Speaker 1: Ceiling the globe's future in terms of the climate religion
Speaker 1: they're pressing down upon us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, twenty nine years in counting. You know,
Speaker 2: none of the major leaders are attending this year, and
Speaker 2: it's in Baku, I know.
Speaker 1: And apparently the head of the leader of the country
Speaker 1: views petro oil and gas as a gift from God.
Speaker 1: And how dare anybody tell him that he's not allowed
Speaker 1: to extract that and get it out to the world,
Speaker 1: a world which demands and uses these products every single
Speaker 1: day to survive.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, And you know, Brian, I think the wheels
Speaker 2: are starting to come off of some of the more
Speaker 2: left leaning versions when it comes to comes to energy. Right.
Speaker 1: It's just you can write Greta Thunberg.
Speaker 2: Off, Well, you know, she's going to be out there,
Speaker 2: and she's going to be out there for a while,
Speaker 2: and I suspect we'll look back on this time and go, huh,
Speaker 2: we listened to a.
Speaker 1: Hysterical twelve year old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was actually a create.
Speaker 1: Emotionally, she's still twelve emotionally.
Speaker 2: Well in the creation of her parents and left leaning
Speaker 2: organizations right as the poster child.
Speaker 1: You know, I've mentioned that before. I have never ever
Speaker 1: bought into this nons I still call it nonsense that
Speaker 1: you know, given all the ebbs and flows of the
Speaker 1: global temperatures over the millennium, I mean, we've had the Earth.
Speaker 1: It's just you cannot just stop and one day say
Speaker 1: all the other climate changes that this globe has experienced,
Speaker 1: just we're on their own, and then immediately say well,
Speaker 1: as of the global or after the Industrial Revolution, it's
Speaker 1: all on us now we are responsible for every weather
Speaker 1: event that comes our way. Yeah, just nonsense. We're going
Speaker 1: to look back on this and I hopefully laugh at ourselves.
Speaker 1: We have been victims of the biggest global scam. P. T.
Speaker 1: Barnum couldn't have thought this up in his wildest dream.
Speaker 2: You know, it is green. The only thing green about
Speaker 2: it though is the money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, global wealthy distribution. This is how they characterize it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely and yeah, it is part of that sort of
Speaker 2: that global elitism. And you know, quite frankly, what's been
Speaker 2: very difficult for me to understand. And last Friday at
Speaker 2: Hudson we had an all day conversation with our friends
Speaker 2: from Canada about North American energy independence and how we
Speaker 2: can continue to link up on certain things, is that
Speaker 2: it is difficult for me to believe that in this
Speaker 2: day and age we would have politicians and administration that
Speaker 2: would give away unilateral disarmament of what could be our
Speaker 2: number one strength in the country, that is our energy independence.
Speaker 1: No question about it.
Speaker 2: So today, you know, the landscape has changed a little
Speaker 2: bit post election, and I think if we look at
Speaker 2: the new president, the new administration of Donald J. Trump,
Speaker 2: we're going to see a return to a lot of
Speaker 2: different things. But one of those is to restore American
Speaker 2: energy independence and replace subjective criteria with objective criteria, meaning
Speaker 2: that the president wants us to have energy that is
Speaker 2: available wherever and whenever we need it, and that it
Speaker 2: is more affordable than what we have seen here as
Speaker 2: of late.
Speaker 1: In other words, solutions that are good for America, regular
Speaker 1: consistent energy supply at a price that does not put
Speaker 1: us into bankruptcy. Interesting concept of that.
Speaker 2: Well, it's common sense, right, and I think that.
Speaker 1: The world we used to run on things like that.
