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RUSH: The energy bill. What a disaster. It\u2019s just an absolute disaster. ‘Energy Bill Boosts Fuel-Economy Standards — One-hundred watt lightbulbs to vanish,\u2019 and you\u2019re going to get stickers on your car saying how much your carbon footprint is, what your emissions are. In addition to the sticker over the price, you\u2019ll get a sticker telling you how much your car is going to pollute, like all the warning stickers on the sun visors that make you think you\u2019re an idiot. Jane Harman (D-CA) said, ‘In this bill, we ban by 2012 the famously inefficient 100-watt incandescent bulb.\u2019 The question remains now: this energy bill creates no new energy. In fact, it stands in the way of the creation of energy. The question ought to be: ‘How many miles will your next car get per new lightbulb?\u2019 I haven\u2019t seen the bill myself. I doubt members of Congress have, either. They just signed the damn thing. But does the bill titled ‘energy bill\u2019 end with a period or a question mark? is my point, because it could just as easily be called, ‘What Energy Bill?\u2019 Petroleum? Nothing in it. Nuclear? Nothing in it. ANWR? Nothing in it. The big brag here in the bill, the big talking point is that the CAFE Standards, the fuel, the mileage standards for cars increase from 25 miles per gallon to 35 miles per gallon in 13 years.<\/p>\n

Remember my trip to Detroit talking to some executives up there? I asked them, ‘Are you going to build that big, 16-cylinder Cadillac that you were thinking about?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Nah, we can\u2019t have it.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Why not?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Fuel standards. The government.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘For crying out loud!\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Oh, yeah. The public\u2019s all worried about global warming, and they\u2019re the customer. So we gotta give them what they want.\u2019<\/p>\n

Thirty-five miles per gallon by 2012? That is going to make me mad. I am not going to drive a car that gets 35 miles per gallon. I\u2019m just not going to do it. I\u2019m going to find a car that gets eight or ten, like I get now, because I\u2019m not going to drive around in some little Podunk lawnmower with a couple seats on it, and think I\u2019m cruising around. They don\u2019t say how many years it will take to replace all the existing less efficient cars. We have 250 million-odd cars on the road. I don\u2019t know how many we sell every year, ten, 15 million. I\u2019m guessing. But at that rate you can forget 2012, the 13-year illusion. It could take 20 or 30 years to get all those cars off the road, especially if people end up liking them versus the junk that\u2019s going to come out getting 35 miles per gallon. (sigh) It\u2019s just maddening. It is bowing to a bunch of stuff… Look, I\u2019m all for fuel efficiency and that kind of thing, but nothing in this energy bill was oriented toward growth and finding and producing more energy. It\u2019s all about ‘conservation,\u2019 which is not even half the story. It\u2019s important, of course, but you can\u2019t grow an economy simply on conservation.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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In addition to the sticker over the price, you\u2019ll get a sticker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nNo Energy in the "Energy" Bill - 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:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/no_energy_in_the_energy_bill\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No Energy in the "Energy" Bill - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: The energy bill. What a disaster. 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