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RUSH: I went to the MoveOn.org website today. You know what they\u2019re all up in arms about today? High gas prices. They\u2019re sending out an action e-mail to all of their members asking people to sign a petition to get Congress to do something about high gas prices, and Congress is going to do something about high gas prices. Have you heard this? They are going to sue OPEC! They are going to sue OPEC for high gas prices. Why aren\u2019t they suing Big Oil, I wonder? The House voted yesterday to allow the government to sue OPEC over oil production quotas. They ought to sue themselves! They\u2019re the ones standing in the way of our energy independence. <\/p>\n

You know, high gasoline prices, high oil prices today are partially due to the fact that back in the Clinton administration and since the Democrats have prevented any drilling in, say, ANWR or anywhere else for our own supplies of oil. They have all this dramatic talk about alternative fuels and so forth, which is a pipe dream. There\u2019s nothing down the road that\u2019s anywhere near something that\u2019s going to solve whatever problem we have. But I find it interesting they want to sue OPEC and not Big Oil. This is, again, something that will go nowhere.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: ‘The jump in U.S. gasoline prices this year has so far drained consumers of an extra $20 billion, or about $146 for each passenger car in the country, the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Tuesday.\u2019 That\u2019s also known as the GAO. ‘The national price for regular unleaded gasoline hit a record $3.22 a gallon this week, and is up $1.05 since the beginning of February, according to the Energy Department.\u2019 Now, get this. ‘The added expense is taking money away from consumers to spend on other goods and services.\u2019 Yes, it is. ‘Spending billions more on gasoline constrains consumers\u2019 budgets, leaving less money available for other purchases.\u2019 Why don\u2019t you people think about this on tax cuts, for crying out loud? If you want to cut prices on gasoline, cut the taxes, the state, the city, the feds, whatever else. It adds up to 60 cents a gallon. It\u2019s all profit. We\u2019ve been over this I don\u2019t know how many times. Mrs. Clinton said something about doing something to increase the supply, lower the price, I forget what it was, and I\u2019m sitting there thinking, if you are Big Oil and you are a global concern, your market is the world, why in the world would you invest heavily in — I think this is about refineries, we need to be building more refines — who\u2019s standing in the way of building more refineries? Environmentalist wackos. And who are they aligned with? They\u2019re aligned with the Democrats and left. But if you\u2019re Big Oil, why would you even consider investing gazillions of dollars in a country that is trying to ban your product? Somebody needs to ask that question besides me. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Mike in northern Wisconsin somewhere you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how\u2019s it going?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I got a tanker up here, a gas tanker, and I\u2019m not going to tell you who I drive for —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, hold — time-out, time-out, I want to hear — you driving the tanker?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I am right now. I\u2019m going to get another load of that precious liquid gold.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughing.) Anyway, what I wanted to say was, I just delivered in a store here, and they were lined up at two stations, the one I was at and one across the street. The prices — for granted, let\u2019s say they\u2019re just high, okay, whatever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We can\u2019t keep gas in the ground, people are buying it as fast as we can put it in the ground. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a good thing or a bad thing. I\u2019m just telling you it doesn\u2019t seem — if the world is going you know where in a handbasket and everything is going bad, people seem to be buying gas and going on vacations up here and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: We know this is true. Your little story here is anecdotal, but we know it\u2019s true. There have been surveys. Something came out yesterday that driving went down for a while, on a percentage basis from the previous year. But from what you\u2019re describing, people waiting in line for your truck to show up to refill the tanks at the station?<\/p>\n

