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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You came in here in a good mood.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, that's your fault, that's the Yeah. Actually, actually that's
a pretty good point, isn't it. I should have thought
about what I was doing. Uh, let's go back to
CNN for a minute, because I just find this you
think about and I know, you know people like this.
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I know people like this, I know family members like this,
people who don't you know, all they all they listen
to is CNN or you miss NBC or Fox, and
that's that's all they consume. And by all they consume,
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I mean it's just television news. They don't read newspapers.
They don't read any of the national newspapers. They don't
read or peruse through you know, websites conservative or liberal.
You know, they just they just get their news from
what's on the on the boobtube and that's that. That
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forms their worldview of everything going on. And it's pure
unadult rate of propaganda, even even Fox News, when when
you it's not that I disagree with many of the
things that Fox News says, but you know one thing
that that I I can't do at home that I
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do here is at home, whether I'm upstairs or if
I'm down in my office and studio. I only have
one TV monitor. I don't I don't have like here,
I don't have two television monitors where I can simultaneously
watch and and at least read there the chiron or
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see some of the closed captioning. But if you notice
only speaking, it's almost like Fox News. I would guess
it's nine out of ten people that are interviewed are
obviously conservative and Republican, and on the demo, on the
CNN and MSNBC side, it's ninety percent a Democrat or
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or a liberal or a Marxist. You know, they're they're
they're left wing versus the right wing. So if all
you listen to is one or the other, then you
only get that point of view and you never stop
and think about all the other aspects of a news story.
There's no critical thinking going on. It's just absorbing by
osmosis whatever you're being fed, and it is. It's kind
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of do you remember the the old I think it was, Uh,
it's an iconic photograph. I believe it was maybe Maxwell
or or maybe it's a speaker group, maybe his harmon
card and I forget who it was. But this is
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probably you know, thirty forty years old of the guy
sitting in his chair. The stereo is. It's a black
and white photograph. The guy sitting in his armchair and
his arms are on the arms, He's got a precariously
placed Martini, a lamp to his on his on his
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right side, and his hair, the lamp shade is pushed back,
the Martino Martini glass is tipped back. He's he's kind
of leaning back, and the the whole point of the
photograph is that these speakers are so powerful that it
is blowing everything back. It's a wonderfully iconic photograph. That's
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what people are doing today, that is blowing into their
brains whatever propaganda that people are wanting to feed them. Now, look,
I'm self aware. I understand that you could accuse me
of doing the same thing, except I tell you what
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I believe. Just like the KDVR story that we did
in the first hour, that story is, in my opinion,
horribly biased. They're trying to make you believe that, Oh
my gosh. And we finally arrested these guys for yelling
racial epithets, which I didn't, I mean, just yelling white
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power or Nazi power. Giving a Nazi salute. I guess
that's it's not verboting, it's not illegal. But they bury
the lead about Oh, by the way, they also threw
the glass objects at these protesters. And then somebody tells
me on the text line, which was obviously not part
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of the kd Our story, which they apparently either don't
know or deliberately left out. I don't know which it is,
that the protesters themselves picked up rocks and threw them
at the protest at the to Yahoo's in the truck,
in the pickup truck. Well, why weren't the protesters arrested
for the same thing. See, you can't just take one
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story at face value. Now, I took that story at
face value and pointed out that they were clearly biased
in the reporting, wanting you to think that, oh my gosh,
we got white supremacists, we got you know, Nazis in
our mitts, and they got arrested for yelling these things. Now,
they got arrested because they were throwing objects. And while
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they were throwing objects at the protesters, they were yelling
you know, racial epithets. So now we've got this bias,
you know, this law against you know, biased kind of
speech when you're committing a crime, Well, that's just a
bridge too far from me. Charge them with a tim
to bodily injury. You don't need all the bull crap
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about racism. And it goes both ways. I don't care
what telor you are or what your ideology is that
it doesn't make any difference to me. You attempted to
hurt people, and so did the protesters if the textures
is telling us the truth about them throwing rocks back
at the pickup truck. So all of this goes on
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and we don't stop and consciously think about what we're
being fed. And I don't know why, but this whole
thing about Trump being at the Daytona five hundred has
just made CNN nuts.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The most high octane sport on the planet maybe on
a collision course with new electric vehicle technology.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh, the Daytona five hundred is on a collision course
with the ev industry.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
A supercharged electric race car is on full display for
fans at last week's Daytona five hundred, and while red
up engines and smoke field starting lines are still the
norm for now, that could change, but not without controversy.
Sannon's bill weir has more.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Just outside the cradle of American racing. Automobile history was
made this weekend when Formula Just superstar Ryan Turk He
swapped out his rubber Vernon red for machine with twice
the power over thirteen hundred horses, but with a fraction
of the noise and not a whiff of exhaust.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We hold the first electric NASCAR.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Which is so surreal, And normally this event would come
with a thunderous sound of that internal combustment engine, but
all you hear is this high pitched wine and then
just the tires being shredded by those electric engines.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
The power is just a it's like nothing at.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Our experience before.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's like toys as much horses as one of the
irregular NASCAR.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, beyond that, you have the power on demand at
all times.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Like a power There isn't seen, There isn't a power ban.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's just there's just all the power at all times.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
This is one of three electric prototypes unveiled this year
as NASCAR pledges to be net zero by twenty thirty five.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's infected NASCAR. They want to be nett and remember
it's not zero, it's net zero, so that means, oh, well,
we'll offset it somewhere else, so it's not going to
In other words, let's just say that the Daytona five hundred,
all those cars, or the the or the entire you know,
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racing circuit emits one million tons of CO two. Well,
if they go net zero, uh, somewhere, there will still
be one million tons of CO two released into the atmosphere.
It just won't be by these particular vehicles at that race.
