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RUSH: Let\u2019s go St. Louis. Brian, hi. Thanks for calling the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking the call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A couple of times I\u2019ve heard you discussing the $700 billion dollars and the Pickens\u2019 plan and you\u2019re discussing peripheral elements of it, things like, oh, it\u2019s Americans paying the money and things like that, and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the biggest issue. The biggest issue is he\u2019s talking about energy independence. Now, isn\u2019t the overall goal of energy independence a good thing, whether it be through increased domestic drilling, alternative energy sources, and all these other things, don\u2019t we want to keep this flood of money from going overseas and wouldn\u2019t it be better to keep it here in America?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not necessarily. That\u2019s not an automatic axiom as far as I\u2019m concerned. But my problem — because I believe in trade — we\u2019re never going to have all of everything we need.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, but wouldn\u2019t increasing it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But that\u2019s not my beef with T. Boone. To call this a transfer of wealth is unnecessarily inaccurate and frightening to people who don\u2019t understand it. It\u2019s not a transfer of wealth. It\u2019s an exchange of wealth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would agree with that, but wouldn\u2019t you rather exchange with the gentleman down the street rather than with the people overseas?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, not necessarily.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I guess maybe a small difference where I\u2019ll disagree with you because if I could provide it domestically, if I could set up a trading system domestically with a domestic supplier, boy, I\u2019d rather do that, help my fellow American put food on his plate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Dirty little secret. Let\u2019s say we open up a bunch of new wells in the next seven or ten years and let\u2019s just say hypothetically that we have doubled our domestic supply. That domestic supply, my man, is going to be on the world market. If we try to keep that oil exclusively for use in the United States, we are going to dramatically artificially affect the price. A lot of people think they\u2019re being bamboozled into believing we drill our own oil, we keep it here. That\u2019s not what\u2019s happening \u2019cause it\u2019s a global product subject to global market forces, therefore global price pressures and constraints. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I wouldn\u2019t argue with that at all, but we are then feeding more Americans, too, because more Americans are providing that oil. So why not have a bigger piece of that world supply?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m all for having a bigger piece of the world supply.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great. But it sounds like when you\u2019re sort of sticking at this Pickens\u2019 plan in the bit it seems like the bigger issue that Pickens is bringing up is, let\u2019s get independent with energy. And I\u2019m all for that, and I think we ought to figure out the way to do that. And it will include more domestic drilling, as well as other alternative sources, and it sounds like you\u2019re arguing against all that. <\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019m not opposed to independence. I\u2019m not opposed to making sure we don\u2019t depend — but the whole idea of dependence is a little bit of a straw dog, too, because we are a major buyer, they are sellers. They will harm themselves not selling to us. It\u2019s never going to be the case, I don\u2019t care how much he huffs and puffs, Hugo Chavez is never going to stop selling us oil, neither will our friends the Saudis and neither will whoever else we buy it from. Number one is Canada and Mexico, and the Saudis are three. Everything is too interlinked here. One of the myths surrounding this dependence on foreign oil is the lie that the Democrats tell that the money that we are spending goes to terrorists, that the terrorists are equipped with taking the money and so forth, because they\u2019re poor, and they\u2019re poverty stricken, and that\u2019s why they hate us. I mean so much of this is convoluted. Terrorists, the leaders, are not poor. They\u2019re not anything of the sort. I will continue this when we come back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to this dependence-on-foreign oil business. I\u2019m all for having more of our own supply on the world market. I\u2019m all for us having an insurance policy and having our own oil, \u2019cause you never know what\u2019s going to happen to some of these supplies overseas, or if they\u2019re going to be under assault by terrorists themselves. I\u2019m not against that. I\u2019m all for it. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But I\u2019ll tell you what. The answer is not wind, and the answer is not solar. The answer is natural gas. The answer is oil. This business that the Democrats — Boone Pickens, put him in the equation, take him out of the equation. It doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s very simple. The Democrat Party has nobody who is willing to take any action that\u2019s meaningful on becoming independent when it comes to energy. They are standing in the way of it. My friends, there is no possible way — it is impossible at the moment, it will be impossible in ten years — to replace oil. There is nothing else that can do it, nothing else on the horizon that will replace oil. It ain\u2019t going to happen. Demonizing oil, demonizing energy — and the people doing this are also demanding we become energy independent, and yet they want to invest in all of these so-called alternatives that have not been proven to do diddly-squat, for what reason? How can a group of people be so devoid of pure common sense? Here. Let me give you a couple audio sound bites. Last night on Larry King Live, the all-knowing and renowned energy expert, Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h was Larry\u2019s guest. And King\u2019s first question: ‘Professor Reich, doesn\u2019t it seem logical to drill?\u2019<\/p>\n