CALLER: There was people there waiting, and I pulled in, and I had to block the road just so I could get in and unload this thing, and we ran all weekend. We had trucks out all week running. Now, if the economy is so bad, how come people keep buying all this gas and the motorcycles and their motor homes and — somebody\u2019s making money somewhere putting this gas in their tanks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are really shrewd, I have to tell you, and plus you have the benefit of being an eyewitness to this. This notion the economy is in bad shape and that people are fretting over gasoline prices is simply manufactured news, manufactured news from the Democrat Party, and they\u2019re trying to compare it to food prices, which it is a necessary. We all have to eat in this country. I had somebody ask me the other day, ‘Rush, let me ask you a question, you once said, and you\u2019re right, that that you go to the grocery store and the profit markup in a grocery store on basic foodstuffs is 1%, grocery stores make their money selling the stuff at the checkout counter and the magazines and the candy and all this sort of stuff and the mops and the spic-and-span, whatever\u2019s in there. But on basic foodstuffs, profit margin is 1%, because people have to eat.\u2019 He said, ‘Well, why doesn\u2019t Big Oil look at it that way. People have to drive to get to the grocery store to eat.\u2019 I said, ‘Well, both prices, both profit markups, both businesses are constrained by the market forces in which they operate. People do need gasoline, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re driving.\u2019 They\u2019re not going to slow down and they\u2019re not going to stop going to work and they\u2019re not going to get on the light rail train. <\/p>\n

We have some of the ugliest light rail trains I have ever seen in my life right down here in West Palm Beach. I don\u2019t go over there much, but sometimes I have to get to the airport. You get stopped sometimes, when I come in late from a flight getting home, midnight or one o\u2019clock, that seems to be when these things are moving, and nobody\u2019s on them — wait, no, that\u2019s the freight trains. Take it back. These are the transit, the rush hour, little all-day-long light train. They\u2019re supposed to be painted to look like Florida blue with the palm trees. They don\u2019t look like that. They look ugly. They look like they\u2019re unfinished, looks like they bought used train cars and they haven\u2019t done anything to them. But the thing I noticed, they\u2019re always empty. I scour, I look in the windows, you might see one or two people on a three-car train. They\u2019re empty. People don\u2019t want to get on these things, and they don\u2019t want to get on buses, outside of New York, where this is standard form of transportation, cabs and buses and subways and so forth. But around the rest of the country they want to drive their cars and they\u2019re going to and they\u2019re going to pay whatever it costs. They might complain but they\u2019ll pay it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Darren in Billings, Montana, I\u2019m glad you waited as we get back to the phones. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s great to talk with you. Mostly dittos from Montana.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Never been there and would love to go.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019d say, we\u2019d love to have you up here sometime.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll make it at some point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There we go. Hey, the problem with the analogy of the oil company and the grocery store is that the oil companies own the product from the raw stage to the retail stage. And the grocery store is actually the true showcase of the free market, where they\u2019re buying products from different places and different manufacturers and wholesalers, whereas the oil companies are controlling it all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, this is the reason that gas is the price that it is. They\u2019re the ones handling that. There is no free market in the oil business.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. There\u2019s no free market in the oil business? The prices in the oil business are fixed? Democrats in Congress conducted an investigation, I think it was Senate Democrats might have conducted an investigation after Hurricane Katrina to find out if there was price fixing. The Democrats couldn\u2019t find any evidence of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I wouldn\u2019t say that there\u2019s price fixing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, if you —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I simply don\u2019t think that there is the true free market that we see in all the other industries. I don\u2019t see any other industry that controls things from raw material to retail sale. I don\u2019t think that the supply-demand —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then tell me how it is that the prices in this country are lower than they are anywhere else in the world?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t have an answer for you right off on that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, I\u2019ve got limited time —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t know how all the other countries are working.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re a great guy, you\u2019re a nice guy. There\u2019s no free market in gasoline. Propaganda works on this every time the price starts going up, and I don\u2019t get it. I just don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: When you get otherwise intelligent people saying there\u2019s no free market in the price of gasoline, after all of the countless years of detailed attention paid to the subject, the painstaking research, the patient presentation of facts by me, I often throw up my hands. Let me try, because I know that the gas price is one of these things that when it comes up, it goes up, people think that there\u2019s some suspicious or conspiratorial reason behind it, they just cannot accept the fact that the free market works in gasoline. So let me ask a question. Or let me ask many questions. Let us speak of many answers. How many oil companies are there that sell gasoline in the United States of America? How many are there? Take a wild guess. I don\u2019t even know the answer, but it doesn\u2019t matter because there\u2019s more than one. If you don\u2019t think they are competing with each other, then you don\u2019t know the world. ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, and whoever the others are, they compete with one another. That\u2019s number one. I realize that some of you might think they all get together and set the price and so forth.<\/p>\n

