Imagine if we could harness this kind of gas

If there was a way to connect the utterly unrelated topics of off-shore oil drilling and Michael Phelps’ prodigious food consumption, leave it to comedian Rush Limbaugh to, well, at least try.

During his nationally-syndicated program today, Limbaugh said that since extra energy helped produce excellence in Phelps, drilling for more oil would do the same for the U.S.:

But now we read that Michael Phelps is burning and using 12,000 calories a day, while the Democrats are trying to alert everybody to the dangers posed by energy. The Democrats and left are now demonizing oil, they’re demonizing our own ability to be energy independent. They don’t want us to be able to get our own independent sources of oil or natural gas. Yet, look at Michael Phelps. […]

American consumption for the greatest production and the greatest rewards, why, that is fine if we do this in sports. However, if we consume and produce exceptionalism in goods and services for others, including ourselves, then somehow we are committing a sin.

Listen to this:


Oh, the pain at what this guy pumps.