Bill Cunningham, the Great American and of course electric vehicles, the Inflation Reduction
Act, and also the clearer cutting a forest in order to provide ev battery
facilities here in America is causing havoc. And one of the experts in the
matter of energy is Jason Isaac. He's the founder and CEO of the American
Energy Institute. Jason Isaac, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And
a note one of the columns you've written about the Chinese green energy form supported
by Michigan State government is planning to the forest land to build an electric vehicle
battery plant designed to help the state meet its climate goals. And it appears
that Governor Whitmer is allocating two hundred million dollars in taxpayer funding for the development
while clear cutting the forest to provide for this. So can you tell me
where we are here? We are in the great month of February of twenty
twenty four, and all hell's breaking loose everywhere in the world, and at
this point it appears America's energy needs are being supplied more by the Chinese than
by anyone else. Can you explain to the American people what's happening in Michigan
and how it relates to their life. Yeah, it's happening in Michigan,
and it's happening around the country. The federal government is heavily subsidizing unreliable variable
generation, and the left is just hell bent on destroying the earth to so
called save the planet. You know, and I talk about destroying the earth,
you're right. They're going to mow down hundreds of acres of land,
if not thousands of acres of land with great trees that are supposedly absorbing the
CO two. You know, this gas that's necessary for life on Earth that
everybody wants to capture. And I say no. I embrace the high carbon
lifestyle, and I think the rest of the world should get to live one
too. But it's absolutely appalling. And that's why what the federal government is
pushing through the Inflation Reduction Act, through the production tax credit that has been
around for decades, that is crushing grids around this country. It's a reason
why you see so many foreign companies, companies with Chinese Communist Party affiliates in
the leadership of those companies, investing in these projects because they can get our
tax dollars we're subsidizing communism and socialism around the world. Well, when you
say, it's causing the opposite effect of what's intended. And we went into
this thing headfirst because it's subsidized industries that were not viable, which is electric
ev battery industry is not viable. And can you tell the American people as
to how this helps the Chinese? You write that the irony is that China,
the world's biggest polluter, is bulldozing pristine wildlife to build toxic electric car
battery plants. China's continued quests to dominate the battery industry should surprise no one.
And we're playing into this because we're subsidizing it. You also say Biden's
administration continues to push for electric vehicles that won't save the planet, it will
decimate the global environment. So the environmentalists, instead of saving the planet,
is killing it by these electric batteries. So explain what the long term goal
is by the communist red Chinese. Well, it's to control every aspect of
our lives. And I think we've got some communist sympathizers within our governments around
the country that are allowing them to do this. To make one electric vehicle
battery for a small ev requires moving five hundred thousand pounds of earth. And
where is this happening. This is happening in cancer villages in China where they're
utilizing slave labor to process the rare earth minerals. And then in China they
control own and control over seventy percent of the mines for cobalt, where today
you'll have forty thousand kids between the ages of four and thirteen using hand tools
and their bare hands. They'll be covered in sulfuric acid dust mining cobalt to
drive this electric vehicle revolution that you and I as taxpayers are contributing nearly fifty
thousand dollars per electric vehicle, even if we don't own one, we are
helping pay for one. We're doing it through higher cost for electricity, we're
doing it through direct subsidies to these companies, and we're doing it through buying
internal combustion engine vehicles. Yes, they're actually contributing because of the crazy corporate
average fuel economy standards, and they still with fifty thousand dollars of subsidies per
vehicle, they still can't make money. And that's why many automobile manufacturers are
cutting back on their EV FORGAT Now you ran over that rather quickly. How
many, how many? How much Earth's got to be moved to produce one
one battery? How much one battery for a small EV five hundred thousand pounds
of earth has to be moved, mined and processed. That's why I say
they're destroying the earth. The so called save the planet, but their policies
don't do anything to save the planet. All they do is separate us from
our food, our fuel, and our money, also known as our freedom.
And I would think we also glossed over the item of these forty thousand
kids My producer Tony Bender and others are not in mind somewhere on the Congo
or Ecuador, on their hands and knees to get the lithium and other materials.
How many these are all kids? Shall I use the term children of
color? That these are not white kids from the US or from Canada.
That these are migrant children that are in the minds being paid little or nothing
to get the ingredients to put into a battery shipped over to China in order
to make And how many children are injured or killed every year because of these
mining efforts of the environmental wackos in this country. How many children of color
are killed and injured? Yeah, it's appalling. Their life expectancy is less
than twenty years. That of hours they're working in these unsafe conditions, and
there are hundreds of children every year that actually just disappear and these mindes collapse.
