.
Drill here, drill now, pay less.
We're the United States of America.
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