1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, speaking of kale, My dad, when he owned 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: a restaurant when I was a child, would take kale 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: and put it on the plate, as Dragon said, is 4 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 1: a garnish. And then when you were done with it, 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: instead of just throwing it away, he would run it 6 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: through the dishwasher and use it again. So anyway, kale 7 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: is very resilient. Thanks, enjoy your kale. 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 2: And people eat that crap. So I have to confess. 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 3: When I first I thought, oh, Kathleen's listening, because Kathleen 10 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 3: sent me an email the other day and said a 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 3: former listener, because you know, she has to work because 12 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 3: cal Daro is a slave driver. But so I'm thinking Kathleen, 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 3: and I'm not really yet tuned into what she's saying. 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 3: And all I hear is speaking of tail when you 15 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 3: talked about Tale, and then Dragon's something about you know, 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 3: tale is just a garnish. But I'm like, what, Oh, 17 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 3: Kale Kale, David Kale, that's what they're talking about. 18 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 2: David Kill. I like David Kle. 19 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 3: Well, just because I mentioned his names, that means I 20 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 3: don't like him. I just mentioned David Kale. That's all 21 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 3: I'm saying talking about Kale, I think about David. 22 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 4: Kale knowing you and who you are. You know, you 23 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,559 Speaker 4: name drop somebody like that. You know, it's the possibility 24 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 4: that you don't. 25 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 3: I just sold the newsrooms out there listening, and so 26 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 3: I'm trying to butter up the newsroom, you know, like 27 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 3: I'm really listening to you know, since we since we 28 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,919 Speaker 3: made fun of the news story earlier about color ranks 29 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 3: as one of the third best states in the country. 30 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 4: To drive in, we didn't make fun of that the talkback. 31 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 4: Did I fullyheartedly trust Chad Bauer and his research and 32 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 4: finding out that information, then yeah, I believe it. 33 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 3: Well, I believe that Chad told us the truth about 34 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 3: what he read. I'm just saying that whoever did that 35 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 3: study has never. 36 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 2: Driven in Colorado. 37 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 4: I'm just waiting for the insurance rates to drop, because 38 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 4: were the state drivers right, we should plummet. 39 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely, and and of course you know they will, 40 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 3: of course of course they will. All Right, here we go, 41 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 3: we're talking about how the Church of the climate activists 42 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 3: is kind of dying on the vine. And while the 43 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 3: whole push for all of this electrification and trying to 44 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 3: go to wind and solar, green energy, all the greeny 45 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 3: weenie crap is beginning. 46 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 2: To go away. 47 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 3: In Colorado, we still have a bunch of dumbass Democrats 48 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 3: and a governor who are still pushing this nefarious and 49 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 3: outdated and quite frankly stupid agenda. And the PUC has 50 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 3: decided kind of on their own that they want to 51 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 3: increase the electrification target and increase the reduction in emissions 52 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 3: beyond the statutory amount. And I emphasize statutory amount because 53 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 3: that's what the yahoos in the Colorado Pollet Bureau. I 54 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,239 Speaker 3: don't know if I've used the word Colorado Pollet Bureau 55 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 3: since moving over to K zero A, but now that 56 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 3: I'm on KOA, you need to understand that the Colorado 57 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 3: Pullet Bureau is the Colorado legislature, but I think they're 58 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 3: a pollt bureau. So the POLT Bureau established a target 59 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 3: of twenty two percent reduction by twenty thirty. The PUC 60 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 3: decides on their own that they want to change that 61 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 3: to a forty one percent reduction, implying a full one 62 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 3: hundred percent cut by twenty fifty to align with the 63 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 3: POLIS statewide climate goals. Whether you are a customer of 64 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 3: Excel Energy like wah why Hill's energy, or at most 65 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 3: if they're if they're required to prioritize electrification, that means 66 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 3: you have to remove customers from the natural gas systems 67 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 3: because well, you can't meet the goals unless you do that, 68 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 3: which means you're going to face steep rate hikes. Excel's 69 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 3: compliance could exceed one billion dollars over the next five years. 