It'll be somewhere else. They'll just shift the emissions to
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wherever they produce the batteries and manufacture the steel and
the rubber for the tires and everything else that goes
into the making of the vehicles. They'll just shift that
elsewhere so they can claim that while they're racing they're
net zero. It's such bull crap. Net zero. How about
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gross zero? How about none? Do that for me? Neah,
you do that for me. We might be talking.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But while this Chevy Blazer was supposed to be the
first electric pace car in Daytona five hundred history, it
was literally cut off by Donald Trump's armored plated motorcade.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
His armor plated motor case literally cut off the pacee
car and the pacee car was electric. Oh I mean
that's like that's like child molestation or something. It's so horrible, horrible.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
A fitting metaphor from a president who is vowing to
destroy the incentives charging networks and tailpipe pollution standards as
he promised the fossil fuel executives.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Way he promised the fossil fuel executives that, or do
you promise the American people that? Because that's what i want.
I want all those incentives and all those standards. I
want them all of disrated. And I'm not an oil
and gas executive.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Has the politics you major job harder these days.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
We have very clear corporate goals around sustainability, and so
our job is to focus on getting those done, no
matter who's in office or what's going on. So our
focus is on right now again energy and right now
the racetac you have behind you and that keeps es
that night, and how do we decarbonize that within the
next years. And so that's everything from energy efficiency, led lights,
bringing different abb technologies, other partner technologies so that we
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can reduce our own operating footprint.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
As a sport.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, now you couldn't see that video, but she's talking
to me. She shows the control panel inside the car,
she shows the outside portions of the car, She shows
some of the equipment inside the vehicle. She shows all
of these things, and she wants to decarbonize. Every single
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thing that she showed requires fossil fuels to manufacture, requires
fossil fuel in the very base components of all those
things that she was showing. Bill Weird, every single thing.
He just kind of gets back to Billy, Bob Thornton
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and Landman talking about, you know, until something else comes
along and something else hasn't, we need fossil fuels. So
as long as I don't care how net zero NASCAR
wants to be, I can't believe that the NASCAR people
are even thinking or doing this because it's all virtue signaling.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Because those you totally see them getting behind the electric
vehicle because those enormous power and they're incredibly quick right
off the line. But them trying to be a company
that then goes net zero, that's the confusing part. Integrating
the electric technology that's fantastic, go for it because those
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motors are are well I.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Don't care, yeah right, I don't care if they do it,
but it's net zero.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Yeah, that's that's that's the strange part.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's not the strange, it's not the strange part Dragon,
it's the out and outlying part about it. They're just
lined to everybody. And you know she talks about the
squealing that they talk about the squealing of the tires
as the as the electric as the electric give engine
causes the tires to squeal. I'm thinking the tires are Rubbert. Yep,
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they're a Robert m and that's why they're squealing. They're
made from fossil fuels. Robert.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
And then bring that to the fan and educate the
fan on how can we bring all some of these
technologies into our communities and help support the growth of
sustainability across the country.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
I guarantee you there's more evs in the parking lot
today than there was five years ago.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So so what uh, Yeah, there are more evs on
the road today than there was you know, five years
ago out here.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Then another five years there's going to be a lot more.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
David Reagan is a third generation NASCAR racer who now
drives an electric Ford Mustang in retirement simply because it's fast, fun.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And cheaper to fuel and maintain.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
He believes this fan base is destined to make that
same discovery.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Now, what I find interesting about that comment is it
may be cheaper for him. I don't know where he
gets his electricity to charge his Ford Mustang, but he's
offset his gas bill by paying additional money to get
additional kilowatts of electricity to charge his ev Mustang. So
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I don't know that it really is netting him any
additional or reducing his costs. He's just shifted his costs
from one fuel source to another fuel source, both of
which require fossil fuels to produce. Unless it happens to
live somewhere where it's all you know, nuclear energy, or
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he gets it all from when their solar, but even
that requires fossil fuels to create the components. You see.
This is designed to propagandize you. Oh look mass car's
going They're going that zero Wow. Well if they can
do it, we can all do it.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
The market p it is to side, and I think
the manufacture.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Now that's the one thing that out of everything that
CNN put into this almost four minute segment, is the truth?
Did you catch that? And cheaper to feel and maintain?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
He believes this fan base is destined to make that
same discovery.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So the market, not the president to sign Yes, the
markets will decide. So I say, let the market decide.
Take away all the subsidies, take away all the incentives.
You know, if those wants to do something and they
are doing this, eliminate all these subsidies. I should not
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subsidize your electric vehicle. I should not subsidize your charging station,
unless you want to subsidize the building of my gas station,
which Denver wants to eliminate and limit the number of
gas stations. Yeah, the market will decide, and so far
the market has said, Man, we're not interested in this.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
And I think the manufacturers really that they've got their
finger on the pulls now.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I find that hilarious. The manufacturers have their finger on
the pulse they do, which is why many of the
major auto manufacturers are abandoning their EV sales. Was it
Ford or GM, I forget which one that we talked
about maybe a week or so ago about how they're
losing fifty six thousand dollars per unit and the only
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reason they're able to absorb that fifty six thousand dollars
per unit and still stay in business is because they're
making such huge profits on the sale of their internal
combustion units. Yeah, the market will decide.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
All right, Chevrolet, Ford Motor Company, you know, Toyota, the
big partners here in NASCAR, they've all got their different
plans for how they're going to attack that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I get.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
I think as far as saying, hey, we want to
be prepared when that evolution takes place. The Daytona they
just lessified their parking life, so they're whenever their employees
pull up, they'll be able to charge your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Once charging becomes more ubiquitous and it sort.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Of gets integrated to a fabric of the everyday American.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
I think it'll become more and more accepted and it'll
be utilized more and more by everybody here and tell and.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You're gonna have to build the grid. Yeah, you're gonna
have to have more electricity. And nobody ever asked that question.
