upfront oct 16 Jon Brien

The panel is me and you this morning, John Brien, and you the callers.

And you can give me a call, 766-1380, 769-0600, 1-800-949-9674, and you can talk about what we're talking about here in our second and third segments.

I want to start on the Rhode Island scene.

Yep, I'm gonna start right here in Rhode Island, and I want to talk about some, some interesting, uh, audio clips that I heard on WNRI this morning because, of course, I don't listen to anything but WNRI.

Um- I say that 'cause Mr. Bouchard's listening.

But, uh, no, I don't, I don't listen-- I listen to WNRI all the time and, uh, when I do, uh, I get very, uh, great information, and some of that information was from this morning, the clips of the lieutenant governor's debate, and that's wh- that was on the morning news.

And in particular, I found why John Loughlin, and I support John Loughlin 100%, I hope you do too.

Um, and I, I, I'm-- I like Sabina Matos as a person.

She's always been very, uh, collegial and, and with me, very cordial, very nice person.

But I think we could get an upgrade at that position, and I think our, our only chance to have someone that we can really, really look to and say he represents us and he's saying the things that we are all thinking is John Loughlin for lieutenant governor.

Well, in the, in the particular clip that was being played, uh, Mr. Loughlin, John Loughlin, was talking about relaxing the mandates on Rhode Island energy to reduce the price of domestic natural gas.

And that's how you would be able to, you know, lower the prices.

You know, if you look at your gas bill or, or your energy bill, like 30% of your bill is, is, is, like what you pay is used to fund social programs for other people.

I don't know if you realize that.

Uh, but it-- that's, that's-- it's really, you know, we all pay to fund other people's energy bills.

And that should definitely be relaxed on the consumers.

And they say, "Well, what about the people that can't afford the electricity?" I get it, but I don't know, you know, this isn't socialism.

We don't have to pay for other people's power.

Um, and at least that should be relaxed at a time, especially now when you look-- another thing is when you look at your gas, if you look at your gas, you'll see you could use very, very little gas, and that's the supply number.

But it's the distribution number which is so crazy, right? That's, that's what you pay to have the gas flow through the pipes.

Anyway, there are a lot of ways to lower the price of, of energy here in the state of Rhode Island.

John Loughlin in this debate was talking about one of those ways.

And the lieutenant governor, Sabina Matos, well, all she did was talk about Trump, Trump's illegal war in Iran affecting the, the price at the pump.

That is not the only thing going on.

That is not the only reason.