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Speaker 1 (00:00):
O Brownie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I think I have a real smart bud too.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
My wife keeps telling me I'm a smart ass.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
See yep. Forbes magazine posted it on YouTube and it's
about five minutes long. I don't have much of it
all play, but here's their headline. Trump goes on sudden
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tirade against windmills during meeting with EU President Ursula vonderly.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Really huh, we will not allow a windmill to be
built in the United States.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
They're killing as they're killing the beauty.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful planes.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And I'm not talking about airplanes.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm talking about beautiful planes, beautiful areas in the United States.
And you look up then you see windmills all over
the place.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's a horrible thing. It's the most expensive form of energy.
It's no good.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
They're made in China, almost all of them. When they
start to rust and rod in eight years, you can't
really turn them off. You can't bear them.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They won't let you bury the propellers, you know, the props,
because there.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Are a certain type of fiber that doesn't go well
with the land.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's what they say, the environmental iss say, you can't
bury them.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Because the fiber doesn't go well with the land. In
other words, if you bury it, it will harm our soil.
The whole thing is a conjob. It's very expensive and
in all fairness, Germany tried it and wind doesn't work.
You need subsidy for wind and energy should.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Not need sepsy. With energy, you make money, you don't
lose money. But more important than that is it ruins
the landscape. It kills the birds. They're noisy.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You know, you have a certain place in the Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Area that over the last twenty years had one or.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Two whales Washingshaw and over the last short period of
time they at eighteen.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Okay, because it's driving them local, driving them crazy. Now
windmills will not come. It's not going to happen in
the United States. And it's very expensive.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And I would love to say I mean today I'm
playing the best course.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think in the world, Turnbury.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Even though I own it, it's probably the best course
in the world. Right, I look over the horizon and
I see nine windmills. Like great, at the end of
the eight I said, isn't that a shame? What a shame?
You have the same thing all over Europe in particular.
You have windmills all over the place. Some of the
countries are prohibited. But people ought to know that these
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windmills are very destructive. They're environmentally unsound, just the exact opposite,
because the environmentals they're not really environmentalists, they're political hacks.
These are people that they almost want to harm the country.
But you look at these beautiful landscapes over all over
the you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Know, the world.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Many countries have gotten smart. They will not allow it.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
They will not It's the worst form of energy, the
most expensive form of energy. But windmill should not be allowed. Okay,
all right, that's good enough.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Trump's right.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Shall we play that clip from Landman again on the windmills?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Do you have the cleaned up version of it? I do.
It's gonna take me a second to find it. Okay.
One Mississippi too, all right? So where is it? Shut up?
One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi and in the United Kingdom.
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I love I love that. If you've not seen that,
do we have that up in the website anywhere?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, it was posted a couple of days. I'll find
it again and post it on Today's Michael says, it's
just so good.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
And she's and the and the the lawyer is such
a twip and he just hands it to her so good. Well,
back to Trump in the United Kingdom. Trump is I
think majority see him as a know nothing that just
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speaks off the top of his head on subjects that
he has no clue about, and no one is keener
in trying to point that out than the BBC. Yet
not for the first time, as we're beginning to learn,
it turns out that Trump really is a bit more
on the ball than probably even the critics. I love
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that part where you know, after the game at Turnberry
he talks about, you know, is probably the best course
in the world, because you know, I own that. But
then I look over the horizon and I see nine
windmills at the end of the eighteenth and I think,
isn't that a shame? That statement was enough to provoke
the BBC into providing what they call, you know, we
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call them fact checks here they call them explainers. The
environmental correspondent for the BBC, the Scottish environmental correspondent for
the BBC, a Yahoo but the name of Kevin Keene,
was especially excited by Trump's comments, suggesting that Britain, get
rid of the windmills and bring back the oil now,
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protesting somewhat pedantically, I think, uh that there are no quote,
wind mills in the sea off Britain. There are not
wind mills, but this environmental correspondent points out that there
are wind turbines which generate electricity, but they don't milk corn.
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Really tomato tomato wind mill, wind turbine exactly. I think
we all know what he was talking about, including you.
Speaking of twits, you're the twit of the day right there.
And then he goes on to assert the BBC, the
environmental correspondent, he goes on to assert that it is
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not possible to bring back the oil because the North
Sea oil is running out and it's going to decline
even were it not for the UK government's refusal to
issue licenses for oil and gas extraction there. Maybe that's
the problem, but he didn't want to address that. There
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are in fact several oil and gas companies which want
to invest in new exploration in the North Sea, but
the government, the UK government has made that nearly impossible
for them. So not only has the search for new
oil and gas fields been effectively banned, but the companies
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that are exploiting established fields are now subject to and
they've heard it before, a windfall tax increases their effective
levies on their operations to over eighty percent. So the
taxes on those pre existing wind when those pre existing
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offshore platforms that are producing oil and gas are now
subject to all the other taxes. Don't forget. This is
not just a new I mean it is a new tax,
but it's in addition to all the other taxes. They're
now subject to an eighty percent windfall tax on it
that was introduced by the previous government in twenty twenty two.