70 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 3: Black Hills the estimates for them three hundred and ninety 71 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 3: seven million dollars annually. Now, if you've been convinced that 72 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 3: somehow a heat pump is a good idea in Colorado, 73 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 3: well I'd like to sell you a few things too. 74 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 3: Homeowners switching to electric heat pumps incur more than twenty 75 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 3: thousand dollars per household up front before any incendies that 76 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 3: you may or may not get are counted. Yet, electricity 77 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 3: costs fourteen point nine cents per kilawa hour versus natural 78 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 3: gas at ten dollars and fifty six cents per million 79 00:04:54,920 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 3: cubic feet according to twenty twenty four EIA data. There 80 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 3: is a study by the National Renewable Energy Labs a 81 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 3: bout Boulder in rail that reveals zero zero zero long 82 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 3: term savings for Colorado's gas heated homes, even if you 83 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 3: try to put in some sort of efficient pump, So 84 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,119 Speaker 3: what's that going to do. That's gonna strand assets, meaning 85 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 3: you're gonna be stuck with the homes you can't afford 86 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 3: to live in, so you have to try to dump 87 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 3: that home or maybe leave the state. And then the 88 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 3: burden because the costs are embedded, So that's gonna shift 89 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 3: the burden to users, other users, even poor users, users 90 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 3: below the poverty level or at poverty level, or even 91 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 3: those that are maybe above the poverty level but barely 92 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 3: barely getting by. All of those costs are gonna shift 93 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 3: over to them as people at people that run businesses, 94 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 3: people that have homes or that otherwise consume power, decide 95 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 3: it's just too expensive here. It's just too expensive. 96 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 2: California. Move over, Just move over, California. 97 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 3: Because Jared Posts and the Democrats want to make us 98 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 3: number one in everything bad. And then he has the 99 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 3: audacity go over look at my timeline over on x 100 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 3: at Michael Brown USA, he posts every once in a 101 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 3: while about you know, he's all about making Colorado more affordable. 102 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 3: He's why he's adopted the affordability mantra. Yes and housing costs. 103 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 3: He's going to bring down housing costs, he's going to 104 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 3: bring down the cost of power, He's going to do everything. 105 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 3: I think he thinks that he's the god in the 106 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 3: church of the climate activists, and then all of his supporters, 107 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 3: like the environmental groups like the Sierra Club, they all 108 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 3: applaud the stringency, but critics absolutely quantify the affordability burdens 109 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 3: on not just low income families but everybody. So the 110 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 3: Public Utility Commission's decision advances forced electrification and subsidizing switches 111 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 3: amid feasibility concerns. It's absurd what they're doing. But let's 112 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 3: go back to just last month. Let's go back to 113 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 3: November of twenty twenty five, a mere what four days ago. 114 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 3: We are exactly a quarter century removed from the millennial panic, 115 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 3: the Kyoto Protocol height, and the first waves of the 116 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 3: irrevocable irrevocable tipping points. It was supposedly coming in ten years, 117 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 3: i e. In twenty ten, we were till the fossil 118 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 3: fuels had to be phased out immediately. The planet was 119 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 3: going to be warm by at least five to six 120 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 3: degree centigrade by twenty one hundred, so twenty five years later, 121 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 3: multiple trillions of dollars, millions of wind turbines and solar panels, 122 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 3: and callous last chance primate summits. Later, fossil fuels supplied 123 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 3: eighty eight percent of global primary energy in the year 124 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 3: two thousand. It went from eighty eight percent in two 125 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 3: thousand to twenty four years later to eighty six percent. 126 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 3: We decrease dependency on fossil fuels by two percent. Now, 127 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 3: I want you to understand something. While the percentage of 128 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 3: all the power supplied by fossil fuels decreased by two percent. 129 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 2: The overall demand for power. 