Where's all this additional electricity gonna come from? Where all
the additional kilowat's coming from? Today? Is National Switch the
radio channel to Glenn Beck day What a what a
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total a hole? So NASCAR is all all this you know,
Oh nut zero, you gotta go to net zero and
it's all virtue signaling. Well, ironically, Chris Wright from Denver,
who is Trump's new Energy Secretary, spoke to Jordan Peterson's
ARC conference via a video link on Monday, and his
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talk included a lot of great quotes that I think
that you ought to hear. He walks through all this
idea about net zero and what a complete farce that
it is.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Well, I think it's fair to say that very few
people have ever come to a job better qualified than
the man that we're about to speak to the next
Chris Wright, US Energy Secretary.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Welcome back to ok Thanks Chris.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
I would great not being there with everyone in person.
My wife and I were truly energized by Mark the
first one fifteen months ago in London and thrilled to
be able to join in any way I can.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
So congratulations on your confirmation.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
What's your first order of business? How a priority?
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Simple?
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Better human lives, starting with American citizens. History has shown
that more affordable, reliable, to secure energy allows you to
expand economic opportunities and for everyone to pursue their dream,
whatever that dream is. So we want to bring common
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sense back to Washington and grow the supply of affordable, reliable,
secure energy.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Now think about how key that is if you if
you want to have a prosperous economy, if you want
to have the the amazing quality of life that we have.
I mean, look, as I always say, look around you,
Look around you. Look at your refrigerator, look at look
at your your natural gas heater, look at look at
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the car you drive. I don't care how old of
a car you drive. You're still able to get from
point A to point B. Maybe with the steat belt
that you can get from point A to point B.
We live an amazing life. And why because of cheap,
abundant fuel.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
You talk about our return to US energy dominance. So
what muscles do you intend to exercise in doing that.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
I've got a nine point plan and I won't go
through all of it now, but number one was visible
last Friday. You know, natural gas is the fastest growing
energy source on the planet and has been for decades.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Do you realize that it's not solar and wind? I
wish it was nuclear, but it's not. Natural gas is
the fastest growing energy sources on the planet and has
been for decades.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
The United States is the largest producer there, and we
had paused for a year our ability to permit new
plants sending.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Think about that for a moment. For the past year,
we have paused all the growth in natural gas. What why?
Because they want to push something that is again virtue signaling,
they think it's going to be better for the environment.
Do you really do you truly believe? Think about the
last couple of days in Colorado, how did your solar
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panels work out? And if you had, you know, some
storage capacity, how close to the end of that storage
capacity were you getting. Now again, I want to emphasize
I'm not saying that we won't eventually get somewhere where
we have amazing battery technology, where we have amazing battery
storage and power and electric storage capacity, but we're not
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there yet. And while we're not there, look going back
to the fact that natural gas is the fastest growing
energy source on the planet, has been for decades, and
we run on those fossil fuels.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Certainly around the world, and importers whether the United States
was going to continue to grow our supply, well, we
ended the and approved the Commonwealth LNG export terminal last Friday,
and many more in the queue. My number one bullet
was we're going to focus on energy addition, not energy subtraction.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
We're looking at appliances.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
We have all sorts of regulations as you do in Europe,
about how your washing machine.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Or your dryer is going to work.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
More than half of the globe citizens are walking around
in hand washed clothes. They dream about a day where
they can have the labor saving benefits of appliances of
a washing machine.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So we're going to get out of the.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Way on those things, and we are going to focus
efforts on how we can stir growth of energy production
across the board of affordable, reliable, secure energy, but maybe
the biggest focus on nuclear and energy dense reliable technology
that's just been stifled by regulation in the last several decades.
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Coll oil gas, nothing's off the table.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Oh absolutely, the world today runs on coal, oil and gas,
and it's been a tremendous success.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
In fact, I should have said Number one is get
out of the way of.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
The production, of the production, exports and enhancement of our
volumes of coal, oil and gas.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You know he keeps mentioning coal. We virtually shut down
coal plants in this country, coal mines and plants China, meanwhile,
continues to build them at you know, a rate of
what several a day because China the Communist the Chinese
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Communist Party, recognizes that cheap, abundant energy is necessary for
their huge population of billions of people. And here we are,
we're shooting ourselves in the foot. We're saying, you know,
you got to have a low flow toilet, you got
you know, your your washing machine and your dishwasher. All
these appliances have to meet certain energy standards, which are
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increasing the costs of those So all of these regulations
add up to additional costs for you at the same
time that we destroy the energy that it takes to
run even the more efficient appliances. I'm not opposed to
more efficient appliances. What I'm what I'm for is, well,
we heard back about when we talked about the Daytona
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five hundred and NASCAR. Let the market decide that. Quit
having the government intervene and the government manipulating the market.
Speaker 10 (24:34):
I think one of the problems that we've got in
the West is that people are blind to the sources
of energy. In fact, if you look around this.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I find this part hilarious. Are people blind to the
sources of energy. Duh. I think just like a lot
of people don't know where their food comes from, I
would guess even more people have no clue where the
energy comes from that they consume, either directly or indirectly.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Yeah, it's a pretty good line right there.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I like that line. I love that line. Room.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
There is nothing that you can see in the built
environment which does not contain fossil fuel.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
But mostly oh I love this, and I know, I know,
there's just here are some experts saying what I've been saying.
So it's validation for what I've been trying to tell
all of you all this time. Look around you again,
everything everything is fossil fuels.
Speaker 10 (25:29):
We don't know where our energy and our wealth come from.
Is that one of our big problems?