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When I suppose you could make an argument that there
really were windfalls being made because of the high global
prices following the end of the pandemic, and of course
then you have the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Yet
that tax, like every other tax, lives on in perpetuity.
It hasn't gone away. There's no longer a windfall. And
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even if there was a windfall, So what, oh, you
made too much money that that's a windfall tax. You
made more money than we want you to make. You
made what we think are excess profits. Can you tell
me what an excess profit is a Profit's a profit's
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a profit, whether that's you know, you know you're operating
on a zero point one percent margin and you're operating
on a twenty percent margin, whateverever, Your margin is your
your profit is your profit. Who's the government to determine
that something is excessive? But then the BBC also ignores
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the potential. There's a huge potential, you know what it's
done for this country. There's a huge potential in the
United Kingdom for shale gas. That's a putative industry which
has since been banned by the President and the previous
governments in the In the United Kingdom, various estimates have
put the amount of shelle gas available beneath the soil
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in the United Kingdom to be the equivalent of somewhere
between ten and fifty years of current usage. Now, that
would be a growing industry in which it would create jobs,
and not just jobs in terms of, you know, doing
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the drilling for the shale gas, but all of the
peripheral benefits of that. You'd have other industries spring up.
You would have you know, more restaurants, more hotels, more
cars being bought, more you know, more petro as they
call it more petro being purchased, you'd have all those
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additional benefits, but they're not going to do it because
they're not going to allow the shale oil to be drilled,
according to the BBC Emphasize. According to BBC, Britain's energy
sector needs wind to replace the jobs which are being
lost in oil and gas. Well, there's a problem with that.
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It overlooks two problems with the United Kingdom's wind industry. First,
it's been pretty lousy at creating jobs. According to the
International Renewable Energy Agency, the United Kingdom has a zero
point three percent of global jobs in renewable energy, yet
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zero point three percent of global jobs and renewables. Yet
it has one percent of the Earth's population and has
set itself tougher net zero targets than all but a
handful of other countries. So why hasn't it landed more jobs.
If you are pushing and have tougher net zero goals,
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you've got one percent of the earth population but you
only have zero point three percent of global jobs in
renewable energy, then you're doing something wrong. Now, I'll tell
you what one of the factors is is that Britain
has the highest industrial energy prices in the entire world,
and why because of net zero targets, carbon levies, all
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of those things that go into trying to create a
net zero economy, net zero carbon economy. Looks over my shoulder,
looks at Jared Polus and says, did you hear that? Hey, bucco,
did you hear that? That's what you're pushing for in
this state? And what the way that Britain goes is
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exactly the way Colorado would go. But you don't care.
In fact, I think that's what you want. It's it's
just so much cheaper to produce wind turbines and all
other manufactured goods, whatever it might be. In China, where
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sixty percent of electricity generation still comes from huh. Now,
they're the leading producer of wind turbines and solar panels
all other crap. Yet sixty of the electricity generation in
China comes from coal, Yes, from coal. Now, there's another
reason that Briton's so screwed up. It does not have
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the grid infrastructure to support the large number of turbines
which have been built in and around Scotland in recent years.
So when the wind's blowing as it tends to do
off the North Sea, they switch off the wind turbines
because the transmission wires can't cope with that additional electricity.
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So when that happens, guess what happens to the owners
of the wind farms. They get compensation in the form
is what's known as constraint payments. You know, we in fact,
we may still do this. I'd have to check with
a farmer or rancher, but we used to pay farmers
and ranchers not to grow certain crops. Well, they've taken
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that to the energy industry and now they pay constraint
payments and they pay those energy companies not to produce
any energy from the wind turbines because the grid can't
handle it. That cost the consumers in the United Kingdom
two billion dollars last year billions. So whatever their costs
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of energy energy is add to that two billion dollars,
two billion dollars For you, what did you get for
two billion dollars? Think about that, You paid an additional
rate that generated two billion dollars that went to the
wind turbine companies. And what did you get? Did you
get some extra innery, did you get a reduced killa?
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What rate per hour. That no, you got less energy.
You paid more and got less. Wow, that sounds like
a great government program. The wind farms that Trump feels
are spoiling the views from his Scottish golf courses, well, yal,
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they are unsightly. I think the wind turbines that I
see all over Colorado are unsightly. But they're also costing
consumers in the United Kingdom of fortune, and the United
Kingdom is actually struggling to keep the lights on. So
all of this stuff about oh my gosh, you know,
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the comments to that video or are freaking hilarious because
it shows just what useful idiots are in this country.
The windmills are eating the dogs playoff on his statement
about you know, the Somalis or whoever it was, we're
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eating the dogs. They also claim that Donald Trump's one
of his golf courses, had to pay the Scottish government's
legal costs following a court battle over a major north
Sea wind power development. Yes, he objected, he fought to
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try to stop the development. He lost, So yes, he
had to pay legal fees. Do you really think that's
the reason. It may be a part of the reason.
