{"id":17445,"date":"2011-11-10T17:57:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-10T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:57:55","slug":"plug_in_car_industry_goes_up_in_smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/11\/10\/plug_in_car_industry_goes_up_in_smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug-In Car Industry Goes Up in Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Despite proof now, despite evidence that global warming is a political issue, not a science issue, and that the science aspect of it is fraudulent and is a hoax, we have a story here from the French News Agency.  &#8220;The World Has Five Years Now to Avoid Severe Warming.&#8221;  That\u2019s from the International Energy Agency.  &#8220;The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events.&#8221;  Now, the IEA &#8212; don\u2019t confuse it with the IAEA.  That\u2019s the bunch that have been telling us for years that the Iranians are not working on a nuke.  So things are reversible now, but they won\u2019t be five years from now.  Five years from now we\u2019re toast.  The LA Times said it, and others have said that there\u2019s no warming.  It\u2019s all over the place here.  But they won\u2019t let this die.  It\u2019s a political issue and it\u2019s an international left-wing hoax, this whole notion of manmade global warming climate change. <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>From North Carolina, Duke Energy &#8212; and I must tell you at the outset here I love telling you this, I love passing this news on to you.  &#8220;Duke Energy is asking customers who own their electric car charging station to stop using the product after a house fire in Mooresville last month.&#8221;  Did you electric car buyers ever stop to think about this?  You know, as scared of life as the left is, they\u2019re gonna have these charging stations, that\u2019s electricity constantly running and somebody\u2019s house is gonna catch fire and then the left is gonna shut down because that\u2019s what they do.  So it\u2019s already happened, one house fire and <\/line><BR\/>Duke Energy is telling everybody with a car charging station to shut it down.  How many people are we talking about here? <\/line><img id=\"eZObject_56121\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/leaf.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is the second thing I love reporting to you.  Talking about the state of North Carolina, folks.  &#8220;Duke Energy sent an e-mail to &#8211;&#8221; dadelut dadelut dadelut &#8220;&#8211; about 125 customers in the Carolinas and Indiana,&#8221; two states, &#8220;who currently participate in their plug-in electric vehicle pilots and have the same type of charging station installed at their homes to stop using it.&#8221; Yes, I have a smug look on my face.  I have an I-told-you-so, happy look on my face. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigators have not determined if the electric car charger was the source of a house fire &#8211;&#8221;  Doesn\u2019t matter, they\u2019re still gonna shut \u2019em down.  &#8220;&#8211; but the product has been the center of the investigation.  The e-mail continues to explain that Duke Energy has no direct reason to believe that the charging station was the reason of the fire, but out of caution &#8211;&#8221; and a fear of lawyers. I added that. That doesn\u2019t appear here, but believe me, it\u2019s valid &#8220;&#8211; customers should not use the charging station  until they receive additional information from the investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know how long these investigations take?  So how long is it gonna be before you suck&#8211; err, electric car owners can charge the things?  The fire happened last month.  They\u2019re just now getting around here to thinking about the safety of all the charging units.  &#8220;The fire happened last month and caused $800,000 worth of damage to the home. Two people suffered minor injuries after they helped one of the residents in the home to safety.&#8221; I hope these people don\u2019t have to go anywhere any time soon.  Are they gonna have to go out and buy a gasoline powered car? <\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine the humiliation, the embarrassment around town?  You\u2019re probably well known, wear a ribbon, do something to tell people you care more than they do. You went out and bought an electric car, your charging station is probably the most decorated thing in your house so people will notice it, and all of a sudden you get a letter from the power company that says you can\u2019t use it.  Now what do you do?  You still gotta go to the grocery store.  Do you dare humiliate yourself and show up in a gasoline powered vehicle with the whole town laughing at you?  You know this is how they\u2019re thinking about it?  So what do they do, call cabs, take the hoof express? <\/p>\n<p>And then a companion story from the National Legal and Policy Center.  This is so bad, and I have such compassion I am not gonna mention the brand name, \u2019cause that\u2019s not the point here.  &#8220;On Monday NLPC\u00c2\u2019s Mark Modica smartly called into question Consumer Reports\u00c2\u2019 sudden change in opinion about the electric hybrid [bleep bleep] from a vehicle that they once believed &#8216;doesn\u00c2\u2019t seem to make a lot of sense,\u2019 to one the publication recommends. The next day, however, CR delivered an online review of the major all-electric vehicle on the U.S. market &#8212; [bleep bleep] &#8212; and while not intended to be scathing, the account given by reviewer Liza Barth makes the car sound so unappealing, she should have panned it outright.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What we have here, it\u2019s funny, a Consumer Reports reporterette test-drove an electric car.  She tries not to, but she totally rips it to shreds.  She\u2019s a good liberal, she\u2019s a good reporter, she knows that these cars are gonna save the planet and she knows that everybody ought to be driving one, and she knows that we all must pay for the damage that we have done by driving our SUVs.  