WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.119 --> 00:00:13.519 Wait for it, seven o six. I think about KCV 2 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:15.880 talks today. Jam Bryan Thomas here with Instudia bring him 3 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:17.760 down from the Hudson Institute. Were just going back over 4 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:22.800 his record, and not only is he a energy policy expert, 5 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:25.679 he's also retired military as a naval aviator. He spent 6 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:28.960 time in Dever desert storm. He's been in with the 7 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.920 IDF in Israel, and so he kind of has a 8 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.240 real good perception of things going on in the Middle East. 9 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:36.439 So maybe we'll get to that as a matter of topic. Brigham, 10 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:38.159 great to see you today, my friend. It's always a 11 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.000 pleasure to have you around. Brian, thanks so much, wonderful. 12 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:43.439 Hudson dot org is where you find the Hudson Institute 13 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:47.759 and they're all over everything, so make sure you bookmark 14 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:50.799 Hudson dot org and look donate. You can help them 15 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:53.679 out with what they do. Let's start with before we 16 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:55.159 dive in a whole bunch of other things, and we 17 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.520 could go on for hours and hours. Oh real quick, 18 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:01.320 and I'll try to remind folks a little bit again 19 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:06.480 further into this discussion with Brigham. But Charged Conversations is 20 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:09.280 his podcast, so you might want to search for that 21 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:12.959 where you get your podcasts, including the iHeartMedia app, so 22 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:16.840 search for charged conversations. And how's that been going for you? 23 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:17.719 With the podcast? 24 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:19.760 It's been going pretty well. You know. 25 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:24.120 We put out one every other week and trying to 26 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:28.480 delve into topics that are both informational and timely. 27 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:31.640 And of course the name of the podcast suggests what 28 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:32.120 it's about. 29 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:33.079 In this energy. 30 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:37.200 Policy it is, and it's also the controversy surrounding energy 31 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:39.640 and some of the broader topics related to energy. 32 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.879 Well, and we'll definitely move on to that right now. 33 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.560 Let us begin. I was joking with brigand when he 34 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:47.760 came in, I said, so, have you had to sit 35 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:50.200 down with Kamala Harrison actually asked her and did she 36 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.640 tell you what her energy policy is? Because part of 37 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:54.840 the problem we've got going on here is that she 38 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:57.840 has a record, and it's not that old. Twenty nineteen 39 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.680 was when she was running for president the United States 40 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:01.680 of America. We know how far that got her. She 41 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:03.920 had to drop out because she couldn't find a single 42 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:06.040 human being alive that was willing to think that she 43 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.000 was a great candidate. And we know how that all 44 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:11.680 worked out. But no fracking, for example, is one of 45 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:13.960 the things she uttered. She's all in the Green New Deal. 46 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.520 She took responsibility and credit for this Green New Deal 47 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:20.960 that was what cloaked as the Inflation Reduction Actor or 48 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.599 something like that, among other multi trillion dollar bills that 49 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:27.000 were passed that have obviously had an inflationary effect on 50 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:33.039 our economy, but in favor of banning fracking, for example. 51 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:37.080 I mean, that's I mean, these tumultuous times we live in, 52 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:40.199 going back to Middle East and elsewhere, that's dangerous. 53 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.599 Gosh, Brian, she's such a center of the road candidate 54 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:44.960 on these type of topics. 55 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.039 Oh, you can talk to the mainstream media lately, haven't. 56 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:50.360 The legacy media, right? You know what's really what I 57 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:54.599 find really interesting about this year. Obviously we're in unchartered territory. 58 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:54.919 Right. 59 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:59.039 We have never had a presidential nominee not go through 60 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:02.719 a primary process to be vetted and have millions of 61 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:05.280 people vote for them. And I think, you know, the 62 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.240 primary process is the way that we vet candidates, and 63 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:12.719 it's we're exactly We're used to this open primary process 64 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:15.479 where other people can go, hey, Brian, I agree with 65 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:17.199 you on that, or I don't agree with you on this. 66 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:18.560 And that has all. 67 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:21.639 Been you know, thrown by the wayside. 68 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:25.879 And so I think you know his exit, Biden's exit, 69 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.240 you know who is Kamala Harris and who's she all about? 70 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.520 And it's interesting that the legacy media is trying to 71 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:35.759 reintroduce her, rehabilitate her, and honestly, I think it's the 72 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:38.599 third or fourth time they've done that already. They you know, 73 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:42.240 hard reset, hard reset, But you can't get away from 74 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:46.439 what she says. And regardless of what she says today, 75 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:50.280 we have to take her and believe that she is 76 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.759 honest in her opinions. And we don't have to go 77 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:55.080 back that far to find these things that you've just 78 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:57.240 mentioned well. 79 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:59.599 And you know, most recently, and I know it's unrelated 80 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:02.919 to any particular policy position, but she was part of 81 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.919 this effort to hide from the rest of the world. 