130 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 3: Increased enormously, so that eighty six percent in just in 131 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 3: terms of whether you want to measure it by BT 132 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 3: use or by barrels of oil, however you want to 133 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 3: measure it, it's still increased. After a quarter century of 134 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 3: the most expensive industrial policy in human history, the share 135 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 3: of fossil fuels in global energy declined by that whopping 136 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 3: two percentage points. Even though the amount of fossil fuels increased, 137 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 3: despite the decrease, overall that still increased, And the original 138 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 3: justification that catastrophic five degrees centigrade warming has quietly been 139 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 3: abandoned even by the IPCC's owned models. Now they're worried 140 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 3: about I will say a two to two and a 141 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 3: half degrees centigrade, maybe three degrees centigrade in the very 142 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 3: highest scenarios that well, actually nobody actually expects. The general 143 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 3: warming that we've experienced, it's somewhere around one point three 144 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 3: degrees centigrade since pre industrial times. Has coincided with four 145 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 3: pretty important things. Record record crop yields, exploding, global greening 146 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 3: fourteen percent more greenleafery since the nineteen eighties, thank you 147 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 3: CO two. No detectable increase in normalized disaster losses, record 148 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 3: low climate related deaths. They're actually down ninety eight percent 149 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 3: since nineteen twenties. But the new Energy Institute Statistical Review, 150 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 3: which is data through twenty twenty four, is brutal for 151 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 3: this stupid narrative. Global energy demand hit another all time high, 152 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 3: fossil fuel consumption hit another record all time high. CO 153 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 3: two emissions hit another all time high. Wind and solar 154 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 3: grew by a record amoun and still only supplies maybe 155 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 3: if we're lucky, six percent of primary energy. The transition, 156 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 3: in other words, is not displacing fossil fuels. It's just 157 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 3: adding on top to meet all of the world's demand 158 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 3: for cheap, reliable energy. The EI Statistical reviews the Global 159 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 3: Energy Scoreboard, published annually since nineteen fifty two. It's now 160 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 3: it's third year. EI is a pro net zero professional body. 161 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 3: It's not a skeptical shop which makes their own framing. 162 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 3: This year specially revealing, they described today's world as a 163 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:27,359 Speaker 3: period of energy edition, where renewables grow fast but alongside 164 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 3: alongside record hiz in coal, oil and gas. I think 165 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 3: this is to go back to the first down. I 166 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 3: think that this is why we are reaching this tipping 167 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 3: point and the climate catastrophe, yelling and screaming and hollering 168 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 3: that oh my gosh, there's going to be the end 169 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 3: of civilization. And I truly believe that. With the advent 170 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,719 Speaker 3: of the data centers for artificial intelligence, I think with 171 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 3: the realization that oh we've increased by one point three 172 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 3: degrees c integrate and the world hasn't come to an end 173 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 3: and we've actually seen some benefits of this. I think 174 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 3: that's why people like Bill Gates suddenly start to back off. 175 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 3: Now the al Gores of the world without back off 176 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 3: because al Gore, that's how he makes his living. 177 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 2: He makes his living off the fear mungere. 178 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 3: He makes his living off making sure that you're scared 179 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 3: and that all of the useful idiots that follow of 180 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 3: people like al Gore are all screaming and crying and 181 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 3: they got climate anxiety and everything else because they believe 182 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 3: that if we don't change our ways, that somehow we 183 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 3: as humans have the capacity to destroy the planet. Kind 184 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 3: of like, oh, what's her name? Who wasn't Lady Gaga? 185 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 2: Who was this? Said? 186 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 3: I have sometimes I have thought long and hard sometimes 187 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 3: about blowing up the White House. Well, I have thought 188 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 3: long and hard about what if we had a hermonuclear 189 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 3: war and the war or was just inundated with radiation 190 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 3: over time, Now you and I might not survive it, 191 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 3: but over time the planet would start to evolve back again, 192 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 3: because physics and the natural order of nature tells us 193 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 3: that it will. Have you ever seen the videos where 194 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 3: they show what it's like. They'll take a city like 195 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 3: New York City and then they will use, you know, 196 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 3: a video to show you that if New York City, 197 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 3: if if Lower Manhattan were abandoned, how quickly the weeds 198 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 3: and the trees and animals and plant life would just 199 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:47,319 Speaker 3: take over everything. Yeah, because that's what nature does. We 200 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 3: come in and you know, we we build a parking lot, 201 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 3: or we build a building like this, you know this 202 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 3: where the studio is located, and so we push that 203 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 3: to the side, and we've got green belts and everything else. 204 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 3: But we have it all around there. And if we 205 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 3: were just suddenly just to abandon this building, and it 206 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 3: would I could make a joke about if we'd abandoned 207 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 3: the building, that the maintenance would start to deteriorate and 208 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 3: the toilets wouldn't work, or something might not work in 209 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 3: the studio. 