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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seven, twenty eight, fifty five CARC DE Talk Station, Happy Wednesday.
Welcome back to the fifty five CARS Morning Show, taking
over for Donovan and Neil from Americans for Prosperity and
launching the Americans for Prosperity major campaign to unleash America's
energy potential. Mary Beth Serucci, good to have you on
the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Perfect timing on this since any inquire reminding us about
we already what we already know about our energy bills
have gone through the roof. Apparently in the last five years,
our bills are up seventy five or seventy seven percent.
What we paid three hundred or what we paid one
hundred and thirty five dollars for and a month is
now up to three hundred and ten bucks. Substantial increase.
This is the law of supplying demand kicking in. There's
(00:44):
much more demand for electricity than there is available electricity,
so our rates went up and that's continuing. Unless we
get some regulatory reform, we're going to continue down this
same path, Mary, your thoughts in coming.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
He nailed it well and can't stand to have their
energy builds go up, and there's really not any excuse
for this because we are sitting on an abundance of energy.
We just need government to get out of the way,
remove the red tape, and let innovation and American ingenuity
do what they do best.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, Mary Beth, we had a caller this morning, Jay
expressing out just absolute frustration, and I know where he
was coming from. You know, we have Republican controlled the Senate,
Congress and the presidency. How come this isn't done already?
Why haven't we deregulated otherwise taken bold quick steps to
do something about the burdensome regulations that prevent us from
developing energy sources like oh, I don't know, media, small
(01:37):
modular nuclear reactor.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I know, I hear you. It's frustrating because it seems
like everything takes so long. Come on, we worked nine
months to get the one big, beautiful bill passed, so
this is number two. And you know the bottom line
is that your elected officials need to hear from you.
So that's why we do the things we do. I'm
going on this tour and I'm highlighting energy projects that
have been stalled or are showing American inguity and what
(02:01):
we can have so that the American people understand what
we can do and what the barriers are. And the
purpose of that is to get them to take action
and sign o petition and contact their legislators, and that
Americans for Prosperity, you know that we make it easy
for people to reach out and get involved in government
policy or find out exactly how to contact their legislators.
(02:21):
And you know when Americas for Prosperity grassroots people reach out,
they listen. So that's the goal. We need people to
really get engaged in this and it's hard. So you
try to make energy policy fun, right, how do you
do that and get people engaged? So going off this
tour is one way to try to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, you know what, I guess I anticipate what you're
going to say along those lines, because that was my
exact response after I hung up with with Jazz. You know, listen,
elected officials rarely hear from their constituents. When they get
inundated with a bunch of emails or communications related to
a specific topic, they're like they're eyes light up, like,
wait a second, this is really important. I'm hearing from
all kinds of people about this and energy policy is
(02:59):
one that we can all get behind and contact their
elected officials. Hell was in January this year that Trump
issued the executive order requiring these agencies to review all
existing orders, regulations, and guidance imposing this burden on the
development and use of domestic energy. Hey, he ordered it.
Start reviewing it. Let's start yanking the plug on some
of these regulations.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Right. But the problem is that we have things done
by executive order, and we need them codified into law
because you know what I hear when I meet these
businesses and on these tours is that they need certainty
for the future. They can't know that in a couple
of years if we have a different president, everything's going
to be undone. Because they're investing billions of dollars into
modernizing their plans or adding on additional energy projects. It's
(03:43):
a lot of money and they need that certainty. So
we really need Congress to make this stuff, you know,
certainty for the future, Make it law and not just
have it done with executive orders. I'm glad we have
executive orders and it started the ball rolling. I don't
think that the average American understands that energy demand is
going up drastically because of AI and data centers and
(04:04):
a lot of our power grids are kind of maxed out.
I was at one event and I've actually heard somebody
in the industry say we could be out of electricity
by twenty twenty six. Like that's that's not that far away.
Like we don't want people experiencing rolling blackouts. We really
need action and we need it now, and that's the message.
And then educating people as to what's occurring. It's, you know,
(04:27):
so paramounts what we do.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I note AF is behind and happy about the introduction
of what are called the Permit Act and one that
sounds promising, the Speed Act. What are these two pieces
of legislation and this is this something else my listeners
should be pressing their elected officials on.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, you know, I would say that you could definitely
just go to Prosperity as Possible dot com and get
information on those bills. We also are expecting another comprehensive bill,
hopefully to be introduced in October. So yeah, a lot
of legislation coming that would speed up the permitting process,
that would simplify the regulatory agencies. We have issues in
(05:06):
Washington where some agencies aren't talking to other agencies. We
have issues where we have duplicative regulations and multiple multiple agencies,
So there's just a lot of things that need to
be corrected, not to mention that the whole system is outdated.