82 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.159 What we obviously could tell with our own eyes is 83 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:12.960 that Joe Biden was losing his marbles. I mean she did, 84 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:14.800 she was is she engaged in the cover up? Who 85 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.240 met with Joe Biden more than Kamala Harris. I think 86 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:19.399 they have her down as having sat down and had 87 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.480 internal meetings with the more than eighty times She's obviously 88 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:24.920 has a presence in the White House and can see 89 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.439 how he is react to other people's interactions with Joe 90 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.360 Biden because you know, they didn't keep their opinions for themselves. Gee, 91 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.519 Joe's not doing real well. You know, those conversations took place, 92 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:36.480 and yet there she was out talking about how he's 93 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.199 the most the sharpest knife in the drawer and the 94 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:41.720 most astute. I can't even keep up with it myself. 95 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:42.720 It was a bunch of crap. 96 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.959 Yeah, and you know it's it was the worst kept 97 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:50.680 secret in DC for for several years. I mean, people 98 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:52.480 that are in DC have known this for a long 99 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:56.759 time that you know, sadly, you know, Joe Biden of 100 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:58.759 today is not that Joe Biden from twenty years ago. 101 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.000 And I think had he not been able to hide 102 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:03.959 out in the basement in twenty twenty during COVID, we 103 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:05.319 would have realized it back then. 104 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.519 Honestly, Well, in this bump in the polls, this collective 105 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.759 sigh of relief from the Democrats, clearly they are happy 106 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:15.120 that they don't have the bumbling Joe Biden around to 107 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.480 deal with anymore. Obviously they were aware of it, which 108 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:19.160 is one of the reasons why you can attribute a 109 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:22.319 bumping the polls with Kamala Harris over Joe Biden. It's 110 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:24.079 just that she's not Joe Biden. 111 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:28.680 No, she's not. And but you know, this is what 112 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.839 they have left. And part of those discussions were, well, 113 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.040 could we have a many primary, could we get other 114 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:35.800 people in? 115 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.759 And then they intentionally ran on the clock on that one, didn't. 116 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:40.120 They They did. 117 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.800 In fact, they moved it up, right, They moved all 118 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:47.120 these deadlines up. And you know, so they are behind 119 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:52.839 Kamala until they're not any longer. But you know, talking 120 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:57.319 about her, it's interesting, there is something I agree with 121 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:00.879 her about, and that is that paper for straws don't 122 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:03.959 work very well. Now she still wants to ban plastic straws, 123 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.360 but she is on the record as saying, you know, 124 00:06:07.319 --> 00:06:09.759 they're not strong enough. You get halfway through your drink 125 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.920 and they fold in half. So but that doesn't deter 126 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:20.839 her or people like her from pursuing these ideological, foundational 127 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:22.959 crazy policies. 128 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:25.480 Well, crazy policies that are usually predicated on the concept 129 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:29.680 that you and I simply breathing is killing the planet. 130 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:31.199 Is that true? 131 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:33.240 No? 132 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.319 No, but you know you're right, you talk about the 133 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:40.040 Green New Deal. You're worn around when the glaciers melted. 134 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:41.879 We weren't around during the Many Ice Age, or at 135 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.000 least we didn't have SUVs during that period of time. 136 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:46.439 And we could go on ad nauseum for all the 137 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.720 things that happened relative to climate change, which does exist, 138 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:51.800 that of course humans had nothing to do with it. 139 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.360 How is it that this time the climate is changing 140 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:56.560 as it is wont to do since the dawn of 141 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.279 the earth, that we're responsible this time and it isn't 142 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:05.639 some other natural phenomena like sun maybe volcanic eruptions, massive wildfires, 143 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:08.639 or anything else that puts particulate into the atmosphere. 144 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:11.639 So you know, on the energy side, and thinking of that, 145 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:16.519 the United States has reduced our greenhouse if you were 146 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.160 to assume, let me back up, if you were to 147 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:20.839 assume just for a second, that we are responsible for 148 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:26.480 all this. Number one, we have reduced our emissions while 149 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:32.399 other countries like China and India have not. And by 150 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.519 the way, twenty twenty three, and I predict now in 151 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.000 twenty twenty four will be the most coal used in 152 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:40.560 the world on record. 153 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:43.480 That would not surprise me. Because our energy demands globally 154 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:45.000 are increasing dramatically. 