They're probably going to keep their policies blue, but we're talking about states like Michigan, New Hampshire, some of the Senate candidates and potential flips for Republicans this November.

Yeah, they're going to continue their fascination, this cult-like fascination with decarbonization.

And that's what Governor Spanberger has done.

She's rejoined the REGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, that's going to cost ratepayers in Virginia a billion dollars.

So that's an incredible tax that they're facing.

That means their electricity bills are going up.

The reliability is going down.

What is your perspective on that argument? And is there a there there? Because if you look at the polling, it doesn't matter if you're a Republican or Democrat, there is some concern about data center build out.

How do they get that? How do they get that electricity in the Permian?

Yeah, well, they've proposed to build these massive transmission lines to move wind and solar around the state.

It's really interesting.

I think it was Dr. Brad Buckley.

He's a state rep in Texas.

He exposed this earlier this year in May.

And there's a tweet on the screenshot from him talking about this study that was done.

Absolutely.

Ten years down the line or 20 years down the line, How much oil could we be getting from Venezuela

to America daily? It's going to be a significant addition.

Our refineries that we have in this country, primarily in Texas and Louisiana, unfortunately, they're older.

And I think it's a prevalent conversation or a good time to have this conversation because the major refiners are meeting at the White House today.

This morning they'll be in there and hopefully they'll be talking about getting regulatory hurdles so that we can build more refineries.

The first refinery in the US in 50 years is being built in South Texas, the America first refinery.

We need more expansions of existing refineries that are currently operating at over 97% of their capacity.

You know the things that happened to that country they did about three sometimes three and a half million barrels a day They were below a million barrels a day when we took out Maduro Where can they possibly be five or ten years down the road in production daily?

What do you think?

Yeah, I agree.

It's just like a temporary pause.

Let's make sure that they're bringing their own water, that they're reusing that water, that they're not draining aquifers and rivers and using fresh water.

Otherwise, you've got a facility in Childress, Texas, that has actually agreed to put desal plant on board on their on their property.

And this is a Childress County up in kind of North Texas.

It's almost in the panhandle.

Oh, absolutely.

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But there are even brackish groundwater aquifers underneath Central Texas.

And so if you've got a, a, someone that's willing to come in and treat that and make it potable water, I mean, that's, that's a fantastic thing for the economy, for the people that live here, uh, and then to protect our streams, our rivers, and, and our, our fresh aquifers.

Uh, so I, I think it's a, it's a good idea to just let, let's hold, let's make sure we're doing everything right.

We've already had one kind of in East Texas that says, "You know what? We can't guarantee, uh, our supply of electricity.

We can't, we're, we're not gonna be able to lower rates for, for people out in East Texas." And so they, they pulled the plug on one.

It's likely they'll move it somewhere else in Texas.

... it's gonna be interesting.

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Um, but I, I, and people, it, it really kind of triggers people.

Like, wait a second.

What? What did he just say? He lives a high carbon lifestyle.

And then I just talk about how it's this trace gas in the atmosphere, and it really piques their interest and their critical thinking.

But it's interestingly enough, when I was in Hawaii, I looked up where the, the CO2 monitor is, and it's on the, the Mauna Loa, I think is how you pronounce it.

There's a monitor and I thought, gosh, you know, uh, and I was on Oahu in H- Honolulu.

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And I've gotta thank Congressman that if something that we were doing environmentally was affecting Canada in such a negative way, they'd be screaming bloody murder about it, wouldn't they?

Yeah, they absolutely would, and this is really a result of policies that they've put in place.

The left likes to blame a changing climate.

They call it climate change, a crisis, but really what the crisis is, is bad policies that have been put in place.

And there's a- about 1,000 wildfires that are burning right now.

700 of those are classified as out of control.

And a lot of provinces in Canada have a let it burn policy, where they will not try to prevent the fire, fire.

Has this been a change? Did, did they use to manage their forests differently than they're doing now?

You spend $20,000, $30,000 up front, and maybe you save $15 on your electric bill next month.

Yeah, and this is what some of the people on the left really think.

They think that efficiency is going to get us there, and it's really going to convince people to use less energy, is that they have a more efficient home.

Well, more efficient homes cost more money.

Things like windows.

So, yeah, it's enrollment in programs that are benefiting, I imagine, donors of the governor and leftist campaigns.

I mean, this is what happened with the Biden administration.

All right, well, if you are the carbon king, what about those of us who want to be the carbon count or the carbon countess? What can we do to push back against these policies? When somebody says, we want to enter the regional greenhouse gas initiative, we want to do these things to save the environment, to have a better future for our kids, what are some rebuttals to that? And then what are some action plans that we can do to actually bring down the cost of energy for Americans across the country.

So they did it and they fell on their knees.

Yes, they absolutely did.

They had this plan that we were going to do this energy transition program.

It was forced through financial markets, through Wall Street.

They made companies make commitments.

We saw what happened with Exxon in 2021.

An activist shareholder with barely a couple of shares of Exxon partnered with some other companies that people may know, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, to replace board members at Exxon.

It is not a CO2 problem.

The problem, Jason says, is the way that some of these financial firms invest.

They're investing in them, forcing them to transition, forcing them to adopt political agendas, which are contrary to popular opinion here in the legislature in Texas.

Uh, and so I really felt like they were weaponizing their capital, trying to, using Larry Fink's terms, force behaviors.

Okay, so maybe the body of ESG is buried six feet under, but that doesn't mean its spirit doesn't live on.

These financial institutions are essentially now kind of, like, reverse virtue signaling.

So they're virtue signaling to us, but in their statements they're saying, "We're gonna continue the policies that align with the energy transition." I wasn't using that term green hushing, but I, I may have to add that to my vocabulary.