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RUSH: Let\u2019s go audio sound bites eight, nine, and ten, Mike. Well, eight and nine. Because the guy, the CEO of ConocoPhillips — Big Oil — James Mulva was on the Today show today with Matt Lauer, and Matt Lauer said, ‘A year ago you did an interview, you were asked ‘what can keep the price of a gallon of gas under three bucks,\u2019 and you said to get gasoline below three bucks would require a lower oil price. Well, oil represents 60% of the cost of gasoline, you\u2019ve said. So in the last year, a barrel of oil has gone from $75 down to $65. At the same time, gas is up 35 cents a gallon. How can this happen?\u2019<\/p>\n

MULVA: Well, Matt, it\u2019s true that gasoline prices move with oil prices, but what\u2019s different compared to last year is that the demand continues to go up. Even with gas prices up over three dollars a gallon, demand continues to go up and that\u2019s really quite surprising. And the issue is, providing supply. We\u2019re running our refineries at capacity, but what\u2019s different today is that we are having difficulty refining and providing the supply, and we\u2019re importing as much as we can, but our imports are down compared last year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re importing gasoline. He\u2019s not talking about oil. We are importing gasoline. We don\u2019t have the refining capacity. So Matt Lauer says, ‘Well, oftentimes like this the oil companies get villainized, but the fact of the matter is it\u2019s our fault. I mean again, you don\u2019t want to cast the blame, but the fact is here addicted to gasoline. We\u2019re simply using too much of it. Now we\u2019re paying the price. Isn\u2019t that a fair statement?\u2019<\/p>\n

MULVA: Well, in a way it is a fair statement because if you look at the United States, past hundred years or so, we\u2019ve been blessed with plentiful energy supplies, and we\u2019ve provided energy at a very affordable price. But that\u2019s changed. I mean energy supplies are not as available, and the other thing is as a country, we really don\u2019t have a comprehensive energy policy, and that\u2019s what we need.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Now, what is this, we\u2019re addicted to gasoline? We are not addicted to gasoline. Oil is the fuel of the freedom and the engine of democracy. Oil is the basis on which our economy is going to grow. We know it\u2019s going to continue to grow. We want it to grow. We want the economy to keep growing. We want it to be such that people become more and more productive, more and more prosperous. Nobody ever talks about wanting the economy to slow down and go into recession. We\u2019re always wanting the economy to grow, and with more people being born and the influx of people. It\u2019s just the natural state of human affairs. You\u2019re not addicted to something that generates that. What he means, you\u2019re addicted, you use it when you don\u2019t need it, use far more than what you need, and you can\u2019t help it, it\u2019s a disease, you can\u2019t stop. It\u2019s absurd to say that we\u2019re addicted to gasoline. People cannot go to work without it, they cannot go to food stores without it, they cannot take kids to school without it. It\u2019s a need far, far more than it\u2019s an addiction. Now we\u2019re going to trying to have this guilt imposed upon us. ‘Why, the prices aren\u2019t coming down because you people are a bunch of sloths. You people are careless; you don\u2019t care what it costs; you don\u2019t care what damage to the earth you\u2019re doing; you have to have your gasoline, you addicts.\u2019 That\u2019s absolutely preposterous. The solution to this is to get rid of all these restrictions that say we can\u2019t find more of our own oil and we can\u2019t build more refineries, get rid of all of that. Understand we\u2019re a growing economy, powerful, the world\u2019s lone superpower, and we\u2019re being assaulted on that basis by people who want to cut us down to size, and they\u2019re using energy as a means of doing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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