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Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's seven point thirty hit seven thirty one to fifty
five KRCD talks day. Well, we have a new day
in the America, a new down and maybe the end
of climate religion. Just talking about that with Ken Blackwell Earlier,
we talked a little bit about what Dave Ooyage from
the Taxpayer Protect Alliance, and we continue Ohio energy poly
discussion with Donovan and Neil from Americans for Prosperity. Welcome
back to the fifty five Krsey Morning Show, My friend.
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Always good to.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Have you on.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Brian glad to be here well, and you got a
shot of adrenaline too. A reform energy policy in Ohio
after the Donald Trump announcements pulled us out of the
Paris Accord all of the above energy strategy, which means
all of the above, we get rid of the ev
mandate which is just ridiculous, and probably the end of
green subsidies because he put a halt to the green
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projects under the Inflation Reduction Act, which it wasn't. This
is positive, positive steps in the right direction to lower
our energy bills and create energy independence, is it not?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It absolutely is. From what President Trump has done in
the first forty eight hours in the White House to
what you publican majorities in Congress have indicated are going
to be top priorities, down to what leadership here in Columbus,
here in Ohio, and the House and Senate have indicated
as top priorities when it comes to energy. This is great, Brian,
because this is what we had heard when we were
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out there on the doors we were doing all these
gas station price rollback events and other things last year
talking to folks around the state of Ohio. People are
feeling the pain in a lot of ways, but energy
and the rise and cost energy is one of them.
And we're excited to see so many of our leaders
taking this up as a top priority early in the
legislative calendar this year.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, as I observed earlier in our discussions with the
other folks, you know, this is one profoundly concrete example
of how we can lower the inflation rate, lower the
prices of goods and service, because everything we eat and
consume is of course shipped somewhere by a semi tractor trailer,
and you have to have energy keep the lights on.
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The electricity bill has been going through the roof because
of these great, ridiculous green energy subsidies which do nothing
to increase efficiencies or provide more electricity, just divert precious
dollar resources to chasing our tail carbon reduction projects. I
mean it's it's it's going to lower our energy builds
its period, end of story. I don't think anybody can
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argue against that from an economic standpoint. You know, more
supply cheaper, it's going to be cheaper.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well, and that's yeah. So we put out a study
actually yesterday alongside the Buckeye Institute to lay out some
principles six principles in particular that lawmakers here in the
state of Ohio. I think these things apply to the
subtle government as well, but we're targeting the state of
Ohio with this report that really will get to the
heart of free market energy solutions. What we want to
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see as an abundance approach to energy policy making, where
we increase the supply of energy. We're rather than trying
to find different gimmicks or subsidies or other other goofy
mechanisms to try to to bring really because they don't work.
They haven't worked for years. It's time that we embrace
the free market and an abundance supply for energy policy making.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, are you Americans for Prosperity and the Buckeye Institute
also pushing and I hope the answer is yes. Nuclear
plants because that's one thing that would generate the abundance
of electricity.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah. I mean it's a great form of reliable energy, right, Brian.
And that's really what we need, is we need energy
that you can also call up on demand. Right as
we have these spikes, so you have these cold blasts
like we just experienced, we may need a little more energy.
And so absolutely nuclear is part of that picture. Indiana,
I don't know if you saw this, but Mike Brawn
just announced they're putting one of those modular nuclear facilities.
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And I believe out there talking to my colleague in
the Indiana AFP chapter about that yesterday. It stuff's happening, Brian.
We need to embrace it.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well, we need to embrace it. You know. That's wonderful.
But why does Indiana get to pave the way? Why
can't we do it? I mean, can we take a
queue from this? Can we take a queue from the French?
I mean the French are they have a ton of
nuclear plants, so much so that Germany, which cut its
own throat, the former economic powerhouse of the European Union,
trying to rely on the sun and the wind to
generate power. Guess what the sign ain't shine and the
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wind ain't blowing right now. They had to tap into
France's abundance of energy to keep their lights on in Germany.
I mean, come on, we can't learn the lessons from
these folks.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, I mean, that's absolutely part of it. Well, when
you think about the onshoreing talking internationally now, right, you know,
if we're going to try to bring these manufacturing jobs
back to the United States, those don't run on ferry,
dust and hopes and dreams, right. Those factories take a
lot of power to operate. Manufacturers need cheap, affordable, reliable
energy in order to create their facility, to open their
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facilities up and create the jobs that so many Americans
are hungry for. That only comes with good free market
energy policy that will embrace abundance in our energy sector
rather than an over reliance on unreliable sources of energy.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And if you can demonstrate that you have a underscore
of the word reliable energy source that produces an electricity
a less or less money, and you have generally energy
policies in this country or most notably even just the
state of Ohio that allow for a cheaper energy bill,
that is going to be a magnet for global corporations
to want to come here and settle down. I mean,
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we obviously are far more competitive than the European Union
when it comes to this stuff. The door's open, the
water's warm, come on in.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, well that's something you know. Senate President Rob McCauley had.
