The Ben Shapiro Show - The Green Suicide Pact | Ep. 1569

00:00:00.000 California finds itself in another energy shortage as National Democrats seek to follow California's lead.

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00:01:30.000 Well, I'm a refugee from California.

00:01:32.000 I spent 35 years of my life in California before I moved my family over here to a much better state, Florida.

00:01:39.000 And one of the reasons we moved is because California is dramatically mismanaged.

00:01:42.000 Nearly every summer in California, there would be a request from the state to stop watering your lawn.

00:01:47.000 There would be a request from the state to ensure that you didn't keep your thermostat at below 78 degrees.

00:01:53.000 And now we have this breaking out in California again.

00:01:56.000 And naturally, the entire media have decided that the problem is, of course, global warming.

00:02:00.000 Because when bad mismanagement happens, the problem is always global warming in a democratic area.

00:02:04.000 Always and forever.

00:02:05.000 It's great.

00:02:06.000 You just blame the sky.

00:02:07.000 The big problem, of course, is that it's very, very hot outside.

00:02:10.000 The problem that I have with this particular explanation is that for a very long time, namely thousands of years, in the summer, it gets very, very hot in California.

00:02:16.000 In fact, my entire life since I was a small child, it got very hot in the summer in California.

00:02:21.000 In fact, that was one of the draws to California was summer on the beach in California.

00:02:24.000 But I lived in the valley.

00:02:25.000 I didn't live on the beach.

00:02:26.000 And what that meant is that since the time I was but a barefoot young child, it would be 120 degrees in places like Burbank, California and North Hollywood, California.

00:02:34.000 It'd be just baking outside.

00:02:36.000 And every single year, The grid would be strained and every single year there'd be transformers that blew up.

00:02:41.000 I remember there was one summer living in North Hollywood as a teenager where the transformer near our home blew up.

00:02:46.000 It was on a Sabbath, so we couldn't even get in our car and turn on the air conditioner.

00:02:49.000 We just sat there in 120 degrees, frying our asses off.

00:02:53.000 Well, this sort of thing is frequent in California because California is wildly mismanaged.

00:02:59.000 If it turns out that there is a predictable weather event that happens every single year at a particular time, you have to start, you know, actually planning for it and doing things to ramp up, for example, the power production in your state.

00:03:10.000 But California has dedicated itself to the Green Suicide Pact, whereby you're supposed to reduce fossil fuel reliance.

00:03:17.000 It's supposed to rely on significantly less durable green energy, and this is going to fill in the gaps, except when it doesn't, and everybody is supposed to simply suffer through the summer heat in California.

00:03:27.000 I do not understand, given the fact that I picked up my family and my company and left, why people are staying in the state of California.

00:03:33.000 It is, in fact, turning into a hellscape between the homelessness and the crime, the bad energy mismanagement, the bad water mismanagement, the bad social policy.

00:03:41.000 California, which the left uses as sort of the model for the nation, I'm struggling to understand why.

00:03:46.000 And here's the thing.

00:03:47.000 Many of the people who have founded major companies in California, I'm talking about the big tech companies.

00:03:51.000 I've talked to the heads of some big tech companies.

00:03:53.000 Some of those big tech companies would be taken down by a couple bill in their market cap.

00:03:56.000 If I mentioned the names of the people I've spoken to regularly at those companies, they've said that if they had to start their company all over again today, they certainly would not base it in California.

00:04:06.000 Right now, the situation in California is, of course, pretty bad.

00:04:08.000 According to Fox Business, California's grid operator warned that excessive heat starting on Wednesday would stress the energy grid and potentially lead to blackouts.

00:04:15.000 Again, totally unpredictable that it would get very hot during the summer in California.

00:04:17.000 It's never happened before, except for every year for tens of thousands of years.

00:04:20.000 It said consumer conservation would likely be necessary over the weekend to avert power outages.

00:04:25.000 According to that grid operator, starting tomorrow through Tuesday, California and the West are expecting extreme heat that is likely to strain the grid with increased energy demands, especially over the holiday weekend.

00:04:34.000 It said that in many areas of the West, temperatures are expected to reach triple digits and to break records.

00:04:39.000 They said, in what's likely to be the most extensive heat wave in the West so far this year, temperatures in Northern California are expected to be 10 to 20 degrees warmer than normal through Tuesday, September 6th.

00:04:47.000 In Southern California, temperatures are expected to be 10 to 18 degrees warmer than normal.

00:04:52.000 Oh, you mean, I don't know what they mean by warmer than normal, like in a given year?

00:04:57.000 Like, is it 20 degrees hotter than it was last year, or is it 20 degrees hotter than it was, you know, during the winter?

00:05:03.000 Is it 20 degrees hotter than it was 50 years ago?