210 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 2: But have we abandoned the buildings? Some would say we 211 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 2: already have? 212 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Okay, I was just curious because I just 213 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 3: I just jumped during the break to go to the 214 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 3: bathroom and take a leak. And we need to put 215 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 3: a marker on that one urinal days broken. I know 216 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 3: we're already like days and days and days into it, 217 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 3: but we ought to start counting how many times. 218 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 4: I'm starting to get a little worried about that one 219 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 4: urinal two because the water has evaporated from it, so 220 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 4: pretty soon we're going to get some of that sewer smell. 221 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: Unless you know, pour like a glass of water. 222 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 4: Great, Yeah, it's been broken for so long that the 223 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 4: water has evaporated from the urinal. That's your day's thing, 224 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 4: doesn't doesn't matter anymore. 225 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 2: That's try today's thing does no matter anymore. 226 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 3: So, But if this building were abandoned, eventually, know the 227 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 3: green areas all around us, you know, the trees and 228 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 3: the weeds and everything would start going up. Any crack 229 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 3: out in the asphalt in the parking lot, that would 230 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 3: start to grow weeds, and pretty soon it would be overtaken. 231 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 3: I think the same thing would happen. We're not going 232 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 3: to change mother Nature. We're not going to destroy mother Nature. 233 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 2: We're not going to destroy the physics of nature. 234 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 3: We're not going to destroy the physics of how the 235 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 3: planets revolve around the sun. 236 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 2: We're not going to do that. 237 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 3: And then you think about the countries that went full 238 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 3: bore in Germany, I'm looking at you in particular, but 239 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 3: others too, the April twenty eight, twenty twenty five Iberian 240 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 3: Peninsula blackout, remember that Spain and Portugal that was Europe's 241 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 3: poster child for renewable leadership. Despitely more than half wind 242 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 3: and solar and electricity on good days, and they suffered 243 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 3: the Europe's largest blackout in decades. Wasn't a storm, There 244 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 3: wasn't he waiting, no clber attack, just too much intermittent 245 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 3: generation and not enough inertia and grit. Operators lost control 246 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 3: in seconds, millions in the dark, airport shot, hospitals and generators, 247 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 3: train stop. 248 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 2: It was fascinating. 249 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 3: You know, I've seen what it's like in major cities 250 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 3: when there's blackouts. Were you in New York in the 251 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 3: last blackout? Were you in the Orleans during Katrina? No 252 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 3: power whatsoever, none at all, and society begins to fall apart. 253 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 3: It's time that we recognize, and in Colorado in particular, 254 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 3: I want us to move beyond this. I don't want 255 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 3: an all electric home, and I don't want my electricity 256 00:16:53,680 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 3: to come from someplace other than reliable, dependable natural gas 257 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 3: or coal. I don't want it to come from wind 258 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 3: or solar. It's not reliable, it's not dependable, it's not 259 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 3: going to always be on. And I quite frankly like 260 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 3: to go over and turn a light switch on and 261 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 3: know that, oh, it's going to turn the lights on. 262 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 3: I like to know that when I get up in 263 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 3: the morning and shower to come into work, that the 264 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 3: water heater downstairs, not the hot water heater that bugs me, 265 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 3: the water heater downstairs, that that pilot light's going to 266 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 3: come on when I start trying to draw hot water 267 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 3: out of the water heater. 268 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 2: I think we've deserved that. I think we've earned that. 269 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 3: And for politicians like Jared Polis and the Democrats of 270 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 3: the Colorado polit Bureau and the unelected bureaucrats of the 271 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 3: Public Utilities Commission to start demanding that we just electrify 272 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 3: everything without having a reliable, dependable source to create that 273 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 3: electricity is utter insanity. It's it's truly insanity. And at 274 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,719 Speaker 3: some point I think we are I think we're beginning 275 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 3: to recognize that. 276 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 5: I just got my iHeart rewind statistics. I guess I've 277 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:15,120 Speaker 5: left nine hundred and twenty seven talkbacks, and my most 278 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 5: favorite show is The Situation with Michael Brown. How could 279 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 5: that be weird? 