{"id":29600,"date":"2008-06-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:45:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:45:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:45:04","slug":"timid_republicans_are_missing_golden_opportunity_on_oil_drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/06\/16\/timid_republicans_are_missing_golden_opportunity_on_oil_drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Timid Republicans are Missing Golden Opportunity on Oil Drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: &#8216;Saudi Arabia will raise oil production to record levels within weeks in an attempt to avert an escalation of social and political unrest around the world. King Abdullah signalled the commitment to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, at the weekend after the impact of skyrocketing oil prices on food sparked protests and riots from Spain to South Korea. Next month, the Saudis will be pumping an extra half-a-million barrels of oil a day compared to last month, bringing total Saudi production to 9.7 million barrels a day, their highest ever level. But the world\u2019s biggest oil exporters are coupling the increase with an appeal to western Europe to cut fuel taxes to lower the price of petrol to consumers. Saudi Arabia, which has called an emergency meeting of oil producers and consumers in the port city Jeddah next Sunday, says the energy crisis has not been caused purely by market pressures but by a speculative bubble. Saudi Arabia and OPEC believe there are no shortages to justify the sudden surge in prices.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125110.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignright\"\/>So they want taxes to be cut &#8212; fuel taxes, specifically, to be cut. It says here in western Europe, but then King Abdullah goes on and says (paraphrased), &#8216;Hey, you know, you consumers of the world,\u2019 he addresses us consumers of the world and says, &#8216;You have a role in this. You have a responsibility here to cut back on how much you use.\u2019 But here\u2019s what worries the king. This is what worries the king of Saudi Arabia. I mean, these are petrodollars, and if these prices&#8230; It\u2019s exactly what I told you. This price cannot be sustained for very long because they have to sell the oil. They want to sell it. If people consume too much, then it will result in not as much being sold and pumped and so forth. That\u2019s his fear, anyway. So they\u2019re going to pump more oil. Now, here\u2019s the thing. The president went over there and asked them to pump more oil, and after the president went over and said, &#8216;Pump more oil,\u2019 they said, &#8216;Well, okay, we\u2019ll bump it up 300,000 barrels a day.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>So now King Abdullah says we\u2019re going to bump it up another half million barrels a day. So the Saudis since May are going to bump their production 800,000 barrels a day, and of course the world\u2019s going, &#8216;Ooh, goody, goody! This is so great! More oil! More supply and prices will go down!\u2019 Everybody\u2019s going nuts, everybody loves this, right. If we had been drilling in ANWR since Bill Clinton vetoed it in 1994-\u201995, since 2003 &#8212; had we begun drilling back in the mid-nineties &#8212; one million barrels of oil would have been on the market for use by us. Of course the Democrats, Chuck Schumer and the boys, say, &#8216;A million barrels? That\u2019s nothing! That\u2019s not going to add much to the supply. It\u2019s not going to bring the price down,\u2019 and yet here the Saudis are going to add 800,000 barrels, less than we would be getting from ANWR, and everybody is going, &#8216;Yeah, baby! Yeah, cool! All right! This is really magnifico!\u2019 What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a made-to-order issue for the Republican Party. <\/p>\n<p>Everybody is just concerned as hell over the November elections. Forget the presidential race for a moment. Everybody\u2019s concerned about how many seats we\u2019re going to lose in the House and how many Senate seats we might lose. Here\u2019s an issue: &#8216;Drill here. Drill now. Pay less.\u2019 The Republicans in Congress need to grow some. Let me put this in perspective for you. There\u2019s a fear. There\u2019s a fear among Republicans that says, &#8216;Gosh, if we come out for drilling, why, the American people don\u2019t want it. The American people are worried about global warming and pollution! It could hurt us politically, why if we come out for this.\u2019 Read the polls, Republicans. An ever-enlarging majority of Americans wants to drill, and the number is being added to each and every day. But look at it this way. The Republicans in Congress had no fear of risking their leadership and their control of the House by spending like drunken sailors, did they? <\/p>\n<p>I mean, when the opportunity came up to spend money on a new Medicare entitlement or came up to spend money on whatever, &#8216;Oh, sure! Sign off on it. Let\u2019s spend,\u2019 with no regard for the implications that it might cause harm, which it did in the 2006 elections. But they have some fear of stepping up to our energy needs: drilling and refining. They had no fear risking their power and their control by spending out the wazoo, which they should have known was gonna get \u2019em in big trouble. Our Founding Fathers had more courage in one disc than this Congress has in its whole spine. Now, for those of you in Rio Linda, let me put that a different way. There\u2019s more courage in a single finger than this Congress has in its 5,350 fingers. Will a single no-drilling Democrat be thrown out of office? Will the voters who want change actually vote for a change? Do you realize here that the Democrats have made it clear they are going to stand firm on no drilling, no new supply, no lower prices? <\/p>\n<p>The Democrats are the ones that advanced an energy bill in the Senate that would have increased taxes like crazy when gasoline is already at $4 a gallon! We have a built-in issue with which to define the Republican Party and the conservative movement against the socialist left, and our presidential nominee just this morning in a press conference talked about how we need to get our arms around global warming, reduce our carbon footprint, find alternative sources of energy. If somebody could get to Senator McCain &#8212; somebody that he trusts, somebody that has his ear &#8212; and say, &#8216;Senator, do you want to win this? Do you want to become president? What\u2019s the objective here? Win the election? You want to become president? There is an issue made to order for you, sir. Yes, it would require a flip-flop, but it\u2019s a flip-flop your base and your side would celebrate and support you on.\u2019 But (sigh) the odds of that don\u2019t look too good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: &#8216;Saudi Arabia will raise oil production to record levels within weeks in an attempt to avert an escalation of social and political unrest around the world. 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