REICH: It\u2019s not logical, Larry! I mean, what we know from the Energy Department and many —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! It\u2019s not logical to drill! So? I\u2019ll tell you what, Labor Secretary Reich. Call the Saudis and say, ‘Stop drilling!\u2019 You call Chavez and tell him to stop drilling, and you call the Canadians and you tell them to stop drilling, and you call the Russians and tell them to stop drilling, and you call the United Arab Emirates and the Qatar people and the people in Kuwait, you tell them to stop drilling. Then you call Ahmadinejad, and you tell him to stop drilling, and then you tell our friends in Iraq to stop drilling. Make everybody stop drilling! If drilling is illogical, then let\u2019s stop it. This is insane. This is insane. Cue that up to the top. This is nothing more than the empty rhetoric of a political agenda which is devoid of any devotion to the principles of this nation\u2019s founding. The rhetoric coming from the likes of Reich and these clowns on the left, is about nothing more than creating a more perfect socialist country (with them in charge of it). Let\u2019s close the wells in California. Let\u2019s shut down the wells in the Gulf. Let\u2019s tell the ChiComs that they can\u2019t drill with the Cubans. Let\u2019s tell Mexico to stop drilling, Labor Secretary Reich. Now, he\u2019s not this big a fool. Okay, maybe he is. Here\u2019s the whole thing.<\/p>\n

REICH: It\u2019s not logical, Larry. I mean what we know from the Energy Department and many other sources is that if we drill for more oil right now we\u2019re not going to see the results for seven or eight or ten years — and the results, say the Energy Information Administration, uh, are going to be negligible in terms of prices. I mean, the only way of weaning ourselves off the addiction of oil is to invest — as Senator Obama wants to — in alternatives. Uh, nonfossil based fuels. Uh, wind. Uh, biomass. Uh, water. Other fuels that will allow us over the long term to create five million new jobs to be the center of alternative energy for the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Now, here\u2019s another thing. We all know what ‘addiction\u2019 is, and we all know what addicts are like. Do you think of yourself as addicted to oil? Will you do anything to get a barrel of oil? Will you do anything to fill your car up with gasoline? Will you go out and steal from somebody to fill up your tank with gasoline? This notion that we are ‘addicted to oil\u2019 is akin to saying we are addicted to air, or that we are addicted to water, or that we are addicted to food, or that we are addicted to sunlight. Oil is every bit as much a factor and presence of nature as is anything else that is found on this planet. Yeah, he said something about converting water into some sort of energy. We have states already suffering with water shortages as it is, some states are in droughts. They got water fights in California, got water fights going on here in Florida. In Georgia they\u2019re monumental, and North Carolina already. All of this stuff that he mentions is a pipe dream! But here\u2019s the second bite. Larry King says, ‘Well, wait a minute, didn\u2019t therefore we make a mistake years ago? Because you\u2019re talking seven or eight years. If we\u2019d done this seven or eight years ago [meaning drilling] we\u2019d have that oil now.\u2019<\/p>\n