Speaker 11 (25:35):
Spot on, Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Look, there's about a billion people on the planet that
live lives remotely recognizable to you and I and to
everyone in this beautiful room in London, and there's seven
billion people that want nothing more than to live the
lives we have to have it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Do you get that number? One billion people are living
lives like we do seven billion? Don't do you think
that solar or wind or going all electric can somehow
help them grow. If you really want to improve the
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living conditions of people around the world, then we'll show
them the way. We'll show them the way by exporting
our own natural resources and having so much of them,
exporting those natural resources.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
And motorized transport, whether it's on a bus.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
Or a car or a plane, to visit their family,
live their lives.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Everything we're wearing is made out of hydrocarbons as well.
And if I get to be a nerd for a second,
fifty years ago, correctly counting the data, eighty five percent
of the globe's energy came from hydrocarbons.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
And in twenty twenty three, the last full year of
data counted correctly, eighty five percent of global energy came
from hydrocarbons.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Now, don't let don't don't miss that. Dragon should love
this number two. So fifty years ago, he says, well,
if you correctly count the data, eighty five percent of
the world's energy came from hydrocarbons. And for the year
twenty twenty three, the last full year that we have data,
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and again counting it correctly, still eighty five percent of
the globe's energy comes from hydrocarbons. So despite all this
crap that you hear about how we got to reduce,
we got to reduce, we gott to reduce hydrocarbons, we're
still using exactly the same amount we've.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Had over that fifty year period.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
A little over one percent.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Growth compound annual growth rate from oil, about two percent
compound annual growth rate of coal, and three percent compound
annual growth rate.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Of nan metro gas.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
The world simply runs on hydrocarbons, and for most of
their uses we don't have replacements.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And for we don't have we don't have replacements. This
is Billy Bob Thornton again and Landman putting out to
the little dwe lawyer from Houston that listen, you may
want to you know, if you want to get rid
of hydrocarbons, then you know, go get a horse, get
rid of your phone, get rid of your clothes, get
rid of everything that your little dwe lawyer use, get
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rid of all of those things, go back to the
Stone Age and you can live the life that you
want to live. But if you want to continue to
live the lives that we have, and you want to
export the kind of luxurious lives that we have to
other parts of the world hydrocarbons. And as Billy Bob
Thornton points out, and is Chris Wright's going to point
out in a minute, until American innovation and ingenuity, not
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government regulation, but until kids in a garage, scientists working
in someplace unfettered, allowed to just experiment and really explore
the science, we come up with something that is a
complete paradigm shift. We need to And I'll take a
break here.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
To the guy who says I'm turning to Glenn Beck,
all I can say is move, jerk, get out the way,
Get out the way, move jerk. Ninety three seven seven sixty.
Just get out the way, Get out the way. You
can also move to six hundred am as well. But
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we love Michael Brown, I love Khow thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Your check's in the mail. The check is in the mail,
Chris Wright continues. Remember this is he's from Colorado. He's
been on this program and he's the same voice about
energy and now he's the Secretary of Energy.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Thoughtfully and reasonably look at what energy sources can add
to what we get from higher garments and make this
pie even bigger.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
And of course access to the cheap, abundant energy. Is
a difference between poor nations and rich ones, and poor
nations don't look after the environment.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Do they? Absolutely? You know, as God said before me.
You look at the improvement in.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Clean air in wealthy nations, clean water, the return of
large mammals, the improvement of wilderness. The planet and where
I grew up is so much cleaner today than when
I was a kid. This is a tremendous achievement of wealth, freedom,
and opportunity. The biggest stressors on our environment, as you
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just said, is people in lower income countries that are
worried about higher priorities for them their next meal, staying
warm at night. You have to get some sort of
wealth and authorship over your life before you can worry
about the luxuries of the environment. We're lucky that we can,
and we want the rest of the world all so
to have that luxury to worry about improving our national environment.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Now, think about his point there. If all the greeny
weenies really want to save the planet, if they really
want clean water for people that are drinking horrible water,
if they really want people to have decent clothing to
keep themselves warm in the winter, or to have access
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to food energy, to have access to a cleaner world,
they need energy to do that. And you're not gonna
get that with wind and solar. You will with fossil
fuels and nuclear energy. But nobody wants to admit that
because we've been sold to bill of goods. And this
is the you know, the great thing. And I know
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every Cabinet member is going to have their ups and downs.
But Chris Wright is another one of those disruptors who
is coming in and just speaking the truth about energy.
And if he follows through which I have no doubt
that he will, on deregulating energy. Look, that only benefits us,
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and at the same time it will benefit the environment.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
In this part of the world. In Europe and the
United Kingdom, of course, everyone talks about net zero. Now
you talk about energy reality. What's the difference between the two.
What kind of target is the US signing for?
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Oh, A totally different focus, and one is to explicitly
call out and I will right now net zero twenty.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You know, I want to save this one because he
uses a he uses a couple of words that I
think perfectly described this whole thing that over at NASCAR
and at the DAYTONA five hundred that their objective is,
we want to get to net zero by twenty fifty.
(32:55):
Jared Polus wants to do that. The comming's out of
the Colorado polyp Bureau want to do it. The Democrats,
the Marxists want to do it. Have you ever thought
about what that goal really is or whether it's really
achievable or not? And it's it's not. It's not a transition,
it's not how we have gone. You think about the
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if you understand history, if you think about the Industrial Revolution,
what did what did the government have to do with that?
What it was? I mean, did did Henry Ford decide that?
Did he get did he get some government grant from
the Department of Energy? Did he get some grant from
you know, you know USA? I d to go, hey,
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go invent the you know, the horseless carriage. No, all
of this is, as you'll hear in the next hour,
a certain phrase that we need to start applying to
the idea of net zero. You've got to have, as
he says, some sort of wealth and authorship over your
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life before you worry about the luxuries of the environment.
But then when you do, you have the wherewithal to
take care of the environment, all from nuclear energy and
fossil fuel
You came in here in a good mood.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, that's your fault, that's the Yeah. Actually, actually that's
a pretty good point, isn't it. I should have thought
about what I was doing. Uh, let's go back to
CNN for a minute, because I just find this you
think about and I know, you know people like this.
