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me Pete Calendar, It is I Pete Calender. Hope you
had a fantastic holiday season. I was off for two
straight weeks, not that anybody really noticed. I think, thank
you very much to Chad Adams for filling in. I
think was Chad the only fill in I caught. I
think he was the only one that filled in for me.
But I also know Nick Craig did a bunch of
substitute work, and Brett Winterbol apparently just took over everybody's
show across the country. As I understand, he fill in
work for various national shows all over the all over
the country. No, I had a good vacation. I got
a lot done. Like I spent. I spent two days
actually writing twenty twenty five on all of my checks,
just to kind of get the muscle memory going. You know, well,
this way you avoid the embarrassment and mistakes at the
grocery checkout, you know, so you just kind of so
I just just two straight days just writing twenty Yes,
I went through a lot of checks. I had to
avoid a lot of checks, but I'm writing twenty twenty
five everywhere now, so it was worth it. I had
nine recalls done on my car all well, I mean
all at once. It's not like I took it in
for nine different appointments. I brought it all in and
over to the planet Mitsubishi folks, and they were they
they were like, oh, yeah, you got a recall here.
I said, yeah, that's I got a text message and
like you got to get a So I said, okay, fine,
I'll take it in for the recall because you got
to take it to the dealership. And they were like,
whoa you've got You've got nine recalls still open on
this vehicle because he is twelve years old. And I've
never I don't think I've never taken it in for
the recall work and so I got them all done
at once. I will say I was pleasantly surprised. The
guy who is the uh, the counter guy at the
at the dealership, the service area, he was awesome. It is.
He made eye contact, he had a good attitude, he
was smiling, he was conversational. Younger fella like. I was
really impressed. So kudos to them. Let's see, I got
some lumber cut. I mean I had had somebody else
cut it, but I had to go to the lumber
yard and pick out the board and then they cut
it up. Carolina lumber. These are not These are not
a Carolina Urban Lumber. These are not sponsors of the program.
I just said, it was a really good experience. So
like down there we picked I'm do some shelves. So
I just needed a weird shape to fit in the
stupid toilet rooms that they build in these houses. I
do not understand why they build a separate toilet room
in the bathroom. The whole room is the bathroom, guys. Anyway,
So they have they built this little toilet closet and
so you go in there and there's like nothing in there.
So got some shelves cut. What else? Oh, I cleaned
up my iPod because I've lost a couple of accounts
over the years, and so I basically had to rip
every single CD that I own back into a rebuilt library.
That took me about a week. When but I was
also doing the twenty twenty five checked training, so I
was multitasking, so there was some overlap there. But that
guy I did all that. I did production work for
the ads for the UH. I made a digital digital
ad that's going to go out onto the Twitter machine.
Oh and then I just saw as if this, as
if this couldn't get any better, I just saw that
Fidel Trudeau resigned. Like what a day I am having.
Now I have remembered how to speak. I'm writing twenty
twenty five on my checks and Fidel Trudeau has resigned
up in Canada. That is fantastic news for Canadians. Also,
be aware one o'clock they're going to be doing the
certification of the presidential election results up in Congress. We're
not going to carry it live because it's really kind
of boring. They just, you know, we'll give more votes
to it, and they just call out the state names
and stuff whatever. So but we'll dip in and out
just in case, you know, an insurrection breaks out and
three o'clock. Also, North Carolina's new governor, Josh Stein, will
have his cabinet members sworn at, sworn in, sorry, sworn in.
The Swearing Act comes later swearing in. So yes that
now you're completely up to date on how I spend
two weeks, as if you were interested. Now, I will
note there has been some some more fingers in the
eyes of Americans by the president staffers. I think that's
what we should just call this administration at this point,
because it's not Biden, right, and it hasn't been. And
we went over this half a month ago longer when
I say it like that, But before I went on vacation,
we had the big Wall Street Journal report that showed,
with what fifty sources that the president has been incognitive
decline and has been getting worse and worse and worse.
But there were signs of this during the twenty twenty campaign.
They knew this, His handlers knew it, his staffers and aids,
everybody knew it. Of course, now they're pretending like every
other day, they'll be flipping back and forth pretending that
they knew or that they didn't just depending on what
the current need is. This is one of the nice
things about being a Democrat, being a leftist is that
you get to have these sliding positions based on whatever
the need right now is right, like believe all women
or not sex's under when I except when it's not right,
Back and forth, back and forth, depending on whatever the
current issue is. So I saw this story over the weekend.