I'd be pissed off about that. But is that the
whole reason? No, of course not. Then someone says he
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says that Trump says, quote, we will not allow a
windmill to be built in the United States, to which
they respond, oh, just look around the state of Iowa
alone and look at all the windmills there. So we
do have windmills. He didn't say that we don't have
wind turbines in this country, just that we're not going
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to allow any more to be built. And then this
Trump's ignorance knows no bounds. Tell me what he said
that there's false? Tell me or tell me what I
just said about the costs of energy in the ninety Kingdom.
What's false about that?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And it's just Trump.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
They just don't like Trump.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Hey, Michael, I know this is off topic, but in
regards to eating the dogs, I took a trip down
to Springfield to that park to observe for myself. And
let me tell you, they're eating the dogs, for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
They're eating the dogs. That's never going to go away,
is it. They're eating the dogs on my tombstone. He
ate the dogs. So I want to finish up on
the wind stuff. This guy, don't I don't know who
this guy's name is but he is an employee of
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neng Offshore Wind and in response to the wind turbines
that are off the in the North Sea that he's
so that clearly he's biased, right because this is his company,
or at least it's a company he works for. He
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in this propaganda clip, he says the following.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
It's magnificent to see the feat of engineering that this
represents as a demonstration of the enormous and bright energy
future that Scoffland has. And it's great to see so
much of a renewbal activity happening here in Scofflin today.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's a feat of engineering. Okay, well that I'm not
share with all due respect engineers.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
And somebody could say the same thing about the atomic bomb.
It's a feet of engineering, feet of engineering. Exactly use
those on people, please exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Thank you mister Redbeard for pointing out per a perfect example.
So it's the feet of engineering, and it's it's wonderful
to see Scotland doing these things that are just gonna
be it's gonna make Scotland the leader in this in
this new energy field. Stationary wind turbines like he's talking
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about when they do spend as I told you in
the last segment, when when it gets I mean, you've
surely seen a movie of the North Sea when the
storms are blowing through. You know, whether it's you know,
an old movie from the you know, not an old
movie from but an old movie about you know, ships
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sailing the North Sea in the seventeen hundreds and they're
being you know, just whipt solid everywhere, or you know
it's you know, a modern version and you know, people
are getting sick on the cruise ship because it's horrible,
it's bouncing around everywhere. Well, we know the storms blow through,
and when the storms blow through, they shut down the
wind turbines because the infrastructure, the transmission lines can't handle
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the power being generated. So I guess there's a window
of opportunity. The wind has to be between I don't know,
ten knots and fifteen knots, and as long as it's
within that you know, small window, well then we can
let the wind turbines turbine. Otherwise we gotta take the
key and turn them off. Stationary wind turbines, when they
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do spin, produce electricity at a cost of one hundred
and sixty three pounds per megawatt hour. That is double,
that is twice the current wholesale price. That is just
exactly how stupid this whole idea is, now imagine because
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those costs cannot be defrayed across all Great Britain bill
payers and in fact all bill payers through the constraint payments,
are paying two billion dollars a year for something that
they're not getting. They're not getting any electricity because their
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infrastructure can't can't handle it. So let's go to Australia.
I mean still you know, formerly part of the British Empire.
I mean, I guess technically still part of the British Empire.
And let's see what they have to say in terms
of hmm, here's a so called whistleblower that points out
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exactly what when turbines need in order to work.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Alex and I used to work for the federal government.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
I mean for seven years doing what I was policy
advisor for a Liberal Party senator.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Okay, and tell you saying about your working with the windmills.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Yeah, So the area that I was working in was
renewable energy, and basically it was my job to uncover
a lot of the stuff that was going on with
the Renewable Energy AT which was put in in two
thousand and two under the Howard government. So that was
the Liberal Party put the Act in place, and I
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was looking at the mess that it had created. And
what a lot of people don't understand is that the
Renewable Energy AT creates a subsidy environment where if you
build wind turbines you're paid between six hundred thousand and
nine hundred thousand per turbine per year as a subsidy
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per year, six.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Hundred to nine hundred thousand dollars. Can we just a
half a million to a million Australian dollars per year
per year in subsidiesane.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Well, if it's on your property, no, So.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
What happens is the wind company comes in and leases.
