{"id":32779,"date":"2009-06-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:18","slug":"dem_energy_bill_follow_the_money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/25\/dem_energy_bill_follow_the_money\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Energy Bill: Follow the Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: As we discussed at the top on the program, guess what just&#8230;? It\u2019s happening now. Obama is in the stupid Rose Garden, pushing the energy bill. They\u2019re panicked. They\u2019ve got to get this done tomorrow. There\u2019s a bunch of wavering Democrat votes on this thing. It\u2019s by no means a lock. The president went out there and said something that\u2019s just not true. He said that whoever leads the world in new green technology will lead the global economy. Talk to Spain about it. Spain has tried to go all green. It has been a debacle. I tire. I tire of having to deal with the lies, the misrepresentations. He also said that his energy program&#8230; He bashed oil. We\u2019re too dependent on it. We\u2019re jeopardizing our national security. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not jeopardizing our national security by having an oil-based economy! If we do not have an oil-based economy, we are not going to be secure. It\u2019s just that simple. He also said that this is a jobs bill. We already did a jobs bill. It\u2019s called the stimulus package. And how is that working out for you? (sigh) I\u2019ll tell you, this whole procedure here that is underway is just about ramming as much down our throats as possible before we have any idea what it is. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Now, one on the things on the energy bill, if I may jump to that. One on the things that\u2019s under assault in Obama\u2019s energy proposal here is the coal industry, and he has made no secret about this. I\u2019ve got all kinds of stories here in my stack from yesterday and from today on wind energy. Do you know that producing energy from wind is far more expensive than energy from coal? And one of the reasons is we can\u2019t guarantee wind every day. <\/p>\n<p>The second thing is we have no way to store wind-harnessed energy. We use it as it happens. Coal, of course, is stored energy. Wind energy. And, by the way, it doesn\u2019t work. It\u2019s been tried. There\u2019s no great new technology out there that is going to produce this Nirvana with wind energy. There\u2019s a reason. Can we take a little common sense here? There is a reason our electrical needs are satisfied primarily by coal. We have some gas and some nuclear thrown in, but there\u2019s a reason most of our power plants use coal. Do you know what it is? Take a stab, Snerdley. (interruption) Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. It\u2019s because of all the mechanisms out there to create energy, it\u2019s the cheapest; it\u2019s the most dependable. Now, the Obama people would have you believe that the only reason we use coal is because of Big Coal, that we have this massive coal industry made up of a bunch of people who want to screw you left and right. <\/p>\n<p>And they want to kill you left and right. Remember, in Obama\u2019s view, this country is immoral and unjust. And the big success stories in the American private sector are nothing more than cheats, liars, frauds. But there\u2019s a reason we use coal. It\u2019s cheap. It\u2019s dependable. There\u2019s no deep, dark secret about this. It\u2019s not because of Big Coal or Big Oil or Big Nuclear have cooked up some nefarious scheme to enslave us to their product. It\u2019s because long before the current crop of crazy environmentalists whackos were even a gleam in their ponytailed father\u2019s eyes or a dream of their hair-in-the-armpit mothers, the market answered the question about the best way to provide for the electrical needs of the nations. And these are the choices that won: coal, oil, nuclear. They won because the market decided they were the best! It was not because of some nefarious scheme forcing these horrible products on us. <\/p>\n<p>You know, when Mr. Ponytail Guy or Ms. Hair-in-the-Armpits Woman had their little kids and they\u2019re thinking about changing the world for the better, the people that were making the world work did not decide on wind or solar. They decided on coal, because it was cheap, it was dependable, and it worked. No, the robber barons did not foist anything on us, as Obama says. The real dirty secret of wind power is that you only have power when the wind blows, and we don\u2019t have the ability to store wind power for later use. You know what it would take to do that? (snorts) A giant Energizer Bunny battery. Of course they\u2019re bad news, too. They\u2019re horrible. Your little hybrid you\u2019re driving around in? Bat-ter-ry! What do you think powers your battery when you plug it in and charge it up, which you\u2019re going to have to do to it some day? You\u2019re going to plug it into some windmill turbine? <\/p>\n<p>We cannot yet bring different power sources on and off the electrical grid just based on the whimsy of the weather. We don\u2019t have the ability to just throw a switch. &#8216;Okay, we\u2019ve got wind! Turn off the coal-fired plant and turn on the windmills.\u2019 We don\u2019t have that ability. There\u2019s much more involved in getting electricity to your house than most people realize, and the people who have made it possible did it in the market and the market always decides if you leave it alone. And you know what? We can\u2019t build power lines from one end of the country to the other to solve intermittently with wind because electrical power is limited by range of transmission. Maybe one day we\u2019ll overcome all these technological challenges, but those breakthroughs are not in our lifetime. I mean, we haven\u2019t even reached a corner or turned a corner and we see the possibility. <\/p>\n<p><BR\/>We\u2019re not even at the corner yet. We\u2019re looking at a mirage. We\u2019re looking at oasis in the desert. We\u2019re wandering around the desert thinking that we\u2019re killing ourselves with oil and coal and nuclear power and we\u2019re just wandering. We haven\u2019t had anything to drink for a couple of days in the desert and we see a mirage out there. We see a windmill. And that\u2019s all Obama\u2019s green energy program is, is a mirage. Now, all these technological challenges to making windmills work and all this rot gut they\u2019re thinking about, it\u2019s going to be hugely expensive. That\u2019s the allure to Obama. That\u2019s why General Electric is big on this stuff. They know they\u2019re going to be getting a bunch of government money to develop and work on these projects without having to sell a single dishwasher, microwave oven, or jet engine. <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/line><BR\/>Think of this. Think of starting today to build an electrical grid designed specifically for wind, because that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to have to do to make wind effective. That will end up being the true cost of wind energy. But basically we\u2019ll just scrap coal and we\u2019re going to do a do-over? We\u2019re going to start from scratch? Now, you compare that cost against the real case scenarios or the effects of global warming, you realize that no rational person would believe wind power is any kind of a logical choice. Besides which, wind farms are ugly and everywhere they end up being, people start complaining about the noise they make! Even one guy&#8230; I saw a story a couple weeks ago. One guy put up a little windmill somewhere in his backyard, and the noise from it drove his neighbors crazy. All of this is just a panacea, pie-in-the-sky promise that\u2019s based&#8230; Follow the money. It\u2019s simply based on money and Obama\u2019s sick desire to autocratically rule a country. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: As we discussed at the top on the program, guess what just&#8230;? It\u2019s happening now. Obama is in the stupid Rose Garden, pushing the energy bill. They\u2019re panicked. They\u2019ve got to get this done tomorrow. There\u2019s a bunch of wavering Democrat votes on this thing. It\u2019s by no means a lock. 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