00:05:06.000 Like, what are we talking about here?

00:05:06.000 Or 100 years ago?

00:05:08.000 The California Independent System Operator said it's taking measures to bring all available energy resources online and that restricted maintenance operations have been issued from Wednesday through September 6th from noon to 10 p.m.

00:05:17.000 every single day due to high loads and temperatures across the state.

00:05:22.000 On Monday, the peak load for electricity was projected to be the highest of the year, exceeding 48,000 megawatts.

00:05:27.000 Officials will ask Californians not to charge electric vehicles if conditions worsen.

00:05:30.000 Remember, electric vehicles were supposed to save us all.

00:05:32.000 The problem is, electric vehicles really strain the grid.

00:05:34.000 In fact, you know how much electric vehicles strain the grid, right?

00:05:36.000 You're plugging them into the electric grid and they take an enormous amount of energy.

00:05:40.000 By the way, that energy is largely produced by fossil fuels.

00:05:43.000 This is the great irony of electric vehicles.

00:05:44.000 You're actually being subsidized by the state to a certain extent by fossil fuel use in the state, right?

00:05:49.000 Your electric grid is powered by fossil fuels.

00:05:52.000 You then plug your car into the fossil fuel powered electric grid, and then you don't have to pay for oil.

00:05:58.000 So there's that.

00:06:00.000 In fact, if all of the public transport in places like California were to move electric, the grid could not stand.

00:06:05.000 It would blow up the grid.

00:06:07.000 It's a serious problem.

00:06:08.000 It's why there are tech companies in places like Israel that are trying to figure out how to recharge electric vehicles as they run down the road.

00:06:15.000 And actually trying to figure out how to use the energy from friction with the road to actually recharge the cars as they move, for example.

00:06:21.000 Because the electric grid, people forget that when you plug the car into the wall, that that actually is powered by the same grid that is powering everything else.

00:06:21.000 Something like that.

00:06:31.000 This message comes after California regulators moved last week to require all new vehicles in the state to run on electricity by 2035.

00:06:36.000 So we've got a strained electric grid.

00:06:38.000 And so you're going to have to turn off your air conditioner.

00:06:41.000 Also, they are now trying to incentivize every single person in the state of California to move toward an electric vehicle, which will break the electric grid.

00:06:49.000 They're gonna need to build more electric grid. 1.00

00:06:51.000 They're gonna need to up the amount of power generated by the electric grid, but they are refusing to use the actual measures that you would use to increase the power, because all of that stuff, in order to be fuel efficient, is gonna actually have to be carbon-based.

00:07:02.000 So, there ain't no way to escape this trap, guys.

00:07:05.000 Green energy is just not energy efficient.

00:07:07.000 Green energy just doesn't pay for itself.

00:07:09.000 Green energy is extremely expensive.

00:07:12.000 It is certainly not as reliable.

00:07:13.000 Wind and solar are not nearly as reliable as things like coal, as nuclear, as natural gas, as oil, right?

00:07:19.000 All of the carbon-based fossil fuels are the things that you're still relying on in order to make your green move, your supposed green move, which means that the green vehicles are actually masking the underlying problem again, as always.

00:07:32.000 The decision by the California Air Resources Board came two years after Governor Gavin Newsom first directed regulators to consider such a policy.

00:07:38.000 If the goal is reached, California would cut emissions from cars in half by 2040.

00:07:40.000 Yeah, well, they're not explaining how they're going to power all those cars without increasing the emissions that are necessary in order to power that grid.

00:07:48.000 Should grid conditions deteriorate, the ISO may issue a series of emergency notifications to prepare the public for possible energy shortages.

00:07:54.000 In fact, there are already energy shortages last night in Alameda as well as in Palo Alto.

00:07:58.000 So glad to see all of the tech companies feeling it first.

00:08:02.000 Again, the California independent system operator is basically acknowledging they just don't have the power to do this.

00:08:08.000 Elliott Mainzer, the CEO of ISO, said in a video, quote, I know this has been a very long heat wave, and we're not asking you to do even more, but please stick with us and don't use any more power than is absolutely necessary.

00:08:18.000 Late on Tuesday afternoon, solar power was supplying about a fifth of the state's power demand.

00:08:22.000 Where's the other four fifths coming from?

00:08:24.000 Would that be the nasty, terrible sources of energy that you guys have been reducing for years on end?

00:08:30.000 If demand for power exhausts the grid's electric reserves, the ISO said it would instruct utilities to start imposing rotating outages the first time the state has taken such a measure since a brutal heatwave in August 2020.

00:08:38.000 Wow, I mean, that's a really long time.

00:08:41.000 No, it's not.

00:08:42.000 That's like two years ago, guys.

00:08:44.000 Remember that time two years ago that you blew it?

00:08:46.000 And now you're doing it now.

