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RUSH: This from AP. ‘Chrysler Rolls Out SUV After Government Scolding — Just a week after the White House scolded Chrysler LLC for relying too much on gas guzzlers, the company is heading to a marquee auto show [today] to unveil a new SUV.\u2019 You gotta love these guys at Chrysler! Bob Nardelli runs the show there. ‘Chrysler insists the Jeep Grand Cherokee, which clocks in at 20 mpg in its two-wheel-drive version and 19 in four-wheel-drive, is a crowd favorite and a crucial part of its lineup.\u2019 It\u2019s showing a profit. It\u2019s one of the vehicles Chrysler makes that\u2019s showing a profit. <\/p>\n

”This is a very important vehicle for us. It\u2019s one of the primary legs of the Chrysler stool,\u2019 Chrysler spokesman Rick Deneau said. ‘Customers have told us they want this vehicle and that it\u2019s the right size.” Holy smokes, folks, do you understand what you just heard? Chrysler is listening to customers! Chrysler is actually listening to customers here, which is a novel idea, particularly in the auto business as run now by Obama. Chrysler should be listening to Obama. Chrysler should be listening to the government. But Chrysler is listening to customers. ‘The 2011 model is 11 percent more fuel efficient than its predecessor, powered by a cleaner and more powerful engine. <\/p>\n

‘Still, Chrysler\u2019s decision to debut an SUV as its only new car at the New York International Auto Show seems like odd timing to say the least. On March 30, the Obama administration issued a scathing rejection of the company\u2019s survival plan and gave it 30 days to secure a merger with another automaker, most likely Italy\u2019s Fiat SpA. The White House slammed Chrysler for having a product lineup so heavily weighted with trucks and SUVs. It added that the automaker does not have enough products in the pipeline to meet an expected increase in demand for small cars.\u2019 Now, can I ask who is expecting this demand increase in small cars? Government is! <\/p>\n

Who\u2019s expecting an increase in the demand for small cars? We know that the demand for small cars happens, at least our empirical evidence is, when gasoline hits four bucks a gallon — and it isn\u2019t at four bucks, and Chrysler said this is what their customers want. ‘But Chrysler is standing by the Grand Cherokee. It\u2019s profitable, recognizable and the No. 2-selling vehicle in the Jeep lineup. Grand Cherokee sales fell by almost half during the first three months of the year, but its market share has remained steady, according to Autodata Corp. ‘It is one of their most important vehicles,\u2019 said John Wolkonowicz, senior automotive analyst for the consulting firm IHS-Global Insight. <\/p>\n

”The market for SUVs has not completely gone away, particularly for smaller ones like the Grand Cherokee.” But, but, but the government said that Chrysler ‘does not have enough products in the pipeline to meet an expected increase in demand for small cars\u2019! Now, again, I ask: Where is that demand for small cars coming from? That\u2019s right: Obama Motors Corporation. And we learned that General Motors has 20 vehicles that they make that show a profit. Eleven of them are trucks or SUVs. And what\u2019s the big news yesterday? This stupid little wheelchair with a motor on it. There\u2019s no market for that just like there\u2019s no market for the Segway on which it\u2019s based. <\/p>\n

Speaking of this, I want to go back to this pirate ship for just a second, because I\u2019ve been watching video of this ship. Now, I don\u2019t know how big it is in relation to other cargo freighters, but it\u2019s big. This thing is huge. It\u2019s so big, I\u2019m wondering how much the pirates can actually commandeer the thing. I would think after all this time that some of these ships would have at least some machine guns there for the crew to use if the pirates start showing up, but despite that, I have another observation about this — and I mean this from the bottom of my heart. This episode here with Chrysler illustrates it. They\u2019re making an SUV. Their customers want it. It\u2019s a profit center for them. And they need profit centers. <\/p>\n