155 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:49.279 Yes, and with the advent of AI data centers, we 156 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:52.839 need more energy, not less. So it's really important that, Yeah, 157 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:54.639 we should all be good stewards in the environment. I 158 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:57.759 don't think anything. I don't think anybody is saying that 159 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.600 we shouldn't be. But the same token, we have to 160 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:03.800 be able to walk and chew gum. And you know, 161 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:06.839 getting back to Kamala for a minute, you know, she 162 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:09.240 was a supporter of the Green New Deal. She cast 163 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:12.560 the tie breaking vote in the Senate for the Inflation 164 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.519 Reduction Act, which, by the way, had nothing to do 165 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:17.360 with reducing In fact, it was. 166 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:21.120 An embarrassingly stupid name piece of legislation. But they had 167 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.639 the nerve to call that the Inflation Reduction Act is 168 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.480 just a reflection of their perception of Americans collective stupidity 169 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:29.040 when it comes to legislation. 170 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:30.639 You're not wrong. 171 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.559 Well, I don't think I'm right. That's why I said 172 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:35.399 it out loud. I got to be on records. Somebody's 173 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.000 recording this right now, perfect for replay later. Thomas, you 174 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:40.559 said this, and it's like, yeah, I said it, and 175 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:42.559 I believed it when I said it, and I have 176 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:48.320 a feeling I'll believe that ten years hence absolutely, let's 177 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:51.879 pause seven fifty. We're going to continue more detail with 178 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:56.399 Brigamagun about energy policy generally, Kamala Harris's version specifically, and 179 00:08:56.519 --> 00:08:59.279 some other developments that are going on globally that the 180 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.200 Hudson Ins Too comments on and reports on regularly again 181 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:05.519 Hudson dot org. 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Chuck Ingram 231 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.240 on fifty five KRS the talk station. 232 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.279 Seven twenty fifty five KRCD talk station Brian Thomas with 233 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.039 in studio Brigham Acounts from the Hudson Institute Hudson dot 234 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:35.440 Organs where you find Brigham. He's an energy policy expert. 235 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:38.679 He does a podcast which you can find easily charged 236 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:42.200 conversations where he does a you know, a deep dive 237 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:44.840 in all this speaking of deep dives with the Daniel 238 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:48.159 Davis Deep Dive normally on days like today, but not today. 239 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:49.960 We get bright part coming up at eighty five with Joel, 240 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:52.399 Paul Locke and Jason Williams from the Inquire Should the 241 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:57.039 County think about moving the Bengals to the Burbs? His 242 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.480 op edd on, that's hilarious, Brigham, and I can imagine 243 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.399 building a two billion dollar stadium. I anyway, we're not 244 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:04.600 going down that way. We're gonna jump back energy policy. 245 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.440 I whatever your thoughts are, and I don't want to 246 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:09.679 steer in a different direction, but man, the question is 247 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:12.320 burning back in the back of my mind. The solution 248 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.960 to the globes problems with energy is non carbon producing 249 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:20.200 nuclear power plants. Modern ones. They're modular, they're easy to build, 250 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.879 one size fits all, they can go anywhere. Just don't 251 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:28.000 build them in a blank and tsunami zone. Stupid, stupid, 252 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.600 stupid stupid. So yeah, Fukushima would still be there if 253 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:34.120 they had built it about one hundred feet higher above 254 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:37.200 the ground. I'm just I know, I'm on a stream 255 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:40.480 of consciousness tear here. But don't you think Trump would 256 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:44.320 gain some advantage by saying we are going to be 257 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:48.279 the world's leader in the production and creation of nuclear 258 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:50.879 power plants, which will serve and solve all of our 259 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:53.159 energy needs. There's an article on the Wall Street General 260 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:55.279 today about artificial intelligence in the amount that's going to 261 00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:01.960 cause everyone's power bills to go up. There's not sufficient generation, right, No. 262 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.399 I think, yeah, well, I think you're absolutely right. I look, 263 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:08.240 we've made some missteps with nuclear power in the past. Right, 264 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:11.039 You've got Chernobyl three my island. Okay, I know it 265 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.039 was fifty years ago that was closer to World War 266 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:15.360 two today. 267 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.440 Right, Listen, it ain't nineteen seventy, it's anymore. 268 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:19.039 It's not. 269 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:23.120 And even the Japanese have now sort of reversed themselves 270 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:25.000 and said, oh, we need to build nuclear power plants, 271 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:29.919 we should just probably not build them in tsunamism and 272 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:32.759 so that, And I think if you look, even the 273 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:39.320 vast majority of Americans, especially younger Americans, support nuclear power. 274 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:43.000 We just brought a new reactor online down South, a 275 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:49.440 voctal reactor. Our problem with nuclear power is typically we 276 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:51.679 don't do very well at building them in the past. 277 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:55.639 They're behind schedule, they're over budget. We're our own worst enemy, 278 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:59.039 and that can be fixed with these new modular reactors. 