00:08:47.000 By the way, the reason that this didn't happen during 2021 is because again, in the middle of the COVID pandemic, there were just a lot more people who are staying home.

00:08:57.000 Maybe it wasn't quite as hot, but even then it strained the power grid.

00:09:01.000 It's amazing.

00:09:03.000 So this is the state that we're supposed to imitate.

00:09:05.000 And according to the left, California is the leader.

00:09:07.000 Gavin Newsom is trying to propose himself as a possible alternative to Joe Biden in 2024, should the old man fall down on the stairs or something.

00:09:15.000 And so Gavin Newsom made an announcement yesterday that it's time for everybody to do their part.

00:09:19.000 He'll be over at the French Laundry enjoying the food and the air conditioning.

00:09:23.000 Everyone has to do their part to help step up for just a few more days.

00:09:27.000 Individuals, the state, industries, business, all doing their part to help reduce strain on the grid.

00:09:33.000 Now here's specifically what you can do.

00:09:35.000 In the early morning hours, particularly tomorrow and the next day or so, pre-cool your home.

00:09:40.000 Run your air conditioning earlier in the day when more power is available.

00:09:45.000 And we encourage you to close your windows and blinds to keep your home cool as well.

00:09:50.000 And today and tomorrow afternoon after 4 p.m., in particular 4 p.m., please turn your thermostat up to 78 degrees or higher and avoid to the extent possible using any really large appliances.

00:10:04.000 Right, stop using your microwave.

00:10:06.000 No washer and dryer at like 8 p.m.

00:10:08.000 And you know it's a great lifestyle.

00:10:10.000 California was where freedom happened, according to Gavin Newsom.

00:10:11.000 He cut an entire commercial that he ran in Florida about how freedom is happening in California.

00:10:15.000 I noticed that it isn't.

00:10:17.000 Which is why I don't live there anymore.

00:10:19.000 He also tweeted out, California, we're now in a flex alert.

00:10:21.000 What does that mean?

00:10:22.000 We need to conserve as much energy as possible during this record-breaking heat wave, because it's never been hot in California before.

00:10:27.000 Here's what to do until 9pm tonight.

00:10:29.000 Set thermostats to 78.

00:10:30.000 Turn off unnecessary lights.

00:10:32.000 Avoid using large appliances.

00:10:34.000 Turn off unnecessary lights.

00:10:35.000 So, sit in the dark.

00:10:37.000 In the heat and enjoy your freedom, California.

00:10:39.000 Representative Eric Swalwell, who apparently did not tweet this from the bed of a Chinese spy, he tweeted, quote, It's time to rally, California.

00:10:46.000 We all need to do our part to help power outages, help avoid power outages this week.

00:10:50.000 Before 4 p.m., pre-cool your home.

00:10:52.000 By the way, if everybody does that, they're going to have a flex alert at 4 p.m.

00:10:56.000 If everybody blasts that air conditioner as hard as they can at 3 p.m., they're going to have another flex alert.

00:11:01.000 After 4 p.m., avoid use of major appliances.

00:11:03.000 Turn your thermostat to 78 or higher.

00:11:04.000 78 or higher.

00:11:05.000 My goodness.

00:11:07.000 Ugh, that sounds terrible.

00:11:08.000 You know what I kept my thermostat at here in Florida last night?

00:11:12.000 68 degrees.

00:11:13.000 It was awesome.

00:11:15.000 Let's keep the lights on, California, says Gavin News, says Eric Swalwell.

00:11:20.000 I love the communitarian aspect of this.

00:11:20.000 Let's keep the light on.

00:11:24.000 By the way, you'll pay for it.

00:11:25.000 You'll pay for it through your taxes to not upgrade the grid.

00:11:29.000 Brianne Depeche, the energy and environment reporter over at the Washington Examiner, As an excellent piece talking about why California's grid is at the risk of blackouts.

00:11:38.000 She talks about the fact that, of course, demand is high.

00:11:40.000 Demand is high, particularly between 4 p.m.

00:11:42.000 and 9 p.m.

00:11:43.000 Solar power generation decreases.

00:11:45.000 That would be the reason why they are saying from 4 to 9 p.m.

00:11:48.000 you should start to ramp down your energy usage.

00:11:51.000 Right.

00:11:51.000 The reason is not actually because it's more hot for 9 p.m.

00:11:55.000 Actually, that's when it cools down.

00:11:56.000 The answer is what happens at 4 p.m.? ?

00:11:58.000 Well, the sun starts to set and the solar energy stops going online.

00:12:03.000 Why, it's almost as though solar energy is not all that efficient for human use.

00:12:08.000 To offset that imbalance, grid operators can call for consumers to conserve electricity voluntarily via that FlexAlert program.

