{"id":397119,"date":"2021-05-12T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=397119"},"modified":"2021-05-13T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T19:17:30","slug":"rush-warned-everyone-about-the-coming-biden-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/12\/rush-warned-everyone-about-the-coming-biden-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Warned Everyone About the Coming Biden Energy Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: Listen to this. Believe it or not, this is 2009, what you\u2019re gonna hear, okay? So, believe it or not, this clip of America\u2019s Real Anchorman is not from today. It is from 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Have you seen the rising gasoline prices out there? Have you noticed them? Now, they are not being reported this time around since Obama\u2019s in the White House. But gasoline prices are trickling up and we\u2019re getting close to $80-a-barrel oil. Not there yet but we\u2019re getting close to it. We don\u2019t need to hit a hundred-dollar-a-barrel oil for there to be real economic impact here — and fuel prices includes heating oil going into the very cold winter that is forecast by the Farmers\u2019 Almanac, NASA and Nostradamus. So it\u2019s looking bleak out there. Liberals are doing it to us, liberals in the Democrat Party. It\u2019s called Drill, Baby, Drill!<\/p>\n

TODD: Wait, wait. So I don\u2019t mean to disagree with the Maha, but AOC had said, “We don\u2019t need sinking pipelines and fuel lines and such. You just turn those off and just plug in the electric cars, the electric buses, and the electric airplanes, and everything will be fine.”<\/p>\n

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TODD: As I say in my local show in Seattle, that imparts to us a unique set of responsibilities, some of whom is define humor. And even the increase in gas prices and inflation and, you know, Joe Biden\u2019s dementia had said that anyone earning under $400,000 a year won\u2019t see a tax increase. Yeah. Your lumber costs are gonna go up, in case you wanted to build a house or add on to that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not gonna be so possible. Lumber is up 126%, steel 145%. This is just taxes by another name. It\u2019s an increase in the cost of things like, oh, let\u2019s just pick some that\u2019s a little maybe more of daily concern. Let\u2019s look at some staples. Corn is up 69%. Wheat is up 25%. FEO Food Index is up 25%. Oh, but hourly wages are up… Well, 5%.<\/p>\n

And that would be indicative of the fact that there\u2019s a whole bunch of people who are just now come back to work, although not as many as we need. Did I say find humor in this? We have an impending energy crisis. We have Joe Biden\u2019s dementia who fought against energy independence.<\/p>\n

\"\"One of his first acts when he was ensconced behind this militarized installation in Washington, D.C. (which exists for theatrical reasons) was to say, “America does not need energy independence. Independence? Come on, man. Why, let\u2019s just be dependent.” So no pipeline for you going north. Now this with the hack of a pipeline in the South.<\/p>\n

Mind you, elections can\u2019t be hacked, but that\u2019s a whole other topic.<\/p>\n

Did I say something about humor? (laughing) President Trump has released a statement. This from @KamVTV on Twitter got the president\u2019s statement, save America, President Donald Trump. “Congratulations to Martha\u2019s Vineyard in Massachusetts for the privilege they will have in looking at massive windmills that have been approved by the Biden administration and are being built, in China of course, as part of an extraordinarily large wind farm.<\/p>\n

“Wind is an incredibly expensive form of energy that kills birds, affects the sea, ruins the landscape, and creates disasters for navigation. Liberals love it, but they can\u2019t explain why. In any event, Martha\u2019s Vineyard, an absolutely wonderful place, will never be the same. Good Luck!” And I think inherent to that or at least implied is, “Love, President D.J.T.” All that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

Energy-producing mechanisms that can\u2019t produce themselves… Let me ask you this. How do species that can\u2019t reproduce, do it? No, there aren\u2019t any. Oh, see, there aren\u2019t any. They don\u2019t do well, do they? Windmills do not produce enough energy to make windmills. Solar panels don\u2019t produce enough energy to make solar panels. You have to have too many of \u2019em to make one. They\u2019re ridiculously inefficient.<\/p>\n

Now, at the beginning of this program — and speaking of this inflation and these costs going up and the costs of energy going up and windmills. At the beginning of this program, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke to the press following their meeting with Joe Biden\u2019s dementia about the administration\u2019s $4 trillion more in spending, and McCarthy had this to say.<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: You won\u2019t find any Republicans who\u2019s gonna go raise taxes. I think that\u2019s the worst thing you can do in this economy when you watch inflation. Your gas is going up. Remember, the gas price today, the national gas price has not been this high since President Biden was vice president. You\u2019re watching food costs go up. You\u2019re watching housing costs, lumber costs. There is inflation everywhere you go. So raising taxes would be the biggest mistake you could make.<\/p>\n

TODD: And what do you think they\u2019ll do? Gee, I wonder what they\u2019ll do. Remember this: The economic change that we\u2019re seeing is not a bug in the system. Just track your way back to the changes that started to happen in March of last year to our economy. Small businesses, unneeded; big businesses, absolutely necessary. Certain workers essential. Certain workers nonessential.<\/p>\n

\"\"Private property, charging rent for people who stay in your house? No! Come on, now, that\u2019s for big companies with lawyers. That\u2019s not for you little people. The changes have been happening since March of last year. Senator Mike Lee, who is the only conservative senator in the state of Utah, made a brilliant point about Joe Biden\u2019s dementia attacking America\u2019s energy independence.<\/p>\n

LEE: Their decision to cancel this pipeline coming on the heels of President Biden\u2019s decision to issue a moratorium — unilaterally — on all oil and gas drilling on federal lands where we have a lot of our oil and gas resources in this country. Coupled with the fact that we\u2019ve got needlessly onerous regulatory restrictions that have been forced on the construction of new refineries. This is a perfect storm, a trifecta of sorts, that stops the American people from gaining access to the things that they need to live their day-to-day lives. It\u2019s causing prices to spike, and it\u2019s a deep concern.<\/p>\n

TODD: Right, and it\u2019s not… I was saying yesterday, there needs to be some name for this dynamic where the press explains that this is just, “Wow, this is unforeseen.” Who could have seen that constricting the economy to this degree, continuing this selective lockdown ridiculously, refusing to have schools open, creating this panic mentality with everybody wrapped in woke masks…?<\/p>\n

So a pipeline goes down, people are rushing for gasoline because they\u2019ve just spent the last year and a half being told to stay home and stay safe and experiencing shortages. America\u2019s being made destable or being destabilized would lead to economic calamity if allowed to continue. So this would be another test. Is it Biden who\u2019s actually president, who\u2019s actually running this economy? CNBC.<\/p>\n

Inflation sped up in April. Consumer prices up 4.2%. Gas prices hit a seven-year high, and when you look at the history of Democrats in charge of the economy they make these claims, “Democrats, had he handle the economy better. We\u2019re for all the working people.” Yeah, except they\u2019re not working anymore. That\u2019s gonna drive costs up further. They\u2019re installing a universal basic income with this so-called unemployment-plus bonus.<\/p>\n

What that\u2019s doing is it\u2019s raising the price of labor. As the price of labor goes up, the price of goods goes up. It\u2019s elementary economics. And it\u2019s not a bug. It\u2019s a feature. The Democrats dislike the middle class. They dislike the middle class because the middle class votes from areas of concern that are harder to manipulate. They vote on kitchen table issues.<\/p>\n

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