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Dan Ur on December 19, 2005 - 7:00pm

I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh a lot, while driving and while at the office, I loved his sense of humor, and loved to yell and rant back at him for silly ideas.

He has been drumming it in the Listeners ears for over a decade that the Oil Shale of our western states Is trillions of barrels of oil. But like most others that spout the glories of the Plenty, he lacks the understanding that energy is not money in getting things out of the ground. If this were a money issue, we would be rolling in Tubs of oil before dinner, but this is an energy issue.

If I have to climb 7 flights of stairs to get my Breakfast toast and coffee every morning, I am not going to over time gain a lot of fat energy from the meal.

Though I have heard that the oil shale make great fireplace bricks for the pyro in your family.

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joule on December 19, 2005 - 9:26pm

There was a time when I listened to Rush Limbaugh quite regularly, until it finally dawned on me that he has near total willful ignorance on so many things - the three most prominent subjects being the history of the labor movement in the US, the environment, and energy.

His views on the latter are particularly laughable and could be easily dismissed were it not for the fact that literally several million people religiously listen to him and take his word as The Truth From On High.

A person like him can do incalucable damage to any effort to develop an informed public understanding of what the real energy problems are. I haven't listened to him for years, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear him tout up abiotic oil as proof positive that all this peak oil baloney is just the ravings of leftist environmenal wackos bent on destroying the American Way of Life.

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