Did You Know Germany Is Running Back To Coal?

The Euros, once proud jumpers off the cliff of "Gorebal Warming," are now sounding a retreat. Germany is among the leaders and Preston discussed it with Craig Rucker, Co-Founder of C-FACT. 

Episode Transcript

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Well, good morning. A littlequieter morning than it was on Friday,
but we do have some severe weathercoming later today. Friends. Welcome Morning
show with Preston Scott. I'm Preston. He's Grant. It's show fifty one
fifty seven, Monday, the thirteenthof May. And please to have with
us from Sea Fact. You're wonderingwhat is Sea Fact Committee for a constructive

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Tomorrow? He's co founder Craig Record. Craig, good morning, Welcome.
How are you, sir? I'mdoing great, Thanks for having me on
my pleasure, Thanks for the earlyour visit. Obviously, the entire transformation
of this country that Barack Obama promisedis happening under Joe Biden. We are

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committing energy suicide. And and yetthere are developments happening abroad where it seems
as though some are waking up tothe nonsense. Or are they? I
mean, how how much in thein the grip of climate fraud are we
in worldwide? Oh my goodness,Yeah, I think there's a lot of

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buyers read morse. Many people aren'taware. But while Biden has made climate
and he said this on day onethat he came in, not his number
two or three priority. It's hisnumber one, probably at two three priority.
Altogether, there are parts of theworld that have actually jumped out ahead
of us, and one of themis in Europe. Germany in particular has

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been making news. There's a programit undertook called Energy Agenda that dates back
to the early two thousands, backin the Merkel administration, and what they
try to do is get rid ofall of their first and foremost their coal
and fossil fuel plans. And thenafter the whole ful Kashima incident, Japan

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even got rid of its nuclear plantsand went all spin, you know,
push to go solar and wind entirely, almost And what wound up happening is
that they were not getting enough electricityand they were experiencing blackouts. The Brandenburg
Gate was going dark. They hadto do energy austerity to the point that

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even more recently a you're a memberof the Mundes dog actually said they may
have to can weekend trips first residencebecause they just did not have the electricity
they needed. So what they didis they opened up their lignite plants,
and even right along they've been importingtremendous sums from outside of the country.

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While it's true they weren't eating coalor gas like a lot of countries that
go solar and wind had to importit and where they get it from Putin's
Russia. And even when they jumpedback on nuclear, they wound up getting
in a lot of their electricity fromFrance, which is over seventy percent nuclear,
so a lot of hipocrips. Butyou see at other places. Just
this weekend, polls were out inmass going against their Green New Deal.

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France has done a step back.You had McCrone saying that they would get
with a nuclear power, but infact now they're going right back to it.
So you know, really what we'reembarking down into the bide administration has
not worked anywhere in the world.Writers is reporting that Germany is in fact
going to refire their coal plants.Is their truth to that. Absolutely,

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they got a lot of coal abilityand their lignite plants are being brought back
online. I think they had somethinglike seven gigawats they had to fire up
the year before this, and nowthey're moving up to over nine gigawatts.
Is again, they went way overboardon renewable energy. Plus their electricity rates

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have gone through the roof in theUnited States were used to accustomed to paint
about ten twelve cents to kill awatt hour as a consumer, Germany staying
about thirty five cents of quila waitehour, And really their experience is reflective
of other countries that go solar windand try to do what they called net
zero, which just so happens tobe what our Biden administration wants to do.

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co founder Craig record with us.Craig, I've observed on TV that the
automobile manufacturers, and I want tofocus on the German juggernaut known as Mercedes
bands. They made a big dealthey were going to be all electric by
the year twenty thirty twenty thirty five. Perhaps now they have gone the dead
opposite. They have announced that they'regoing to be producing gas powered engines indefinitely.

