And proud of it.
Keep in mind he may just drive fewer miles per year than you do.
Perhaps. But IMO to whatever extent he drives, and there is a higher mileage vehicle available that preforms pretty much the same function, he's making a choice to add to our national difficulties.
I perform home inspections for a living, and I could easily "justify" to myself a larger and lower mileage vehicle to haul my tools and ladders. And if I buy a really big (or at least really heavy) vehicle the government will (IMO perversely) let me take a big deduction for purchasing it.
I choose not to do so because it appears to me that one of the biggest threats facing my country is dependence on imported oil and the subsidies this forces us to pay to repressive states with a distasted for our freedoms and a proven track record of sponsoring attacks on Americans - it seems crazy to me to give these guys a dime more that we have to, especially as the marginal practical advantage for me to use such a vehicle for my work is small.
And it appears to me that is likely also he case for Mr. Limbaugh - that if he wants either luxury or performance he can have plenty of ether in vehicles that aren't at the bottom of the list for energy efficiency, while I doubt that he has a pressing need to tow 6,000 lbs or haul 50 sheets of drywall home at a time.
And when I encounter someone who is proud of burning more gas than the next guy to get himself and his cargo from from point A to point B I “just don't get it” - sure he's got a “right” to do it, but the practical result – a weaker America – is the exact opposite of the things Mr. Limbaugh he says he stands for.