I think when we see regulatory reform, a lot of
(05:27):
people think, oh, that means you're going to make it
less safe, and that is absolutely the opposite. It's not
less safe. It's modernizing an outdated, overburdened, overburdened system and
making it simpler, which means, you know, that saves money
for the organizations, it saves time, and ultimately it saves
money for us the consumer, and that's who we're looking
(05:48):
out for. We're looking out for that person whose electric
bill has gone up two hundred dollars a month and
can't afford it and are saying, why is this happening?
And the reason that's happening is multiple issues, multiple red
tape out of Washington, DC, and we're hoping that's trickle
down into the states. Because there's not a big difference
when I talk to state governments and federal governments on
(06:09):
regulatory reform issues. The amount of time it takes to
get a permit, things like that. It's the same thing.
We we just need to fix it. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I think about safety and security of not only business
and industry, but our country generally speaking. You know this
should be I mean, if someone is concerned about safety
and energy production, I think that overlooks the fact that
we are unsafe if we don't speed along the process
of putting more energy online. I mean, our country can't
survive without an abundance of energy, and we are Energy demands,
(06:37):
as you point out, with artificial intelligence alone, are increasing exponentially.
So you know, a retort to this, oh my god,
you're going to make it less safe to produce energy
is oh my god, we're going to have it less
safe generally for the public at large and our American
businesses and our economy if we don't speed this alone.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's right. And you know, we visited an amazing coal
mine in your state, and I did a deep well
mine in the Pittsburgh in the Pittsford area where I'm from.
And the technology that we have in America is just
second to none. We do energy safer and cleaner than
(07:15):
anywhere in the world. And that's another thing I hope
to highlight on this tour is let people really see
how well we do this and how safe and you know,
some of some of these people have said to me,
you know that are are working in these minds and
are in these companies, safety and protection of the environment
is critical critical to them too. They said, they don't
(07:38):
want to remove that at all. They just want the
overburdens some regulations to be to be more.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Straightforward, straightforward. Well, are are these onerous regulations? Are they
predicated on climate alarmism? Or are they I mean built
over time and in different technologically less savvy period of time.
Of course, some of them are outdated and we've moved
past that, like for example, again going to nuclear technology,
we are not building three mile island type nuclear plants anymore.
(08:09):
But or or is this also a component of maybe
a regulatory turf battle. It's all these behind the scenes,
you know, deep state regulators. They don't want to lose
their jobs.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, I mean, I think it's all of the all
of those things you mentioned are definitely a factor. But
there's no doubt the climate type policies we saw under
the last administration, just canceling permits for federal permits for
projects had already been approved, shutting down typelines, stopping infrastructure.
(08:39):
I was also at the Shale Insight Conference in Erie, Pennsylvania,
which has leaders in the natural gas industry from Ohio,
West Virginia, Pennsylvania. And you know, they said that the shale,
we have an affendens of shale. I think I think
your area knows that too. Oh yeah, the actual production
of it has plateaued because we don't have the pipeline infrastructure.
(09:03):
They said, our pipeline infrastructure is so old and it
wasn't made for the volume. And now we're also doing
liquid natural gas, so it needs to be modernized and
a lot of those pipelines have been shut down in
the past. Yes, for environmental reasons, definitely, But you know,
you're talking energy security for Americans. Yes, we have the
(09:25):
natural gas that we can we can get to the public,
but we need the infrastructure to get it there.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, I mean things like that this crazy Look at California.
Look at California. They are going They're backpedaling the opposite
direction as quickly as they possibly can. They wouldn't allow
pipelines now they can't get the out of state resources
that they desperately rely on, or out of country resources
to their ports. They can't get it to the people
who needed the energy of the the energy producing plants,
(09:54):
pipeline lack of pipelines, the regulatory burden they placed on
all these industries, the closure of the refiner. I mean,
they are struggling mightily and they're staring eight dollars gallon
gas leading the face. So what are they doing. They're
unringing the bell of regulatory control. They're backpedaling. They're opening
up the opportunity to develop more production of natural resources,
including evil carbon producing fossil fuel type energy. It's just
(10:18):
it's comical to see where they're going. But there's your answer.
