{"id":30163,"date":"2008-08-19T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:25:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:25:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:25:39","slug":"arnold_joins_obama_on_oil_lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/08\/19\/arnold_joins_obama_on_oil_lunacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Joins Obama on Oil Lunacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Now, I want to illustrate something else, in this audio sound bite here. Yesterday in Albuquerque at a town meeting, Barack Obama, he met with Boone Pickens, and he picked up some more talking points to robotically repeat. Listen to this.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" class=\"alignright\"\/>OBAMA: We are sending $700 billion to foreign nations. It\u2019s a huge transfer of our wealth. It oftentimes leads us to funding both sides of the war on terrorism because we\u2019re sending a bunch of that money to the Middle East and countries that don\u2019t necessarily like us, and it is fundamentally impacting our environment. Climate change is real, and we\u2019re starting to see the effects of it, uhh, in &#8212; in profound ways, and it\u2019s affecting people\u2019s pocketbooks. So the only way that we are going to solve this problem is if we fundamentally change how we use energy.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Now, this is not an Obama original. He had a talk with Boone Pickens, and then he goes out and repeats what Boone Pickens is saying: &#8216;seven hundred billion dollar transfer of wealth to foreign nations.\u2019 There is no &#8216;transfer of wealth\u2019 going on here, and Boone Pickens should know that, too. We\u2019re not giving this money away! We are getting something for it. We\u2019re getting oil for it. Forget for a moment from where. We\u2019re going to buy it from someplace if we\u2019re not going to have enough of our own. So whoever gets it, we are exchanging wealth. We\u2019re not transferring anything &#8212; and this idiot doesn\u2019t even understand that! The principles of market economics are so foreign to this guy, because I\u2019ll guarantee, he\u2019s never been taught market economics. <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>He wouldn\u2019t be talking about &#8216;fairness\u2019 in the capital gains tax rate like he talks about fairness in the income tax rate if he understood market economics. Fairness in the capital gains tax rate in terms of the rich and the poor and who pays, this is absurd. Actually it\u2019s absurd in the income tax rate as well, but, again, that\u2019s liberal doctrinaire dogma. So he goes and talks to Boone Pickens, and Boone Pickens out there with his &#8216;$700 billion transfer of wealth,\u2019 and bam! There\u2019s Obama picking it up, after one meeting with Boone Pickens. Illustrating, ladies and gentlemen, exactly what I have said, that Obama learns well whatever he hears that interests him, but in terms of being an original thinker, he\u2019s not &#8212; and all this other BS, this &#8216;climate change is real,\u2019 and we\u2019re starting to see the effects of global warming.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>We just saw last week where the Sahara Desert , an excavating team in there uncovered evidence of a life lived by human beings in lush circumstances. Five thousand years ago the Sahara Desert was fertile and green and moist, and all of a sudden it\u2019s desert, and it got to be a desert not because of lightbulbs, automobiles, coal plants, oil being discovered, or what have you. So any chance I get to illustrate the &#8212; and I think it\u2019s shallow. I think when you get down to Obama, we\u2019re actually talking about shallowness, not depth. Certainly not depth. Now, there\u2019s this. In Denver , on Monday, Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke via satellite to announce a new initiative from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the American Automobile Dealers Association called &#8216;EcoDriving,\u2019 and here\u2019s a portion of what Arnold said.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" class=\"alignright\"\/>SCHWARZENEGGER: Just by following the recommendations in this fantastic website, you can reduce your fuel costs by more than 15% &#8212; and I\u2019m talking about simple things, like proper tire pressure, avoiding rapid starts and stops &#8212;<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Oh, my gosh!<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>SCHWARZENEGGER: &#8212; keeping your engine tuned. In fact, if all Americans practiced EcoDriving, the reductions in CO2 emissions would be equivalent to heating and powering nearly eight cities the size of Los Angeles. So we don\u2019t have to wait for politicians to take action. Each of us has the power to make a difference right now.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>RUSH: This is just sad. This is disappointing, and it\u2019s just a plain shame. This dates back to the seventies. All this malarkey about avoiding jackrabbit starts and stops and keeping the engine tuned? You don\u2019t tune modern engines! Since 1985 you don\u2019t tune \u2019em up, and now we\u2019re back to this tire inflation business. I forget the context. Obama originally said that if everybody just inflated their tires, we would save as much oil as we would get with any new drilling. Now, that\u2019s something somebody else told him, and he just went out and regurgitated, because on the face of it, it is disqualifyingly absurd and silly and stupid. We are a growing economy. The game here is the creation and the production of new energy. We\u2019re going to need it. <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>Not to say we shouldn\u2019t conserve, and inflating your tires may give you a little bit better gas mileage now and then, but you can overinflate your tires if you\u2019re not careful, and cause yourself all kinds of problems. For Schwarzenegger to say&#8230; (sigh) You know, we\u2019ve got one of the sorriest groups of leaders across this country that we\u2019ve had in my lifetime. Reduce fuel costs by more than 15% doing all this stuff? This assumes that everybody\u2019s tires are improperly inflated. It assumes that everybody\u2019s out there doing jackrabbit starts and stops. It assumes that everybody is doing everything wrong &#8212; which is a liberal point of view about most people. (sigh) Anyway, this ongoing project here to detail and describe the lunacy that passes for policy on the left shall continue on this program, my friends. (laughing) (interruption) Do I jackrabbit start? How would you define a jackrabbit start? <\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>(interruption) No, I do not &#8216;put the pedal to the metal.\u2019 I do not jackrabbit start. I live in an area where the speed limit\u2019s 30 miles an hour, for crying out loud! I have a car that would be at 30 miles an hour in two seconds if I jackrabbit started it, and then I\u2019d be followed by a blinking red light getting me for speeding because I\u2019d be at 60 miles an hour in four seconds. No, I do not jackrabbit start! I\u2019m not EcoDriving. I\u2019m driving sensibly! (interruption) Okay, I\u2019m a great example. I\u2019m already doing all this. I\u2019ll tell you this. I\u2019m doing everything this stupid website says. My tires are inflated. I check \u2019em. I had done it long before any of this, and you know why? Because my car tells me when the inflation pressure is down or up &#8212; and then the jackrabbit start, all this other garbage &#8212; and last I looked, gasoline was the same price as it was a week ago or two weeks ago. Whatever I\u2019m doing right has not brought down the price of gasoline. I\u2019m putting gasoline in the car as often as I always did. This is just nuts, folks. It\u2019s just nuts.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, I want to illustrate something else, in this audio sound bite here. Yesterday in Albuquerque at a town meeting, Barack Obama, he met with Boone Pickens, and he picked up some more talking points to robotically repeat. Listen to this. OBAMA: We are sending $700 billion to foreign nations. 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