Speaker 1: Now I know there's always been winners and losers being
Speaker 1: chosen by elected officials. Thus it has ever been but
Speaker 1: I mean it's I don't think it's any ever been
Speaker 1: any more egregious than in connection with this so called
Speaker 1: Green New Deal type stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, Brian, I don't doubt that at some point
Speaker 2: in the future we will have energy. We will continue
Speaker 2: to have new emerging energy resources that result in fewer
Speaker 2: emissions and not just you know, we're so fixated on
Speaker 2: CO two, which is point one four of one percent
Speaker 2: of the atmosphere. But you know, there are other gases,
Speaker 2: there are pollutants, there are things out there that will
Speaker 2: continue to work on. But you know, the America has
Speaker 2: reduced if you want to keep score, America has reduced
Speaker 2: its greenhouse gas emissions and CO two greater than any
Speaker 2: other industrialized country by just being smart and making some
Speaker 2: common sense decisions. Nuclears on the rise, We talked about
Speaker 2: that a lot last last week. Even fission is on
Speaker 2: the horizon with with several demonstration machines coming out before
Speaker 2: the end of this decade. So that energy mix is
Speaker 2: going to change. But there is no reason, and I
Speaker 2: know the new president believes there is no reason to
Speaker 2: tie your hands behind your back and jump in the
Speaker 2: deep end of the pool, while China says here, good gully.
Speaker 2: Another two coal places popped up this week. That's so weird.
Speaker 2: How did that happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that I saw that sight. It
Speaker 1: is one of the reasons some of the countries aren't
Speaker 1: attending this. The Global cop twenty nine is for that
Speaker 1: reason alone. You know, Wait a second, why I'm over
Speaker 1: here cutting my throat, bust to my hump, reducing my
Speaker 1: available energy. Look at Germany has almost put itself into
Speaker 1: bankruptcy over this. One of the most powerful economic engines
Speaker 1: in the world has now been reduced to sort of ashes.
Speaker 1: And over this the zero carbon emissions crap.
Speaker 2: It is, and it just goes to show that great
Speaker 2: countries can take a wrong turn that is literally fueled
Speaker 2: by this religion.
Speaker 1: It is religion, it is.
Speaker 2: And you know, meanwhile, the other thing I'd love for
Speaker 2: us to keep in mind that China wants to see
Speaker 2: us unilaterally disarm and I don't mean just the military,
Speaker 2: but I mean economically. And so for example, when we
Speaker 2: have a new pharmaceutical company try to spin up in America,
Speaker 2: China dumps pharmaceuticals in the US to kill that new startup.
Speaker 2: This is how these people roll, and they want our
Speaker 2: auto industry to go away. They want us to be
Speaker 2: dependent on them because people that are dependent are weak.
Speaker 1: Well, and they will create dependence because it's all ready
Speaker 1: cheaper to do business in China because they have no
Speaker 1: environmental rules, they have no OSHA protections, they have nothing
Speaker 1: by way of the rules, regulations and things that we
Speaker 1: in hurdles we have to jump to even stay in business. So,
Speaker 1: of course, and by making us back ourselves or cut
Speaker 1: our own throats as I like to call it, and
Speaker 1: rely on windmills and soul panels that we parenthetically have
Speaker 1: to buy from them that don't provide us an abundance
Speaker 1: of energy. Back over to where we are with Trump
Speaker 1: going forward, We've been through the other stuff. What are
Speaker 1: we going to see legitimately going forward here?
Speaker 2: Brigham, that's a great question. I think we can first
Speaker 2: look at his first term energy policy, which is focused
Speaker 2: on achieving what he calls energy dominance, and that's prioritizing
Speaker 2: domestic production, deregulation of the industry, which adds substantial cost.
Speaker 2: And we don't think about that. But all these federal regulations,
Speaker 2: and some of them, quite honestly, are pretty silly. They
Speaker 2: don't add value, but they add to the cost of
Speaker 2: everything we buy and a shipped away from these climate
Speaker 2: agreements like the Paris accord. These priorities are going to
Speaker 2: be emphasized along with the energy independence, economic growth, and
Speaker 2: national security. It's that simple.