The government is saying, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You gotta go small. We gotta go green. We gotta go hybrid. We gotta go electric. We gotta save the planet! We need alternative forms of energy.\u2019 Folks, I don\u2019t know about you, I\u2019m 58 years old, and I am worn out on alternative energies. I\u2019ve been hearing about it my whole life. This is the third or fourth time people have gotten the people of this country ripped into a tizzy over alternative energy, alternative fuels — and finally, after three or four times, it looks like it\u2019s set in. The American people actually believe that their cars are destroying the planet. If they don\u2019t their kids do, and when your kids believe you\u2019re doing something to destroy the planet, ‘Mommy, Mommy! You\u2019re killing the polar bears!\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Shut up, kid! Okay we\u2019ll get a little lawn mower out there and you\u2019ll be happy. Just get off my back.\u2019<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m worn out. Frankly, I\u2019m bored with alternative energy. It is nothing but a political ploy. The market will take care of that when and if. I\u2019m looking at this giant ship, and I got to thinking about all the oil tankers that are out there. When I flew into Dubai for a two day rest stop before the troop visit to Afghanistan… I\u2019ve seen oil tankers. I never saw as many in one place as I saw on the descent into the United Arab Emirates out there in the Gulf. I look at pictures of this cargo ship, the Maersk, and I\u2019m thinking, ‘Okay we\u2019ve got all these engines that burn some derivative of a fossil fuel, and they\u2019re destroying the planet, and they\u2019re creating global warming, and the carbon footprint! The pollution is just intolerable. I\u2019m looking at these giant things and I\u2019m thinking, ‘Okay, what of the alternative energy plans being pushed is going to replace the power plants in these giant freighters and tankers as they plow through the ocean?\u2019<\/p>\n

What this thing carrying? It\u2019s carrying cargo. It carrying the trailers that you see on a tractor-trailer, on an 18-wheeler. You\u2019ve seen Maersk all over the place. Now, just what alternative energy is going to replace the power plant in these things? Are we going to have giant windmills on these freighters? Are we going to have solar panels, fuel cells? What the hell…? The answer is, there isn\u2019t anything yet that\u2019s going to replace the engines necessary to get these things plowing through the oceans. Yet everybody is worked into a tizzy here over getting rid of SUVs and getting rid of large, combustible engine cars that don\u2019t get much miles. You know talk about the miles per gallon one of these things gets, one of these freighters get? I know you don\u2019t measure it that way but if you did you\u2019d be stunned. We\u2019re never going to replace, not in our lifetimes, an energy source, a power plant for any of these tankers or cargo ships. <\/p>\n

‘That\u2019s okay, Mr. Limbaugh. That would be fine. If everybody else got rid of their big cars and so forth, then we would have some playroom there. We would have some latitude. We\u2019re going to throw out some of these big tankers to take…\u2019 Yeah, but it\u2019s cargo. It\u2019s commerce. Okay, so we\u2019re going to start having exemptions. Now we\u2019ll have exemptions. We\u2019re going to have — and that\u2019s the way it\u2019s always going to end up. After three or four times in my adult life of being hit up constantly with how my lifestyle is an affluent, prosperous American is destroying the planet, I cannot tell you how that offends my intelligence and my sensibilities — and it really makes me mad when I see Americans (unable to resist the tug of popular sentiment) go right along with it because they think that they\u2019re going to be doing some good. <\/p>\n

The whole thing is so intellectually absurd. It\u2019s so political. But I understand the human condition. I understand most people think they don\u2019t matter. In a population of — what\u2019s the world population, six billion? — it\u2019s easy for somebody to think, ‘Eh, I don\u2019t matter.\u2019 Hell, even the greatest country in the world. ‘My vote doesn\u2019t count. I don\u2019t matter. It doesn\u2019t matter.\u2019 People want to matter. They want to think their lives have meaning. They want to think that their lives mean something, and what better way to do that than to live your life in such a way that you are ‘saving\u2019 the planet. So it\u2019s very seductive, the entire climate change, global warming approach or appeal, but it\u2019s nonsensical. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mike in Houston, great to have you here on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, mega robotic cult dittos. It\u2019s great to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, just keeping in mind that the best callers are the ones who make the host look good, I offer the following comment in support of your contention that these eco-, you know, envirowackos really don\u2019t care about the environment. If they really did, Rush, what they would do is something that would take effect immediately, and that is they would tell the teleprompter to tell his boss to make any kind of racing illegal today. I mean you got NASCAR racing, right, you got Indy car, you got speedboats, you got motorcycle racing, and surely that\u2019s of no use to anybody, right? That would take effect today, Rush, rather than, you know, trying to get people to switch cars or, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. When you look at things like this, and then you listen to the global warming people, from Obama on down, talking about how we\u2019re too excessive, we waste too much, we\u2019re too greedy and so forth, go to any city, if you live in a big city, just look out the window at night and imagine that city literally dark because people said, ‘We gotta save the planet.\u2019 It isn\u2019t going to happen. That kind of backward regression is not progress. This country has always been about progress and the recipe for the supposed sins that we have created is rolling back progress. If it ever did seriously start, there would be a revolution against it. That\u2019s not what life in America is about. Getting rid of racing, getting rid of this, I don\u2019t doubt there are people who would like to do that simply \u2019cause they resent the people who either race or who go to the races \u2019cause they\u2019re elites, but, anyway, I appreciate the call, Mike. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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