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RUSH: When I was out in California, I think I mentioned this to you. I was out in California a couple, three weeks ago, and I hadn\u2019t seen some of my buddies for a year and a half. And it\u2019s amazing. If you lose touch with people, a year and a half, I mean, they can change, and you don\u2019t know about it. I mean, sometimes you gotta stay in close contact with people to keep \u2019em on the rails. <\/p>\n

So one of our haunts, we go to the Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills<\/a>. It\u2019s great. I mean, you\u2019ve got TVs in there. If there\u2019s a football, basketball, baseball game on, it\u2019s in there. You can smoke while you have dinner. There aren\u2019t too many places in the country you can do that anymore. They\u2019ve got balconies outside, patios and decks if you want to go outside, keep the doors open. It\u2019s just heaven, for those of us who appreciate fine adult beverages and cigars. <\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m in there with some of my TV buddies, producers and writers of famous TV shows. Oh, by the way, they all were just gung-ho for Christie. Remember, I told you this. They were mad at anybody who\u2019d been critical of Christie. Well, if they were mad at me, they didn\u2019t specifically say they were mad at me, but they got their point across. “Look, Rush, who else are we gonna win with? There\u2019s nobody we can win with. What, Cruz, you kidding me?” <\/p>\n

I said, “I think Cruz could clean up.”<\/p>\n

“Come on, you gotta be kidding. You really, come on, Rush. You know Christie\u2019s the only chance we got.” <\/p>\n

So I just sat there, and I\u2019m listening to it all. I tell you, it\u2019s a learning, it\u2019s an absorbing thing for me. And they\u2019re passionate about it, serious about it. But then one of them said to me, “Rush, I gotta tell you something.” And he was not afraid to tell me, but he was of the opinion that I was gonna jump down his throat. <\/p>\n

He said, “Rush, I\u2019m buying an electric car. But I\u2019m not buying it \u2019cause I\u2019m a environmentalist nut, Rush, it\u2019s none of that. No global warming. It\u2019s just the greatest car in the world. It\u2019s just the finest car. I\u2019m gonna buy a Tesla, model S. Rush, I can go 300 miles on the thing with a single charge.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Well, does it have a gasoline engine if you run out of the juice?”<\/p>\n

“No, but at 300 miles I\u2019ll never run out.” <\/p>\n

I said, “Well, where do you charge it?” <\/p>\n

“My house, overnight, 300 miles, hell, it\u2019s only 40 miles to and from work, my commute. This is great, and it\u2019s the finest car, Rush, it\u2019s the biggest selling car in California. Right now it\u2019s one of the most popular cars in the country.” <\/p>\n

And I said, “That\u2019s great, if that\u2019s what you want. I don\u2019t care. You don\u2019t have to justify it to me. If you like it that\u2019s cool.” <\/p>\n

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it\u2019s not because I\u2019m an environmental nut, Rush. Don\u2019t think I\u2019m doing this \u2019cause I\u2019m trying to save the planet. I went up to San Francisco and I test-drove one, and I ordered it.” <\/p>\n

I said, “You don\u2019t have it yet?” <\/p>\n

“No, no. It\u2019s coming in December.” <\/p>\n

So, with that in mind, I have two stories. The third Tesla caught fire the other day in the past month. They\u2019re not sure what the cause of the latest fire was. Don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the battery, some such thing. They\u2019re doing an investigation of it. I didn\u2019t call the guy. I didn\u2019t say, “Hey, did you see where a third Tesla…” I mean, I\u2019m kind of reluctant to talk about it now because people love the car. It has its evangelists. You know, I\u2019m a big Apple guy. It\u2019s got its fans, and no matter what you\u2019re not gonna talk \u2019em out of it, and I wouldn\u2019t try to talk them out of it. (interruption) Look, no, Snerdley. (laughing) Fire in the cabin, it\u2019s a great car. <\/line><\/p>\n

My point is if somebody wants one, that\u2019s fine, I\u2019m into free choice. As I\u2019ve said over and over again, I think a lot of people buy these things for the same reason they wear a red ribbon, to say they care, and they care more than you do and they\u2019re socially conscious and they\u2019re saving the planet. I hate people being hoodwinked by that stuff. Why is it… I\u2019m afraid to bite on that. Why is it… No, because if I ask the question I\u2019m gonna be compelled to announce your answer, and I\u2019m not here to begrudge Tesla, at all. See, this is the big difference in me. The pro-electric car people, they\u2019re close to demanding that all of us drive these things. <\/p>\n

I mean, the leftists on this, they end up liking the electric car, they want everybody in one. They like vegetables, you have to eat \u2019em. They don\u2019t like 32 ounce soft drinks, you can\u2019t have them. They don\u2019t like trans fats, you can\u2019t have any. And that isn\u2019t me. If somebody wants to buy a Tesla, what are you gonna say? Your car can become the grill and you can grill your food when you\u2019re camping? Campfire jokes. <\/p>\n