280 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 2: We evenipulate the algorithm. It's as simple as that we 281 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 2: control the horizontal, we control the vertical. That's right, What 282 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 2: a great catch. We control the horizontal, we control the vertical. 283 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 3: I grew up and the reason I spend a lot 284 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 3: of time talking about energy is because I grew up 285 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 3: in oil and gas country. I practiced oil and gas. 286 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 2: Law for a while. 287 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:56,719 Speaker 3: We were very fortunate to own property that had mineral rights, 288 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 3: and so the family benefited from oil and gas production. 289 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 3: And I grew up an era where you were taught 290 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 3: basic economics in high school, and you were also taught 291 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 3: by your physics teachers and others about how energy was 292 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 3: at the core of everything that makes modern life possible, 293 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 3: and the energy that's required to make everything in modern 294 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 3: life possible has to be dependable and reliable. It can't be. 295 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 3: And do we have any today? Yeah, okay, well we 296 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 3: can't make any widgets today. Or you're in the middle 297 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 3: of manufacturing your widget and suddenly the voltage or the 298 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 3: wattage or whatever it is, because I don't understand that 299 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 3: part just begins to drop off, and now you can't 300 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 3: properly manufacture your widget. During this marathon cabinet meeting, many 301 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 3: of which Trump loves to hold, which I think are fantastic, 302 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 3: you know, I think can may I had a footnote 303 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 3: here for just a moment, thank you. I know these 304 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 3: cabinet meetings are primarily pr meetings. I don't have a 305 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 3: problem with that, because compared to the previous four years, 306 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 3: wouldn't you rather see them talking about what they're doing, 307 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 3: telling Trump about how great he is. Whether you believe 308 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 3: that or not, I don't care, but at least they're 309 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 3: on record of here are our priorities, here's what we're 310 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 3: focused on. And if they happen to add in and 311 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 3: by the way, thank you, mister President for allowing us 312 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 3: to do blah blah blah blah blah, then. 313 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 2: So be it. 314 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 3: Who gives a rats ass? So what if I were to, 315 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 3: uh once today I would never do. But what if 316 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 3: I were to once today say, you know, Dragon, thank 317 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 3: you for being such a great producer, or thank you, 318 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,360 Speaker 3: iHeart management for giving me this opportunity. 319 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 2: I was sick, right, Yeah, this is that's that's weird. Yeah, 320 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 2: that would that. 321 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 3: Would make you like call the people and put me 322 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 3: in the drag straight jacket exactly. Okay, yeah, Now the 323 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 3: people down the hallway, managements, you know, the suits down 324 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,880 Speaker 3: the hallway. Have you ever seen the tepper wear a suit? 325 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 3: Speaking suits? I don't think I've ever seen any of 326 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 3: our so called managers. 327 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 4: In a suit CBA stuff. I think they were they 328 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,199 Speaker 4: were dressed more nicely. And I'm not sure if he 329 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 4: I really didn't because because Tapper's got. 330 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 2: Like this hippie kind of vibe to him. I'm just 331 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 2: thinking you just said, well, they dressed more nicely. Yeah, 332 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 2: it's just accurate. Okay, whatever. 333 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 4: They dressed nice or not, that's for sure right now. 334 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 4: Well we're on there, we don't care exactly. So yeah, 335 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 4: seeing them at like the CBA's, yeah, they were there. 336 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 4: I think there was a jacket worn. Okay. I think 337 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 4: Jojo had a tie on, a. 338 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 2: Clip on Tyke. I really don't know, huh. 339 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 3: Anyway, So if I were to come in here and 340 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 3: kiss their butts every day, you'd think that I was 341 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 3: nuts well every time. But if we had, if we 342 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 3: had our management meetings on air, of course I guess 343 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 3: their butts. And quite frankly, if you're sitting in the 344 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 3: cabinet room with the president and you're talking about the 345 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 3: priorities you went the president to know that you appreciate 346 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 3: the opportunity to go implement those priorities because you actually 347 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 3: believe in as agenda. But I just I saw a 348 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,719 Speaker 3: bunch of editorial cartoons, a bunch of other stuff. They 349 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 3: were just like Oh, this is just this is disgusting. 