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RUSH: ‘In Florida — a state accustomed to tracking the minutia of impending hurricanes — forecasting is everything. But recent forecasts coming from those planning to protect Florida\u2019s coast from another potential disaster, the oil relentlessly spewing from the wreck of the Deepwater Horizon, are much different than the forecasts from scientists and environmentalists [wackos] who study and guard the coast. <\/p>\n

‘The state\u2019s emergency responders downplayed the threat to Florida in a briefing for Senate President Jeff Atwater on Wednesday. South Floridians can expect an occasional tar ball to wash ashore,\u2019 which happens every day, happens all the time, ‘but they probably will never see oil from the recent spill lapping onto beaches,\u2019 this according to Florida Emergency Management Director David Halstead. So the environmentalist wackos and the doomsayers are saying, ‘Look out, Florida, when it gets into the Florida straits! It\u2019s going to get up there to the panhandle and the East Coast. It may get in the Gulf Stream, it\u2019s going to be horrible! If a hurricane comes up, look out.\u2019 But David Halstead, Florida Emergency Management director, said, ‘If we look at two weeks in the Florida sun, most of that is going to be evaporated. There is a possibility you\u2019ll see very little of any sheen ever even make it down all the way to the Keys.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all going to evaporate. Remember, they\u2019re looking for ‘missing\u2019 oil out there. As I mentioned yesterday, this is light crude, the stuff that gasoline and kerosene are refined from; and you know if you\u2019ve ever spilled gasoline on your yard or at the pump, it evaporates pretty quickly. Light crude does, too. So here you have a Florida local guy saying, ‘Ah, we may not going to see much here. Most of it\u2019s gonna evaporate.\u2019 ‘Even if the oil sheen was caught in the Loop Current, environmental damage in South Florida would be ‘minimal,\u2019 Doug Darling, the Florida Environmental Preservation Department chief of staff told Atwater. ‘If dolphins or manatees swim through it and come up to surface for air, they\u2019re going to get a slight coating,\u2019 Darling said.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So Florida emergency management people are saying: ‘Hey, no biggie,\u2019 the same thing that I have been saying before I even heard from these guys — and of course I have been excoriated and continue to be excoriated and raked over the coals. In fact, let\u2019s see if I can find the sound bites. Hang with me, Mike, because I\u2019m now totally outta order. Here we are. Number four. Number four and number five. Last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews, they spoke with the Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune (he might pronounce it ‘Brune-y\u2019) about the Gulf oil spill and me. So they bring the Sierra Club on to respond but they never ask the pertinent question, which is: ‘If the Sierra Club hadn\u2019t pushed drilling further and further out to sea, would this catastrophe have occurred?\u2019 We drill far out and we have to drill down deep because wackos like the Sierra Club refuse to allow (and they put political pressure on cowardly politicians) drilling domestically, or any new drilling, or even close to the shore. So the question from Matthews: ‘Rush Limbaugh seems to be, as of this moment, still the recognized head of the Republican Party on matters everywhere. What do you do make of him blaming you for the oil spill.\u2019<\/p>\n

BRUNE: You know, Rush Limbaugh\u2019s always good for a good belly laugh. Uh, you know, we think that — that the issue here isn\u2019t what BP is saying. It just shows that their recklessness doesn\u2019t extend — extends well beyond their oil drilling. I was down in the Gulf, and pollution that we\u2019re seeing there, this — the — the oil plume that\u2019s just on the surface goes for miles and miles and miles, and it is a disaster through and through.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, who are we supposed to believe, here? We\u2019ve got the CEO of BP (who is a geologist, he\u2019s a Ph.D.) who he has said that the majority of this is going to evaporate and be emulsified. He has said that compared to the entire water volume of the Gulf of Mexico, we\u2019ve about poured the equivalent of a thimble full of oil in there — and we have these two Florida emergency management guys saying, ‘Ah, there\u2019s not going to be much of a sheen here. Fish swimming a hundred feet below are not going to see anything. The manatees and the dolphins surfacing for air, yeah, they might have a light coating, but we\u2019re not going to see anything in Florida other than tar balls and it\u2019s all gonna evaporate.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Well, who are we supposed to believe, those people, or an environmentalist wacko from the Sierra Club who is part of a group of people who wants a disaster? They love this disaster! It\u2019s a political opportunity. They politicize everything. This disaster, the better for them the worse it is. Because they can point fingers of blame at Big Oil, at capitalism, all of their enemies — and anybody who tries to explain this rationally then becomes a target of ridicule as well. They love the disaster. They are sad. Remember yesterday all of the anticipation, all of the reports, ‘Oh, boy, tar balls in the Florida Keys! Yaaaay! All right!\u2019 <\/p>\n

And then the authorities said, ‘Naw, different kind of oil. These tar balls are not from the oil spill.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Aw, damn it! Are you sure? Check again.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘No, we\u2019ve checked. The oil is not from the oil spill.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Ah, damn. What a bunch of bad luck.\u2019 They want the disaster, folks. They want the tumult and the chaos that\u2019s going on down in Arizona. They are willing to destroy (or stand by and watch) the private sector of this country be destroyed if it will lead to more further power for themselves. Make no mistake about it. So after that bite, ‘Oh, yeah, you know, Limbaugh is good for a good belly laugh. The issue here is what BP is saying, recklessness extends well beyond the oil drilling,\u2019 Matthews then says, ‘Do you think that they\u2019re doing a good job out there, the BP people? I mean, I don\u2019t sense they\u2019re operating as if this is an extreme problem. They\u2019re sort of doing their best, I suppose, but they\u2019re not doing it.\u2019<\/p>\n

BRUNE: No, they\u2019re not doing it. But to be fair, there are workers for BP and for others right now who are working around the clock to try to fix this. The reality is that you just — you can\u2019t contain a mess of this size. It\u2019s very difficult because it\u2019s never been done before. And that\u2019s why the Sierra Club has been arguing for decades that offshore oil drilling in shallow or deep water is highly risky and we can\u2019t drill our way to energy independence, and so we need to be focusing on a real solution to America\u2019s oil addiction and, hopefully, that will come as a result of this disaster.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is utter nonsense, utter political pap. ‘We\u2019ve been arguing for decades, offshore oil drilling in shallow or deep water is highly risky. The reality is you can\u2019t contain a mess of this side. Very difficult because it\u2019s never been done before.\u2019 There was an oil spill larger than this in Mexico. And the sea turtles survived. They were damaged in the process, but we\u2019re back to normal from it. Things happen. This is not the first and it\u2019s by no means the largest. But here come the doomsayers, the environmentalist wackos who see an opportunity here to convince you, ‘Let\u2019s just stop drilling.\u2019 Can you believe the idiocy, the illogic of saying, ‘We cannot drill our way to energy independence\u2019? That\u2019s just sophistry, stupidity. It\u2019s the only way we\u2019re going to have energy independence! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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