467 wget and tor issue

Ever since I set up Tor on my debian workstation I've been having issues using wget:

wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.tar.xz

--2013-07-01 11:32:35--  https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.tar.xz
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:9050... connected.
Proxy tunneling failed: Tor is not an HTTP ProxyUnable to establish SSL connection.

For fun I also tried torify although I don't want to download the kernel via Tor:

torify wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.tar.xz

--2013-07-01 11:36:20--  https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.tar.xz
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:9050... 11:36:20 libtorsocks(26463): connect: Connection is to a local address (127.0.0.1), may be a TCP DNS request to a local DNS server so have to reject to be safe. Please report a bug to http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/entry if this is preventing a program from working properly with torsocks.
failed: No such file or directory.
Retrying.

Note that I DON'T want to use wget with Tor. I don't want to eat up bandwidth on the Tor network for stuff like this. When I use wget I want to use a direct connection.

I haven't configured /etc/wgetrc and so I was a bit surprised that this kept on happening.

The solution:
edit /etc/wgetrc and put

use_proxy=off

anywhere. And you're done.