(00:28):
I know people like this, I know family members like this,
people who don't you know, all they all they listen
to is CNN or you miss NBC or Fox, and
that's that's all they consume. And by all they consume,
(00:49):
I mean it's just television news. They don't read newspapers.
They don't read any of the national newspapers. They don't
read or peruse through you know, websites conservative or liberal.
You know, they just they just get their news from
what's on the on the boobtube and that's that. That
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forms their worldview of everything going on. And it's pure
unadult rate of propaganda, even even Fox News, when when
you it's not that I disagree with many of the
things that Fox News says, but you know one thing
that that I I can't do at home that I
(01:34):
do here is at home, whether I'm upstairs or if
I'm down in my office and studio. I only have
one TV monitor. I don't I don't have like here,
I don't have two television monitors where I can simultaneously
watch and and at least read there the chiron or
(01:55):
see some of the closed captioning. But if you notice
only speaking, it's almost like Fox News. I would guess
it's nine out of ten people that are interviewed are
obviously conservative and Republican, and on the demo, on the
CNN and MSNBC side, it's ninety percent a Democrat or
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or a liberal or a Marxist. You know, they're they're
they're left wing versus the right wing. So if all
you listen to is one or the other, then you
only get that point of view and you never stop
and think about all the other aspects of a news story.
There's no critical thinking going on. It's just absorbing by
osmosis whatever you're being fed, and it is. It's kind
(02:44):
of do you remember the the old I think it was, Uh,
it's an iconic photograph. I believe it was maybe Maxwell
or or maybe it's a speaker group, maybe his harmon
card and I forget who it was. But this is
(03:04):
probably you know, thirty forty years old of the guy
sitting in his chair. The stereo is. It's a black
and white photograph. The guy sitting in his armchair and
his arms are on the arms, He's got a precariously
placed Martini, a lamp to his on his on his
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right side, and his hair, the lamp shade is pushed back,
the Martino Martini glass is tipped back. He's he's kind
of leaning back, and the the whole point of the
photograph is that these speakers are so powerful that it
is blowing everything back. It's a wonderfully iconic photograph. That's
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what people are doing today, that is blowing into their
brains whatever propaganda that people are wanting to feed them. Now, look,
I'm self aware. I understand that you could accuse me
of doing the same thing, except I tell you what
(04:16):
I believe. Just like the KDVR story that we did
in the first hour, that story is, in my opinion,
horribly biased. They're trying to make you believe that, Oh
my gosh. And we finally arrested these guys for yelling
racial epithets, which I didn't, I mean, just yelling white
(04:38):
power or Nazi power. Giving a Nazi salute. I guess
that's it's not verboting, it's not illegal. But they bury
the lead about Oh, by the way, they also threw
the glass objects at these protesters. And then somebody tells
me on the text line, which was obviously not part
(04:59):
of the kd Our story, which they apparently either don't
know or deliberately left out. I don't know which it is,
that the protesters themselves picked up rocks and threw them
at the protest at the to Yahoo's in the truck,
in the pickup truck. Well, why weren't the protesters arrested
for the same thing. See, you can't just take one
(05:21):
story at face value. Now, I took that story at
face value and pointed out that they were clearly biased
in the reporting, wanting you to think that, oh my gosh,
we got white supremacists, we got you know, Nazis in
our mitts, and they got arrested for yelling these things. Now,
they got arrested because they were throwing objects. And while
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they were throwing objects at the protesters, they were yelling
you know, racial epithets. So now we've got this bias,
you know, this law against you know, biased kind of
speech when you're committing a crime, Well, that's just a
bridge too far from me. Charge them with a tim
to bodily injury. You don't need all the bull crap
(06:03):
about racism. And it goes both ways. I don't care
what telor you are or what your ideology is that
it doesn't make any difference to me. You attempted to
hurt people, and so did the protesters if the textures
is telling us the truth about them throwing rocks back
at the pickup truck. So all of this goes on
(06:25):
and we don't stop and consciously think about what we're
being fed. And I don't know why, but this whole
thing about Trump being at the Daytona five hundred has
just made CNN nuts.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The most high octane sport on the planet maybe on
a collision course with new electric vehicle technology.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh, the Daytona five hundred is on a collision course
with the ev industry.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
A supercharged electric race car is on full display for
fans at last week's Daytona five hundred, and while red
up engines and smoke field starting lines are still the
norm for now, that could change, but not without controversy.
Sannon's bill weir has more.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Just outside the cradle of American racing. Automobile history was
made this weekend when Formula Just superstar Ryan Turk He
swapped out his rubber Vernon red for machine with twice
the power over thirteen hundred horses, but with a fraction
of the noise and not a whiff of exhaust.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We hold the first electric NASCAR.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Which is so surreal, And normally this event would come
with a thunderous sound of that internal combustment engine, but
all you hear is this high pitched wine and then
just the tires being shredded by those electric engines.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
The power is just a it's like nothing at.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Our experience before.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's like toys as much horses as one of the
irregular NASCAR.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, beyond that, you have the power on demand at
all times.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Like a power There isn't seen, There isn't a power ban.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's just there's just all the power at all times.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
This is one of three electric prototypes unveiled this year
as NASCAR pledges to be net zero by twenty thirty five.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's infected NASCAR. They want to be nett and remember
it's not zero, it's net zero, so that means, oh, well,
we'll offset it somewhere else, so it's not going to
In other words, let's just say that the Daytona five hundred,
all those cars, or the the or the entire you know,
(08:45):
racing circuit emits one million tons of CO two. Well,
if they go net zero, uh, somewhere, there will still
be one million tons of CO two released into the atmosphere.
It just won't be by these particular vehicles at that race.