350 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 3: And I'm like, well, you don't live in the real world, 351 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 3: and you don't live in that world either. You've never 352 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 3: been there, have you ever? Have you ever been in 353 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 3: a cabinet meeting? Well, guess what I have and you haven't. 354 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 3: So there Anyway, during this last meeting, the Energy Secretary 355 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 3: Chris Wright heys, I'm a fanboyd DI admit it, he 356 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 3: made when he told Trump this quote, The biggest determinant 357 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 3: of the price of energy is politicians, political leaders, and policies. 358 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 3: That's what drives energy prices. Now he's right about that, 359 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 3: and it is why the back and forth struggle over 360 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 3: federal energy and climate policy plays such a key role 361 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 3: in our economy. In fact, I think it's an oversized role. 362 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 3: Just ten months into Trump two point zero, his policies 363 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 3: are already having a profound impact both here and abroad. 364 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 2: With when you've got. 365 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 3: This rapid expansion of AI data centers over the past year. 366 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,439 Speaker 3: Being blamed for a lot of people for driving up 367 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 3: electric cost power bills, Well, guess what, they were skyrocketing 368 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 3: long before that big tech boom even began, driven in 369 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 3: large part by the policies of the Obama and Bid 370 00:23:55,560 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 3: administration that were designed specifically to regulate and suze an 371 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 3: energy transition into reality. And as I pointed out in 372 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 3: the past, driving up the costs of all forms of 373 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 3: energy to try to encourage conservation is a primary objective 374 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 3: of the climate alarm driven transition, and that part of 375 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 3: the green agenda has been highly effective increasing the costs. 376 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 3: Why would they want to do that, because one it 377 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 3: gives them control, and two, at some point you give 378 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 3: up and say, okay, I'll put a windmill of my backyard. Okay, 379 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 3: I'll put solar panels on. But you got to subsidize them. 380 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 3: And then they fund their friends that have solar panel 381 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 3: companies or solar panel manufacturers, and then they get the 382 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 3: benefit of the subsidies. So it's a win win for 383 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 3: all of them. Accept it to loss loss for US. 384 00:24:55,320 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 3: So Trump right, and people like Interior Secretary Doug Bergham, 385 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 3: and of course EPI can't forget EPA administrator Liezel. I'm 386 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 3: a fanboy of him too. They have moved more aggressively 387 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 3: throughout twenty twenty five to repeal much of that onerous 388 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 3: regulatory burden, and the Republican Congressional majorities succeeded in phasing 389 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 3: out Biden's costly green energy subsidies as part of the 390 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 3: One Big Beautiful Bill. So as the federal regulatory structure 391 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 3: begins to ease off and the subsidy costs begin to diminish, 392 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 3: it is perfectly reasonable for you and me to expect 393 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 3: a gradual easing of electricity and other energy prices. But 394 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 3: probably in a place like Colorado is while the overall 395 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,959 Speaker 3: prices ought to be receiving and kind of easing up 396 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 3: a little bit, dufases like Jared Polis and the useful 397 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 3: idiots that kiss his butt out of the Colorado polit 398 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 3: Bureau are doing just the opposite, absolutely the opposite. Climate 399 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 3: focused conflict groups which rely on public fears to drive 400 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:12,120 Speaker 3: donations are falling on hard time. Even The New York 401 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 3: Times reports that the Sierra Club has lost sixty percent 402 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 3: of its membership that it had first reported back in 403 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. So you go back to twenty nineteen to today, 404 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 3: the Sierra Club has lost sixty percent of their membership 405 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 3: and the group's management team has fallen into Now they're 406 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 3: infighting among themselves over what their agenda ought to be greenpeace. 407 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 3: They're struggling just to stay afloat no pun intended there. 408 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 3: About Greenpeace, they lost a huge court judgment for defaming 409 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 3: pipeline company Energy Transfer when they were trying to stop 410 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 3: the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Three fifty dot 411 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 3: Org that's another advocacy group founded by Bill mckibbon, a 412 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 3: prominent climate fearmongerer, shut down their operations last month. 413 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 2: Why their funding is disappearing? 