They pay a lease to the farmer to build the
wind turbines, and that in effect make sure that the
farmer is still liable for the turbine, okay, And they
pay a lease of twelve thousand dollars a year usually
and the company gets paid between six hundred and nine
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hundred thousand per turbine per year. So they pay twelve
thousand to the farmer, but they get six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Exactly per turbine. Yeah, which is a being incentive to
put in turbines.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Yeah, and the land owner takes the takes the liability
for the turbine.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
So he gets twelve thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
But if anything anything happens.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
He's got to fix it or she's got to fix it.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
When they kept on fire, they're responsible for their neighbors
properties going up in smoke, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
And effectively that money, the subsidy that's getting paid to
the wind farms is raiming forty billion dollars a year
out of the Australian economy. And it's paid by everyone,
every pensioner, householder, schools, hospitals, everyone. It's not just out
of a tax. It comes out of your power bill.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's why power bills are going up.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Yeah, that's why power power bills are going up to
pay for wind turbines that don't work exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And why don't they work?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
So they don't work because, for a start, they draw
power off the grid, so they have to have coal
fired power in order to turn.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Then to catch that, so in order to turn, they've
got to pull power off the grid, so they've got
to have pull fired power to oh operate the wind turbine, well,
that seems prey of like a clusterf not win mills.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
They're turbines and essentially mean the power to turn.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So when we see them turning, that's not the wind,
that's the power generator turning.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Essentially, they have to draw power off the grid. So
they have to draw coal fired power off the grid
in order to turn. And what happens when the wind
picks up They do actually start to create electricity of
their own, but that electricity is so intermissient and unreliable
when it gets back to the grid. It has to
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be balanced on the grid, which you can't do and
with your coal fired power station, you can't ramp your
coal fired power stations up and down, so the coal
fired power station stays at the same level because it
takes twenty four to forty eight hours for them to
get up to heat anyway, and they just let off
steam as the wind comes onto the grid. So there's
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absolutely nothing about them that works apart from reaming that
amount of money out of the Australian economy.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And it's going offshore, so it does work. It works
to pay people that benefit from the subsidy the subsidies
that they get. Concrete is the third largest emitter of
CO two, accounting for four to eight percent of the
world CO two. A typical wind turbine, kind of like
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Billy Bob was telling us, uses five hundred and sixty
six point eight nine tons of concrete. So the production
of one meter of concrete requires two thousand, seven hundred
and seventy five jewels of energy, and most of that
energy comes from oil eighty nine barrels per turbine base.
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So that's what we're paying for. But one last little
point that I want to make, the staggering quantity of
energy and resources required to build a single wind turbine.
I mean, Billy Bob mentioned it, but here are the deeps.
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If you want to think about how you know many
of these environmentalists worship Mother Earth as their god. You
ought to see the raping and pellaging that goes on
in that video. The one thing that I had never
known or even thought about, was you know, you've got
the foundation, and you've got all the concrete for the foundation,
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and I thought the foundation just went down. You know,
maybe I don't I don't know, you know, several hundred
feet or so. But beyond the bottom of the foundation
are all those metal rods that she describes that go
down at different angles, all these intersecting angles down below
the foundation, deep into the earth, in order to just
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stabilize the windmill, which like in the case of the
North Sea, then can't be spun anyway because well they
can't have electricity produced by it. Simply amazing, Mike. I
was on a road trip recently and saw a couple
of the wind turn buying blades on semi trucks. They're
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absolutely massive.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
The amount of energy it takes to move the pieces
just to.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Get them there, it's gotta be incredible.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And think about that. So I've seen them on the
twenty five also, and you've got you got the flag
truck in the back, you got the flag truck in
the front, and they're just like it. It's like trying
to pass a fight train. They're so huge. I shouldn't
pick just on windmills. Let's talk about evs for just
a second. Mattson Inc. Mattson is a major ocean carrier
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in the trans specific trade. They just announced that they
decided to no longer carry electric vehicles or hybrids on
their ships effective immediately. Here's the reason they gave. There
have been three especially severe electric vehicle fires on cargo
ships in just the past three years. The Felicity Ace
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in twenty twenty two, the Fremantle Highway in twenty twenty three,
and most recently, the Morning Minas in twenty twenty five,
each fire destroying thousands of vehicles each, along with much
or all of the vessels. Crew members have been killed
in these fires. Entire ships, along with their cargo, have
been completely lost. Now we know real cars, internal combustion
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engine cars. We know they can burst into flames. Two,
But why Usually because of a collision or arson. They
don't just virtually spontaneously combust on, or they just don't
catch fire because they've been exposed to water, you know,
like they're supposed to storm today. Good luck with your
ev Worse, they write, once an electric car's massive lithium
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battery catches fire, that fire is often impossible to put out.
The vehicles burn for days, consuming not just the car
but everything nearby, from parking garages to the entire cargo ships. Now, obviously,
car needs needs to be water resistant but since evs
are not, they're obviously unsafe in addition to being more expensive,
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less reliable, inefficient, inconvenient to charge, unhealthy, bad for the environment. Well,
to some up think about it, an EV is inferior
in every possible way. You know, when the Democrats are
in a position of power and we're able to do
a centrally planned economy and force choices upon you, kind
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of like Jared Polis does in Colorado elect The cars
were the future, but they aren't the future anymore because
we've recognized the insanity of all this green new energy stuff,
absolute insanity. Now, if only Jared Polis and the Marxist
of the Politburo would recognize the same thing.
O Brownie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I think I have a real smart bud too.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
My wife keeps telling me I'm a smart ass.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
See yep. Forbes magazine posted it on YouTube and it's
about five minutes long. I don't have much of it
all play, but here's their headline. Trump goes on sudden
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tirade against windmills during meeting with EU President Ursula vonderly.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Really huh, we will not allow a windmill to be
built in the United States.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
They're killing as they're killing the beauty.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful planes.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
And I'm not talking about airplanes.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm talking about beautiful planes, beautiful areas in the United States.
