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RUSH: This is Paula in Bryan, Texas. Thank you for calling, Paula. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Hi. Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
RUSH: Yes, ma'am.
CALLER: I've been a longtime listener. I listened to you back when -- I just have to slip in this small part -- the very first day I heard you, you were talking about Mike Tyson and what a nobody and a nothing he was as a human being, and I was so furious with you. And I've been listening to you every day, and you were right. It took a few years for him to prove himself, but you were right.
RUSH: I don't think I said that. I don't think I said that he was a nobody --
CALLER: I think it was, nothing from nothing gives nothing, is what your words were.
RUSH: He was a troubled child and was just reaching out --
CALLER: Oh, yes.
RUSH: -- desperate cries for help, desperate, desperate, desperate punches for help.
CALLER: Yes, yes.
RUSH: Right. Everybody does remember their first day.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: And what they were doing when they heard this program. Yeah. Well, what's up out there, Paula?
CALLER: Okay, well, I'm calling from Bryan, Texas, and I just have a thought, I've had this for a long time, and now we have this money that is supposedly going to be coming to all of us taxpayers, you know, $600, $1,200, whatever your case may be, I guess.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
CALLER: And you know, I think that, you know, yeah, this will maybe stimulate the economy a little bit, but I have something that I've thought about for a long time, and I wish that the government would look into something a little more meaningful and something that would have a little better outcome in my opinion that would also help with our fuel pricing, and that is that I think that any homeowner should be given the money, or not actually even give them the money, but allow homeowners to install the solar panels that -- you know, that they're creating their own electricity, when you're not using your electricity, you know, that electricity is all sold back to the electric companies. Okay?
 RUSH: What do you do when it's cloudy?
CALLER: Well, then --
RUSH: They don't work when it's cloudy, and they don't work very well when it's sunny. They're not very efficient. It's a myth these solar panels. It's a great idea in the future, we're not there yet. I had them on my house in Sacramento, electric bills were supposed to go down, I didn't notice diddly-squat. I didn't even know if the things worked. Contractor could just put 'em up there for looks, everybody can see them, the inspector, "Okay, they're up there, good," whoop-de-doo. I didn't notice diddly-squat with them.
CALLER: See, I've heard other people who say that they can actually go outside and see their electric meter running backwards, which means they are --
RUSH: No, no, no, no, no, no. You can't possibly -- you cannot -- please, Paula. You don't believe those stories?
CALLER: Well, now that you've told me it's not true, I'm going to believe you over them.
RUSH: That doesn't happen. There is no way that any device that you put on your house is going to roll back the amount of electricity you've used. It might slow the meter down if there's any truth to this to where it moved very slowly forward or didn't move at all, but I don't think those meters are allowed to go backwards. Look, I understand you want to be energy efficient and all that. And what you're really talking about here is saving money, right?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Right. I think if we --
RUSH: You know where you're wasting a lot of money?
CALLER: Where?
RUSH: Your water heater.
CALLER: Yeah, I agree.
RUSH: You are. You can get water heaters, tankless water heaters, Rinnai makes one, you get one, you won't waste any money. A little bit expensive to put in, but you only have hot water when you need it, hot water on demand, does not heat water up in advance, keep reheating it when you don't use it and so forth. If you want real energy savings, have them cut your gasoline tax for a month, or a year, or what have you. But I don't think there's a device that saves so much electricity that you have your electric meter run backwards. It will be kind of like this, Paula. Remember back in the seventies, and I'm sure you do, when gasoline shortages contrived, led to high prices, and we were inundated every night on the local news with ways to save gasoline. Avoid jackrabbit starts, speed smoothly, don't idle when unnecessary and so forth and there was a list of like 20 of them, and I said, "I betcha if I do all 20 of these things to save gasoline, I'll have to get out every ten miles and siphon extra gasoline out of the tank." It just doesn't work that way. |
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