It'll be somewhere else. They'll just shift the emissions to
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wherever they produce the batteries and manufacture the steel and
the rubber for the tires and everything else that goes
into the making of the vehicles. They'll just shift that
elsewhere so they can claim that while they're racing they're
net zero. It's such bull crap. Net zero. How about
(09:33):
gross zero? How about none? Do that for me? Neah,
you do that for me. We might be talking.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But while this Chevy Blazer was supposed to be the
first electric pace car in Daytona five hundred history, it
was literally cut off by Donald Trump's armored plated motorcade.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
His armor plated motor case literally cut off the pacee
car and the pacee car was electric. Oh I mean
that's like that's like child molestation or something. It's so horrible, horrible.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
A fitting metaphor from a president who is vowing to
destroy the incentives charging networks and tailpipe pollution standards as
he promised the fossil fuel executives.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Way he promised the fossil fuel executives that, or do
you promise the American people that? Because that's what i want.
I want all those incentives and all those standards. I
want them all of disrated. And I'm not an oil
and gas executive.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Has the politics you major job harder these days.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
We have very clear corporate goals around sustainability, and so
our job is to focus on getting those done, no
matter who's in office or what's going on. So our
focus is on right now again energy and right now
the racetac you have behind you and that keeps es
that night, and how do we decarbonize that within the
next years. And so that's everything from energy efficiency, led lights,
bringing different abb technologies, other partner technologies so that we
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can reduce our own operating footprint.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
As a sport.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, now you couldn't see that video, but she's talking
to me. She shows the control panel inside the car,
she shows the outside portions of the car, She shows
some of the equipment inside the vehicle. She shows all
of these things, and she wants to decarbonize. Every single
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thing that she showed requires fossil fuels to manufacture, requires
fossil fuel in the very base components of all those
things that she was showing. Bill Weird, every single thing.
He just kind of gets back to Billy, Bob Thornton
(11:53):
and Landman talking about, you know, until something else comes
along and something else hasn't, we need fossil fuels. So
as long as I don't care how net zero NASCAR
wants to be, I can't believe that the NASCAR people
are even thinking or doing this because it's all virtue signaling.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Because those you totally see them getting behind the electric
vehicle because those enormous power and they're incredibly quick right
off the line. But them trying to be a company
that then goes net zero, that's the confusing part. Integrating
the electric technology that's fantastic, go for it because those
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motors are are well I.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Don't care, yeah right, I don't care if they do it,
but it's net zero.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Yeah, that's that's that's the strange part.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It's not the strange, it's not the strange part Dragon,
it's the out and outlying part about it. They're just
lined to everybody. And you know she talks about the
squealing that they talk about the squealing of the tires
as the as the electric as the electric give engine
causes the tires to squeal. I'm thinking the tires are Rubbert. Yep,
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they're a Robert m and that's why they're squealing. They're
made from fossil fuels. Robert.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
And then bring that to the fan and educate the
fan on how can we bring all some of these
technologies into our communities and help support the growth of
sustainability across the country.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
I guarantee you there's more evs in the parking lot
today than there was five years ago.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So so what uh, Yeah, there are more evs on
the road today than there was you know, five years
ago out here.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Then another five years there's going to be a lot more.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
David Reagan is a third generation NASCAR racer who now
drives an electric Ford Mustang in retirement simply because it's fast, fun.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And cheaper to fuel and maintain.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
He believes this fan base is destined to make that
same discovery.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Now, what I find interesting about that comment is it
may be cheaper for him. I don't know where he
gets his electricity to charge his Ford Mustang, but he's
offset his gas bill by paying additional money to get
additional kilowatts of electricity to charge his ev Mustang. So
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I don't know that it really is netting him any
additional or reducing his costs. He's just shifted his costs
from one fuel source to another fuel source, both of
which require fossil fuels to produce. Unless it happens to
live somewhere where it's all you know, nuclear energy, or
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he gets it all from when their solar, but even
that requires fossil fuels to create the components. You see.
This is designed to propagandize you. Oh look mass car's
going They're going that zero Wow. Well if they can
do it, we can all do it.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
The market p it is to side, and I think
the manufacture.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Now that's the one thing that out of everything that
CNN put into this almost four minute segment, is the truth?
Did you catch that? And cheaper to feel and maintain?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
He believes this fan base is destined to make that
same discovery.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So the market, not the president to sign Yes, the
markets will decide. So I say, let the market decide.
Take away all the subsidies, take away all the incentives.
You know, if those wants to do something and they
are doing this, eliminate all these subsidies. I should not
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subsidize your electric vehicle. I should not subsidize your charging station,
unless you want to subsidize the building of my gas station,
which Denver wants to eliminate and limit the number of
gas stations. Yeah, the market will decide, and so far
the market has said, Man, we're not interested in this.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
And I think the manufacturers really that they've got their
finger on the pulls now.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I find that hilarious. The manufacturers have their finger on
the pulse they do, which is why many of the
major auto manufacturers are abandoning their EV sales. Was it
Ford or GM, I forget which one that we talked
about maybe a week or so ago about how they're
losing fifty six thousand dollars per unit and the only
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reason they're able to absorb that fifty six thousand dollars
per unit and still stay in business is because they're
making such huge profits on the sale of their internal
combustion units. Yeah, the market will decide.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
All right, Chevrolet, Ford Motor Company, you know, Toyota, the
big partners here in NASCAR, they've all got their different
plans for how they're going to attack that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I get.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
I think as far as saying, hey, we want to
be prepared when that evolution takes place. The Daytona they
just lessified their parking life, so they're whenever their employees
pull up, they'll be able to charge your vehicle.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Once charging becomes more ubiquitous and it sort.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Of gets integrated to a fabric of the everyday American.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
I think it'll become more and more accepted and it'll
be utilized more and more by everybody here and tell and.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You're gonna have to build the grid. Yeah, you're gonna
have to have more electricity. And nobody ever asked that question.