And you look up then you see windmills all over
the place.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's a horrible thing. It's the most expensive form of energy.
It's no good.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
They're made in China, almost all of them. When they
start to rust and rod in eight years, you can't
really turn them off. You can't bear them.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
They won't let you bury the propellers, you know, the props,
because there.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Are a certain type of fiber that doesn't go well
with the land.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's what they say, the environmental iss say, you can't
bury them.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Because the fiber doesn't go well with the land. In
other words, if you bury it, it will harm our soil.
The whole thing is a conjob. It's very expensive and
in all fairness, Germany tried it and wind doesn't work.
You need subsidy for wind and energy should.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Not need sepsy. With energy, you make money, you don't
lose money. But more important than that is it ruins
the landscape. It kills the birds. They're noisy.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You know, you have a certain place in the Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Area that over the last twenty years had one or.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Two whales Washingshaw and over the last short period of
time they at eighteen.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Okay, because it's driving them local, driving them crazy. Now
windmills will not come. It's not going to happen in
the United States. And it's very expensive.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And I would love to say I mean today I'm
playing the best course.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I think in the world, Turnbury.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Even though I own it, it's probably the best course
in the world. Right, I look over the horizon and
I see nine windmills. Like great, at the end of
the eight I said, isn't that a shame? What a shame?
You have the same thing all over Europe in particular.
You have windmills all over the place. Some of the
countries are prohibited. But people ought to know that these
(02:42):
windmills are very destructive. They're environmentally unsound, just the exact opposite,
because the environmentals they're not really environmentalists, they're political hacks.
These are people that they almost want to harm the country.
But you look at these beautiful landscapes over all over
the you.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Know, the world.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Many countries have gotten smart. They will not allow it.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
They will not It's the worst form of energy, the
most expensive form of energy. But windmill should not be allowed. Okay,
all right, that's good enough.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Trump's right.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Shall we play that clip from Landman again on the windmills?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Do you have the cleaned up version of it? I do.
It's gonna take me a second to find it. Okay.
One Mississippi too, all right? So where is it? Shut up?
One Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi and in the United Kingdom.
(03:42):
I love I love that. If you've not seen that,
do we have that up in the website anywhere?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, it was posted a couple of days. I'll find
it again and post it on Today's Michael says, it's
just so good.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
And she's and the and the the lawyer is such
a twip and he just hands it to her so good. Well,
back to Trump in the United Kingdom. Trump is I
think majority see him as a know nothing that just
(04:14):
speaks off the top of his head on subjects that
he has no clue about, and no one is keener
in trying to point that out than the BBC. Yet
not for the first time, as we're beginning to learn,
it turns out that Trump really is a bit more
on the ball than probably even the critics. I love
(04:38):
that part where you know, after the game at Turnberry
he talks about, you know, is probably the best course
in the world, because you know, I own that. But
then I look over the horizon and I see nine
windmills at the end of the eighteenth and I think,
isn't that a shame? That statement was enough to provoke
the BBC into providing what they call, you know, we
(05:01):
call them fact checks here they call them explainers. The
environmental correspondent for the BBC, the Scottish environmental correspondent for
the BBC, a Yahoo but the name of Kevin Keene,
was especially excited by Trump's comments, suggesting that Britain, get
rid of the windmills and bring back the oil now,
(05:22):
protesting somewhat pedantically, I think, uh that there are no quote,
wind mills in the sea off Britain. There are not
wind mills, but this environmental correspondent points out that there
are wind turbines which generate electricity, but they don't milk corn.
(05:44):
Really tomato tomato wind mill, wind turbine exactly. I think
we all know what he was talking about, including you.
Speaking of twits, you're the twit of the day right there.
And then he goes on to assert the BBC, the
environmental correspondent, he goes on to assert that it is
(06:07):
not possible to bring back the oil because the North
Sea oil is running out and it's going to decline
even were it not for the UK government's refusal to
issue licenses for oil and gas extraction there. Maybe that's
the problem, but he didn't want to address that. There
(06:29):
are in fact several oil and gas companies which want
to invest in new exploration in the North Sea, but
the government, the UK government has made that nearly impossible
for them. So not only has the search for new
oil and gas fields been effectively banned, but the companies
(06:52):
that are exploiting established fields are now subject to and
they've heard it before, a windfall tax increases their effective
levies on their operations to over eighty percent. So the
taxes on those pre existing wind when those pre existing
(07:15):
offshore platforms that are producing oil and gas are now
subject to all the other taxes. Don't forget. This is
not just a new I mean it is a new tax,
but it's in addition to all the other taxes. They're
now subject to an eighty percent windfall tax on it
that was introduced by the previous government in twenty twenty two.
(07:39):
When I suppose you could make an argument that there
really were windfalls being made because of the high global
prices following the end of the pandemic, and of course
then you have the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Yet
that tax, like every other tax, lives on in perpetuity.
