What Country Reduced Most CO2 Emissions?

Rush: Do you realize everybody who has run for president since the beginning of the so-called energy crisis in the late sixties — let’s say every president starting with Richard Nixon going on through Jimmy Carter up to the present, every one of them has promised us energy independence. Every one of them has warned us and told us that if we do not wean ourselves from the teat of Saudi Arabian oil, that we are doomed to be dependent on an enemy.

One guy has made us energy independent. Donald Trump. We are now officially an exporter of energy. At the same time, do you know the United States CO2 emissions have been reduced more than any nation in the world? And do you know that is? It’s a real number, and it’s the real truth. For those of you in Rio Linda, the stuff that creates climate change, the stuff that creates the greenhouse effect, CO2, we have reduced ours more than any industrialized nation in the world.

The two greatest polluters are the ChiComs and India, and they have been exempted from the Paris accords. Do you know how we’ve done this? Natural gas. We have more natural gas than we know what to do with, and it’s resulted from the technology of fracking. Being able to drill sideways into places where nobody thought there was oil. Along the way we found pockets of natural gas out the wazoo.

We could reduce emissions even more if we were to go back and start building nuclear plants. The point is, Donald Trump has done this. Yeah, well, he tweets things that may embarrass. I’m not bothered by ’em, and I never have been. The only way I’ve been bothered by them is the ammo they give people, but in terms of souring me on Trump, they don’t.

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