279 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:02.360 Exactly this year. The giant cooling tower plants of old, 280 00:14:02.919 --> 00:14:07.840 their footprint in terms of size is comparatively tiny. The 281 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:10.799 waste issues have mostly been resolved. There is a minimum 282 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:13.080 amount of overall waste. You can take all the global 283 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:14.960 waste in the world and put it in one site 284 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:18.039 like that Yuca Mountain facility. It would still all fit, 285 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.080 and they'd still have room for more down the road. 286 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.799 But I meant it's not an existential threat to have 287 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:25.919 nuclear waste or to deal with it. Nuclear power is 288 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:29.120 powering right now, the aircraft carriers that are on the 289 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:30.759 way to the Middle East, and they never have to 290 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:33.399 be refueled. I know the submarines the same way. We've 291 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:36.720 been using nuclear power safely and efficiently and effectively with 292 00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:40.080 military for decades as well. I don't see a problem here. 293 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:42.200 There isn't one. We just need to beat a little 294 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:43.799 bit smarter how we build them. And if you look 295 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:47.120 at us nuclear reactors that are currently in existence, you 296 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:50.200 go to each one, every single one is different. They're 297 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:53.240 engineered slightly different. Again, We've got to get out of 298 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:57.360 our way. And the idea behind these modular nuclear reactor 299 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:01.720 designs is that they will be licensed and then it's 300 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:03.759 like a car, you just keep producing the same thing 301 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:06.320 over and over and they can be tied together. After all, 302 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:09.720 all we're using the nuclear energy for is to heat 303 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.639 water to spin power turbines to create electricity. 304 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:17.080 Right, it's not that hard. And you would think, given 305 00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:19.480 that the globe has a really really hot core that 306 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.639 you drill down far enough it's as hot as it 307 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:26.000 can be, you could make a free, non nuclear weight 308 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.919 energy using steam turbines just simply with geothermal. 309 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:32.519 There are people working on that, and I'm sure some 310 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:36.080 of your listeners may have geothermal. I do heating and cooling, okay, 311 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:37.240 And how does it work for you? 312 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.240 Wonderfully? There you go absolutely very few moving parts and 313 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:43.960 a warranty like a fifty year warranty on the loop, 314 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:45.720 and I mean, it's just it's outstanding. 315 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.840 Well, I think your big point is, and if we 316 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.000 look back to the Trump years, and look, I didn't 317 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:53.879 agree with Trump on everything, right, I don't think we've 318 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:56.360 I've agree with any president one hundred percent of what 319 00:15:56.399 --> 00:16:01.639 they do. But he understands the power literally that energy 320 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:06.399 provides this country. It's a source of economic stability, it's 321 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:13.440 a source of national security, and energy security is very important. 322 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:16.320 And we are blessed with all of these abundant natural 323 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:18.600 resources that a lot of countries don't have. 324 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:20.799 And up until this moment in history, we were blessed 325 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:24.360 with administration after administration that had no problem tapping into 326 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:28.360 it or using it for our collective benefit. And that's 327 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:31.240 what happened. The world noticed that the United States, with 328 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:34.440 free markets and capitalism and all the wonderful glories that 329 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:36.879 go along with free speech and your right to move 330 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.399 and travel and start and establish your own life and 331 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:42.639 make your own decisions, created the greatest, most powerful country 332 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:45.320 in the planet or on the planet, and to take 333 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:50.080 away energy would wreck that model. And sometimes I'm very, 334 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.519 very firmly of mind that that's exactly the point. Hook 335 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:55.679 us up to a grid run by windmills and solar 336 00:16:55.720 --> 00:17:00.200 panels with limited availability and comparatively small production of energy 337 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:02.279 compared to what we're used to, or compared to what 338 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:05.680 nuclear would bring, allows us to continue to be the 339 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:09.039 most prosperous country in the world under our business model. 340 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.440 It absolutely does and that's why I think it's this 341 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.039 election coming up is going to be very important, and 342 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:17.920 you know, getting back to charge conversations for just a second. 343 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.680 We dive in depth in our last episode into what 344 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:24.680 is Kamala Harris's views on energy and just a tidbit, 345 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:28.240 one of her last acts as the California Attorney General, 346 00:17:28.440 --> 00:17:31.079 just weeks before she went into the US Senate, she 347 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:35.200 sued Now think about this, Kamala Harris sued the Obama 348 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:39.200 administration over its plan to allow fracking off of the 349 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:41.000 Pacific coast. 350 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:45.200 He can't make that kind of you cannot make this 351 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:49.000 up right, continue to Briga McCown. 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