It hasn't gone away. There's no longer a windfall. And
(08:01):
even if there was a windfall, So what, oh, you
made too much money that that's a windfall tax. You
made more money than we want you to make. You
made what we think are excess profits. Can you tell
me what an excess profit is a Profit's a profit's
(08:22):
a profit, whether that's you know, you know you're operating
on a zero point one percent margin and you're operating
on a twenty percent margin, whateverever, Your margin is your
your profit is your profit. Who's the government to determine
that something is excessive? But then the BBC also ignores
(08:42):
the potential. There's a huge potential, you know what it's
done for this country. There's a huge potential in the
United Kingdom for shale gas. That's a putative industry which
has since been banned by the President and the previous
governments in the In the United Kingdom, various estimates have
put the amount of shelle gas available beneath the soil
(09:05):
in the United Kingdom to be the equivalent of somewhere
between ten and fifty years of current usage. Now, that
would be a growing industry in which it would create jobs,
and not just jobs in terms of, you know, doing
(09:26):
the drilling for the shale gas, but all of the
peripheral benefits of that. You'd have other industries spring up.
You would have you know, more restaurants, more hotels, more
cars being bought, more you know, more petro as they
call it more petro being purchased, you'd have all those
(09:49):
additional benefits, but they're not going to do it because
they're not going to allow the shale oil to be drilled,
according to the BBC Emphasize. According to BBC, Britain's energy
sector needs wind to replace the jobs which are being
lost in oil and gas. Well, there's a problem with that.
(10:13):
It overlooks two problems with the United Kingdom's wind industry. First,
it's been pretty lousy at creating jobs. According to the
International Renewable Energy Agency, the United Kingdom has a zero
point three percent of global jobs in renewable energy, yet
(10:36):
zero point three percent of global jobs and renewables. Yet
it has one percent of the Earth's population and has
set itself tougher net zero targets than all but a
handful of other countries. So why hasn't it landed more jobs.
If you are pushing and have tougher net zero goals,
(10:58):
you've got one percent of the earth population but you
only have zero point three percent of global jobs in
renewable energy, then you're doing something wrong. Now, I'll tell
you what one of the factors is is that Britain
has the highest industrial energy prices in the entire world,
and why because of net zero targets, carbon levies, all
(11:19):
of those things that go into trying to create a
net zero economy, net zero carbon economy. Looks over my shoulder,
looks at Jared Polus and says, did you hear that? Hey, bucco,
did you hear that? That's what you're pushing for in
this state? And what the way that Britain goes is
(11:44):
exactly the way Colorado would go. But you don't care.
In fact, I think that's what you want. It's it's
just so much cheaper to produce wind turbines and all
other manufactured goods, whatever it might be. In China, where
(12:04):
sixty percent of electricity generation still comes from huh. Now,
they're the leading producer of wind turbines and solar panels
all other crap. Yet sixty of the electricity generation in
China comes from coal, Yes, from coal. Now, there's another
reason that Briton's so screwed up. It does not have
(12:29):
the grid infrastructure to support the large number of turbines
which have been built in and around Scotland in recent years.
So when the wind's blowing as it tends to do
off the North Sea, they switch off the wind turbines
because the transmission wires can't cope with that additional electricity.
(12:52):
So when that happens, guess what happens to the owners
of the wind farms. They get compensation in the form
is what's known as constraint payments. You know, we in fact,
we may still do this. I'd have to check with
a farmer or rancher, but we used to pay farmers
and ranchers not to grow certain crops. Well, they've taken
(13:16):
that to the energy industry and now they pay constraint
payments and they pay those energy companies not to produce
any energy from the wind turbines because the grid can't
handle it. That cost the consumers in the United Kingdom
two billion dollars last year billions. So whatever their costs
(13:39):
of energy energy is add to that two billion dollars,
two billion dollars For you, what did you get for
two billion dollars? Think about that, You paid an additional
rate that generated two billion dollars that went to the
wind turbine companies. And what did you get? Did you
get some extra innery, did you get a reduced killa?
(14:02):
What rate per hour. That no, you got less energy.
You paid more and got less. Wow, that sounds like
a great government program. The wind farms that Trump feels
are spoiling the views from his Scottish golf courses, well, yal,
(14:24):
they are unsightly. I think the wind turbines that I
see all over Colorado are unsightly. But they're also costing
consumers in the United Kingdom of fortune, and the United
Kingdom is actually struggling to keep the lights on. So
all of this stuff about oh my gosh, you know,
(14:44):
the comments to that video or are freaking hilarious because
it shows just what useful idiots are in this country.
The windmills are eating the dogs playoff on his statement
about you know, the Somalis or whoever it was, we're
(15:05):
eating the dogs. They also claim that Donald Trump's one
of his golf courses, had to pay the Scottish government's
legal costs following a court battle over a major north
Sea wind power development. Yes, he objected, he fought to
(15:26):
try to stop the development. He lost, So yes, he
had to pay legal fees. Do you really think that's
the reason. It may be a part of the reason.