It didn't work, and they're desperate and they're concern Now.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, it's a myth for people who think that we
can replace our fossil fuels in America with wind or solar.
It provides a three five percent of our energy demand
in the United States. And I just I was just
in Kentucky, and you know, Kentucky doesn't really have wind
just the way. I who a lesson from the state
(10:47):
senator there who was in the Navy on the way
that the winds and the climate work. And he is
explaining how we don't have wind in the middle of Kentucky.
There just isn't any Like people they see other countries
that have wind, you know in the Nordic area is
and they think we can do that here, but we can't.
Like it's we are an all inclusive you know. We
can use those we can use those types of energy
(11:09):
where it's suitable, but it's a supplemental type of energy,
like we still have to use the resources that we're
given in America. So we need people to understand that.
You know, we understand that they want to have clean,
safe energy and we don't. We all want that, right,
but they have to understand the reality is we cannot
(11:32):
replace the things that we're taken off the grid with
just wind and solar, or we're going to we're going
to have going blackouts and we're not going to have
the energy just to meet the demand, let alone. Like
you talked about our future economic dominance in the world, right,
we want to maintain the leadership around AI and data centers.
We want it to be the leader and that requires
(11:55):
not the same level of energy, but like thirty percent
more so if you think about we know our energy
is plateaued and we're having a hard time adding to it,
but we need to add thirty percent demand due to
AI data centers. Yeah, we really need to move. We
really need something to happen here vera Bestrucci.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You know what we need more of is more electric
vehicles hooked up to the grid. That'll work. Mary Beth Serucci,
she's leading the Road to Prosperity tour and the way
we help out us go to I think I've got it.
Prosperity is profitable dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, Prosperity is possible, possible.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's also profitable buty And.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We also have afphq is on most of our Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter handle Americans for Prosperity Headquarters AFPHQ.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So follow us follow them a FPHQ you'd be glad
he did, And it's easy to get engaged. AFP makes
it so easy to do. So Prosperity is Possible dot Com. Marybeth,
it's been a pleasure having you on. Keep up the
great work and hopefully we'll quickly turn around the problem
that we have well prevented, we have posed upon ourselves.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, thanks for sharing the message. Make sure you get
out there and contact your legislator,
Seven, twenty eight, fifty five CARC DE Talk Station, Happy Wednesday.
Welcome back to the fifty five CARS Morning Show, taking
over for Donovan and Neil from Americans for Prosperity and
launching the Americans for Prosperity major campaign to unleash America's
energy potential. Mary Beth Serucci, good to have you on
the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hi, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Perfect timing on this since any inquire reminding us about
we already what we already know about our energy bills
have gone through the roof. Apparently in the last five years,
our bills are up seventy five or seventy seven percent.
What we paid three hundred or what we paid one
hundred and thirty five dollars for and a month is
now up to three hundred and ten bucks. Substantial increase.
This is the law of supplying demand kicking in. There's
(00:44):
much more demand for electricity than there is available electricity,
so our rates went up and that's continuing. Unless we
get some regulatory reform, we're going to continue down this
same path, Mary, your thoughts in coming.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
He nailed it well and can't stand to have their
energy builds go up, and there's really not any excuse
for this because we are sitting on an abundance of energy.
We just need government to get out of the way,
remove the red tape, and let innovation and American ingenuity
do what they do best.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Well, Mary Beth, we had a caller this morning, Jay
expressing out just absolute frustration, and I know where he
was coming from. You know, we have Republican controlled the Senate,
Congress and the presidency. How come this isn't done already?
Why haven't we deregulated otherwise taken bold quick steps to
do something about the burdensome regulations that prevent us from
developing energy sources like oh, I don't know, media, small
(01:37):
modular nuclear reactor.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I know, I hear you. It's frustrating because it seems
like everything takes so long. Come on, we worked nine
months to get the one big, beautiful bill passed, so
this is number two. And you know the bottom line
is that your elected officials need to hear from you.
So that's why we do the things we do. I'm
going on this tour and I'm highlighting energy projects that
have been stalled or are showing American inguity and what
(02:01):
we can have so that the American people understand what
we can do and what the barriers are. And the
purpose of that is to get them to take action
and sign o petition and contact their legislators, and that
Americans for Prosperity, you know that we make it easy
for people to reach out and get involved in government
policy or find out exactly how to contact their legislators.
