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Allen Jackson: Solar Reckoning | Allen Jackson Now

July 28, 2025 | 22:2

Marc Morano joins Allen Jackson to discuss solar panels and electric cars.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Solar Reckoning | Allen Jackson Now | July 28, 2025

Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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It's going to be interesting
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To see what happens with the public
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Push for solar panels and electric cars.
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Now that the federal government
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Is no longer going to be using the taxes
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We pay to subsidize selling them,
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Electric cars have been selling with big subsidies, $7,500
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For new cars and $4,000 for used ones.
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Well, that's ending at about two months.
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And until next year,
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Solar panels are being sold with big tax breaks,
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Regardless of whether they work well or not.
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I've seen stories
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Of how they get layers of dust and pollen on them
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And need to be cleaned
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So that they actually absorb the sunlight.
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I wonder if the people who clean our gutters do that as well.
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But that's changing.
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Now we have some common sense coming from washington,
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So we've invited our best source on all things green.
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Who's joining us on the set this time?
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Marc morano, the publisher of climate depot.com
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And a former senior staffer
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Of the senate's environment and public works committee.
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Welcome to nashville, marc.
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Thank you everyone. happy to. be here.
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It is really good to have you here.
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Well, you've seen how the federal government
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Works from the inside and outside
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With president trump in the white house.
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And now lee zeldin at the epa.
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It looks like factual now
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Prevail versus the panic that al gore tried to promote
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The tax credits for solar panels are ending in january.
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So will the solar industry
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Stand on its own without these subsidies?
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That is a great question.
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And history has shown
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That the solar industry
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Can't even stand on its own with the subsidies.
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We've had many multibillion dollar failures,
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From solyndra to even more recent ones under the biden,
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You know, inflation or so-called inflation reduction act.
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And what it turns out is solar and wind can really only survive
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With the subsidies.
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And you'll hear people like al gore claim repeatedly,
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Solar and wind are the cheapest forms of energy.
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They're cheaper now than fossil fuels. really?
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Are they accounting for the rare earth mining,
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The monopoly of the goods from china,
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The human rights violations
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They'll all the fossil fuels required
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To make the solar and wind panels.
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Are the fossil fuels required
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To transport the solar and wind panel components from china.
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All the fossil fuel components
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Required to install them, all the fossil fuels
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Required to clear cut forests to put inside.
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There are so many things
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That are not green about solar, wind and evs, by the way,
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That it's become a farce to even discuss that.
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But basically we're seeing it now.
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We're already seeing corporate media, the mainstream media,
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Come out and say that the solar and wind industries are facing
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A basically a doomsday, which then raises the question
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They couldn't survive on their own.
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They literally needed endless permanent taxpayer subsidies.
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And here's the kicker with all of this
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It's a very simple concept. you can go back 20 years.
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You can go back 100 years 80%.
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Nearly 77, 78, 80% of the u.s.
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Energy and global energy has come
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From so-called fossil fuels, no matter how much subsidies,
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No matter how many tax breaks, no matter how many mandates,
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No matter how much regulation they put on it.
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Solar and wind are only produced about 3 to 4% of u.s.
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Total energy,
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And we're there at less than 14% of our electrical grid
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With the subsidies, with
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A trillion now, plus with
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Biden's original inflation reduction act earmarked,
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And they still couldn't
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Catch on, so to speak, on their own. so.
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And the other,
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Other absurdity of it is the amount of workers
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It takes to produce a unit of energy
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For solar and wind versus the amount of workers
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It takes to produce,
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A unit of energy for, for coal, oil or gas.
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In other words, it's the least efficient energy,
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And it requires the most subsidies
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And the most favorite regulatory environment.
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So it will be great because this is what needs to happen.
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We'll get rid of all of this ideological and government,
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You know, allocation in the market
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That's completely distorted our energy policy and created
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Higher prices and shortages.
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The energy secretary is also a key player.
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And chris wright
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Says that the trump administration believes the open
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Market should decide how far we go with these issues.
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Listen to how he put it.
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The great thing about the trump administration is
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We don't believe we should direct the capital.
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We think businesses and consumers
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Should direct that capital.
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You know, for
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For us, our our opposition to solar
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And wind is the subsidies
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The government's been paying people to build wind and solar
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And the impacts have not been good.
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They've just driven up electricity
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And destabilize the grid.
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I'm pretty sure you've been saying that for years. yes.
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It's unbelievable that we actually have
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Someone like chris wright as our energy secretary
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Who not only gets it, but articulates
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It and is turning it into government policy
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In a way that
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No one could even push back, because what he's saying is
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Verifiably true across the board.
