{"id":391566,"date":"2021-04-09T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=391566"},"modified":"2021-04-12T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:23:45","slug":"rush-imagines-what-wouldve-happened-if-wed-listened-to-the-environmentalists-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/09\/rush-imagines-what-wouldve-happened-if-wed-listened-to-the-environmentalists-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Imagines What Would\u2019ve Happened If We\u2019d Listened to the Environmentalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: Could you imagine what would happen if we had listened to the environmentalists? Think about all the aspects of life that they\u2019ve sought to control, and can you imagine what it would have been like if we had paid attention, did exactly what they wanted, only to have…? Well, we\u2019ll talk about that in a couple of moments.<\/p>\n

As no doubt you know, the Census Bureau\u2019s releasing a bunch of data based on the most recent census conducted in the United States, and this fascinating piece is Terry Jeffrey writing over at CNS News: “Only 5% of the Americans who worked in 2019 got to work using public transportation, according to a newly released study from the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n

“By contrast, 84.8% got to work in a car, truck or van that was not operated by the government,” and, by the way, “75.9% were driving alone when they did so.” You know and I know: “The use of public transit for commuting was heavily concentrated in the New York metropolitan area.<\/p>\n

“In fact, the number of workers who commuted by public transit in the New York metro area in 2019 was more than five times larger than its nearest competitor — the Chicago metro area.” So we know that public transportation is important in tightly compacted areas, right? We know that that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n

But for so many millions of you in this audience, well, that doesn\u2019t quite fit your bill. Public transportation is a part of the left\u2019s great formula to reconstruct this country and have more control over our lives. Except in certain blue areas, people reject it overwhelmingly.<\/p>\n

Chicago and New York. Can you imagine how bad the coronavirus pandemic might have been had we listened to the left and had public transit in place for the majority of the country? Rush talked about this and asked, “What if we had done what the environmentalists told us?”<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: My friends, I want to run something by you here. Is it not fortunate that we have not had to deal with the implementation of radical environmentalism policy like the Green New Deal? Do you realize how fortunate we are during this? All of these radical environmentalist wackos like out in San Francisco (where this all started), tried to tell us that disposable cups were bad, that we had to reuse bags over and over again in the grocery store.<\/p>\n

\"\"They told us that plastic and paper grocery bags were bad. But it turns out that reusable bags contain germs and viruses, and now reusable bags are being banned! It was never a brilliant idea. It was thought, “Well, we\u2019ve gotta save the environment. We\u2019ve gotta reuse as much as we can.” Reusing just spreads germs. It spreads the virus. They told us public transportation was the way to go. “Get on public transportation!”<\/p>\n

Now buses and subways are seen as places where you go to get sick. In fact, when you start comparing New York to California and why there are so many more cases in New York than California, one of the quick answers you get is, “Well, there isn\u2019t any mass transit to speak of in California,” certainly not in Los Angeles. They\u2019ve got BART in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

But nothing to compare with the subway system and the buses of New York City. They told us that driving our own cars? Bad idea. They told us that living in the suburbs which… Do you know what living in suburbia is? It\u2019s an early form of social distancing, is it not? It\u2019s an early form of people trying to get away from jam-packed cities and crowds — and when people did that, what did the left say?<\/p>\n

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