This actually is the story from the Huffington Puffington Post, right,
Biden bans fossil fuel drilling across six hundred million acres
of US waters and Huffington Post hardly a conservative rig
President Joe Biden permanently banned oil and gas drilling across
six hundred and twenty five million acres of federal waters
along with cementing Biden's legacy. So they're so gosh, they're
so focused on this legacy thing for him. I said
this on Twitter when they're talking about, you know, Joe
Biden's legacy, trying to build his legacy, and he's They're
they're going out there and trying to burnish his legacy
with all the commutations. Right, I was on vacation for that.
I'm sure that got covered in great detail over the
last two weeks, like all of these people that Joe
Biden has commuted sentences for, I mean, besides his son,
but like all of the other people, you know, part
of his legacy. And he's doing all of this for
his legacy, and he's trying to tell people what his
legacy is and all that. It's like, guys, legacies are
like nicknames. Okay, the author of the nickname can't be
the one that's getting the nickname. They got to be different.
You don't get to you don't get to make up
your own nickname and then tell everybody that this is
what you're going by. Now, you know, that's kind of
the deal with the legacies. Also, Jimmy Carter, speaking of legacies,
Jimmy Carter, his body is laying in repose at the
Capitol and people are going by. They're going to be
doing the funeral and all of that. So Jimmy Carter
passed away there by cementing Joe Biden as the worst
living ex president. Now, so there's that legacy that he's
got going for him. But I find this of note
that you're going to ban fossil fuel drilling as the
Huffington Post calls it, or as I would call it,
you know, energy exploration and development. So they're going to
ban this in six hundred million acres of US waters.
They're doing it by executive order, and this is supposed
to cement his legacy on combating global climate change. Quick question,
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Huffington Post does this story about Joe Biden permanently banning
oil and gas drilling across six hundred and twenty five
million acres of federal waters, cementing Biden's legacy on combating
global climate change. The withdrawal is likely to deliver a
lasting blow to President elect Donald Trump's plans for unfettered
fossil fuel development in the coming years. And my question,
because you know me, I'm a why guy. Yes, I'm
also a wise guy, but I am also a why guy.
Why why now, why are you doing this now if
it was so important? Right, because that would be the
first I would imagine first response to the question of why. Because,
by the way, when you're interviewing somebody or you know,
like lawyers will be asking questions, they know what the
answers should be. That's why they ask those questions to
get them on the record. So, okay, ask the question
why are you doing this? And they say, to comeback
global climate change. That's the cover story. The real motive
is to jam up Donald Trump right to prevent him
from doing what he has promised to do. Okay, why
so let's go with your cover story. Then why now?
Why are you waiting until you're you know, one foot
out the door before you implement this kind of super important,
really critical executive order to ban all of the oil
drilling off the coasts of the country. Why now? Well,
if they had done it, say three years ago, well,
that would not be helpful to Joe Biden, right, because
the investment in energy production, right, the money would dry
up and people and companies would look to do other
things with their capital, might impact the markets in a
very negative way. And if I remember correctly, now I
am old enough to remember this. You may not be,
but I am that three years ago Joe Biden was
drawing down all of the strategic petroleum reserves. He was
taken out all of the oil to try to keep
the gas prices low because inflation was driving down his
poll numbers, I mean further driving down his poll numbers
because they were really low after the Afghanistan withdrawal. But
besides that, like further driving down those numbers, and so
you couldn't do it then because it might hurt him courage,
as Dan Rather would say, that's right, that is political
courage right there. Right. That's how important the climate change
agenda is to Joe that when forced to choose between
his own political prospects, his own polling, and doing what
obviously has to be done to save Gaya Earth, he
chose himself. That's it, right, that's the It's just like
with Justin Trudeau, baby Fidel up there in Canada, same thing.
Did you hear his comment today with something like, oh,
there's you know, all of this internal strife going on
inside of his political party and his governing party and
all of this, and so he can't possibly devote enough
attention to leading the country if he's dealing with this
internal strife. No, because if you were going to win,
then it wouldn't matter. Right, if you were going to
beat back whatever the opposition was from within your own
party or co, then it wouldn't matter. You would beat
it back and you would continue on. No, the problem
is he can't win. He's not winning, he's losing, and
so therefore he's going to pretend that the cover story
is the truth, which is he's doing it for the
good of other people. See, people are so transparent. All right,
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Biden on his way out, well, let's be clear, the
presidential staffers on their way out the door had Joe
Biden sign an executive order to ban offshore drilling for
all of our federal waters. The order, the largest such
mineral withdrawal in US history, permanently protects coastal waters spanning
the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as the
Eastern Gulf of Mexico and forty four million acres of
the Northern Bearing Sea that's off the coast of western Alaska.