<\/a>REICH: Larry, our big mistake seven or eight or ten or 15 years ago was not investing in alternative energies, wind and solar and — and all sorts of energies that don\u2019t pollute the atmosphere, that provide good jobs to Americans. Uh, you know, Obama\u2019s plan would —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. Stop the tape. You just heard the former labor secretary in the Clinton administration, Robert B. Reich-h-h-h-h-h say that we did not — seven or eight years ago or ten or 15 years ago — invest in alternative energies, wind and solar. Yeah? Is that true? Really, Labor Secretary Reich? Would you tell me why I saw a bunch of damn windmills pockmarking the countryside when I arrived in California in 1984? Try 24 years ago, sir. Would you explain to me why there are windmills and all these other things? I had solar panels on my house in Sacramento in 1985, sir. Solar and wind have been around a long time, sir. For us to have windmills today, they had to be in the design stage and the permit process phase and all that years ago. <\/p>\n

We have been investing in wind and solar for 25 years, sir, and we still cannot heat a home with it; we still cannot power an automobile with it; and we still can\u2019t get even a kite off the ground with it. This, frankly, folks, it\u2019s insultingly stupid and absurd, and they\u2019re playing you for a bunch of suckers! ‘Frankly, Larry, big mistake we made was not investing in these clean energy seven or eight, ten, 15 years ago.\u2019 We did! The dirty little secret is we\u2019ve been investing in these things for years and they haven\u2019t done diddly-squat, in terms of replacing oil, which is what these people want. This kick that they\u2019re on to replace oil, where does this come from, even politically? Is there polling data out there that says a majority of the Americans hate oil, that the way to the White House is to demonize oil? Where did this come from? This is irrational. It borders on the insane to hate oil. A lot of things can damage things just like oil can, if it\u2019s not properly contained and used. I just don\u2019t understand this. <\/p>\n

Well, I do, but I mean I\u2019m trying to express my incredulity here at the absolute stupidity of assuming a position. This is like coming out against oxygen, or it\u2019s like arguing against rain. It\u2019s just silly! What is the damage? How has oil destroyed America? How has it destroyed people\u2019s lives? It\u2019s done just the opposite. Where does this come from? What in the world is the political calculation these people have to construct a presidential campaign based on the hatred of oil, as though oil itself is a conservative Republican? They\u2019re treating oil as if it\u2019s no different than Bush. They hate Bush; they hate oil. And both are irrational. Our buddies, our buddies at CNN, they\u2019re preparing a retrospective special, ladies and gentlemen, on the disaster that was the oil spill at Prince William Sound or the Exxon Valdez. What they will not tell you is that if you go up there today, you won\u2019t find any evidence of it, other than the stupid memorials that human beings built.<\/p>\n