Second thing is, how many companies are there selling gasoline in this country that are not American? Citgo is one, there\u2019s Hugo Chavez. British Petroleum. Do you think that ExxonMobil and BP and the rest are getting together with Hugo to set prices in the United States? Remember, now, these people are the world market. Now, where does this oil come from? Gasoline is oil first and there are a bunch of different places it comes from. All over the world. Comes from Canada. In fact, that\u2019s the number one country we get oil from. That\u2019s our number one importer. Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia. The oil companies do not own this oil as it is. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed this, but Hugo Chavez just kicked the oil companies out of Venezuela. He\u2019s nationalizing everything. He\u2019s taken it, screw you, if you want to stay here and run the wells and so forth we can work out a little production deal, but, ha-ha-ha-ha, this stuff belongs to Venezuela because the oil is ours. Same thing happened in Saudi Arabia and Rockefeller got his change before that happened, but same thing happened there, basically. ‘We don\u2019t need you anymore.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So tell me how it is that oil, which starts the whole price timeline, coming from so many different places in the world, ends up as refined gasoline with no free market determining the price in this country. I want to know how this is possible. I want to know how it is that BP, ExxonMobil, Citgo, name other companies, the size that are out there — hell, I don\u2019t know — Conoco\u2019s merged with somebody. I want to know how they\u2019re getting together with the Russians and with the Saudis and coordinating this. Then I want you to tell me, the guys playing the futures market in oil on the commodities market, I want you to tell me how they are involved in this so that the price is set by one person from the time it comes out of the ground \u2019til it gets to your car as gasoline, the idea that that\u2019s true is false. All these companies compete with one another at the retail level, they are competing with each other to find oil all over the world. We have to buy oil from all these different countries, and we have to refine it here. All of these aspects have market circumstances that rein in the desire for people to charge more than what they can get for it. Then you\u2019ve got the stockholders of these publicly traded companies who are demanding profits as big as they can be. They\u2019re publicly traded companies and if the managers of these companies don\u2019t get as big a profit as they could or if they get too little a profit, there\u2019s going to be hell to pay from the shareholders.<\/p>\n

Now, I want to know how in the world anybody can genuinely think that the oil companies, who are citizens of the world, own every bit of oil that comes out of the ground and then every bit of the processing before it becomes gasoline, then it becomes gasoline and goes into your tank, I want to know how this happens. This is news to me. And why is it that the Democrats in the Congress are suing OPEC in order to do something about the rising gas prices. Why aren\u2019t they suing Big Oil? And how is it that OPEC isn\u2019t Big Oil and how is it that Hugo Chavez isn\u2019t Big Oil and how is it that Russia isn\u2019t Big Oil, and how is it that British Petroleum and ExxonMobil and Conoco or whoever else, how come they are? I\u2019m sitting here mystified by all this. This is not to say that I\u2019m insensitive to the price, but the idea here — oh, and one more question. Have you heard of a country called China? I\u2019m sure many of you have. We refer to them here lovingly and affectionately as the ChiComs. Well, despite their best efforts over there, they are having an expanding economy. There are now multimillionaires in China and more and more people have access to automobiles that use gasoline, and they are putting a lot of pressure on the worldwide supply of gasoline, and in this country, your friends, the Democrats, are standing in the way of this country finding any more oil on our property; be it Alaska; be it off one of the coasts, they won\u2019t let it happen, while at the same time they\u2019re talking about energy independence. <\/p>\n

