Rush Limbaugh: El Rushbo Drives Mean Environmental Car

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 3/22/06 | Rush Limbaugh

[wagglebee]

RUSH: I'm ecstatic. I heard about this list this morning. It's a list of the "meanest" cars for 2006, and I am on the list -- well, my car is. "High-performance sports cars, ultra-luxury sedans and powerful trucks all rely on high-powered engines to deliver performance and towing capacity — but that performance comes at a price — landing these vehicles at the bottom of the list in the annual Green Book from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). Each year, ACEEE rates vehicles on their overall impact on the environment, with vehicles earning the best scores dubbed the 'Greenest,' and those with the worst scores labeled the 'Meanest,'" and I am proud and I am honored that my car is among the meanest cars made and sold today.

This is in terms of its effect on the environment and global warming. (story) "At the top of the meanest list for 2006 is the Dodge Ram SRT-10." Well, let's just go through the list. The Dodge RAM SRT-10 is the meanest. The Lamborghini Murciélago is the next meanest. The Bentley Arnage, the Dodge Durango, the Dodge Ram 1500 and the Maybach 57-S are all tied in the next position here as the third meanest. The Hummer H2O and the Ferrari F-99 GTB Fiorano and the Ford F-250 Super Duty 5.4 V8 four-wheel drive. The GMC Yukon, the Volkswagen Touareg and the Chevy Suburban all come in tied at the next stop. Now the vehicle I drive, I'm not going to identify it, but is somewhere on that list. (laughing) I love being honored this way: having one of the meanest cars in terms of its environmental impact, knowing full well how that irritates the socialist environmentalist wackos. I just love it.

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RUSH: Christie in Half-Baked Moon Bay, California, welcome to the program.

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Hey, I just wanted to let you know you could help the environment. That mean car you have? If you just switched out all your lightbulbs to the environmental wacko kind, then you would have a net zero impact on the environment.

RUSH: Yeah, well, I remember that story. This is the CFLB, the compact fluorescent light bulb.

CALLER: (giggles)

RUSH: I'm not putting down the lightbulbs! I got an e-mail from a guy who sells them who thought I was putting down, harming his sales. Nope, nope, nope. It is something you can do. In fact, that was my own suggestion. You people out there driving Yugos and these little lawn mowers with four seats on them thinking you're helping saving the environment, go switch out all your lightbulbs to these new super-duper lightbulbs, because it was Laurie David that said that if every house was just using one or two of these lightbulbs it would have the equivalent of taking eight million cars off the road every day. I figure enough people will do this that I won't have to sacrifice on either side.

So I'm not going to go change any lightbulbs and I'm not going to get rid of my mean car because I know other socially conscious people who want to make themselves feel better about themselves will go do it and more than accommodate for my mean car and my natural (interruption). Laurie David? Did you see her? She has no claim too fame. She's a Hollywood liberal that organized a bunch of rallies against Bush. Bobby Kennedy, Jr. turned her into an environmentalist wacko, and that's her claim to fame.

Her husband's Larry David, Seinfeld's partner and creator of that show. I mean, that's it. I mean, what's Sharon Stone's claim to fame? Sharon Stone is out there making all kinds of political statements. She went over to Israel. She said, "We're just a breath away from peace. I can feel it." (exhales) Well, she ought to know about breaths, but what the hell are we talk about here? Why is it news that Sharon Stone thinks that we are "a breath away from peace" in the Middle East, just because she touched down there? And then she says whatever else. They're just celebrities and so what they say is given weight? It's screwy.

[Publius6961]

Help? How does changing electric light bulbs equate to petrol vehicles?

There are many oil-fired generating plants in the US.

You know the book Cultural Literacy?

You might think about picking up a copy...

[Philistone]

Top of my list for when I hit the $60M mark!

To heck with the Lamborghini's, I want someone to drive ME so I can sit in the back and relax!

[Right Wing Assault]

Oh, Larry! Get your hand off there! We're having out picture taken!

[Right Wing Assault]

So Rush the dummy forgot to tell us what he drives?

He didn't forget. He just didn't want to tell you. It's right there in the article.

"Now the vehicle I drive, I'm not going to identify it, but is somewhere on that list."

[BobS]

" the Ford F-250 Super Duty 5.4 V8 four-wheel drive. "

I have the 2WD model. Matching grey metallic camper shell. Big BF Goodrich All-Terrains. It goes up a 40 deg hill I work on fast. It does 95 across the desert to Vegas. And there is something for smaller women to grab onto while they pull themselves into the cockpit with. No complaints about Ford trucks.