(02:21):
And you know when Americas for Prosperity grassroots people reach out,
they listen. So that's the goal. We need people to
really get engaged in this and it's hard. So you
try to make energy policy fun, right, how do you
do that and get people engaged? So going off this
tour is one way to try to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, you know what, I guess I anticipate what you're
going to say along those lines, because that was my
exact response after I hung up with with Jazz. You know, listen,
elected officials rarely hear from their constituents. When they get
inundated with a bunch of emails or communications related to
a specific topic, they're like they're eyes light up, like,
wait a second, this is really important. I'm hearing from
all kinds of people about this and energy policy is
(02:59):
one that we can all get behind and contact their
elected officials. Hell was in January this year that Trump
issued the executive order requiring these agencies to review all
existing orders, regulations, and guidance imposing this burden on the
development and use of domestic energy. Hey, he ordered it.
Start reviewing it. Let's start yanking the plug on some
of these regulations.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Right. But the problem is that we have things done
by executive order, and we need them codified into law
because you know what I hear when I meet these
businesses and on these tours is that they need certainty
for the future. They can't know that in a couple
of years if we have a different president, everything's going
to be undone. Because they're investing billions of dollars into
modernizing their plans or adding on additional energy projects. It's
(03:43):
a lot of money and they need that certainty. So
we really need Congress to make this stuff, you know,
certainty for the future, Make it law and not just
have it done with executive orders. I'm glad we have
executive orders and it started the ball rolling. I don't
think that the average American understands that energy demand is
going up drastically because of AI and data centers and
(04:04):
a lot of our power grids are kind of maxed out.
I was at one event and I've actually heard somebody
in the industry say we could be out of electricity
by twenty twenty six. Like that's that's not that far away.
Like we don't want people experiencing rolling blackouts. We really
need action and we need it now, and that's the message.
And then educating people as to what's occurring. It's, you know,
(04:27):
so paramounts what we do.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I note AF is behind and happy about the introduction
of what are called the Permit Act and one that
sounds promising, the Speed Act. What are these two pieces
of legislation and this is this something else my listeners
should be pressing their elected officials on.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, you know, I would say that you could definitely
just go to Prosperity as Possible dot com and get
information on those bills. We also are expecting another comprehensive bill,
hopefully to be introduced in October. So yeah, a lot
of legislation coming that would speed up the permitting process,
that would simplify the regulatory agencies. We have issues in
(05:06):
Washington where some agencies aren't talking to other agencies. We
have issues where we have duplicative regulations and multiple multiple agencies,
So there's just a lot of things that need to
be corrected, not to mention that the whole system is outdated.
I think when we see regulatory reform, a lot of
(05:27):
people think, oh, that means you're going to make it
less safe, and that is absolutely the opposite. It's not
less safe. It's modernizing an outdated, overburdened, overburdened system and
making it simpler, which means, you know, that saves money
for the organizations, it saves time, and ultimately it saves
money for us the consumer, and that's who we're looking
(05:48):
out for. We're looking out for that person whose electric
bill has gone up two hundred dollars a month and
can't afford it and are saying, why is this happening?
And the reason that's happening is multiple issues, multiple red
tape out of Washington, DC, and we're hoping that's trickle
down into the states. Because there's not a big difference
when I talk to state governments and federal governments on
(06:09):
regulatory reform issues. The amount of time it takes to
get a permit, things like that. It's the same thing.
We we just need to fix it. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I think about safety and security of not only business
and industry, but our country generally speaking. You know this
should be I mean, if someone is concerned about safety
and energy production, I think that overlooks the fact that
we are unsafe if we don't speed along the process
of putting more energy online. I mean, our country can't
survive without an abundance of energy, and we are Energy demands,
(06:37):
as you point out, with artificial intelligence alone, are increasing exponentially.
So you know, a retort to this, oh my god,
you're going to make it less safe to produce energy
is oh my god, we're going to have it less
safe generally for the public at large and our American
businesses and our economy if we don't speed this alone.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's right. And you know, we visited an amazing coal
mine in your state, and I did a deep well
mine in the Pittsburgh in the Pittsford area where I'm from.
And the technology that we have in America is just
second to none. We do energy safer and cleaner than
(07:15):
anywhere in the world. And that's another thing I hope
to highlight on this tour is let people really see
how well we do this and how safe and you know,
some of some of these people have said to me,
you know that are are working in these minds and
are in these companies, safety and protection of the environment
is critical critical to them too. They said, they don't
(07:38):
want to remove that at all. They just want the
overburdens some regulations to be to be more.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Straightforward, straightforward. Well, are are these onerous regulations? Are they
predicated on climate alarmism? Or are they I mean built
over time and in different technologically less savvy period of time.