414 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 3: That force planned twenty five percent budget cuts for twenty 415 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 3: five and twenty twenty six, so at some point they 416 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 3: just gave up. The fading of the climate fears in 417 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 3: turn caused the environmental social and the ESG management and 418 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 3: all that fad to also fall out of favor, and 419 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 3: that led to athletic companies backtracking on green investments in 420 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 3: climate commitments. In October, two months ago, the Net Zero 421 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 3: Banking Alliance completely disbanded after most of America's big banks 422 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 3: like Goldman, Sachs, JP, Morgan City Group, even well the 423 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 3: Wells Largo, they all chose to drop out of membership. 424 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 3: And now look at the ev industry struggling, dying on 425 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 3: the vine, and now I'll break dragon. I just wanted 426 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 3: to thank you for being such a good producer. 427 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 2: You're welcome. 428 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, any other day that he leaves a talk back, 429 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 3: you mock him, you make fun of him, you laugh 430 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 3: at him, you do everything. But today he satirically leaves 431 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 3: you a compliment, and you're just like, oh, you're just 432 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 3: a goga. 433 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 2: Genuine. 434 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 3: That laugh makes me laugh. It's really good. I told 435 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 3: you that. So we were talking about the EV industry 436 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 3: before I was interrupted by my producer. They're struggling too, 437 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 3: and I don't like to see any business uh die off. 438 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 3: But I don't mind when a business is failing or 439 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 3: not doing well because they're offering a product that is 440 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 3: so heavily subsidized that without it, it wouldn't exist, because 441 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 3: I'm opposed to subsidies. And two that the marketplaces there's. 442 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 2: No demand for it. 443 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 3: So as the Trump White House really begins to repeal 444 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 3: these Biden era auto mileage requirements, Ford is going to 445 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 3: shut down production of its sponted F one fifty Lightning 446 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 3: electric pickup and stillants I e g. They've now canceled 447 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 3: plans to roll out a full size EV truck of 448 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 3: their own. Do you know the EV sales in this 449 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 3: country have collapsed between October and November following the repeal 450 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 3: of Oh here's a good economics lesson, there was a 451 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 3: seventy five hundred dollars per vehicle inflation reduction Act. Now, 452 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 3: how can you have an inflation reduction act that says, hey, driving, 453 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 3: if you go out and buy an EV, we'll make 454 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 3: Michael Brown and all of his listeners subsidize you're a 455 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 3: person of that to the tune of seven five hundred dollars. 456 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 3: And then when it goes away, suddenly people are like, oh, well, 457 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 3: you know what, I'm not sure I want an EV anymore. 458 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 3: So your piety, your absolute arrogance that you wanted to 459 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 3: drive an EV to save the planet. Oh, when it 460 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 3: actually costs you to fake and pretend like you're saving 461 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 3: the planet, then suddenly you don't want to save the 462 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 3: planet anymore. This administration's policy actions have already ended any 463 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 3: new leasing for costly and unneeded offshore wind projects well 464 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 3: and I should specify in federal waters, and has forced 465 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 3: the suspension or at least the abandonment of quite a 466 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 3: few of these projects which we're already moving ahead. But 467 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 3: capital continues to flow into the solar industry even though 468 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 3: that industry's ability to expand is probably going to fade 469 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,959 Speaker 3: once the federal subsidies are fully repealed at the end 470 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 3: of twenty twenty seven. So truly public policy matters when 471 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 3: it comes to energy. It drives corporate decisions, It drives 472 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 3: corporate strategies, it drives capital investments, it drives resource development 473 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 3: and the movement of resources, and ultimately influences the cost 474 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 3: of energy in all of its forms and its products. 475 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 3: So I want you to think about energy this way. 476 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 3: I want you to look at anything anything right now, 477 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 3: a piece of clothing you're wearing, a car you're driving, 478 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 3: a computer you're using, even I'm holding right now, I 479 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 3: took off my microphone, condom, my mic soft even in 480 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 3: every single thing. I want you to look at it differently. 481 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 3: And I once you look at it this way, the 482 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 3: energy involved in the development, the manufacturing, the distribution, the 483 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 3: perch and the use of that product, and then you'll 484 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 3: realize just how important this topic is.