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Bill cunning in The Great American.
Of course, story after story indicates that

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these governmental policies demanding the consumers like
you by only evs in the next five

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or six years is completely collapsing.
The reason we have a middle class that

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functions is low energy prices, whether
it's your whether it's your suv, or

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whether it's a car, or whether
it's energy for your home. And the

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plan is, and you're being warned, the plan is in the next four

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to six years, is to have
a grid that is basically in collapse.

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So one must go to vehicles as
determined by the federal government, and they

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will determine for you. In the
summertime in Texas, in the summer might

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be one hundred and three degrees,
but you won't be able to get your

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house any cooler than eighty five.
And in the winter time is going to

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be sixty five degrees when it's cold
as the well diggers behind. And we're

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fighting like warrior poets, and we
have ridiculous headlines that somehow Joe Biden has

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a great energy policy because we're producing
more natural gas and oil than ever before.

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And the reason is the supply is
down and the demand is up.

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And if you read the Wall Street
Journal story about what's happening to America's energy

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grid, the last coal fired power
plant in New England is being shut next

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year. And so they keep restricting
the ability of energy producers to give us

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electricity, which means the price is
going up. And some of these AI

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factories and chip manufacturers, especially one
in Ohio and one in Colorado, has

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a tremendous demand for electricity which won't
be there. And of course, Jason

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Isaac is the CEO of the American
Energy Institute, I think, headquartered in

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the great state of Texas. And
Jason, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham

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Show. And can you give us
an overview of the policies of Joe Biden

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and God forbid if he gets the
reelected November fifth, and we go through

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a cycle of him and Kamala Harris
for the next ten to twelve years.

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What does America look like under their
lack of leadership when it comes to energy.

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Yeah, it's going to continue to
look a lot like what we're seeing

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today, more and more people losing
their electricity and losing their natural gas.

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From twenty twenty one to twenty twenty
two, there was a thirty percent increase

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in people getting their electricity disconnected and
the seventy six percent increase in people that

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got their natural gas disconnect. That's
over five million Americans losing utilities that either

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heat their homes or cook their food, warm their water, help them wash

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clothes, stay clean and healthy,
and they've lost that access because of this

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energy driven inflation that's being forced down
our throats by the Biden administration. Numbers

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just out showing inflations up three and
a half percent. You mentioned New England

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closing their coal fired power plant.
The last one that's really unfortunate. The

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marketing campaign by the climate alarmist against
coal has been incredibly successful, only to

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our detriment. Everywhere in the world
where they use less coal, they've reduced

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the amount of coal costs have gone
up, thankfully to American innovation. We've

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got the world's leading clean air.
We've reduced pollution nearly eighty percent over the

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last five decades. We use coal
more responsibly than any country in the world

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because we actually use pollution control technology, you know, the things that capture

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the harmful things out of the air
before they hit the air, and then

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actually we can use some of those
products. You like the fly ash from

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coal, It doesn't fly anymore,
it's just ash. You mix that in

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concrete. It makes concrete cheaper.
So what's going up? The cost of

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concrete's now going up because they don't
have this additive that makes it stronger and

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cheaper. It's just more of the
same idiocy that we've been seeing for the

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last three and a half years.
You know, It's funny. In New

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England though, what they do have
is they have a power plant that burns

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trash, and there are certain times
in the winter when that power is producing

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more than any renewable on the grid. There helping people keep their homes warm

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burning trash. They use pollution control
technology to It's just absurd. I'd rather

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rurn American energy natural gas, coal, nuclear, where again we use it

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and produce it more responsible than anywhere
else on the planet. As we're sitting

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here in April with twenty twenty four, are there any in construction power plants

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in America that burns coal? Is
any being constructed as I speak? No,

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they're not. They're actually being decommissioned. They're being early retired. There's

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proposals to shut down coal fired power
plants all over this country, years before

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they've passed, years before they've absorbed
the cost, before they've gotten a return

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on investment. And utilities love this. Why would you think of utility would

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love us. They get to pass
on the cost to consumers and so they

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get more revenue. And it's unfortunate
that they're not necessarily aligned with the American

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Energy Institute. You know, we're
a trade association that supports free markets and

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American energy. There's a great quote
by Churchill talking about an appeaser as someone

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who feeds crocodiles hoping they'll be the
last one eating. Well, we don't

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feed crocodiles, we wear them.
Also, Jason Isaac, I would assume

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there's no nuclear power plants being constructed
as I speak, So when would is

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real? Soon coal fired power plants
are gone and nuclear power plants are not

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being constructed. In fact, they're
being decommissioned. That is a chunk of

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the ability we have to produce electricity, which leaves it to natural gas,

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and I guess other means and method
because obviously windmills don't work, and the