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And when he's talking about government
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Picking winners and losers in the industry,
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This is what we've been doing basically since the early 1990s,
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When we originally got involved in the,
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You know, the un rio earth summit,
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And we got involved with the sustainable development
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And we got involved with a whole un climate process.
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Our energy has been massively distorted by all of this.
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And if you look at it, even things like,
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Let's talk to gas powered cars.
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When henry ford invented the
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The mass production of the model t, you had mom and pop gas
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Stations popping up all across america to meet consumer demand.
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It was spontaneous bootstrap capitalism, if you will.
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So what is biden administration?
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Do they try to recreate that?
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Except this time
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With ev charging centers and hundreds
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Of billions of dollars going to build up
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Nationwide coast to coast infrastructure, years go by.
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At one point.
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There are single digit charging stations built.
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It just doesn't work.
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And now, you know, i think they built a few hundred
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Before they're going to be defunded.
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But it never happened.
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Even i think it was npr or pbs went out and they did
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A ride across the country and they got in heat waves.
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Their car broke down the ev battery.
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They couldn't get it charged.
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There weren't enough charging there.
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You cannot have the government come in centrally
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Planning our energy future any more than they could
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Run grocery stores, any more than they've run
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Any other government institution.
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It's like it's worse with this because there's something that
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We now call the government,
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The public, the private public partnership with the government,
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Where you end up with a lot more corruption
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In some ways and be better if just the government ran
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It like the post office, you would know
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You're getting horrible service with huge cost overruns.
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But this where they hand out these grants,
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It ends up going to politically connected
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People like stacey abrams, john podesta,
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All these, former obama and clinton and biden officials,
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And you get massive corruption
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And you don't even get the basics done.
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In other words, government
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Slow bureaucracy could do a lot more than this
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Corporate government collusion
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We've seen with this green agenda.
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That's where the real problem is.
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But it doesn't work at all. and it's finally time.
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We're getting rid of the distortions in the market.
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And people will say, oh, well, fossil fuels are subsidized.
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Fossil fuels are subsidized to the extent of normal
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Tax breaks for any business.
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We're not really subsidizing fossil fuels in any level.
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They come up with these absurd claims that we're funding.
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We don't need to subsidize it because wherever they're allowed
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This to a chance, they end up dominating oil, coal, gas.
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And what we want, of course, is domestic energy and less,
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You know, almost no reliance on china if we can pull it off.
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By the way, on that point, just rare earth mining,
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Late 90s, 90% of rare earths that are needed for evs,
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Catalytic converters, solar, wind, you know, electronics
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Came from the united states.
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Homegrown. fast forward 30 years.
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Estimates are for between 75 and 90% all come from china,
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And it's chiefly
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Because of environmental regulations
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In the us forcing us to outsource
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Rare earth mining,
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Which strategic national security is,
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Is to because of environmental regulations too.
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Now china doesn't cut
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We're not hurting the environment
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If china is doing it using, you know,
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Uighur slaves or using the lowest
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Environmental standards on the earth, that's okay.
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But we can't do it in the us where we actually have good
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Environmental practice,
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The best in the world, environmental practices.
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So it's just been crazy. so this has been a huge breath.
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Seven months in trump and it's a sight to behold.
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It's amazing.
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Well, i'm from tennessee.
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This is just a simple yes, but if i can put a bow around that
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Green energy air, wind, solar, all the stuff
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Is not really better for the environment.
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It's not energy efficient.
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It's not pushing us forward.
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Yeah.
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Our good old
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Petroleum based products, carbon based co2 emissions,
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Best source of energy and it's not destroying our world.
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Absolutely true.
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It's it's unbelievable.
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And one of the most strategic of course is coal.
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Because coal it can become up it be brought up online
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In the market rapidly.
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And that's something
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That united states is hopefully we're reviving that.
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And by the way, every coal plant built today
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Is probably 90 plus percent cleaner than we had in 1970.
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If you go back to the first earth day,
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Just the impetus for a lot of this.
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There was a lot of good people worried.
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You know, you had filthy rivers
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In our cities, you had filthy air quality.
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We have shown that in the last 50 years.
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You can radically improve air
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And water quality to the world. health says
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We're among the cleanest air quality in the world.
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You know, that's that's where we are, the united states.
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We did that through technology innovation,
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And we did it through, you know, not changing that.
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And we didn't do it through solar and wind
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Because we still have 80
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Almost 80% of our energy from fossil fuels.
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So we can do it that way.
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To your point about, you know, how un un green
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Or un earth friendly the other environment
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Is compared to fossil fuels to make one tesla size
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Thousand pound ev battery requires half 1 million
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Pounds of materials dug up from the earth, chiefly from china.
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To make this battery.