They dig these tunnels with hand tools, they get in there to get
the cobalt, and they're known to just collapse. I've seen heartbreaking videos of
people trying to pull people out of these minds in the Congo. It's unfortunate,
and I love it when woke people, you know, in these urban
areas that are just so wealthy, they've got so much time on their hands
that they can go out and block highways and they worry about environmental justice,
And I say, where's the environmental justice for the forty thousand kids that are
making the products that you say are going to save the planet that do absolutely
nothing to mitigate a changing climate. You know, many many decades ago,
Edward R. Murrow did a good friend of Tony Bender, did a report
on the Harvest of Shame, in which children south of our border were consigned
to work in fields, all the days of their life bent over, and
because of that we had child labor laws. It's amazing to me. That's
sixty minutes, and the mainstream media doesn't send an entire production crew somewhere in
South America or into the Congo and follow the day in the life of a
child slave on hands and knees in the third and the dark, digging for
cobalt to satisfy the needs of suburbanites who want to drive a tesla. Are
you amazed? That's the story of the EV batteries that are destroying the world
seeking to save it. Why isn't that story being done? I wish I
knew, But because it's not. They should be done in Chile and looking
at the surface mines there where they're getting lithium. They should be in the
Congo. No, they can't really go in the Congo because they'll get shot
and killed because of the Chinese communists control over the areas. You know.
So Darth Caro wrote a book called Cobalt Read, and he was almost murdered
during the time of writing this book because he got access and was able to
get some of these pictures of these appalling conditions. But We have lithium deposits
right here in the United States, and the Biden administration is rejecting permits to
mine those where they would be just like all the rest of our energy,
oil, gas, colon nuclear, we produce it more responsibly than anywhere else
on the planet. But the Biden administration and other states are rejecting applications to
mine cobalt than lithium here in the United States. Maybe it's because the costs
are way too high and they've just thrown cost benefit analysis out the window.
Well, Joe Biden, once again, who's been racist his entire life.
Joe Biden has taking racism into new levels. He wants kids of color all
over the world. He doesn't want lithium mining inside the United States of America
for environmental concerns. He doesn't care about the Congo or Chile because that's a
different issue. Speak to me about Hurts, the largest running car company in
the world. They just dumped of two months ago, twenty thousand, twenty
thousand evs onto the market because customers don't want them, and that we're told
in another three months they're going to drop another twenty thousand. They have eighty
thousand evs. They're going to drop in the market in the next year.
Hurts because people don't want these electric vehicles because to return them you must stand
in line somewhere, and for those of us that don't own one in the
first place, you have to wait. You have to return it with a
full charge. How much has the cost been to Hurts, which is put
into the cost of your run car, all the money they've lost one hundreds
of millions of dollars. Well, why did Hurts go this way? Were
they paid to do so by the federal government? Well, it was virtue
signaling. As I've testified in front of Congress, Virtue signaling is proving to
be very expensive, and companies like Hurts are going to write down billions of
dollars in losses. And ultimately, you've got to look at the shareholders of
these companies. You look at who is an investor in Ford who had this
incredible you know, we were going to push full forward with evs and now
they're saying that they're losing over sixty thousand dollars per lightning Ford F one fifty,
that they're selling these sell for ninety two thousand dollars with the extended range
batteries, you know, so you're talking about moving you know, multiples of
five hundred thousand pounds of earth to make the batteries to go in one lightning
and plus the fifty thousand dollars in subsidence at there getting for me and you
these trucks would cost over two hundred thousand dollars on the lot. And no
one's going to buy that for an F one fifty that doesn't get any range
during cold weather and takes hours to charge. So I I think the chickens
are coming home to roost for companies like Hertz. Ford is cutting production and
half they're tired of losing billions of dollars. But who should really be tired
is the pensioners. And why the pensioners because you look at companies like black
Rock Bank are at State Street, these large asset under management companies, these
financial institutions that are forcing companies they invest in to go down this path of
evs and their returns. Ford's returns and profits would have been much higher,
more than I think nearly double their last annual report, which would have been
beneficial to people like firefighters and police officers and teachers who are having their pension
dollars weaponized against these companies and they don't even realize it. We're fighting back,
I know legislators in Ohio. We're fighting back and pushing back against this
weaponization of capital. Several states have joined the ranks of Texas and pushing back,
and so I hope there's some good efforts to wake up these woke financial
institutions that are weaponizing are capital against our best interests. Jason Isaac, founder
and CEO of the American Energy Institute. What percent of the atmosphere is CO
two? I'm watching this hearing these us I think I think it was Kennedy
of Louisiana as one of the environmental wackos. Can you tell me? We're
trying to stop CO two emissions and CO two is critical to the survivability of
plant life and the human beings. But nonetheless, the estimates of the experts
was ten percent, twenty percent of the atmosphere CO two? What percent of
the Earth's atmosphere we're trying to prohibit the rise of CO two? What percent
is it? Did? Zero point zero four percent? Let me get that
number, zero point zero four yes, yes, zero point zero four And
what is the goal to keep them from going to what's zero point zero five
or six? What's the goal? And we need see so a zero point
zero four is the composition of the atmosphere of CO two. Everything's about stopping
these carbon fuels put here by God Almighty himself for our use. They're part
of God's great plan to have oil and natural gas, et cetera, and
earth for Americans to use for another one hundred years until we discover the true
value of di lithium crystals. Until that point, what was the do you
have some number? Of course the environment of Waco, say the CO two
most thought we're ten to twenty percent, it's zero point zero four. What
is the goal to keep it from rising to what? Zero point zero five?