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solar batteries from China don't work when
the wind doesn't blow and the sun don't

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shine. We know what happens.
So what's the long term plan. Say

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we jump ahead five or six years
and it's now twenty thirty twenty thirty two,

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we have no nuclear power plants that
are operational, coal fired power plants

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are done. Where do we get
the massive increase of the demand for electricity,

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Well, it's going to be from
quick start natural gas generation, which

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is very expensive. It doesn't run
all the time, and so when you

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do need it to balance the load
on the grid, it costs a lot

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of money. You know, it
helps in certain situations, but you look

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at states like California, they're being
completely dependent on it because they're unreliable,

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aren't producing electricity during peak demand time. In just this month, the state

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of California passed the law they're going
to tap into your garage. So if

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you've got one of those power batteries
that you think is going to help you

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in case your power goes out for
a few hours or you're charging your ev

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that are going to pull the electricity
from those to manage demand on the grid.

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Now, if you're industry and you're
looking for a reliable country to build

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a new plant or build some new
manufacturing. You're not going to go to

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some place in some country that's being
dependent on people's evs and their garage that

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are charging. You need a lot
of electricity. Artificial intelligence uses a ton

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of electricity. So we need more
reliable thermal generation from natural gas. The

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combined cycle is the most efficient.
We need more coal because it's great for

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on site storage. You can keep
nine to twelve months of coal at the

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location, so if you do have
some hacks or attacks on a pipeline like

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we've seen already in this country,
doesn't matter. With cole you've got it

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on site, you don't have to
pipe it into you. And then we

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need a lot more nuclear because it's
great for baseload generation. In reality,

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is that possible? In the Greta
Thunberg era, she was just arrested again

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in the Netherlands laying in front of
a road. Because the farmers in Europe

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are going crazy. They're going nuts. They're shutting down large European cities because

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of the requirements of France and Belgium
and Germany. What they can and can't

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do the gold is to put diapers
on cows or to get rid of the

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flatulence. I can only imagine what
we'd like to put a diaper on a

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bowl. But that's a different story, and that's not well reported. Is

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it what the European farmers going through. No, it's really not. And

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it's funny because they actually do put
masks on cows. That's how you know

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they're Democrats. Because to capture the
CO two and the methane coming from their

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perps, it's absolutely absurd. It
doesn't do anything to mitigate a change in

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climate. It just increases the cost
of everything. I think Europe may be

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lost, but the farmers are certainly
helping the case. But unfortunately, this

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three point five percent inflation that was
just recently reported is going to continue to

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go up, driven by energy inflation
in this attack on American energy. In

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Europe alone, over seventy percent of
the fertilizer manufacturing facilities are offline because they

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don't have the feedstock natural gas to
produce the products that help grow more food

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and less land. Something that would
be great of solar energy and wind energy

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would recognize how much land they destroy
to produce unreliable variable weather. But I

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hope Europe wakes up, but I'm
thinking they may be too far gone,

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but America needs to stand up.
I thought I was making a joke about

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diapers and masks. You're telling me
that's real. That's why the farmers are

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going nuts. They can't they can't
get enough masks to put around the bulls

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and the sheep and the pigs,
and they have to have diapers, and

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because of the flatulence, so that's
a major problem. It really is real.

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It is a joke though, because
they're doing it and it's just so

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stupid, and it just costs more
money. It's just laughable. Don't let

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your pig fart now, I'm laughing
about a high Have a steak, wrap

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it and bacon. Well, I
have. We have so much to touch

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on. But I saw a story
out of Brazil that they have so many

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rock pythons and anacondas that they're capturing
them to take the place of steak.

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They say, have a snake,
and I'm thinking of eating a snake.

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And the reason is is because they're
complying with certain environmental standards and the cattle,

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the sheep and the pigs are destroying
too much of the rainforest, and

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they want to substitute steaks with snakes. Would you eat a boa? You

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know, in Texas we figured out
a way to pretty much fry everything,

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So yeah, I probably haven't eat
a snake. Let's prefer the though.

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Think, can you imagine the world
in which our kids and grandkids are going

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to grow up in in the next
ten to fifteen to twenty Now we're as

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close to twenty forty as we are
to nineteen ninety eight. Can you imagine

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that world if the Trumpster doesn't win? In common sense is given and were

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going through a long cycle of Joe
Biden and then Kamala Harris and then Gavin

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Newsom, twenty thirty years of that. What does America look like? Well,

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reverse a lot of the progress that
we've seen over the last fifty years,

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where we've become world leaders in clean
air. People won't be able to

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afford energy in their homes, so
they'll resort back to firewood, which was

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you know, one hundred years ago. We'll see an increase in deforestation places

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around the world. You know,
there are places that are like this.