Where's all this additional electricity gonna come from? Where all
the additional kilowat's coming from? Today? Is National Switch the
radio channel to Glenn Beck day What a what a
(17:50):
total a hole? So NASCAR is all all this you know,
Oh nut zero, you gotta go to net zero and
it's all virtue signaling. Well, ironically, Chris Wright from Denver,
who is Trump's new Energy Secretary, spoke to Jordan Peterson's
ARC conference via a video link on Monday, and his
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talk included a lot of great quotes that I think
that you ought to hear. He walks through all this
idea about net zero and what a complete farce that
it is.
Speaker 10 (18:31):
Well, I think it's fair to say that very few
people have ever come to a job better qualified than
the man that we're about to speak to the next
Chris Wright, US Energy Secretary.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Welcome back to ok Thanks Chris.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
I would great not being there with everyone in person.
My wife and I were truly energized by Mark the
first one fifteen months ago in London and thrilled to
be able to join in any way I can.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
So congratulations on your confirmation.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
What's your first order of business? How a priority?
Speaker 10 (19:02):
Simple?
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Better human lives, starting with American citizens. History has shown
that more affordable, reliable, to secure energy allows you to
expand economic opportunities and for everyone to pursue their dream,
whatever that dream is. So we want to bring common
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sense back to Washington and grow the supply of affordable, reliable,
secure energy.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Now think about how key that is if you if
you want to have a prosperous economy, if you want
to have the the amazing quality of life that we have.
I mean, look, as I always say, look around you,
Look around you. Look at your refrigerator, look at look
at your your natural gas heater, look at look at
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the car you drive. I don't care how old of
a car you drive. You're still able to get from
point A to point B. Maybe with the steat belt
that you can get from point A to point B.
We live an amazing life. And why because of cheap,
abundant fuel.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
You talk about our return to US energy dominance. So
what muscles do you intend to exercise in doing that.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
I've got a nine point plan and I won't go
through all of it now, but number one was visible
last Friday. You know, natural gas is the fastest growing
energy source on the planet and has been for decades.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Do you realize that it's not solar and wind? I
wish it was nuclear, but it's not. Natural gas is
the fastest growing energy sources on the planet and has
been for decades.
Speaker 9 (20:45):
The United States is the largest producer there, and we
had paused for a year our ability to permit new
plants sending.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Think about that for a moment. For the past year,
we have paused all the growth in natural gas. What why?
Because they want to push something that is again virtue signaling,
they think it's going to be better for the environment.
Do you really do you truly believe? Think about the
last couple of days in Colorado, how did your solar
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panels work out? And if you had, you know, some
storage capacity, how close to the end of that storage
capacity were you getting. Now again, I want to emphasize
I'm not saying that we won't eventually get somewhere where
we have amazing battery technology, where we have amazing battery
storage and power and electric storage capacity, but we're not
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there yet. And while we're not there, look going back
to the fact that natural gas is the fastest growing
energy source on the planet, has been for decades, and
we run on those fossil fuels.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Certainly around the world, and importers whether the United States
was going to continue to grow our supply, well, we
ended the and approved the Commonwealth LNG export terminal last Friday,
and many more in the queue. My number one bullet
was we're going to focus on energy addition, not energy subtraction.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
We're looking at appliances.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
We have all sorts of regulations as you do in Europe,
about how your washing machine.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Or your dryer is going to work.
Speaker 9 (22:22):
More than half of the globe citizens are walking around
in hand washed clothes. They dream about a day where
they can have the labor saving benefits of appliances of
a washing machine.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So we're going to get out of the.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Way on those things, and we are going to focus
efforts on how we can stir growth of energy production
across the board of affordable, reliable, secure energy, but maybe
the biggest focus on nuclear and energy dense reliable technology
that's just been stifled by regulation in the last several decades.
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Coll oil gas, nothing's off the table.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Oh absolutely, the world today runs on coal, oil and gas,
and it's been a tremendous success.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
In fact, I should have said Number one is get
out of the way of.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
The production, of the production, exports and enhancement of our
volumes of coal, oil and gas.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You know he keeps mentioning coal. We virtually shut down
coal plants in this country, coal mines and plants China, meanwhile,
continues to build them at you know, a rate of
what several a day because China the Communist the Chinese
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Communist Party, recognizes that cheap, abundant energy is necessary for
their huge population of billions of people. And here we are,
we're shooting ourselves in the foot. We're saying, you know,
you got to have a low flow toilet, you got
you know, your your washing machine and your dishwasher. All
these appliances have to meet certain energy standards, which are
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increasing the costs of those So all of these regulations
add up to additional costs for you at the same
time that we destroy the energy that it takes to
run even the more efficient appliances. I'm not opposed to
more efficient appliances. What I'm what I'm for is, well,
we heard back about when we talked about the Daytona
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five hundred and NASCAR. Let the market decide that. Quit
having the government intervene and the government manipulating the market.
Speaker 10 (24:34):
I think one of the problems that we've got in
the West is that people are blind to the sources
of energy. In fact, if you look around this.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I find this part hilarious. Are people blind to the
sources of energy. Duh. I think just like a lot
of people don't know where their food comes from, I
would guess even more people have no clue where the
energy comes from that they consume, either directly or indirectly.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Yeah, it's a pretty good line right there.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I like that line. I love that line. Room.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
There is nothing that you can see in the built
environment which does not contain fossil fuel.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
But mostly oh I love this, and I know, I know,
there's just here are some experts saying what I've been saying.
So it's validation for what I've been trying to tell
all of you all this time. Look around you again,
everything everything is fossil fuels.
Speaker 10 (25:29):
We don't know where our energy and our wealth come from.
Is that one of our big problems?