‘This is where oil was on the rock. This is where the otter got eaten by the shark when we threw it back in there, and the sea lion or whatever ate the otter.\u2019 Nature cleaned up itself so damn fast. It was such a laughable thing to watch people with dishtowels and Dawn dishwashing detergent wiping oil off of the rocks at Prince William Sound. Oh, it was an unpleasant sight. Of course, the birds got oil on their wings, and it was not pleasant to look at, but it\u2019s an accident. The skipper of the Exxon Valdez did not say, ‘I want to destroy America! I want to destroy Alaska,\u2019 and then let the stuff go. But anyway, the sea eats oil. The sea eats oil alive. That place up there, nature cleaned it up faster than we ever could. Why in the world this abject hatred for a commodity? I mean, I can understand if you\u2019re a little kid, and you don\u2019t like peas or broccoli, but an entire political party and an ideological movement has now targeted oil as as big a threat to this country as conservative Republicans are! It\u2019s hard to get your arms around it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Steve, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, Rush. It just drives me absolutely nuts to hear that $700 billion thing thrown around, as if that\u2019s something that\u2019s bad, because most of that comes right back to us anyway. I mean we got our good friends to the north, Canada, our rainy day friends to the south, Mexico, and when they get that money from us, they get the lion\u2019s share of it, and it comes right back to our country in purchased goods.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course, but it\u2019s not just that. It\u2019s not just that, Stephen. I understand your frustration, because, my brother, I am feeling it myself. It\u2019s not just that the dollars that we send overseas come back. What do we do with the oil? The oil leads to jobs. It leads to productivity. It leads to the advancement of lifestyles. It leads to people having vacations. It leads to food making it to the market. It leads to the grocery store having food when you go to the market. This is all so Twilight Zonish. We gotta defend a commodity. It\u2019s one thing to have to defend our ideology, now we gotta defend a commodity. Can you imagine if the liberals were attacking cotton? No different than this attack on oil. Now, I know what you\u2019re thinking, ‘But, Rush, but, Rush, but, Rush, this is all about global warming and the carbon footprints.\u2019 That\u2019s a hoax! It\u2019s a flat-out hoax. It\u2019s not about that. It\u2019s about leftists who have lost their love for this country who think of their country as guilty of innumerable sins, and we have to pay the price, and we have to roll back our lifestyles. All these yahoos out there shouting, ‘We are 3% of the population of the world and using 25% of the world\u2019s resources.\u2019 Static argument, makes no sense, doesn\u2019t explain anything without a dynamic analysis of it. Yeah, you know why? <\/p>\n

Okay, we\u2019re 3% of the world\u2019s population, use 25% of the world\u2019s resources, I don\u2019t even believe it, but let\u2019s accept it as true for the sake of it. You know why we do? ‘Cause we can! The others can\u2019t! And what we do is in the interests of the betterment of all mankind! But if you don\u2019t see America as the good guys, if you see Americans as racists, sexist, bigots, slavish homophobes or what have you, the way the left sees this country, this is why this election is so damned important. On one side, we have the fundamentals of the founding principles of this country under assault as they have never been before, by a bunch of people who don\u2019t think this country the way it\u2019s currently constituted is moral and just, \u2019cause it\u2019s imperfect. So they want to try what has repeatedly failed every time it\u2019s been tried worldwide throughout human history. And that is socialism, a large collectivist state making sure everybody\u2019s happy, making sure everybody\u2019s got the same amount of everything, same amount of education, same opportunities, same income, same house, same TVs, same cars. Anything less than that is imperfect and unjust. We\u2019re dealing with a bunch of literal maniacs. <\/p>\n

Mike in Amarillo, Texas, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, Rush, glad to be able to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Talking about T. Boone Pickens, why is Obama talking about one of the richest oilmen in the country, who is trying to buy like 2,000 wind generators but he\u2019s not going to put any on his property because he doesn\u2019t like the way they look on his property?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know about that, but I will tell you why Obama is quoting T. Boone Pickens. And there is one reason he\u2019s quoting T. Boone Pickens, that\u2019s \u2019cause T. Boone is a Republican, and T. Boone has said two things that Obama likes, and he\u2019s ignoring everything else that T. Boone has said. Obama loves it when T. Boone used that $700 billion transfer of wealth figure. We\u2019re sending $700 billion over to enemies. He loves when T. Boone says that, but it\u2019s not as T. Boone describes it. It\u2019s not a transfer of wealth. It\u2019s an exchange of wealth. We\u2019ve been through that. Second thing he likes is when T. Boone goes through this notion of we are 3% of the world\u2019s population using 25% of the world\u2019s resources. Liberals have been using that since Paul Ehrlich back in the seventies. What T. Boone wants and what Obama doesn\u2019t mention, in addition to natural gas, and in addition to T. Boone\u2019s dream of his massive wind farm business, T. Boone wants to drill out the wazoo, T. Boone wants to drill for oil anywhere we can find, but T. Boone is saying we can\u2019t drill our way out of this, and T. Boone says we can\u2019t drill our way out of this because if we drill our way out of it, his wind farms are going to be less attractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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