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And that, of course, it has to be shipped,
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Has to be installed, and the batteries themselves
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Are not really practical over time.
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You figure once,
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You know,
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Once they need to be replaced, it costs more than the car
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Or it costs more than a gas powered car.
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7% or so of the public has been interested in evs.
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A lot of that 7% that have bought
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And all ev car are people who are buying a second car.
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It's basically one saturated said of the market.
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And what's funny is i mentioned corporate government
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Collusion, the auto industry was all in on,
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Evs when they were getting the subsidies.
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And companies like stellantis, which is foreign owned,
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European owned,
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Took hundreds of millions of
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The taxpayer would say, we're going to do a, ev plant
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And whatever,
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Take the money close
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After six months, take the money,
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Leave the americans without a job.
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And this is the kind of way.
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And now, of course, trump said that he wanted to get rid of it.
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So now they were they were for the ev,
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You know, mandate before they were against it.
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Now they're against it because that's what they just go
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With, whatever the regulations are.
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So that's part of the problem here.
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So that's been what we need to do
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Is make sure common sense prevails long term.
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And that's where i think the trump
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Administration is trying to make some
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Some things they didn't do in trump. 1.0.
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And that's make it permanent
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Because we don't want to just go back.
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If the next president
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Is someone like president gavin newsom
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Or somehow that were to happen because we would end up
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Just going right back within six months.
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But right now, i think we have steps in place
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To make it permanent.
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I like the idea. make common sense. great. again.
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Yeah. there you go. we can do that. one more.
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Stay with us for another segment.
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I'd like to get to the changes at epa
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And how lee zeldin is shaking things up a bit.
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In the meantime, please share
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back now with mark morano, the author of the great reset
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And publisher of the climate depot.
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Well, let's move to the new epa secretary, lee zeldin.
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He certainly jumped right in cutting regulations,
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Smoothing the way for smart energy,
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And doing it with some clear common sense.
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Here he is describing the new mission.
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The environmental protection
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Agency is initiating 31 historic actions
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To fulfill president trump's promise to unleash
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American energy, revitalize our auto industry, restore
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The rule of law, and give power back to the states.
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Epa will be reconsidering many suffocating
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Rules that restrict nearly every sector of our economy
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And cost americans trillions of dollars.
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It sounds like we're at the beginning of some big changes.
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Is that right?
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Yes. as i said, trump 2.0 has been
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The most consequential of my entire lifetime.
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I would say this epa's lee zeldin, new york congressman,
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I didn't really follow him before.
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I'm not i'm from virginia, but he stepped into this role
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And within seven months,
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He is the most consequential epa chief in the agency's history.
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Going back to the beginning with richard nixon's founding,
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Founding the agency.
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And he's the most consequential trump cabinet member,
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I would argue, because he has come in
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Not just with action, as he mentioned, just 31 actions
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Right there.
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And i'll get into,
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You know, particularly at least
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One of the most important things he's doing.
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But essentially he is flip the narrative.
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And i'm a communications guy.
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I worked in the senate
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During the bush and obama administrations.
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I was the
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Director of communications and a speechwriter for the
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Us senate environment public works committee.
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I did a report of a thousand
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Dissenting scientists on climate change, and i worked with,
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I saw the of the, bush epa chief, a biden chief.
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And i will say this.
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What leaves out and has done is unprecedented,
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Because even if you compare it to trump's
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First term and i worked for andrew wheeler, was his former
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Air chief, that was the man who hired
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Me in the in the us senate.
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What would he's out and has done is flip the narrative.
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He talks about climate change being a scam, a religion.
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And he's exactly right about this.
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This is it is a faith based, cultish religion.
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He calls it a cult,
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Which is exactly what it is,
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Because this is a gaia earth worship movement.
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I've been to the marches where they actually have
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At the 2014 new york city climate march,
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They actually had,
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You know,
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Pagan earth
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Worship prayers at the march, and you couldn't even
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They didn't even allow the media.
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You had to film it
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Because they were in a sort of spiritual trance,
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Praying to the earth god of gaia.
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This is what lee zeldin has come.
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He's accurately labeled it.
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He is reversing all of it.
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And the most consequential thing he's doing,
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He is going after the heart
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Of the entire climate agenda in the us.
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The ev car bans
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The solar wind, mandates all that by going after
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What's called the endangerment finding.
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It goes back to the obama administration,
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Which is regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
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Human breath.
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We inhale oxygen, we exhale carbon dioxide.
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I think about 3 pounds a person.
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And that is now not going to be regulated as as a pollutant.
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They're taking it to trying to overturn it.
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And they're going to have court battles.
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If they're succeed on this, it's much harder to get us back in.
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Plus, les out and trump administration
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Going after the foundation of the un
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Climate treaty process, getting the us out.
