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RUSH: Frank in New York City, thank you for waiting, sir. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh, it\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you. <\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Quick response. I was listening to Fox and Friends this morning between 8:15 and 8:45, and they had an interview with Mr. Steny Hoyer who said that he was voting for the cap and trade. He said it\u2019s a good thing but that it\u2019s not a tax and that it would only cost the people $174 per year. Now, if that\u2019s not a tax, why would it cost $174. Obviously, it\u2019s a tax of some type, right? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, depends on how you define tax. I would say that legislation that raises the cost of living, it\u2019s a tax on whatever, but it\u2019s still bad. That number $174 is so low and so untrue that he\u2019s making it up. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I think so, too. But then he went through the wind and the solar and all this. But wind and solar only account for like 7 percent. What is the alternative energy? <\/p>\n

RUSH: There is no wind and solar!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. <\/p>\n

RUSH: There isn\u2019t any! It doesn\u2019t work! Look, one of the things they\u2019ve done in this bill — I\u2019ve got to find this in this stack — but one of the things that they have done is offer all kinds of incentives to inventors to get going on this. Let me take a commercial break and find this. This is going to be another one of these things I think I put in a stack — ah, I found it. Here it is. Listen to this. They had an early morning amendment today, 300 pages added to the cap-and-trade bill. And one of the things they added in this creates a New Manhattan Project for Energy Independence. The project calls on the president to reach 50 percent energy independence in 10 years and 100 percent energy independence in 20 years, and ‘will award competitive prizes to the first individual or group who can reach any of seven established energy goals.\u2019 Here they are: ‘Double CAFE standards to 70 MPG while keeping vehicles affordable.\u2019 If somebody can do that in 10 to 20 years, they\u2019ll get a prize. <\/p>\n

Now, wait. I want you to stick with me on this. Seventy mile per gallon CAFE standard. Anybody who can come up with a way ‘to cut home and business energy usage in half\u2019 will get a prize. I could do that. You know how I could do that? I could do it right now. If I were a member of Congress, or if I were Obama, I\u2019d just have my energy czar order every electrical power plant to cut power to every home to 20 percent of the day. Voila. I have cut home and business energy use in half. Number three: ‘Make solar power work at the same cost as coal.\u2019 My friends, we are in Neverland here. We\u2019re in dreamland. Here\u2019s number four: ‘Make the production of biofuels cost-competitive with gasoline. Five: Safely and cheaply store carbon emissions from coal-powered plants. Six: Safely store or neutralize nuclear waste. Seven: Produce usable electricity from a nuclear fusion reaction.\u2019 If a group or individual can do any of those things in 10 or 20 years, then they will be awarded some sort of a prize.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We are back. I love this. Actually, folks, this is a teachable moment. So in the amendment to cap and trade, they have offered some incentives. They call it here ‘the New Manhattan Project for Energy Independence.\u2019 Do you know what the Manhattan Project was? Rachel? Let me do a little… Brian, do you know what the Manhattan Project was? There\u2019s no wrong answer. (interruption) I\u2019m trying to illustrate a point. (interruption) You don\u2019t know what it was. Rachel, do you know what it was? Snerdley, do you know what the Manhattan Project was? (interruption) Snerdley does. (interruption) Fascinating. I\u2019ve got two people here who went to the public school system. This is not their fault. They don\u2019t know what it is. It was not a movie. They don\u2019t know. The Manhattan Project was our all-out effort to create and invent the nuclear bomb. We knew we could do it. Now, this is key: We knew we could do it. <\/p>\n

Price was no object. Money was no object. We knew we could do it. We know that there are nuclear explosions. The sun is an example. We knew it could be done, so we put our best minds on it and we did it. That\u2019s what they want to replicate here in energy. But here are the differences. Let\u2019s take the first one. They\u2019re going to award a prize to somebody or some organization who in 10 to 20 years can invent a way to double CAFE standards to 70 miles per gallon while keeping vehicles affordable. The very fact that they have to offer a prize is evidence we are nowhere near this! The market does these things. Government does not decree inventions. Individuals invent, using ambition, their talents, their freedom, their liberty, their passion. Nobody told Thomas Edison: ‘We\u2019re going to give you a million bucks if you invent the light bulb.\u2019 Nobody told the Wright Brothers: ‘We\u2019re going to make you rich if you find a way for us to fly.\u2019 <\/p>\n