This Elon Musk guy who is the CEO of Tesla, he\u2019s actually quite entrepreneurial. He\u2019s got all kinds of great entrepreneurial ideas, space and ramping up mass transit, highway travel, and this kind of thing. He\u2019s a forward thinker. And I applaud entrepreneurs, like this guy in New Orleans that I learned about today, Larmondo “Flair” Allen, a great treasured entrepreneur in New Orleans that sadly died in 2004 in a housing project, gunfight over drugs. But they finally found the guy that killed Larmondo. The guy that killed Larmondo also killed Larmondo\u2019s friend, Chocolate, 30 rounds in this guy\u2019s head. Big drug deal. Anyway, the entrepreneur aspect of Larmondo “Flair” Allen is he\u2019s 25, he\u2019s got nine kids, and they each earn about a hundred grand a year, and they don\u2019t have a job. It\u2019s a fascinating story. <\/p>\n

Anyway, when I was thinking about this, the Tesla news and my buddy telling me he couldn\u2019t wait to get it, I\u2019m just wondering if he\u2019s affected by this. Then there\u2019s this story from Grand Rapids, Michigan. The TV station there, Channel 13 Watchdog News, WZZM, the Watchdog News team started out to do a story prompted by viewer questions about the use and the cost of public car charging stations. They investigated and they found that the charging stations were just one very small part of what is, when you add it all up, a massive government effort to get everybody to drive electric cars. I\u2019m reading to you from a TV station report. <\/p>\n

“President Obama set a goal to have one million electric cars on the road by 2015. We\u2019re now at 10% of that number, and despite that, the government continues to prop up the manufacture and sales of electric cars beginning with lithium mines and ending with electric vehicle charging stations.” The bottom line here is that this TV station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, now granted, this is in auto country and you might find an allegiance to the standard automobile industry there, so you have to account for that in the story, but they claim that $5 billion is being wasted on this whole electric car program. <\/line><\/p>\n

I mean, they chalk this up as yet another massive failure by the Obama regime, and it\u2019s just another in a long and never ending list of failures. “Perhaps the most definitive indicator that electric car sales are not where the government wants them to be, President Obama has asked Congress to increase the electric car tax credit from $7,500 to $10,000. To date, the federal government has spent $28 million on lithium mines for the batteries, $27 million on lithium salts, $2 billion to battery factories, $3 billion to automakers, $7,500 credit to car buyers, now up to 10 grand, and $15 million to install car charging stations.” <\/p>\n

Now, the point is that the government is spending all this, not the electric car industry. The regular car industry is not getting this kind of government help other than GM being bailed out. But the point of the story is that nobody, in terms of real numbers, wants these, and yet it\u2019s true, Obama does want everybody driving. This is my point. Why does he care? You know, Algore dreamed of everybody having an electric car. Do these people not understand that you cannot have an electric car without massive coal powered, coal-fired power plants? Where do you get the electricity to charge them? <\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, this is where things break down for me, just sort of common-sense things. People think that electric cars — well, where do they start from? They start from, “Regular cars pollute, oh, yeah. Greenhouse gases, CO2 and C20 and C-3PO and catalytic converters and gasoline and fires and they stink and it smells, and it\u2019s pollution, and oil, yuk. It\u2019s oil and polluting and oil spills and it\u2019s profit for the oil companies.” They get lost in all this. Then they say, “Now, the electric car, now, that\u2019s clean, yes siree. There\u2019s no pollution. There\u2019s no noise,” and so forth. Where do you get the electricity to power the car? You get it from coal, which Obama is trying to do away with. <\/line><\/p>\n

So how are they gonna power these things? This why I don\u2019t understand. People think they\u2019re buying an electric car and saving the world, and yet it takes their number one enemy, coal, to have enough electricity to charge these things. Sometimes I don\u2019t know how people think. But that\u2019s why I think there\u2019s this political attachment to it, sort of like wearing the red ribbon for AIDS. You care more than other people, like when you\u2019re driving a Prius or what have you. It just shows how malleable people are and how susceptible they are to doing things. <\/p>\n

First you can guilt them into making them think they\u2019re responsible for climate change and pollution, and then you say, “But here\u2019s a way you can say you\u2019re sorry. Here\u2019s a way you can make amends. Here\u2019s a way that you can be forgiven.” And you go out and buy one of these hybrids or an electric car, and you agree to pay higher taxes and accept your portion of the blame for everything and you\u2019ll be forgiven and you\u2019ll be a good person. I don\u2019t understand that working on people, but it does. The psychological play is profoundly successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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