So I want to know how it is, at that Big Oil, which earns 30% of its income from operations in the United States, I want to know how it is that Big Oil and all these companies competing with one another somehow control the product around the world from the moment it comes out of the ground. I want to know how they own Saudi Arabia. I want to know how they own Russia. I want to know how they own Iran. I want to know how they own Venezuela. Niger, Big Oil — there\u2019s oil coming out of the ground everywhere but here. I want to know this. If you can answer these questions, with all the pressure on the supply, the worldwide supply that the rising Chinese economy is put — and the Indian economy, by the way, they\u2019re going bonkers as well, if you can tell me how Big Oil controls every drop from the time it comes out of the ground until tends up as gasoline in your tank, then I can maybe accept your — but you can\u2019t tell me because it\u2019s not possible, because it isn\u2019t true, because it doesn\u2019t happen. <\/p>\n

If you want a shocking statistic, I\u2019ve forgotten the actual numbers here. Going to have to go back to my website tonight to the archives, I gotta remember the date and find this. Maybe Koko can search for it real quick when he hears what I\u2019m talking about here. I was playing golf with a guy who had just had a conversation with an energy expert and he was passing the story on, secondhand. I didn\u2019t hear it from the horse\u2019s mouth, but the numbers of people in the world who don\u2019t have electricity would stun you. Who don\u2019t have running water, stun you. Don\u2019t drive, don\u2019t have automobile, would stun you. It\u2019s a vast, vast majority. If those people ever got — by the way, you people like flipping on the light switch at home. You like when the air-conditioner works? Where do you think that comes from? They won\u2019t let us do nuke power, so it\u2019s coal and it\u2019s oil. I haven\u2019t even scratched the surface of the oil industry here. I haven\u2019t even begun to scratch the surface, the costs in finding it, drilling it, bringing it up, transporting it as crude across the oceans and pipelines and so forth. <\/p>\n

I literally am amazed that somehow the truth and the facts of the oil business, economics of the oil business, escape people when the economics of most other things are never questioned. Well, I\u2019m not totally mystified. You\u2019ve got the Democrat Party and the Drive-By Media routinely telling people they\u2019re being gouged, and you\u2019ve got Democrats talk windfall profits taxes and so forth and so on. I\u2019m blue in the face trying to describe to you how much every gallon you buy goes to your state, local, and federal government as total profit. Nobody ever complains and they\u2019re talking about raising those taxes, by the way, in the midst of all this, yeah, because, you know what, as the price goes up, some people are buying fewer gallons of gas, and that\u2019s less tax money. So the roads may not be repaired, bridges may not be prepared and so forth. So all these people out there wanting you driving these little windmill hybrids. I\u2019ll tell you what, if everybody did that, and the consumption of gasoline went down big time, you think the taxes wouldn\u2019t go up to make up the loss to the government? It would. This market is so complex, it\u2019s like the climate, although it\u2019s not nearly as complex as the climate, it is profoundly complex, and to try to control it and corner it is impossible. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I have a little chart from the year 2001 from the Wall Street Journal. The source of this chart is Energy Intelligence Group. It\u2019s a chart of oil companies by size of crude production. The largest oil company in the world: Saudi ARAMCO is the number one oil company in the world in 2001, producing 8.3 million barrels of oil a day. Next is the National Iranian Oil Company, NIOC, at 3.77 million barrels of crude a day. The third largest oil company is PEMEX, that\u2019s Mexico, 3.56 million barrels, and they just announced a huge find in the in the Gulf of Mexico off of their shores. The fourth largest oil company by crude production — and this is going to be a small number now given what\u2019s recently happened there — is Venezuela. The company is PDVSA, three million barrels of crude a day, but they\u2019ve just nationalized a bunch of oil down there, they claim, so they\u2019re going to be higher than that. Number five is ExxonMobil at 2.54 million barrels of crude a day. So you got Saudi Arabia at 8.3 million barrels a day. There\u2019s ExxonMobil at 2.54. ExxonMobil\u2019s market share of the world oil market is 3%. Don\u2019t anybody call here again and tell me about Big Oil engaging in price fixing and controlling every bit of the oil from the ground to your tank as gasoline. <\/p>\n

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