They wanted to do it themselves. Energy is something that everybody needs. There is a huge profit potential in the energy business. We all know this, because everybody needs it. I\u2019m talking market economics. You need gasoline. You need electricity. There\u2019s a profit for the people who provide it. Ergo, if there were a profit in solar power, we would have it! If there were a profit in windmill power, we would have it. If there were profit in a putt-putt car that got 70 miles a gallon, we would have it. Don\u2019t believe all these conspiracy theories that the oil companies work with the car companies to keep gas mileage down. Propulsion. Energy ‘expension\u2019 has amazing costs to it. Right now there\u2019s nothing that compares to oil and natural gas and coal. Nothing! Like I said yesterday: Why are we using coal-fired power plants? <\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s the cheapest that we have found! It\u2019s the most efficient that we have found. We don\u2019t have to harness the energy. It\u2019s in the coal. All we\u2019ve got to do is go get the coal. Ditto, oil. All we\u2019ve got to do is go get it and refine it. But we\u2019re going to… ‘But, Rush, the sun has lots of energy out there.\u2019 Yeah, but we don\u2019t know how to harness it yet. There\u2019s no way. Wind? Give me a break. Green technologies? By the way, these little putt-putt electric cars are not going to save anybody any emissions. There\u2019s already huge profit potential. Don\u2019t you think if any viable energy technologies were out there they would already be employed if they really did work? The people that are engaged in windmills and so forth are simply doing it because they\u2019re being paid by the government. General Electric? You wonder why they go ‘green\u2019 every other day on MSNBC. Because they\u2019re getting grants to explore and experiment in this stuff! They\u2019re not doing it on their own. There\u2019s no profit in it. We\u2019re not there. <\/p>\n

So the very fact that this horrible, rotten, worthless piece of legislation has to dangle carrots in front of people\u2019s eyes is proof positive that none of what this bill seeks to achieve is anywhere around the corner. Necessity is the mother of invention, and government demanding something is not the same thing as necessity. But running out of oil? Which we\u2019re in no danger of running out of oil anytime soon, ditto natural gas. What is the thing? Let\u2019s see. ‘Make solar power work at the same as coal.\u2019 Why? All we\u2019ve got to do is go drill for our own oil if you want to limit our dependence on other people. But none of this is anywhere near happening. And just because Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi say, ‘Hey, here\u2019s a prize if you go out and invent some stupid little car that gets 70 miles a gallon and still costs what a car costs today,\u2019 ha! ‘then we\u2019ll give you a big prize.\u2019 Yeah, that\u2019s really going to inspire some people out there. The danger is somebody will claim they\u2019ve come up with it and stupid politicians will say, ‘Okay, good,\u2019 and claim that it works when it doesn\u2019t, just to create the image that they have accomplished some miracle. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to go back to the amendment that they hurried through at 3:00 this morning. Part of the purpose of this amendment on H.R. 2454, the cap-and-tax bill, is to buy off the agriculture senators who are having some trouble with it. <\/p>\n

And they put in as part of this amendment the creation of a New Manhattan Project For Energy Independence. The project calls on the president to reach 50 percent energy independence in 10 years. We could do it in 10 years if we just drill for the oil that we\u2019ve got! I\u2019m sorry to yell, folks, but it\u2019s out there. Tons of it. In Alaska, off-shore. So call for the president to reach 50 percent energy independence in 10 years and 100% in 20 years. They\u2019re going to ‘award competitive prizes to the first individual or group who can reach any of seven established energy goals: Double CAFE standards to 70 miles per gallon while keeping vehicles affordable; cut home and business energy usage in half; make solar power work at the same cost as coal; make the production of…\u2019 This stuff enrages me because there\u2019s nothing wrong with coal. There\u2019s nothing wrong with oil. There\u2019s nothing wrong with fossil fuels!<\/p>\n

We do not need to switch off of these energy sources. Anyway, these are so pie in the sky. The very idea that they have to offer an award for this means that it\u2019s not feasible. Nobody in the market is working on it, and the reason is energy is already highly profitable because everybody needs it. If you\u2019re in the energy business, you make a profit. Everybody needs it. You know what happens when your power goes out. You know how mad you get. Imagine if you ran out of gasoline as often as you lose power in your house. You need it and the people provide it, are going to get a profit for doing so. So if there is this new magical technology out there with all this profit potential everybody\u2019s going to need, they\u2019d be on it already. So if we\u2019re going to start… I\u2019ll offer a prize. I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to be. The first liberal who can call here and convince anybody in this audience that George Bush is responsible for the death of Michael Jackson, I\u2019ll give you an award. <\/p>\n

They blame everything else on George Bush, why not this? How about getting an award if you can figure out how to get our spaceships to go warp speed? How about offering an award for coming up with an actual way to make somebody invisible? How about an award for finding the technique that we can fly like Superman without having to have an engine strapped on our back and no wings. Superman can do it. Somebody can come up with the technology so we can fly around. Look at the energy reduction that would create, if we could just fly like birds. Now, granted we\u2019d probably have to eat a lot more to flap our arms. Well, but Superman doesn\u2019t flap his arms; he just lays out there. <\/p>\n

So if somebody comes up and invents flying like the way Superman does, we\u2019ll give an award for that, too. How about an award for world peace? I\u2019m sorry, we already have that. Nobel. Nobel Peace Prize. There\u2019s never world peace, but people get awards for it, nevertheless. See, this is what I\u2019m worried about. What I\u2019m worried about is that somewhere down the road some yokel who understands the game here is going to come up with some little vehicle that has a 70-mile-per-gallon CAFE standard, meets it. And these lunkheads in Congress are going to say, ‘Oh, look it works,\u2019 when it doesn\u2019t, just to say they\u2019ve created this miracle or have managed to make one to happen. This stuff, I\u2019ll tell you just every day, every day it just keeps adding up. They just keep going for more and more of this stuff and every day it\u2019s stand up and say, ‘Stop! No, you won\u2019t.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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