DANGER!! Don't follow me after I go through mud! Chunks will fly off these tires I have in all directions.

[BobS]

Somebody can tell us what he drives, like the people he hangs with. He went out with people and Ann Coulter for her birthday party, etc. Maybe he has security issues with wackos?

[Pelham]

Lotus 7?

[Erasmus]

loved his comment about flying over to Altantis for dinner on Saturday. Very cool.

Didn't know his G-V had floats.

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[lmr]

I don't approach overall fuel economy from an environmental standpoint. I think it is strategically important that we reduce our dependence on Arab oil, and while were at it, Venezulean oil. I think the price of a gallon of gas within the next 10 years will make hybrids more attractive and they will be mass-produced in the not to distant future. Once economies of scale kick in, the hybrids will become affordable and the fuel savings will be worth it. At that point, they will be bought in mass quantities and in 10 years half the cars on the road will be a hybrid of one form or another. I love Rush, but to brag about owning a gas guzzler when it helps prolong the current Mid-East situation is pointless and sophomoric. But it is a free country and he can drive what he wants. I really do think our future is in hybrids, though. I will also put my money where my mouth is and start investing in companies that build/support this industry.

[Alex Murphy]

Ah, the Lotus/Caterham Super 7. Had a chance to buy one quite a few years ago. Ended up passing on it (needed a new front fender, which is no small thing on a 7), but still have fond memories of the experience. With a straight-8 under the hood, it's like a Titan rocket strapped to a roller skate, 'coz there's precious little weight to slow down the horsepower!

[Fintan]

...what's Sharon Stone's claim to fame?

 

Let's be fair here...she did show us her pootie. Whether it contributed to burning a hole in the ozone layer is for someone else to answer.

[VeniVidiVici]

So he's doing his share - and then some - to bankroll Saudi Arabia and Iran and Venezuela.

And proud of it.

Keep in mind he may just drive fewer miles per year than you do.

[BamaGirl]

Personally I don't think hybrids are the solution -- every time we double efficiency we also essentially double the oil seller's supply. It's fine to drive a hybrid to save money, but you're not providing any incentive to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

I'd prefer we move to alternative sources of energy for transportation, like nuclear, coal, hydrogen, etc.

And also start drilling in Anwar.

[lmr]

I agree with increasing our oil supply. Hybrids are the answer to that. If we double the oil seller's supply, we have doubled our own. Your argument doesn't account for the fact that of all the oil we use, 35% of it is domestic. If that were to double and be 70%, we are almost there. Drill ANWAR and a few wetlands, and we are in the driver's seat. No more dependence on oil from hostile lands.

[GOPyouth]

To the car experts out there, if you look at Rush 24/7 on the ditto cam there are two models on his desk. One is a learjet and the other is a car. The car looks like a mercedes or some sort of Bentley. I can't tell. But, someone should look and check it out.

[GOPyouth]

To the car experts out there, if you look at Rush 24/7 on the ditto cam there are two models on his desk. One is a learjet and the other is a car. The car looks like a mercedes or some sort of Bentley. I can't tell. But, someone should look and check it out.

[BamaGirl]

That's true.

Good point.

[wagglebee]

To the car experts out there, if you look at Rush 24/7 on the ditto cam there are two models on his desk. One is a learjet and the other is a car. The car looks like a mercedes or some sort of Bentley. I can't tell. But, someone should look and check it out.

Rush's jet is a Gulfstream V which will put any Learjet to shame. Not sure what the car on the desk is, but a Maybach is essentially a VERY HIGH END Mercedes.

[Born Conservative]

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[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thanks for the tip. when I learn to read, I'll get it.

Seems to me an "oil-fired generating plant" would produce a set amount of electricity and be regulated downstream, much like an electrical system that runs of a generator, etc. They have things called "voltage regulators".
I do not think changing a light bulb will reduce amount of petrol used by a plant, but if I get that literacy book, I'll look into it further. It seems it would only change the kWh's used by that bulb. Not sure what BPA uses in Vancouver, WA for fueling their large turbines, but the turbines run at a constant speed which would equate to constant amount of fuel, whether it has one or two bulbs feeding off it. So thats what had me questioning that bimbos reasoning.