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So the next president,
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If it's a gavin newsom, can't put us back in.
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So this is permanence for the trump agenda.
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And unbelievable. we have someone like lee zeldin.
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He is just performing at a level
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I've never seen a cabinet secretary before.
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Matt. well, you brought good news today.
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We've got one more question.
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I feel guilty with good news because there's.
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No good news in. my career lamenting washington.
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But yeah, well.
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One question before we have to go.
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The epa is doing away
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With some of the existing pollution rules.
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They seem to be out of date.
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Now, can you give us an example of what some of these were
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And what the result has been?
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Yeah, what they've done in fact, a lot of this
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That the epa is doing is they're saying, oh my gosh, he's
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Ruining protections against air and water.
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These were done
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Between the
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Time biden lost in november and the time trump was sworn in.
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There's a few months they just tacked on
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So many things and what they've done,
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There's parts per million, parts per billion trace
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Amounts of chemicals that you could do
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All the regulations in the world that would hammer industry,
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Hammer innovation, hammer, energy extraction.
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But it's going to make no difference in the air quality.
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We already have among the cleanest air.
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So this is about putting sanity into these policies
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And not crippling us based on unverifiable ways
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That, again, we're recognized as the cleanest air.
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It's not going to make a difference.
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So any retreat from the most overregulated
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Economy is seen as, oh, you're pro polluters.
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It has nothing to do with it.
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And it's really restoring a lot of us independence.
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It absolutely is.
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We need the sovereignty to have domestic energy.
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And you think back, you know, biden,
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This is just two years ago,
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He was president biden publicly begging the middle
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East, venezuela for more oil, for more gas.
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It's absolutely insane how far we've come
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With this america first energy agenda.
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It's a time to behold if anyone who's a critic of trump,
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So that's why i just look at his energy
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And climate agenda and how he's work.
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This is a textbook case of how to dismantle the deep state.
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Well, marc morano, thank you for being in nashville today.
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And thank you for the thank you.
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Who's facing some common sense.
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Appreciate it. enjoy it.
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If you want to hear more from mark,
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You can go to his climate depot site.
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It's really interesting.
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Well, in a moment i'll be back
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With a hopeful message of our own.
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With a hopeful message of our own.
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I am encouraged to see the pulling back of the curtain
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By our current administration, exposing
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Some of the unimaginable waste that's been happening for years.
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Billions of dollars spent recklessly over the years.
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Cutting out the waste and abuse and the elimination
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Of the solar, wind and electric vehicle tax breaks
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That joe biden approved and his so-called inflation
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Reduction act,
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Which we now know had nothing to do with reducing inflation.
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I want to remind you that the government
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Actually doesn't have money.
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They just have our money.
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It's the taxpayers money.
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So i'm grateful that our current administration
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Is taking some significant steps to determine the best
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Way to get our nation's financial house back in order.
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Well, i have a question for you.
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If this administration can assess situations
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And allocate resources toward better outcomes for our nation,
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Can we do the same for ourselves and for our families?
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God gives each of us gifts and abilities.
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Our assignment is to steward
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The gifts and the abilities that he gives to us.
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How about when it comes to our financial health?
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Well, here's a principle i want you to consider.
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God is the owner of all things,
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And we're just temporarily handling his resources.
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If we'll let that principal settle into our hearts,
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I promise you there are more reasons for hope than despair.
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We'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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We'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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Tony on youtube said thank you for your boldness
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In the public square.
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It's a breath of fresh air
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And encouragement for everyone who claims christ as lord
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To be equally bold in our circles of influence.
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God bless you and god bless america.
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Well, i believe god will bless america again
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If we all have the courage to tell the truth.
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It starts at our kitchen table,
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Then our holiday table, and then in those
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Extended circles of our friends.
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If we'll do that, i know god will be faithful.
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Another viewer on youtube said, thank you
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Pastor allen, for the podcast and shows and bringing clarity
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To what's happening in our world.
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You share your knowledge and wisdom
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That brings understanding and hope to all who listen.
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So thankful to be a part of your cyber community.
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God bless you.
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Well, there's a whole team of us working for these programs
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To help share the good news, but together,
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I believe we can all make a difference.
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And finally, charlie asks, what does the bible say
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About angels and demons?
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Are they real?
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Are angels more than just messengers?
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Well, absolutely. they're real.
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I believe they impact our lives on a daily basis,
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And they're far more than just messengers.
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They're a part of the unfolding purposes of god in the earth.
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There's no jesus narrative
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Without the engagement of the angels.
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And you and i will fulfill
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God's purposes for our lives without their help either.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us.
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I'm alan jackson, and you have a wonderful evening.
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