I'd be pissed off about that. But is that the
whole reason? No, of course not. Then someone says he
(15:52):
says that Trump says, quote, we will not allow a
windmill to be built in the United States, to which
they respond, oh, just look around the state of Iowa
alone and look at all the windmills there. So we
do have windmills. He didn't say that we don't have
wind turbines in this country, just that we're not going
(16:12):
to allow any more to be built. And then this
Trump's ignorance knows no bounds. Tell me what he said
that there's false? Tell me or tell me what I
just said about the costs of energy in the ninety Kingdom.
What's false about that?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
And it's just Trump.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
They just don't like Trump.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Hey, Michael, I know this is off topic, but in
regards to eating the dogs, I took a trip down
to Springfield to that park to observe for myself. And
let me tell you, they're eating the dogs, for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
They're eating the dogs. That's never going to go away,
is it. They're eating the dogs on my tombstone. He
ate the dogs. So I want to finish up on
the wind stuff. This guy, don't I don't know who
this guy's name is but he is an employee of
(17:11):
neng Offshore Wind and in response to the wind turbines
that are off the in the North Sea that he's
so that clearly he's biased, right because this is his company,
or at least it's a company he works for. He
(17:31):
in this propaganda clip, he says the following.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
It's magnificent to see the feat of engineering that this
represents as a demonstration of the enormous and bright energy
future that Scoffland has. And it's great to see so
much of a renewbal activity happening here in Scofflin today.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's a feat of engineering. Okay, well that I'm not
share with all due respect engineers.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
And somebody could say the same thing about the atomic bomb.
It's a feet of engineering, feet of engineering. Exactly use
those on people, please exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Thank you mister Redbeard for pointing out per a perfect example.
So it's the feet of engineering, and it's it's wonderful
to see Scotland doing these things that are just gonna
be it's gonna make Scotland the leader in this in
this new energy field. Stationary wind turbines like he's talking
(18:33):
about when they do spend as I told you in
the last segment, when when it gets I mean, you've
surely seen a movie of the North Sea when the
storms are blowing through. You know, whether it's you know,
an old movie from the you know, not an old
movie from but an old movie about you know, ships
(18:54):
sailing the North Sea in the seventeen hundreds and they're
being you know, just whipt solid everywhere, or you know
it's you know, a modern version and you know, people
are getting sick on the cruise ship because it's horrible,
it's bouncing around everywhere. Well, we know the storms blow through,
and when the storms blow through, they shut down the
wind turbines because the infrastructure, the transmission lines can't handle
(19:20):
the power being generated. So I guess there's a window
of opportunity. The wind has to be between I don't know,
ten knots and fifteen knots, and as long as it's
within that you know, small window, well then we can
let the wind turbines turbine. Otherwise we gotta take the
key and turn them off. Stationary wind turbines, when they
(19:42):
do spin, produce electricity at a cost of one hundred
and sixty three pounds per megawatt hour. That is double,
that is twice the current wholesale price. That is just
exactly how stupid this whole idea is, now imagine because
(20:05):
those costs cannot be defrayed across all Great Britain bill
payers and in fact all bill payers through the constraint payments,
are paying two billion dollars a year for something that
they're not getting. They're not getting any electricity because their
(20:26):
infrastructure can't can't handle it. So let's go to Australia.
I mean still you know, formerly part of the British Empire.
I mean, I guess technically still part of the British Empire.
And let's see what they have to say in terms
of hmm, here's a so called whistleblower that points out
(20:48):
exactly what when turbines need in order to work.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Alex and I used to work for the federal government.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
I mean for seven years doing what I was policy
advisor for a Liberal Party senator.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Okay, and tell you saying about your working with the windmills.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Yeah, So the area that I was working in was
renewable energy, and basically it was my job to uncover
a lot of the stuff that was going on with
the Renewable Energy AT which was put in in two
thousand and two under the Howard government. So that was
the Liberal Party put the Act in place, and I
(21:31):
was looking at the mess that it had created. And
what a lot of people don't understand is that the
Renewable Energy AT creates a subsidy environment where if you
build wind turbines you're paid between six hundred thousand and
nine hundred thousand per turbine per year as a subsidy
(21:54):
per year, six.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Hundred to nine hundred thousand dollars. Can we just a
half a million to a million Australian dollars per year
per year in subsidiesane.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Well, if it's on your property, no, So.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
What happens is the wind company comes in and leases.