In a statement, Biden or his staff invoked the latest
environmental disaster out in these drilling platforms, the deep Water
Horizon oil spill from twenty ten. That's been now fifteen years, folks,
fifteen years. You're still getting mileage out of that one,
are you okay? They said in their statement, the staffers
dead quote, it's not worth the risks. So again, well
then why now was it not worth the risks four
years ago? Up until now, you've been letting this occur.
But now you're gonna block it off for Trump. Huffington
Post piece by Christyangelo says the sweeping protections rely on
a provision of the nineteen fifty three Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act, or the OCSLA or the ax LA as
I like to call it, which gives presidents the power
to permanently block offshore leasing for oil and gas development.
The law, however, does not include language giving presidents the
authority to reverse such a withdrawal. When so, this is
the problem. When Congress wrote the law, they did not
write into the law that the president can reverse himself
or herself or reverse a prior order. It was like, no,
once you do it, that's it all done, locked in
forever and ever. They didn't say it was locked in forever,
but that's been the practical implication, as was litigated by
the norm preserving Barack Obama. Right. Yes, this was litigated
when Obama did the same thing on the way out
of the door in twenty nineteen. He did the same thing,
and when Trump came in and tried to reverse it,
it got litigated, and an Obama judge sided with Obama.
When President Obama invoked the same provision of the law
in twenty sixteen to block offshore drilling in large areas
of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans twenty sixteen, Hey, man,
I thought he was out in twenty sex oh, so
he did it on his way his way out the
door as well. Twenty sixteen, he wanted to block offshore
drilling in large areas of the Arctic and it Alantic oceans.
A White House official said that the protections would stand
the test of time. That has proven true. In twenty nineteen,
a judge Obama pointed ruled that Trump's executive order in
twenty seventeen revoking the Obama era ban was unlawful and
only Congress could lift such a withdrawal. So I went
back and looked at the story. At the time. This
was from March twenty nineteen at The New York Times,
piece by Choral Development. Sorry Choral Davenport. Sorry I thought
it was really somebody named Coral is doing environmental writing
at the New York Times. Again with the Dickensian names anyway.
In a major legal blow to President Trump's push to
expand offshore oil and gas to element, a federal judge
ruled that an executive order by mister Trump that lifted
an Obama era ban on oil and gas drilling in
the Arctic Ocean and parts of the North Atlantic Coast
was unlawful. This is once again one of those things
where the Democrat president puts something in place and then
nobody can never take it away. The decision by Judge
Sharon Gleeson of the U. S. District Court for the
District of Alaska concluded that President Barack Obama's twenty fifteen
and twenty sixteen withdrawal from drilling of about one hundred
and twenty million acres of Arctic Ocean and about three
point eight million acres in the Atlantic Quote will remain
in force and effect unlessened until revoked by Congress. She
wrote that an executive order by mister Trump in April
of twenty seventeen that revoked the drilling ban was unlawful
because it exceeded the president's authority. So we found an
instance of where the left is not all in on
presidential authority. It's when the other guy's got power then
it's like, oh no, no, no, no, we're not cool with that.
We want our guy to be able to write these
executive orders and do the stuff we want him to
do with the stroke of a pen or the dialing
of a phone. And when he's then gone, and we
got the orange man in there, and the Orange man
wants to now use his pen and his phone to
undo the thing that was done by the pen and
the phone. Well, now you can't do that, see once
you write these So okay, well, if this is the case,
then how about Donald Trump then just say, okay, you
know what we're gonna do, like all of this stuff
in an executive order and we'll put it in place,
and then you guys can't undo this one forever and ever. No, no, no,
I'm sure that'll get litigated, and I'm sure that the
Democrats and the leftist lawyers with the wardrobe change will
of course overturn that the case adds to a growing
roster of legal losses for mister Trump's efforts to undo
Obama's environmental legacy. Experts and environmental law estimate that the
Trump administration has now lost about forty environmental cases in
federal courts. Most immediately, the decision will force the Interior
Department to withdraw the waters of the Arctic Ocean from
its upcoming plan on where they would lease federal waters
to oil companies for drilling. Later on, in this pretty
lengthy piece, they say mister Obama's efforts to use his
executive authority to ban drilling in the Arctic Ocean and
Trump's efforts to undo that ban are legally unprecedented. This
was never done before, because nobody had ever contemplated this
kind of twisting of the law. Again, like for people
that grew up, you know, older or longer ago than
about ten years. Like the idea that gender and sex
are two different things, and you can be a different
gender than your sex, like that, that whole concept is
just poof, just out of nowhere, out of the blue, right,
and then everybody has to scramble to adopt this new mantra,
this new tenet of the religion, and that blowing up
of the norms and that and the kicker on it
to me has always been like nobody ever points that out,
that this is a destruction of long held mutual understandings
and that creates a high trust in our society. And
when you blow up the norms, you then create more
and more distrust and you see it everywhere. All right,
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as they make the media landscape more transparent. Steve molloy
is a senior legal fellow at the Energy and Environment
Legal Institute. He joins me now and he has a
piece over at the New York Post headline Trump will
make America energy dominant with Frack executive executive Cabinet pick. Steve.
