We’re Not Addicted to Oil!

…We are not addicted to gasoline. Oil is the fuel of the freedom and the engine of democracy. Oil is the basis on which our economy is going to grow. We know it’s going to continue to grow. We want it to grow. We want the economy to keep growing. We want it to be such that people become more and more productive, more and more prosperous. Nobody ever talks about wanting the economy to slow down and go into recession. We’re always wanting the economy to grow, and with more people being born and the influx of people. It’s just the natural state of human affairs.


You’re not addicted to something that generates that. What he means, you’re addicted, you use it when you don’t need it, use far more than what you need, and you can’t help it, it’s a disease, you can’t stop. It’s absurd to say that we’re addicted to gasoline. People cannot go to work without it, they cannot go to food stores without it, they cannot take kids to school without it. It’s a need far, far more than it’s an addiction. Now we’re going to trying to have this guilt imposed upon us. “Why, the prices aren’t coming down because you people are a bunch of sloths. You people are careless; you don’t care what it costs; you don’t care what damage to the earth you’re doing; you have to have your gasoline, you addicts.” That’s absolutely preposterous.

The solution to this is to get rid of all these restrictions that say we can’t find more of our own oil and we can’t build more refineries, get rid of all of that. Understand we’re a growing economy, powerful, the world’s lone superpower, and we’re being assaulted on that basis by people who want to cut us down to size, and they’re using energy as a means of doing it.

Rush Limbaugh