{"id":25889,"date":"2007-06-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:25:12","slug":"milk_costs_more_than_gas2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/11\/milk_costs_more_than_gas2\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk Costs More Than Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: &#8216;Drought, high fuel and feed prices, a surge in international sales and the cost of dairy operations are factors boosting milk prices to record levels and hitting consumers in the pocketbook. In Alabama, the price for a gallon of milk has broken a 2004 record of $3.57 a gallon. Agriculture economists say it could hit $4.50 this summer.\u2019 That means, ladies and gentlemen, that milk now costs more than gasoline does, when priced by the gallon. Now, I wonder if there\u2019s too much profit here for Mrs. Clinton in Big Milk. I wonder if Big Milk needs to keep its hands on its back pockets here because liberal politicians are going to come along and want to take their obscene profits. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Meanwhile, gasoline prices are going down. Average price of gas has dropped more than seven cents in recent weeks. This is the first time it\u2019s gone down since January, according to a national survey released on Sunday. I predicted this. Gas prices always go down in the summertime. They always do. You can make book on it. One of the reasons, by the way, our refineries are only running right now 86 or 96%, I\u2019m not sure which, one of those two numbers is right, capacity. We are importing gasoline because even a hundred percent, we don\u2019t have the refining capacity to handle the big demand of summertime driving and people are not cutting back on driving and their purchases of gasoline. So the fact that we\u2019re importing gasoline, that\u2019s what makes me nervous. Not immediately, but down the road. We\u2019re already importing a lot of oil. Now we start importing gasoline to meet our needs. It\u2019s all related to the fact everybody is out there talking about we need energy independence. The various ways to go about getting it are opposed by the same people making the claim that we need it. <\/p>\n<p>From the UK Times. &#8216;The government\u2019s policy of promoting biofuels for transport will come under harsh attack this week from one of its senior science advisers. Roland Clift will tell a seminar of the Royal Academy of Engineering that the plan to promote bioethanol and biodiesel produced from plants is a &#8216;scam.&#8221; By the way, when you hear biofuel, think plants. That\u2019s what it means. &#8216;He will tell the seminar that promoting the use of biofuels is likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions. Clift\u2019s comments will amount to a direct challenge to Miliband, who has published a strategy promoting biofuels. It coincides with a surge of anger among environmentalists over the weak pledges on climate change that emerged from last week\u2019s G8 summit.\u2019 And boy, you know, you can talk about Bush all you want, but he stuck it to Putin and stuck it to the G8 on the Kyoto protocol. It\u2019s effectively dead. He effectively just wiped it out; made them wipe it out. Now, here\u2019s why biofuels will lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions. It takes too much land to plant the proper plants for biofuels. In order to get the land you have to burn down forests. And when you burn forests, the carbon dioxide that these forests normally scrub from the air will remain. This, according to environmental lore, will contribute to global warming. That\u2019s all hocus-pocus as well. I mean, CO2, we exhale it. It\u2019s not a pollutant.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Get this story from the Charlotte Observer. &#8216;Bob Teixeira decided it was time to take a stand against U.S. dependence on foreign oil. So last fall the Charlotte musician and guitar instructor spent $1,200 to convert his 1981 diesel Mercedes to run on vegetable oil. He bought soybean oil in 5-gallon jugs at Costco, spending about 30 percent more than diesel would cost,\u2019 to save the planet. &#8216;His reward, from a state that heavily promotes alternative fuels: a $1,000 fine last month for not paying motor fuel taxes. He has been told to expect another $1,000 fine from the federal government. To legally use veggie oil, state officials told him, he would have to first post a $2,500 bond. &#8230; The state Department of Revenue, which fined Teixeira, has asked legislators to waive the $2,500 bond for small fuel users. The department also told Teixeira, after the Observer asked about his case this week, that it will compromise on his fine.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Now, here\u2019s the pull quote of the story. &#8216;Teixeira\u2019s story began near Lowe\u2019s Motor Speedway on May 14.\u2019 I know you\u2019re wondering, &#8216;How did they know he\u2019s using vegetable oil in the car?\u2019 Well, he went to Lowe\u2019s motor speedway on May 14th, a NASCAR race, &#8216;As recreational vehicles streamed in for race week, revenue investigators were checking fuel tanks of diesel RVs for illegal fuel. The investigators spotted Teixeira\u2019s passing bumper sticker: &#8216;Powered by 100% vegetable oil.\u2019 &#8230; Teixeira says revenue officials are just doing their jobs. But he thinks it\u2019s unfair that he was lumped with people who purposely try to avoid fuel taxes.\u2019 Now, he can\u2019t win. Follow all this liberal orthodoxy, go out there and put in this soybean oil in your car and then they nab you for not paying taxes. (Laughing) I mean, it\u2019s not funny, but it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: &#8216;Drought, high fuel and feed prices, a surge in international sales and the cost of dairy operations are factors boosting milk prices to record levels and hitting consumers in the pocketbook. In Alabama, the price for a gallon of milk has broken a 2004 record of $3.57 a gallon. 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