Speaker 1: Well, including the Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve. I'd like to
Speaker 1: think we might start filling that up, although I saw
Speaker 1: Biden paying lip service to doing that again after he
Speaker 1: trained it in the name of trying to get himself elected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's been drained to our lowest level
Speaker 2: in decades and two. I think yes, And some people argue, well,
Speaker 2: we don't need it any longer because we have a
Speaker 2: lot more domestic production. But you know, if something hits
Speaker 2: the fan, so to speak, you don't know, and you
Speaker 2: know you don't to drain your bank account when you
Speaker 2: don't know what's around the corner, with especially how volatile
Speaker 2: geopolitically the world is today.
Speaker 1: Well, isn't that the point? I mean, we're all told,
Speaker 1: I mean, federal guidelines online will tell you at least
Speaker 1: have several days of non perishable food in your home
Speaker 1: just in case that's not quite enough. I don't ever
Speaker 1: want to use the non perishable food that I have
Speaker 1: stored away for that day. I don't ever want that
Speaker 1: day to come, but there it is, just in case,
Speaker 1: it does, and that gives me peace of mind. That's
Speaker 1: isn't that the strategic drolling Oil Reserve.
Speaker 2: It is, and it was originally envisioned to give us
Speaker 2: ninety days worth of supply, and to be fair, nobody's
Speaker 2: actually gotten it to ninety days because welvish million barrels
Speaker 2: a day. That's a lot of oil, but less than
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. That would make me nervous.
Speaker 1: And if we go with nuclear and we have modular
Speaker 1: nuclear reactors, one size, kind of fits all platform, those
Speaker 1: can be built not for billions and billions of dollars
Speaker 1: over a period of fifteen years of rules and regulations,
Speaker 1: they could go online rather quickly by comparison to way
Speaker 1: we have to go through now. If you get rid
Speaker 1: of these ridiculous regulations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sure does. And I think you will see,
Speaker 2: especially with the announcement yesterday of AVEC and Papa Elon
Speaker 2: as I like to call them, the Doach team. I'm excited.
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy about that. They're going to hit the
Speaker 1: ground running with the scissors and they're going to cut
Speaker 1: wherever they possibly can. And you know what, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a man, woman, or child in America that'll
Speaker 1: even notice the loss of those government jobs, with the
Speaker 1: exception of the families of those who no longer have
Speaker 1: jobs in government.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. And back in the
Speaker 2: Navy days, Brian, we call that a target rich environment.
Speaker 1: No question about it. And getting rid of the Department
Speaker 1: of Education. It really has not been around since. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was the Reagan it was the Reagan era, was
Speaker 1: a Carter administration thing. But we live without the Department
Speaker 1: of Education. Up till that long in our country apparently
Speaker 1: was able to live, thrive and survive and prosper pretty
Speaker 1: damn well.
Speaker 2: Yes, And you know, while I'm not an expert over there,
Speaker 2: I can tell you that since the Department of Education
Speaker 2: has been around, we have only lost standing. We've only
Speaker 2: slipped in the in the world polls of highly educated people. So,
Speaker 2: you know, a lot of these cabinet agencies people think
Speaker 2: have been around, No, no, no, you know it was
Speaker 2: the Department of War, Treasury, Commerce, and not even commerce there,
Speaker 2: but the Coast Guard and you know things. A lot
Speaker 2: of these agencies came into being in the sixties and seventies.
Speaker 2: And once you create it, even if you solve the problem,
Speaker 2: they don't leave. And if you don't solve the problem,
Speaker 2: they only get bigger.
Speaker 1: No quote. And they're not in the jobs in the
Speaker 1: business of solving problems. They solve a problem, they're out
Speaker 1: of a job. That's not what they're all about. Why
Speaker 1: it doesn't work anyway, brig him accown. I wish we
Speaker 1: could talk longer. Hudson Institute. And you're gonna be part
Speaker 1: of the administration right with energy policy?
Speaker 2: Oh well, we'll, we'll. There's a rumor, but.
Speaker 1: I that's not a no. That's not a no. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take that as a definite possibility. Bringham. It's wonderful
Speaker 1: to have you on the show and have access to
Speaker 1: your intellect when it comes to energy policy. We're doing again,
Speaker 1: very very soon.