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RUSH: Richard in Whidbey Island, Washington, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning, Rush. Mega dittos to you. I was born in Cape Girardeau and was raised in Scott City. I\u2019m a 20-year naval veteran. I wanted to bring up the issue about the lighting that you mentioned yesterday about you turned on your lights and all that. I\u2019m an amateur astronomer, and also a conservative. I think that the conservatives need to be aware that we need to, you know, watch our lighting, and we waste a lot of energy, and to me it\u2019s not a global warming issue. It\u2019s an issue about becoming less dependent on foreign oil and those sources of energy, and I really think that we should do a better job at looking into those types of — and conservatives getting more on board with that —<\/line><\/line>RUSH: Let me tell you something.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: — alternative energy sources —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Richard?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — just so that we can free ourselves of foreign oil and interests.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Richard? Are you still there, Richard?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you something. I might shock you and I might surprise you. With about 80% of what you said, maybe 90% of what you said, I totally agree with you. I am ssssss —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but the thing of it is, I think the liberals and the Democrats have kind of hijacked that idea —<\/p>\n

RUSH: — sssssick and tired —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — we don\u2019t hear as much —<\/p>\n

RUSH: — of the Democrats in this country not letting us drill for our own oil. The ChiComs are drilling with the Cubans in the Gulf of Mexico right now. The Mexicans are discovering fields all over the place. We can\u2019t find oil in your own country because the environmentalist wackos won\u2019t let us go get it. I am sorry, but my lights and your lights and everybody else\u2019s lights are nothing! We are a growing economy. There is no reason we have to go back to the Dark Ages. There is no reason whatsoever. I\u2019m all for saving and not wasting for just extravagant purposes. But at the same time, it\u2019s my house, it is my property, and if I\u2019m willing to pay for it, then screw everybody else! As long as the energy is available, and I\u2019m willing to pay for it, screw it! I\u2019m going to do it and I\u2019m not going to feel guilty about it. I don\u2019t have all the lights on all the time. I only turned them on because I got preached to during a football pregame show by a bunch of knuckleheaded sports liberals who have had their show turned into a whole green expos&eacute; advancing a political agenda in the middle of a football pregame show, that I had no business watching anyway because I\u2019m smart enough to know better. But I was still watching it. So here they are. You gotta understand this out there, Richard. These guys are urging every one of us to turn off our lights. They\u2019re showing us a satellite picture of the earth at night with all the lights on. Then they get the blimp flying over Philadelphia. There are two stadiums fully lit up, neither of them being used. <\/p>\n

The Philadelphia skyline is lit up like crazy. Why? Because TV needs the nighttime pictures because the blimp pays a lot of advertising! You can\u2019t put a blimp up there at night. Then these clowns on the pregame show go by candlelight. But did you notice at the halftime show they had candlelight in the studio, but that big red Toyota sign was blaring? The sponsor got his electricity on NBC! My point to you, Richard, is that my lights and everybody else\u2019s lights have nothing to do with foreign dependence. What it has to do with is we have liberals in this country who will not allow this country to find its own energy resources. Oil is king right now, and it\u2019s going to be for a long time. We go pie-in-the-sky about alternative sources all we want, and we could start working on them, but we gotta realize they\u2019re not going to be able to provide the power for this country to grow for years. <\/p>\n

We have to continue to grow. We are not a country that wants to regress. I don\u2019t want to go back to streets covered in horse manure because they ban the car, and I am not going to. I am not going to go out and grab a bunch of leaves that have fallen from my palm trees and take them inside when I have to use the bathroom. I am going to use toilet paper! I\u2019m going to try to be as hygienically correct as I can. If I need my lights on because I like looking at them or because I need to use them, then by golly by gosh they are going to be on! The Saudis be damned because the Saudis are not our problem. The Democrats are our problem! You should be calling them and not me, if you\u2019re worried about too much dependence on foreign oil, for crying out loud. How many times do I have to say this?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I have an even better way to save energy. Stop complaining to me about my lights. Let\u2019s just turn off MSNBC. Just turn off CNN. (interruption) What do you mean it won\u2019t do anything, because there aren\u2019t that many people watching it in the first place? Well, I\u2019m talking about the electricity they use just putting that drivel on the air. Just turn CNN off! I\u2019m not talking about on your TV, I\u2019m talking about turn off the business so damned concerned about power usage. What is the efficiency of all the electricity and power these networks use to reach these minuscule audiences they\u2019ve got? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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