Welcome to the show, sir.
Speaker 2: How are you hey, Pete, Thanks for having me. I'm
doing great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Good.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: First off, I was going over the ban in through
the executive order that the President did of all of
the federal waters try to jam up Trump on his
way in. Do you have any thoughts on that as
he's walking out the door, you know, to protect the
climate now versus say four years ago when he first
got into office.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean, I guess the good news is
that anything that Joe Biden does, Donald Trump can undo.
It's just that when Donald Trump undoes it. He's going
to have to be very careful to dot all the
odds and cross all the t's because the Greens who
are going to sue are going to forum shop. They're
going to find a Biden Obama Clinton judge that is
going to rule their way issue some sort of national injunction.
And you know, our federal court system is so lame
and slow that it'll take a while for it to
get undone. So President Trump's is gonna have to be
very careful. I think we're going to need more aggressive
federal conservative judges and you know everything will be okay.
Speaker 1: So Trump has nominated a fella by the name of
Chris Wright to be the Secretary of Energy. So who
is this guy?
Speaker 2: Well, so, Chris Wright is a very successful energy executive.
He specialized has specialized in fracking. He has started a
couple fracking companies. He's become a billionaire. Interestingly enough, he
will be the first Secretary of Energy that has any
experience in the energy industry. Now, I don't you know,
Conservatives have wanted to get rid of the Department of Energy,
and I agree with that. It's a Carter and Carter
era invention. It's not needed, but as long as we
have it, we might as well have energy policy influenced
by an actual energy executive.
Speaker 1: So you add something in your piece. I did not
know this. Ninety percent of oil production today involves fracking. Yeah,
what is so? How is that possible? I did not.
I guess they're not separate things.
Speaker 2: Well, fracking is a technique, right, It's an engineering technique
for producing oil, And we used to just drill for
oil conventionally, and then during the two thousands fracking became
feasible and has just taken over the industry. And so
that's that is largely how we became energy dominant during
Trump one. It's it's through frack. Because of fracking and
all the possibilities in unlocked is how Obama was able
to wage war successfully against the coal industry. Okay, because
you know, fracking just makes everything more possible. We have
essentially infinite oil and gas now because of fracking. So yeah,
it's very important to as fracking. He's not just some
bizarre technology that we can do without. We need it.
Speaker 1: I guess I thought fracking was about gas versus oil production.
Speaker 2: Yeah, NK cracked oil too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So I did not know that interesting. Okay,
So you're right also that the Biden administration handed back
to Opek control over the global price of oil. So
how did he do that? And is that why we
saw prices what they were?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So during Trump won, we were energy dominant. We
had crushed the price of oil. The oil industry didn't
like that too much, but we had crushed the price
of oil. The United States was the marginal producer, meaning
we were in charge of the global price of oil.
As soon as Biden came in he announced all his
anti fossil fuel policies. Investors got scared. The United States.
Although we have all these oil reserves, they basically became
non existent. And all that put Opek back in charge
of the price of oil. And you know, now that
Donald Trump is coming back, all that's going to go away.
We're going to be we're going to be the marginal
producer again, and we're going to be winning. We're going
to be energy dominant.
Speaker 1: Steve molloy he is the senior legal fellow at the
Energy and Environmental Legal Institute. And if you want to
read this piece, it is at the New York Post.
But I know you do other work. You got a
site or anywhere else you want to direct people to
go find more of what you're doing.
Speaker 2: I do most of what I do on X at
junk Science.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's probably where I read most of your work,
but I may have a slight addiction to X or
Twitter if you prefer. All right, Steve malloy, great to
talk with you, sir, Thank you so much. You all right,
take care. That's Steve Molloy again. The name of this
piece is called Trump will make America Energy Dominant with
frack exec Cabinet pick, and that cabinet pick is Liberty
Energy CEO Chris Right, all right, that'll do it for
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