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Is there Finally some awakening happening tosome that have tried to jump on
board with this. Absolutely, andit's universal again globally. You've had a
number of companies, even in theUnited States, commit to going all electric
by twenty I think it's thirty five, and the Biden administration was touting that

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out not long ago. Mercedes ofcourse did that again. Europe is before
the United States. But what you'refighting is they're not moving them off the
lot. In fact, there isa bunch of used car dealers and car
dealerships around the country that actually saidthe letter to Biden recently saying that Nope,
that's not happening, and taking thisbig step backwards of them are digging

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their heels in and continuing to tryto push them. We were at a
resolution meeting of the shareholders afford ourcompany actually had shareholders there just to chime
in and try to keep them fromgoing to woke. But the chairman there
has actually announced on Thursday they're stillcommitted to it. And I think the
reason for that is not the sales, not that Americans are accepting them,
are buying them because they have seriouslimitations and for a lot of motorists,

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not for everybody. They may proveto be okay for some, but for
others, you know, the limitedrange and expensive trying to get one is
just too much. But I thinkit all comes down to subsidies. There's
a lot of money in it,and I think they're making money if they
stay on the lot in a lotof cases, whether or not they're sold.

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And so long as the subsidies arethere, and you know, the
government finds it a priority to pushthem, I think these car companies in
the United States in particular will continueto abide by trying to push them.
And once the subsidise go, Ihave a feeling that that's going to be
it for the electric vehicle as amajor use of by American motorists. Craig,

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let's go big picture in the timeremaining here. Obviously we're seeing the
result of ping pong executive orders frompresidents that's not practical for any long term
strategy. Let's assume that Congress somehowmiraculously gets a group of senators and congressmen

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in that understand the importance of anenergy policy and setting in motion a series
of laws that protect the energy sectorof this country. Is it too late.
Can we resurrect clean coal? Canwe resurrect oil and natural gas in
this country? Well? In thatI guess we could leave people on an

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optimistic note. As we started talkingabout Germany, Germany's going back to firing
up its goal fired units. Wesaw that a few years ago. Even
in California, which has really beenaggressively pushing renewable energy. When blackouts started
happening, even Tavin Newsom started firingup it's plank, California's remaining plants.

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I think the danger comes in ifwe got it too much. But at
the moment, I think we certainlyhave room to backpedal. And it's been
encouraging to see even blue states andeven what I would call blue countries I
guess fairly liberal countries are abandoning theirefforts once they see that the lights don't
stay on and the expenses rise,and people start marching in the streets as

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they did in Polland this week,and farmers have been doing, and Brussels
and then throughout France and Germany.I think when you see that sort of
pushback coming from the from the people, then I think there it's not too
late, and I think Congress willrespond, but you know, elections have
consequences. We have two candidates comingup, and one is quite pro energy

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and as a record, in fact, we have first president since Truman that
we actually had net energy exports goingon and the natural gas and oil and
gas field. So, you know, I think that that's going to be
up to the people. But we'vegot to get Congress because otherwise we're just
back and forth on executive orders.Don't you think we've got to get something
in law done that cannot be erasedby an executive order. I do.

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I agree with that, and Ithink the biggest thing that they can do
is just repeal and let the markethandle these things. It always has in
the past quite well. Typically whenCongress starts directing things like we want a
certain number of ds by twenty thirtyfive, or we're going to produce a
certain or renewable energy portfolio where thismuch energy must be made by solar or

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win, that's where we're messing up. When the government kind of just rolls
those things back and allows you know, the en a free enterprise system to
do its work. I think that, you know, not that they're going
to be a trouble free world.But that's a lot better for everybody than
it is when government actually starts meddlingin these things. Thanks Craig for the
time this morning. I appreciate itvery much. Thank you. Thanks for

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being on your program. Appreciate it. Craig Rucker, co founder of Committee
for a Constructive Tomorrow, really wellrespected inside the Beltway, which is unusual
given the causes that it stands for, which are for the good guys,
Greig Rucker, our guest, seventeenpast the hour,