Speaker 11 (25:35):
Spot on, Chris.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Look, there's about a billion people on the planet that
live lives remotely recognizable to you and I and to
everyone in this beautiful room in London, and there's seven
billion people that want nothing more than to live the
lives we have to have it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Do you get that number? One billion people are living
lives like we do seven billion? Don't do you think
that solar or wind or going all electric can somehow
help them grow. If you really want to improve the
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living conditions of people around the world, then we'll show
them the way. We'll show them the way by exporting
our own natural resources and having so much of them,
exporting those natural resources.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
And motorized transport, whether it's on a bus.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
Or a car or a plane, to visit their family,
live their lives.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Everything we're wearing is made out of hydrocarbons as well.
And if I get to be a nerd for a second,
fifty years ago, correctly counting the data, eighty five percent
of the globe's energy came from hydrocarbons.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
And in twenty twenty three, the last full year of
data counted correctly, eighty five percent of global energy came
from hydrocarbons.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Now, don't let don't don't miss that. Dragon should love
this number two. So fifty years ago, he says, well,
if you correctly count the data, eighty five percent of
the world's energy came from hydrocarbons. And for the year
twenty twenty three, the last full year that we have data,
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and again counting it correctly, still eighty five percent of
the globe's energy comes from hydrocarbons. So despite all this
crap that you hear about how we got to reduce,
we got to reduce, we gott to reduce hydrocarbons, we're
still using exactly the same amount we've.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Had over that fifty year period.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
A little over one percent.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
Growth compound annual growth rate from oil, about two percent
compound annual growth rate of coal, and three percent compound
annual growth rate.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Of nan metro gas.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
The world simply runs on hydrocarbons, and for most of
their uses we don't have replacements.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And for we don't have we don't have replacements. This
is Billy Bob Thornton again and Landman putting out to
the little dwe lawyer from Houston that listen, you may
want to you know, if you want to get rid
of hydrocarbons, then you know, go get a horse, get
rid of your phone, get rid of your clothes, get
rid of everything that your little dwe lawyer use, get
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rid of all of those things, go back to the
Stone Age and you can live the life that you
want to live. But if you want to continue to
live the lives that we have, and you want to
export the kind of luxurious lives that we have to
other parts of the world hydrocarbons. And as Billy Bob
Thornton points out, and is Chris Wright's going to point
out in a minute, until American innovation and ingenuity, not
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government regulation, but until kids in a garage, scientists working
in someplace unfettered, allowed to just experiment and really explore
the science, we come up with something that is a
complete paradigm shift. We need to And I'll take a
break here.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
To the guy who says I'm turning to Glenn Beck,
all I can say is move, jerk, get out the way,
Get out the way, move jerk. Ninety three seven seven sixty.
Just get out the way, Get out the way. You
can also move to six hundred am as well. But
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we love Michael Brown, I love Khow thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Your check's in the mail. The check is in the mail,
Chris Wright continues. Remember this is he's from Colorado. He's
been on this program and he's the same voice about
energy and now he's the Secretary of Energy.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
Thoughtfully and reasonably look at what energy sources can add
to what we get from higher garments and make this
pie even bigger.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
And of course access to the cheap, abundant energy. Is
a difference between poor nations and rich ones, and poor
nations don't look after the environment.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Do they? Absolutely? You know, as God said before me.
You look at the improvement in.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Clean air in wealthy nations, clean water, the return of
large mammals, the improvement of wilderness. The planet and where
I grew up is so much cleaner today than when
I was a kid. This is a tremendous achievement of wealth, freedom,
and opportunity. The biggest stressors on our environment, as you
(30:41):
just said, is people in lower income countries that are
worried about higher priorities for them their next meal, staying
warm at night. You have to get some sort of
wealth and authorship over your life before you can worry
about the luxuries of the environment. We're lucky that we can,
and we want the rest of the world all so
to have that luxury to worry about improving our national environment.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Now, think about his point there. If all the greeny
weenies really want to save the planet, if they really
want clean water for people that are drinking horrible water,
if they really want people to have decent clothing to
keep themselves warm in the winter, or to have access
(31:26):
to food energy, to have access to a cleaner world,
they need energy to do that. And you're not gonna
get that with wind and solar. You will with fossil
fuels and nuclear energy. But nobody wants to admit that
because we've been sold to bill of goods. And this
is the you know, the great thing. And I know
(31:50):
every Cabinet member is going to have their ups and downs.
But Chris Wright is another one of those disruptors who
is coming in and just speaking the truth about energy.
And if he follows through which I have no doubt
that he will, on deregulating energy. Look, that only benefits us,
(32:12):
and at the same time it will benefit the environment.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
In this part of the world. In Europe and the
United Kingdom, of course, everyone talks about net zero. Now
you talk about energy reality. What's the difference between the two.
What kind of target is the US signing for?
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Oh, A totally different focus, and one is to explicitly
call out and I will right now net zero twenty.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
You know, I want to save this one because he
uses a he uses a couple of words that I
think perfectly described this whole thing that over at NASCAR
and at the DAYTONA five hundred that their objective is,
we want to get to net zero by twenty fifty.
(32:55):
Jared Polus wants to do that. The comming's out of
the Colorado polyp Bureau want to do it. The Democrats,
the Marxists want to do it. Have you ever thought
about what that goal really is or whether it's really
achievable or not? And it's it's not. It's not a transition,
it's not how we have gone. You think about the
(33:19):
if you understand history, if you think about the Industrial Revolution,
what did what did the government have to do with that?
What it was? I mean, did did Henry Ford decide that?
Did he get did he get some government grant from
the Department of Energy? Did he get some grant from
you know, you know USA? I d to go, hey,
(33:44):
go invent the you know, the horseless carriage. No, all
of this is, as you'll hear in the next hour,
a certain phrase that we need to start applying to
the idea of net zero. You've got to have, as
he says, some sort of wealth and authorship over your
(34:06):
life before you worry about the luxuries of the environment.
But then when you do, you have the wherewithal to
take care of the environment, all from nuclear energy and
fossil fuel
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