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<\/p>\nRUSH: I want to move on to this attack on the Saudi oil fields. It was actually an attack on two things. It was an attack on a gigantic Saudi oil field and then a crude oil processing center which is the next step after the oil is brought out of the ground. That is at a place called Abqaiq and it\u2019s near the Persian Gulf not far from Qatar as you look at the map. It\u2019s due Northeast from Riyadh maybe a couple hundred miles. It\u2019s flat-out in the middle of the Saudi desert where the oil is.<\/p>\n
The theory is that Houthi rebels in Yemen with whom the Saudis are at war backed by the Iranian mullahs launched an attack delivered by drones which itself is scary to a lot of people. I mean, you don\u2019t see \u2019em coming, you don\u2019t hear them coming, you have radar to try to find them. But this attack got through, I think 10 of them. And they did some damage.<\/p>\n
Essentially the Saudis have shut down the delivery, the export of five million barrels of oil a day. And the headlines all over the Drive-By Media yesterday were really inflammatory. This is the big one. This is what we\u2019ve all been waiting for. This could be the end of the Saudi dominance in the supply of oil.<\/p>\n
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Another headline: \u201cCrude Prices Soar After Attack on Saudi Facilities, Threatening Global Growth – Crude prices surged following an attack on Saudi Arabia\u2019s oil infrastructure.\u201d And an announcement from President Trump that he has authorized the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The Saudis have done the same thing. The Saudis have a large stock of oil that\u2019s in reservoirs just waiting for emergency use.<\/p>\n
The point is to maintain — for the sake of markets — to maintain a predictable, steady, quantifiable, daily supply of oil flowing freely through world markets, pipelines, you name it, at market prices. Now, what this is, is a very timely reminder of how much we need fossil fuels, how much we need oil.<\/p>\n
Here we are in the midst of the Democrat Party, which is a major world power center, the Democrat Party, the United States of America is advancing its political fortunes on the idea that we need to get rid of fossil fuels, because fossil fuels are destroying the planet. Fossil fuels are polluting and heating up the planet to the point that it may not be habitable in 30 years or 40. This is something that the Democrat Party presidential candidates all have individually endorsed.<\/p>\n
So an attack on the Saudi oil fields should have been welcomed. Because in one overnight, 5% of the global oil supply was shut down. Five percent is not insignificant when you talk about price, when you talk about futures, when you talk about the possibility of future attacks and future interruptions, the free flow of oil at market prices is one of the most important fundamental characteristics of the world economy and ours.<\/p>\n
Any fluctuation in the price of oil dramatically up or down has ripple effects throughout the economy in ways people don\u2019t even think about. Not just the price of gasoline, not just the price of related petroleum products. These are attacks that hit the confidence level of the world\u2019s suppliers to be able to meet the demand.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So if we really, really, really think that fossil fuels are the death of humanity and the death of the planet, this should be welcomed. Why, this is 5% of the daily world\u2019s oil supply that\u2019s been shut down, until the Saudis can fix whatever has been damaged and remain and resume the output.<\/p>\n
But you notice, you notice how serious this is, how crucial this is, how disruptive this attack is, how the threat of more attacks is causing even more disruption. I\u2019m telling you, folks, it\u2019s a pipe dream if even that. There\u2019s no way, there is literally no way we will ever get rid of fossil fuels. And my point in reminding everybody here is that\u2019s one of the foundational aspects of climate change.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re telling us that it\u2019s gonna destroy us and destroy the planet, no longer gonna be habitable, we\u2019ve got to get rid of fossil fuels, we have to really cut back. We have to really limit them, eventually get rid of them, replace them with who knows what. There isn\u2019t anything to replace them with. There is no other fuel that will make an airplane fly. There is no other fuel that will create enough propulsion for a gigantic semitrailer delivering goods from one place to another to be able to do it. There simply isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
You can\u2019t build a big enough battery for a semi, and you cannot build a windmill or a solar panel to make an airplane fly. You just can\u2019t do it. And so the attack on the Saudi oil fields is a huge, huge reminder of one of the hard, cold realities of the world today that the left is attempting to convince everybody is not. The attack on the Saudi oil fields and the reaction to it, the danger, the emergency status, should tell you everything you need to know about this silly notion of getting rid of oil.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Mark in Weirton, West Virginia. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s really good to talk to you. Longtime listener going back all the way to KQV.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wow! You\u2019re going back to 1972 Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s correct. Weirton is not too far from Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, it\u2019s not at all. I appreciate that. This is really cool.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. One thing first, Rush, as a geologist I think this may do away with the anti-fracking movement, which would be a great thing for the country, this whole Saudi thing. But that\u2019s not what I called to talk about.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. What did you say? Geologist?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Geologist.<\/p>\n