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You look between the Haiti and Dominican
Republic, and one of them has a

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lot of trees that are on an
island. Another one doesn't because they don't

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have access to hydrocarbons from fossil fuels, and so that's what we would experience

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here, increase in poverty, decrease
in life expectancy. All the things are

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attributable to having access to affordable,
reliable energy, and that's getting more and

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more out of touch and out of
our reach. The one thing you brushed

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over quickly is that America, because
of ingenuity, is capturing over eighty percent

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of particular matters coming out of coal
fired power plants and then being repositioned.

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We have clean coal everywhere. We
used to have a nuclear power plant planned

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here in Cincinnati that was gotten rid
of, and now the coal fired power

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plant's going away too. And the
utility companies say, fine, whatever the

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cost, will pass them on.
But utility bills are right now through the

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roof. And lastly, Jason Isaac
of the American Energy Institute, what is

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the plan about these electric vehicles?
We haven't touched on because right now Ford,

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there's some ridiculous number. A Ford
dealer told me that every time they

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sell an RV a Ford RV,
Ford loses thirty five thousand dollars on each

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sale. Can you tell the American
people what the plant is about the evs.

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Yeah, and the market is responding. Consumers don't want them, support

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for them. Polling shows that support
an interest in them is waning. The

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only manufacturer that has brand loyalty,
whereas if you own one of their vehicles

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and then you want to buy another
one, buy another vehicle, you go

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back to that manufacturer, and that's
Tesla, And for the first time they

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just reported a decrease in year over
year numbers. So even Tesla's are on

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the wane, but those are the
most popular. Ford they're slashing production significantly.

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The Ford lightning truck that they lowered
the cost from ninety eight thousand to

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ninety two thousand dollars, ooh,
Big Savings is losing over sixty two thousand

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dollars per truck. And then research
I published last year where the Texas Public

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Policy Foundation shows that you and I
are subsidizing over ten years another fifty thousand

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dollars, So that lightning truck costs
two hundred thousand dollars over ten years,

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and that's not including the cost for
tires that you're going to have to replace

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every ten thousand miles that actually increase
pollution. Yes, evs are showing to

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increase pollution because of tire wear and
break dust. There's so much weight behind

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those vehicles. They need massive breaks
and that is showing in air quality because

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of evs. It's absurd. It's
this push from the environmental climate alarmist to

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control every aspect of our lives.
But I think we're seeing a big reversal.

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Companies like Toyota and others are embracing
hybrid electric vehicles, which are very

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efficient. Those are great vehicles.
We need more of those on the market.

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We just got to change the policy
at the federal level. And they

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get this crazy illegal multiplier credit.
If you produce an EV, so let's

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say it gets sixty five miles per
gallon, you get credit for over five

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hundred miles per gallon. And then
they trade those credits and that's where Tesla

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in twenty twenty one made nearly two
billion dollars in revenue with selling those credits

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manufacturers, and so that adds up
to nearly twenty thousand dollars in subsidies that

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internal combustion engine buyers, gasoline diesel
buyers are helping people that own these wealthy

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individuals that own these fancy gadgets evs, we're helping subsidize those costs significantly.

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You kind of brushed over this quickly. I want to just for the last

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minute, deal with this. That
you say that hot that electric vehicles are

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more polluting than gas vehicles. Explain, Yeah, the tire wear, so

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the torque behind an EV. If
you've ever had an opportunity to drive an

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EV, they're fun there, they're
great. They've got a lot of torque

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that they're not practical for people like
me to like to drive a lot or

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need to drive a lot for work. But that torque turns those tires faster.

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The vehicles weigh a lot more,
and so you wear down your tires,

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and there are reports that are showing
some electric vehicles are having to replace

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their tires every seven to ten thousand
miles. And then the brake pads,

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the dust from the brake pads from
having to slow down that extremely heavy vehicle

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are creating more break dust and that
is getting into our air and it's affecting

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our air quality. We're still world
leaders in clean air and we're practically at

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a natural state, but the last
thing we want to do is have any

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decrease in that air quality. We
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we are now. Well here,
we are bringing about what we seek to

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avoid, which is a bad environment
occasioned by liberal Democrats. Jason Isaac,

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you're the CEO of the American Energy
Institute, and the Wall Street Journal says

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there's a coming energy crisis in this
country with great increase of demand with less

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supply means average Americans are going to
have their cost skyrocket once again. Jason

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Isaac, thank you for coming on
the Bill Cunningham Show, and Jason,

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you're a great American. Thank you. Bill. Let's do it again,

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Jason Isaac, Let's continue with more. There it is batteries from China,

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increase pollution, government control of your
life, middle class obliterated. Is that

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what the ma Ininsteram media is telling
you. I don't think so. Bill

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Cunningham, News Radio seven hundred WLW. This week, I only get three

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rooms a car,