I've had the opportunity to hear him speak about some
of the some of his vision for this legislative session,
and when he talks about energy, that's sort of the
vision he's casting here, which is, look, we're sitting on
an abundance of a great natural resource. We are, you
know that being natural gas. We have a steady, reliable
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uh political or environment here, right, and that we've got
conservative leadership in the House, the Senate, and the governor's
mansion where we want we ought to be able to
you know, Republicans tend to be the party of free
markets and abundance, right, so we want to bring we
have to be able to bring these jobs here. We
have to be able to have folks who want to
cite their projects here have the comfort of knowing that
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their projects will still be viable ten years down the road.
Where in states like New York or New Jersey, where
they're very progressive, right, Brian, they're going to maybe pull
the rug out from under a natural gas facility, and
so there's no desire to invest there. We can do
that here on. We can invest in that energy, we
can bring those jobs to the state, and we can
make some really great things happen over the next decade.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And all it takes is getting out of the way.
I mean, nothing causes more energy to be more expensive
than government regulations. I mean the edicts and mandates in
pursuit of this impossible to catch carbon elimination. It's only
because of that that we have high energy bills. It's
just we Again, I always go back to it's we're
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cutting our own throat. We're making our lives miserable just
because someone waved a pen and signed a piece legislation
forcing people to do something the otherwise wouldn't do. Well.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, And I mean the one of the most recent
examples of that was in the Inflation Reduction Act. Part
of the requirements there around coal were to implement so
called clean coal technologies that don't even actually exist or
viable right now, and so facto killing a form of
energy production by creating an unachievable bar for this industry
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to meat. And that's two principles that we drive that
here in this report with the Bucket Institute was ending
subsidies that hide the real cost of energy right or
distort the energy market. And then also getting to making
sure environmental policies actually promote well being rather than desired
public policy outcomes or favorite interests. Right. We do those
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some of those things, we're going to have a better
product we're going to have and when we're going to
get that energy we need at the price that it
ought to be. Well.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And as you noted earlier, the Republicans control Columbus US
and ergo which direction we go in? Do the Republicans
have the will to take on these challenges in the
face of the Greta thunbirds of the world frowning and
waving their finger at them.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I think they would do it gleefully. Brian, Well, the
early signals are I think what we'll see later today
actually is there will be a press conference I believe
is happening today. It's supposed to happen yesterday, It might
happen today from the House introducing their energy legislation. We
haven't seen the details of it yet, but from what
we hear, it should be very much in the vein
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of what we're talking about. Good. The Senate has already
introduced a placeholder bill with the Senator Ryanikey from North
central Ohio, Senate Bill two, and that will be the
Senate we're told that will be the Senate's version of
energy legislation that'll get to the heart of a lot
of the problems we've been seeing. So there's already movement
in Columbus on tackling some of these things, and I
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think we'll see some really exciting opportunities.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh that's wonderful. Well, you know you have a spot
here in the fIF about Cassey Morning Show to bring
the details to our attention if something gets handed out
that we can all take a look at. And I'll
remain cautiously optimistic that I would think that Donald Trump
has opened the door to actually get something done. You know,
he's on board with this, so we should get on
board with this. And you can say it's consistent with
the federal government's policy on energy all the above strategy.
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We need efficient, we need reliable, and that's what we're
going to do here in Ohio. And let's be the
first state to embrace this, get get back ahead of Indiana.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's why we put this report out. We wanted to
be able to give lawmakers the foundational principles to be
able to go out and do the hard work of
policy making legislating, but do it in the right way,
not not in the way they've been doing it for
the past couple decades.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Day Fourth Part Company this morning. I can't thank you
for bringing this to our attention. Our meeting, me and
my collective listening off is not the royal we Is
there someplace or is there anything my listeners can do
to try to advance this. We just wait and keep
our powder dry until the legis gets rolled out. And
if there is any of the above, what's the website
we should consult to get the details on what you
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guys are doing.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, well, actually go visit our friends at the Buckeye
Institute Buckeyeinstitute dot com. Go visit them. This report I've
been talking about through the show is available there. We
developed it because we want more people to be able
to understand the past twenty five years of energy policy
making that sort of got us where we are today.
But then also have some principles they can embrace and
take to their lawmakers and encourage them to apply these
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principles like ending subsidies or you know the environmental overreach
that's happening in our country today. Go to Buckeyeinstitute dot com.
Check them out, check out their report, and let us
know what you think about it.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Dave Williams can thank you enough for the details and
the information. I'll look forward to having you back on
the program really soon. Keep up the great work. Thanks
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