RUSH: This may do away with — oh, the attack on fracking.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, it won\u2019t!<\/p>\n
CALLER: Ah, well.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, it won\u2019t. Are you kidding? Logic and fact change the political agenda of the day? No way. It\u2019s not gonna. In fact, I can\u2019t believe that they haven\u2019t sprung into action yet applauding the move and claiming it\u2019s exactly the kind of first step we need into getting rid of fossil fuels. I fully expect that to happen once the dust settled here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I hope you\u2019re wrong, but I think you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I do, too, but I won\u2019t be surprised if I am.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Anyway, Rush, the reason I called is I\u2019m watching the reaction of the candidates on the Democratic side to this Kavanaugh thing. And it finally dawned on me that the really wackos on that stage last week don\u2019t really care if they win the election. They don\u2019t care at all. They\u2019re there to do PR for the movement.<\/p>\n
And that might also buy some of the Klobuchars and Biden\u2019s of the world a little bit of credit for being middle of the road as well. I think this is part of a Democratic PR effort just to have these guys just hammer people for no good reason whatsoever. When you start to take a man\u2019s reputation down based on nothing as a presidential candidate, how serious really are you?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Given that, do you think this strategery is working? Are they succeeding? Is this mass number of Democrats running for president all trashing Trump and Republicans, is it working or not?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I think as a pure PR thing, I think it just is the drumbeat. And they basically just have that as a drumbeat. And when the time comes they\u2019ll just say, well, these people are crazy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, let me offer you a little counter to this, \u2019cause I know why you\u2019re thinking this. You\u2019re thinking (summarized), “The Democrats are always organized and they\u2019re always a couple steps ahead of us, and they\u2019re always doing things that we don\u2019t spot at first. While we\u2019re all thinking that we\u2019ve got this many different egos that want to be president, it\u2019s not the case. What\u2019s really going on is that it\u2019s all a coordinated effort to have 10 to 20 prominent Democrats identified as ‘presidential candidate,\u2019 all bashing at Donald Trump.”<\/p>\n
I know that that\u2019s a popular way of looking at the Democrats, but I don\u2019t look at \u2019em that way. I don\u2019t think that this is an organized strategery, because it\u2019s not making them look good. If you\u2019re gonna have… They\u2019re looking like 20 radical wackos, they are amplifying radical wacko beliefs, and they\u2019re trying to out-wacko each other. I think this is exactly what it is. I think this party — and this is nothing new. I\u2019m just gonna rephrase it a different way. I think they are absent all perspective.<\/p>\n
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I think their hatred for Donald Trump is a bottomless pit. I think it\u2019s consumed them. I think their hatred for Trump — combined with their utter anger and frustration at being unable to get rid of him — is driving them nuts. Literally nuts. I think that the Democrat Party believes that everybody else in America agrees with them that Trump is unsuited and should not be president and cheated and is therefore illegitimate. And I think they\u2019ve got themselves convinced that the nation wants a Democrat.<\/p>\n
I think so many of them think that this is a lock — that the Democrats are going to win the White House in 2020 because everybody in America hates Trump — that they all want to get in on this opportunity now. It\u2019s much better to win the nomination when you don\u2019t have a sitting Democrat. When you\u2019ve got a president that they think everybody hates, then there are added reasons to run for president. A, it\u2019s forever on your resume. You get hired by cable news after the campaign, and there it is, the chyron graphic every time you\u2019re on TV:<\/p>\n
“Mayor Pete: Former presidential candidate.” It adds gravitas. But what else does it do? Well, hello, fundraising! Do you know how much money these people are all raising? Do you know how much money they\u2019re probably not spending, therefore being able to hoard and use for other things? They don\u2019t need 20 candidates to run an anti-Trump PR campaign. They\u2019ve got the media doing that for them every day, and they could do it with three or four candidates.<\/p>\n
I think this is literally a bunch of out-of-control egos, all thinking they literally can be president. I think they\u2019ve all lost their minds. But you gotta credit the ambition. I mean, I don\u2019t want to ever be a guy pouring cold water on ambition. But I think these people are so devoid of being grounded in reality that they\u2019ve got nothing to run on except for their hatred for Trump and the gross exaggerations and misunderstandings and perceptions they are drawing from that hatred.<\/p>\n
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