So she drives one of these things around and hates it and realizes that it is a piece of junk and said so but then says it\u2019s not that bad and you should still buy one.  Yes siree bob. <\/p>\n<p>For example, she writes about total anxiety the whole time the charge will not be enough.  And she\u2019s right.  The charge actually lasts, depending on your speed, a length of time, not a distance.  She can\u2019t use the heater and get where she\u2019s going nonstop, but she still says a fine, fine car, Consumer Reports recommends it.  After all of that, shortly after the magazine comes out and gives it their recommendation she writes this story.  Here, I\u2019ll give you an example.  I\u2019m reading from Liza Barth. &#8220;Despite those deep flaws and shortcomings, CR couldn\u00c2\u2019t bring itself to outright ridicule the [bleep]. This is the vehicle taxpayers are backing with a $1.4 billion loan to [bleep] to retrofit a [bleep] plant for the mass production of the [bleep] company\u00c2\u2019s [bleep]. Likewise, the Department of Energy, besides the billions in public money it pours into battery storage research and subsidizing &#8216;renewable\u2019 energy companies for failed wind and solar technologies &#8212; has dumped millions of dollars into the rollout of chargers for the [bleeps]. That &#8216;investment\u2019 looks even more wasteful as the automakers are split on the technology that should be used in the future for the [bleep] chargers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another quote.  &#8220;There is also no market need for an [bleep] with an annoying high-pitched whine, recharging stations mostly out of the car\u00c2\u2019s reach, and minimal passenger room, but that hasn\u00c2\u2019t stopped [bleep] from making it, nor has it stopped the government from forcing taxpayers to finance its mass production.&#8221;  She pans the thing.  She talks about how she\u2019s in paranoid panic, that she\u2019s not gonna be able to get where she\u2019s going and use the heater because the charge isn\u2019t gonna last long enough, and all this after Consumer Reports recommends the car.  I\u2019ll tell you, this day is made to order for me.  It\u2019s just made to order for El Rushbo.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Livermore, California. Hi, Ray. I\u2019m glad that you waited. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s great to have you, thank you for your professorship, for the institute. Mega Marine 236th birthday dittos and Veterans Day dittos as well. Thank you to our active servicemen.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: You were talking about the electric car in the first hour, the plug-in electric car. I wanted to make myself available for that, but real quick, I think it was Tom Petty who had an electric car plugged in here in the Bay Area at his warehouse, and it burned to the ground under the same kind of conditions of the story you read earlier.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I remember that. I remember that, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: What I want to do is, in the name of spreading it around &#8212; spreading the wealth around &#8212; in the name of Occupiers, I have a fossil fuel Honda generator that will make available for electric car users. They can come over, they can plug in, and I think for about five gallons of gas we can send you about 60 or 120 miles; and you guys, you know, we can all work together as the 99ers.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing) How sweet of you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. It\u2019s the least we can do, Rush. You know spread it around.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Offering a charging service, basically?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, yes. My fossil fuel based charging system willpower many electric cars, each 60 miles, of course &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me ask you a question. Will your fossil fuel charger charge a battery faster than a non-fossil fuel&#8230;? Wait a minute! Is there a non-fossil fuel charger?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I\u2019m just a regular blue-collar working guy, Rush, so I don\u2019t know that there are really any regular non-fossil fuel chargers. I guess some of these hydroelectric dams that they\u2019re trying to take tear down in my state could be considered non-fossil fuel chargers &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; but they\u2019re trying to take them down.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, \u2019cause the power plant is a fossil fuel charger. That\u2019s coal.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And I don\u2019t think you can charge your car yet with a windmill or a solar panel. See, this is one of the things we kind of get smug and laugh at because all these people (laughing) are thinking that they\u2019re saving the planet and all this? All kinds of coal is being used to charge their car that wouldn\u2019t otherwise being used if they were using gasoline, or diesel, or what have you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Despite proof now, despite evidence that global warming is a political issue, not a science issue, and that the science aspect of it is fraudulent and is a hoax, we have a story here from the French News Agency. &#8220;The World Has Five Years Now to Avoid Severe Warming.&#8221; That\u2019s from the International Energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Plug-In Car Industry Goes Up in Smoke - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/11\/10\/plug_in_car_industry_goes_up_in_smoke\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Plug-In Car Industry Goes Up in Smoke - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Despite proof now, despite evidence that global warming is a political issue, not a science issue, and that the science aspect of it is fraudulent and is a hoax, we have a story here from the French News Agency. &#8220;The World Has Five Years Now to Avoid Severe Warming.&#8221; 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