They pay a lease to the farmer to build the
wind turbines, and that in effect make sure that the
farmer is still liable for the turbine, okay, And they
pay a lease of twelve thousand dollars a year usually
and the company gets paid between six hundred and nine
(22:31):
hundred thousand per turbine per year. So they pay twelve
thousand to the farmer, but they get six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Exactly per turbine. Yeah, which is a being incentive to
put in turbines.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Yeah, and the land owner takes the takes the liability
for the turbine.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
So he gets twelve thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
But if anything anything happens.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
He's got to fix it or she's got to fix it.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
When they kept on fire, they're responsible for their neighbors
properties going up in smoke, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
And effectively that money, the subsidy that's getting paid to
the wind farms is raiming forty billion dollars a year
out of the Australian economy. And it's paid by everyone,
every pensioner, householder, schools, hospitals, everyone. It's not just out
of a tax. It comes out of your power bill.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's why power bills are going up.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Yeah, that's why power power bills are going up to
pay for wind turbines that don't work exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And why don't they work?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
So they don't work because, for a start, they draw
power off the grid, so they have to have coal
fired power in order to turn.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Then to catch that, so in order to turn, they've
got to pull power off the grid, so they've got
to have pull fired power to oh operate the wind turbine, well,
that seems prey of like a clusterf not win mills.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
They're turbines and essentially mean the power to turn.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So when we see them turning, that's not the wind,
that's the power generator turning.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Essentially, they have to draw power off the grid. So
they have to draw coal fired power off the grid
in order to turn. And what happens when the wind
picks up They do actually start to create electricity of
their own, but that electricity is so intermissient and unreliable
when it gets back to the grid. It has to
(24:30):
be balanced on the grid, which you can't do and
with your coal fired power station, you can't ramp your
coal fired power stations up and down, so the coal
fired power station stays at the same level because it
takes twenty four to forty eight hours for them to
get up to heat anyway, and they just let off
steam as the wind comes onto the grid. So there's
(24:52):
absolutely nothing about them that works apart from reaming that
amount of money out of the Australian economy.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And it's going offshore, so it does work. It works
to pay people that benefit from the subsidy the subsidies
that they get. Concrete is the third largest emitter of
CO two, accounting for four to eight percent of the
world CO two. A typical wind turbine, kind of like
(25:22):
Billy Bob was telling us, uses five hundred and sixty
six point eight nine tons of concrete. So the production
of one meter of concrete requires two thousand, seven hundred
and seventy five jewels of energy, and most of that
energy comes from oil eighty nine barrels per turbine base.
(25:47):
So that's what we're paying for. But one last little
point that I want to make, the staggering quantity of
energy and resources required to build a single wind turbine.
I mean, Billy Bob mentioned it, but here are the deeps.
(26:07):
If you want to think about how you know many
of these environmentalists worship Mother Earth as their god. You
ought to see the raping and pellaging that goes on
in that video. The one thing that I had never
known or even thought about, was you know, you've got
the foundation, and you've got all the concrete for the foundation,
(26:29):
and I thought the foundation just went down. You know,
maybe I don't I don't know, you know, several hundred
feet or so. But beyond the bottom of the foundation
are all those metal rods that she describes that go
down at different angles, all these intersecting angles down below
the foundation, deep into the earth, in order to just
(26:51):
stabilize the windmill, which like in the case of the
North Sea, then can't be spun anyway because well they
can't have electricity produced by it. Simply amazing, Mike. I
was on a road trip recently and saw a couple
of the wind turn buying blades on semi trucks. They're
(27:12):
absolutely massive.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
The amount of energy it takes to move the pieces
just to.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Get them there, it's gotta be incredible.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And think about that. So I've seen them on the
twenty five also, and you've got you got the flag
truck in the back, you got the flag truck in
the front, and they're just like it. It's like trying
to pass a fight train. They're so huge. I shouldn't
pick just on windmills. Let's talk about evs for just
a second. Mattson Inc. Mattson is a major ocean carrier
(27:45):
in the trans specific trade. They just announced that they
decided to no longer carry electric vehicles or hybrids on
their ships effective immediately. Here's the reason they gave. There
have been three especially severe electric vehicle fires on cargo
ships in just the past three years. The Felicity Ace
(28:07):
in twenty twenty two, the Fremantle Highway in twenty twenty three,
and most recently, the Morning Minas in twenty twenty five,
each fire destroying thousands of vehicles each, along with much
or all of the vessels. Crew members have been killed
in these fires. Entire ships, along with their cargo, have
been completely lost. Now we know real cars, internal combustion
(28:32):
engine cars. We know they can burst into flames. Two,
But why Usually because of a collision or arson. They
don't just virtually spontaneously combust on, or they just don't
catch fire because they've been exposed to water, you know,
like they're supposed to storm today. Good luck with your
ev Worse, they write, once an electric car's massive lithium
(28:55):
battery catches fire, that fire is often impossible to put out.
The vehicles burn for days, consuming not just the car
but everything nearby, from parking garages to the entire cargo ships. Now, obviously,
car needs needs to be water resistant but since evs
are not, they're obviously unsafe in addition to being more expensive,
(29:20):
less reliable, inefficient, inconvenient to charge, unhealthy, bad for the environment. Well,
to some up think about it, an EV is inferior
in every possible way. You know, when the Democrats are
in a position of power and we're able to do
a centrally planned economy and force choices upon you, kind
(29:41):
of like Jared Polis does in Colorado elect The cars
were the future, but they aren't the future anymore because
we've recognized the insanity of all this green new energy stuff,
absolute insanity. Now, if only Jared Polis and the Marxist
of the Politburo would recognize the same thing.
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