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RUSH: One of the reasons why Obama is not going to okay the Keystone pipeline, you ever heard of a guy named Tom Steyer? He is a huge billionaire. Major, major Democrat bankroller, donor, bundler. Tom Steyer just promised to give the Democrat Party $100 million for the 2014 campaign if Obama, among other things, will continue disapproving of the Keystone pipeline. One hundred million dollars from a Democrat donor. <\/p>\n

Let me go to the phones and start in Antwerp, Ohio. John, thank you for calling. It\u2019s great to have you with us today. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Good. Very good. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Fantastic. Good to finally speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. Same here.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I got a comment. You brought up the CAFE standards just a little bit ago. I worked for General Motors, I worked for the company for 13 years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did you do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Assembly. I worked in a foundry for a while and then I moved to an assembly plant. There\u2019s a trick with the CAFE standards. That\u2019s imposed across the entire fleet of vehicles.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, John, let\u2019s explain. In the first place, for the low-information Yahoo News readers in the audience, would you tell us what CAFE standard is. Corporate average fuel economy, is that it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And what that means is you take the average of every vehicle you make, the whole fleet, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the whole fleet average mileage has to come in under whatever the CAFE standard is, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, now, it may change slightly on some of the larger vehicles, but it really doesn\u2019t take a hit on their crown jewels, their trucks, their vans, their SUVs. What they profit on, the vehicles they make money on —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — they\u2019re not gonna take a hit on those. So that\u2019s why you get your Cobalts and your Volts and the vehicles that they offer high incentives on —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, this is important, this is important to know, because John here\u2019s exactly right. These CAFE standards the government just unilaterally imposes, and I\u2019m gonna make up a number. Let\u2019s say that the corporate average fuel efficiency, the average mileage that a company must achieve with every car in its fleet is 15 miles a gallon. Just making it up. That means if they have a car, an SUV that gets 12 to 13 or whatever, they\u2019ve gotta make a bunch of little lawn mowers with seats on \u2019em that get 30 miles to a gallon —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — which I\u2019m sure John\u2019s gonna say, nobody wants.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, which is why you see at the end of the model year these huge incentives on the smaller cars, the ones that there\u2019s not a large — the people aren\u2019t just standing in line to buy these, you know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, let me ask you a question, John. It\u2019s calling for a political opinion, and you may not have thought about it, and I don\u2019t mean to be forcing you into an answer. But how serious are they? If you\u2019re the government, and if you really, really, really think that automobiles are destroying the planet, and you have established a fuel efficiency of 15 miles to the gallon, and you\u2019re dead serious about it, why would you allow them to even make a car that gets eight to 10, if you\u2019re really serious about it? I mean, the question, if you\u2019re gonna have a 15 mile per — let\u2019s make it 18 just for the hell of it here, just to make it more reasonable. If you\u2019re gonna have a demand that the company cannot have an average fuel mileage under 18 miles a gallon, why wouldn\u2019t you just impose it on every vehicle, if you\u2019re serious, and my point, why do they even allow the SUVs to be made, if they\u2019re the problem, if they\u2019re destroying the planet?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because the CAFE standards are window dressing. It\u2019s a way for the government to say, “We\u2019ve done something.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But they\u2019re still profiting off the corporation. They\u2019re not gonna cripple the corporation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. They have to allow the company to make the products people want, and they want the trucks and the SUVs. The moms want it. The soccer moms want those things.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But here comes this CAFE standard thing, so they gotta make a bunch of crap, relatively speaking. I mean, if that\u2019s all they sold, they\u2019d be out of business —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — in order to come in under that average fuel efficiency that the government demands. It\u2019s a total, arbitrary intervention in the private sector, and it leads to the creation or production of cars that the company would never make otherwise.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Well said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think your point is that is why General Motors is still crippled now, right?<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, exactly, yes. Yeah, when they\u2019re forced to offset the vehicle that they profit from with vehicles that they don\u2019t, of course, it\u2019s gonna hurt their bottom line.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I need to tell you a short story. I went to General Motors six years ago, five or six years ago in advance of them becoming official sponsors. And I reacquainted myself with Bob Lutz, who back then liked me. But we\u2019ve had a falling out over global warming. He\u2019s big on the Volt and so forth, he\u2019s a corporate guy, and he blames me for — anyway. I went up and spent two hours with him. And I knew before I got there that he had designed a really luxurious Cadillac that was either a 12- or 16-cylinder engine. It was gonna be a beast. Luxury, not an SUV. It was a sedan. And when we\u2019re walking around I saw the mock-up of it. The life size model. It was gorgeous. It was beautiful. I said, “When is that coming out?” <\/p>\n

He said, “We can\u2019t make it. CAFE standards.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Now, wait a minute.” And I was dead serious. “Every year BMW, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Mercedes produce these big hog sedans of 600-horsepower twin turbo V-12s, what do you mean you can\u2019t do it?” <\/p>\n

He said, “Well, they\u2019re not gonna be able to do it for long.”<\/p>\n

Well, the 2015 Mercedes S-Class just hit, and they\u2019re still doing it. He said that Cadillac, GM couldn\u2019t do it. I guess they couldn\u2019t fit that car into their corporate average fleet. Mercedes must make a bunch of puddle jumpers in Europe that get them under the standard. I still don\u2019t know why Mercedes, Daimler-Benz, I don\u2019t know why they can do it and GM can\u2019t. It was a gorgeous car that Lutz had designed, and they couldn\u2019t make it because of the CAFE standards.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can almost say that the CAFE standards, federal CAFE standards put the poor at greater risk, because they\u2019re the ones that buy these little cars in the greater numbers because that\u2019s all they can afford on what Obama gives \u2019em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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