Of course, some of them are outdated and we've moved
past that, like for example, again going to nuclear technology,
we are not building three mile island type nuclear plants anymore.
(08:09):
But or or is this also a component of maybe
a regulatory turf battle. It's all these behind the scenes,
you know, deep state regulators. They don't want to lose
their jobs.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well, I mean, I think it's all of the all
of those things you mentioned are definitely a factor. But
there's no doubt the climate type policies we saw under
the last administration, just canceling permits for federal permits for
projects had already been approved, shutting down typelines, stopping infrastructure.
(08:39):
I was also at the Shale Insight Conference in Erie, Pennsylvania,
which has leaders in the natural gas industry from Ohio,
West Virginia, Pennsylvania. And you know, they said that the shale,
we have an affendens of shale. I think I think
your area knows that too. Oh yeah, the actual production
of it has plateaued because we don't have the pipeline infrastructure.
(09:03):
They said, our pipeline infrastructure is so old and it
wasn't made for the volume. And now we're also doing
liquid natural gas, so it needs to be modernized and
a lot of those pipelines have been shut down in
the past. Yes, for environmental reasons, definitely, But you know,
you're talking energy security for Americans. Yes, we have the
(09:25):
natural gas that we can we can get to the public,
but we need the infrastructure to get it there.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, I mean things like that this crazy Look at California.
Look at California. They are going They're backpedaling the opposite
direction as quickly as they possibly can. They wouldn't allow
pipelines now they can't get the out of state resources
that they desperately rely on, or out of country resources
to their ports. They can't get it to the people
who needed the energy of the the energy producing plants,
(09:54):
pipeline lack of pipelines, the regulatory burden they placed on
all these industries, the closure of the refiner. I mean,
they are struggling mightily and they're staring eight dollars gallon
gas leading the face. So what are they doing. They're
unringing the bell of regulatory control. They're backpedaling. They're opening
up the opportunity to develop more production of natural resources,
including evil carbon producing fossil fuel type energy. It's just
(10:18):
it's comical to see where they're going. But there's your answer.
It didn't work, and they're desperate and they're concern Now.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, it's a myth for people who think that we
can replace our fossil fuels in America with wind or solar.
It provides a three five percent of our energy demand
in the United States. And I just I was just
in Kentucky, and you know, Kentucky doesn't really have wind
just the way. I who a lesson from the state
(10:47):
senator there who was in the Navy on the way
that the winds and the climate work. And he is
explaining how we don't have wind in the middle of Kentucky.
There just isn't any Like people they see other countries
that have wind, you know in the Nordic area is
and they think we can do that here, but we can't.
Like it's we are an all inclusive you know. We
can use those we can use those types of energy
(11:09):
where it's suitable, but it's a supplemental type of energy,
like we still have to use the resources that we're
given in America. So we need people to understand that.
You know, we understand that they want to have clean,
safe energy and we don't. We all want that, right,
but they have to understand the reality is we cannot
(11:32):
replace the things that we're taken off the grid with
just wind and solar, or we're going to we're going
to have going blackouts and we're not going to have
the energy just to meet the demand, let alone. Like
you talked about our future economic dominance in the world, right,
we want to maintain the leadership around AI and data centers.
We want it to be the leader and that requires
(11:55):
not the same level of energy, but like thirty percent
more so if you think about we know our energy
is plateaued and we're having a hard time adding to it,
but we need to add thirty percent demand due to
AI data centers. Yeah, we really need to move. We
really need something to happen here vera Bestrucci.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You know what we need more of is more electric
vehicles hooked up to the grid. That'll work. Mary Beth Serucci,
she's leading the Road to Prosperity tour and the way
we help out us go to I think I've got it.
Prosperity is profitable dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, Prosperity is possible, possible.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's also profitable buty And.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
We also have afphq is on most of our Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter handle Americans for Prosperity Headquarters AFPHQ.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So follow us follow them a FPHQ you'd be glad
he did, And it's easy to get engaged. AFP makes
it so easy to do. So Prosperity is Possible dot Com. Marybeth,
it's been a pleasure having you on. Keep up the
great work and hopefully we'll quickly turn around the problem
that we have well prevented, we have posed upon ourselves.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, thanks for sharing the message. Make sure you get
out there and contact your legislator,
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