{"id":32867,"date":"2009-07-03T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:10:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:10:37","slug":"we_cannot_eliminate_coal_and_global_warming_is_a_hoax_anyway5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/07\/03\/we_cannot_eliminate_coal_and_global_warming_is_a_hoax_anyway5\/","title":{"rendered":"We Cannot Eliminate Coal, and Global Warming is a Hoax Anyway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: I have to think that the Democrat Party, before all this is said and done, is going to destroy itself. They\u2019re going to enact things here that the American people, most of whom are going to be blindsided by it, are just not going to understand and put up with. They have no idea it\u2019s coming. The question, the only question is: &#8216;Will this giant overreaching occur in time, or will it occur after Obama and these people are entrenched and there\u2019s nothing that can be done about it?\u2019 For example, this is from Reuters: &#8216;Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.\u2019 (interruption) What? That\u2019s my point. They can\u2019t. There\u2019s no way. This is not possible, but if he even tries this&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Let me keep reading the story here. &#8216;Consumers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest city-owned utility in the United States with 1.45 million electricity customers, will see higher power bills in the fight against climate change, he added in his inaugural speech for his second four-year term as mayor on Wednesday. California does not have any coal-fired power plants, a leading contributor to greenhouse gas pollution\u2019 which is a lie &#8216;but the LADWP now gets 40 percent of its electricity from coal plants outside the state. &#8216;LADWP will deliver 40 percent renewable power, with the remainder coming from natural gas, nuclear, and large hydroelectric,\u2019 said Villaraigosa.\u2019 Nuclear? Not as long as Tom Hayden is still alive; not as long as Jane Fonda still live. Hell, you don\u2019t even need those two. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Villaraigosa said the LADWP will meet its goal of getting 20 percent of its power from renewables by 2010.\u2019 Oh, it\u2019s 20% of its power now. Oh. There is nothing anywhere that supports that this can happen, folks. Do you understand this? The replacement for coal doesn\u2019t exist. That\u2019s what cap and trade is all about. Obama is telling people &#8212; he\u2019s got dupes believing &#8212; that this brilliant stroke of bold government action will lead to the creation of such technologies. The market leads to such creation, not government. You people in Los Angeles, I must address you head on here. You thought the Gray Davis era of rolling blackouts were bad? The only way Villaraigosa can pull this off is to black out certain sections of the city all the time, rotating which sections get blacked out, \u2019cause there is no replacement for coal. They\u2019re dead broke. I know they\u2019re dead broke. The whole state is dead broke. The cities are dead broke, and they\u2019re now going to invest in a technology that doesn\u2019t exist. And when he says that electricity customers will see higher power bills, that\u2019s not even the half of it. Try 90% increases, if they even pull this off. <\/p>\n<p>If they were to be able to pull it off, 90% increases. You see, folks, that\u2019s your responsibility. Your waste and your profligacy and your irresponsibility as citizens has led to the planet being in peril because of global warming. It\u2019s because of the barbecue pits you have and the electricity you use and the cars that you drive and the airplanes that you fly in, and you\u2019ve gotta pay. We\u2019ve all gotta pay. That\u2019s what the Obama administration is all about. We\u2019ve all gotta pay for something. The majority has to pay for its racism and bigotry. The wealthy and powerful have to pay for their wealth and power, the fact that they\u2019ve stolen it. The only people that are not going to be paying&#8230; Well, everybody\u2019s going to be paying. The only people won\u2019t be paying are the people on the government dole, and that\u2019s going to be an increasing number. <\/p>\n<p>Jim in South Bend, Indiana, welcome, sir. It\u2019s Open Line Friday, and it\u2019s your turn.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. I got a question, something I couldn\u2019t figure out. Why before the cap-and-trade vote all the news places said &#8216;cap and trade,\u2019 but after the vote, the very next morning, all the news sources started saying &#8216;climate bill.\u2019 Why the change in language?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, probably because of a directive from the White House. This is State-Run Media. &#8216;Climate bill\u2019 is less explanatory of what actually is at stake here. That\u2019s a good catch on your part. Speaking of which, ladies and gentlemen, some more cap-and-trade extras. People are now reading the bill and we have found other things. In addition to what we\u2019ve already imparted to you, and that is that to sell your house, some ecoexaminer has gotta come in and mandate or approve that your house meets quota &#8212; and if it doesn\u2019t, you gotta spend the money to make it ecofriendly to pass their test before you can sell it. On page 193 of the cap-and-trade bill, it adds a section to the Social Security Act on an energy refund program. Basically those making no more than 150% of the poverty line would get monthly cash payments from the government to offset the extra costs that are caused by the bill. That\u2019s in the bill. This is direct deposit into these people\u2019s bank accounts. Cash deposits, transfer payments, redistribution. If you make no more than 150% of the poverty line &#8212; what is the poverty line, 14 or 20 grand? What is it right now? So, you know, 20 grand, you get direct deposits. And, by the way, there are going to be more and more of those people as Obama\u2019s economic policies result in more and more people being laid off. <\/p>\n<p>The bill &#8212; the climate trade bill, the cap-and-trade bill, the climate bill, global warming bill, the save-the-planet bill &#8212; would also tinker with the earned income tax credit by doubling the EITC for those with no dependents and include an inflation adjustment. That\u2019s on page 1209. And then there\u2019s an interesting section right after the EITC language, Section 433, protection of Social Security and Medicare trust funds in the climate bill. From the way it\u2019s been read here by Jamie Dupree, who is a blogger, the administrators of Medicare and Social Security would be able to tap into general revenues of the US government if it\u2019s determined that the cap-and-trade bill has resulted in a reduction of revenues going into those two trust funds. Okay, the poverty line for a family of four is $22,050 for one person, a single family. For a single person poverty line is $10,000. That\u2019s a lot of people that are going to be having direct deposits. So the people that run Medicare and Medicaid are going to be able to rob the general fund as a result of the cap-and-trade bill if the costs of cap and trade deplete trust fund. The trust funds are empty anyway. It\u2019s another piece of legislation that has very little to do with what its title or claim is. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s something for you people in Los Angeles, Southern California, after listening to the inaugural address of the Mayor Villaraigosa. &#8216;June was especially gloomy in Southern California, with temperatures in Los Angeles below normal every day of the month.\u2019 But we\u2019ve gotta get rid of coal-fired power plants for global warming. &#8216;The National Weather Service says the region has gone through &#8216;a fairly noteworthy stretch of cool weather.\u2019 June\u2019s average daily high in downtown Los Angeles was 74.5 degrees, five degrees below normal. &amp;hellip; At Los Angeles International Airport, the highest temperature for the month was 71 degrees, the lowest maximum for a June since records began being kept in 1944. The airport\u2019s average high temperature last month was 69.3 degrees, the lowest since June 1982.\u2019 Similar stories can be told about the Northeast and the Upper Midwest. We\u2019re into July, and some parts of this country haven\u2019t seen any evidence of summer yet other than the leaves are on the trees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I have to think that the Democrat Party, before all this is said and done, is going to destroy itself. They\u2019re going to enact things here that the American people, most of whom are going to be blindsided by it, are just not going to understand and put up with. 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