Yeah, they're saying, well, we've got to stave off one point
five degrees of warming, Which is funny because just in the last couple of
weeks people are coming out and saying we've actually cost past one point seven in
what's happened during that time Over the last hundred years, as we've so called
warm the earth one and a half to two degrees, you've seen deaths from
weather related events because of the economic prosperity from producing hydrocarbons. Deaths from weather
related events have gone down ninety nine percent for a while our population has quadrupled.
Ninety nine percent reduction of human deaths because of the brilliance of natural gas
and oil and what it brings to middle class values. Ninety nine percent reduction
in human deaths from you would think listening to the CBS Evening News and ABC
does it every night. It's a weather report. We have a thunderstorm somewhere
over New York City and that leads. So you're saying that in the last
one hundred years we've had a ninety nine percent reduction in human deaths from weather
related events. Ninety nine percent reduction zero point zero four percent Z two and
they're selling us. Do you think even environmental wackos understand this. No,
they don't, and they really don't care. They think that humans are the
problems and they think that there needs to be a lot less of us on
this planet. When you really get down into their policies, they're very Malthusium.
I think there's too many humans on the plant. I couldn't disagree more.
We need to have more of us go forth and multiply. There's plenty
of food as long as we have nitrogen fossil fuel based fertilizers to sustain life.
And you look during that same period of time, a greater than half
of the population lived in abject poverty one hundred years ago. Today that number
is around eight percent. These are and our population is quadrupled. These are
incredible numbers. It's flourishing because of access to affordable, reliable energy. And
unfortunately we've seen just over the last few years, we've seen a climate policy
crisis being created by a leftist administration at the federal and state levels. Electricity
costs are of twenty five percent between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two.
There's a thirty percent increase in people getting their electricity disconnected, a seventy six
percent increase in people getting their natural gas disconnected. And that's here in the
United States. And to think that we just cut off LNG export term and
also FIDE administration just paused. Guess what. There's over seventy percent of the
fertilizer plants in the European Union are offline, not making fertilizer because they don't
have their feet stock natural gas and guess what we're standing over here in the
United States to see if it produced better than anywhere else on the planet,
that we could be exporting to our friends and allies in Europe so they don't
have to be dependent on Russia and China. People that really truly want to
do as harm could care less about the environment, not much to say about
human rights. I want the American people to fixate on zero point zero four
percent of the high carbon lifestyle. Embrace it. And one last thought from
Gregory Wrightstone, geologists and executive director of the Zero two Coalition. According to
the UN, the greatest threat to engager species as habitat loss. Apparently we
need to destroy the environment in order to save it. And you got to
follow the money, Jason Isaac, who's getting paid? Who isn't getting paid?
But thanks for coming on on the truth will set us all free.
Zero point zero four percent, Let's destroy the planet. Let's kill a bunch
of kids in the Congo and Chili. Let's disconnect electricity all over the world
because we have to keep it from going from zero point zero four to zero
point zero five. It is a crisis, Jason isc Once again, we'll
have more flourishing. We have more crises, and thank you for coming on
the Bill Cunningham Show. We'll put the facts out. Let the American people
decide. Jason Isaac, thank you very much. Great to be on.
God bless you. Let's continue with more Wow. Over the last one hundred
and twenty five years and ninety nine percent reduction in deaths from weather events.
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