00:12:14.000 Severin Borenstein, a professor at University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business says, quote, I'm not a believer we should be doing this through voluntary pleading.

00:12:21.000 I think we should have a price system that actually lowers the price most of the time and then raises the price when the system is tight.

00:12:26.000 Yeah, but they can't do pricing. 0.99

00:12:27.000 Prices are bad, guys.

00:12:29.000 Profit.

00:12:30.000 Evil profit.

00:12:31.000 So instead, they're going to just request... They had this with water usage when I was in California.

00:12:35.000 It wouldn't actually allow the pricing system to take care of the problem because then rich people would continue to water their lawns, and people who are not as rich would not continue to water their lawns. 0.57

00:12:41.000 So instead, we will redistribute the misery equally.

00:12:45.000 Supply has been dramatically constrained in California.

00:12:48.000 According to the Washington Examiner, historic drought conditions and record low reservoir levels have reduced the state's ability to generate hydropower by 48%.

00:12:55.000 By the way, they've built no new dams.

00:12:56.000 They built no new reservoirs.

00:12:57.000 That's something that Jerry Brown should have been doing 20 years ago, and he didn't do any of this stuff.

00:13:01.000 In-state hydroelectric power fell last year to just 7% of California's utility scale net generation, according to data from the U.S.

00:13:07.000 Energy Information Administration, down from nearly 21% in 2017.

00:13:13.000 That's not only the effect of heat and drought on the supply of energy, they also exacerbate the risk of wildfires.

00:13:19.000 California narrowly avoided a blackout last summer after the bootleg wildfire on the California-Oregon border damaged interstate transmission lines and temporarily halted some electricity imports.

00:13:26.000 Speaking of which, interstate imports are key for California because California, despite being the most populous state in the Union with the most natural resources, has to get 25% of its electricity from other western states.

00:13:39.000 But the reliability of the imports has gone down in recent years because states have been phasing out coal-fired power plants in the West, right?

00:13:44.000 All of these surrounding states have been moving toward green.

00:13:46.000 California imports energy from Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, but those states are grappling with the same heat and drought conditions as California, and they also took many of their own fossil fuel-powered plants offline.

00:13:57.000 Since 2013, these states retired more than 10 gigawatts of fossil fuel-generating capacity, leaving them with little excess resources to sell to California.

00:14:06.000 Operators noted yesterday four of those five states are also expecting to be hit by the heat wave.

00:14:11.000 California produces a huge amount of renewable energy through wind and solar power and produces more solar power than it can use during the middle of the day.

00:14:17.000 The problem is that the batteries don't work.

00:14:19.000 The challenge is when in the evening solar power declines, but people are still running those ACs.

00:14:23.000 In its annual summer reliability assessment, according to the Washington Examiner, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation put the entire West at elevated risk for reserve shortages, with regulators warning that the state could face a power shortage of up to 1,700 megawatts on the hottest days.

00:14:37.000 In addition, operators warned of possible disturbances to the state's solar photovoltaic, or PV, system, which converts solar into electricity.

00:14:44.000 Disturbances to that technology continue to be a reliability concern.

00:14:48.000 New renewable battery storage projects for wind and solar could keep supply online for longer, but California has been unable to match peak summer demand with increased capacity.

00:14:55.000 Supply chain problems have also delayed many solar projects from advancing.

00:15:00.000 So again, California has basically cut itself off at the knees because it turns out that radical environmentalism in the face of reality does not work.

00:15:07.000 I'm sorry to break it to you, but no matter how much money you pour into sources of energy that are not nearly energy efficient enough, it is not going to make up for these gaps.

00:15:15.000 It just isn't.

00:15:16.000 And people are going to pay the price for this.

00:15:17.000 Real people.

00:15:18.000 Taxpayers.

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00:16:31.000 California, by the way, has been backing away from nuclear power as well.

00:16:34.000 It closed the San Onofre nuclear generating system in 2012.

00:16:37.000 I remember when they did that.

00:16:38.000 In 2016, a study published in the American Economic Journal found that in the 12-month period after that SoCal facility was shuttered, the power it generated was largely replaced by natural gas, increasing emissions, driving up costs for consumers by an estimated $350 million that year alone.

00:16:53.000 In the 12 month period following the closure of that nuclear generating station, researchers found carbon emissions also rose by 9 million metric tons, which would have been the equivalent of putting an additional 2 million gas consuming cars on the road.

00:17:06.000 So now the state is trying to change course the same way that Europe is.

00:17:08.000 They're extending the life of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.

00:17:11.000 That is the last remaining nuclear facility in the state.

00:17:15.000 Again, this is what they've decided to do.

00:17:17.000 California has decided to basically bet the living standards of its citizens on futile green policies that are not, in the end, going to lower emissions.

00:17:27.000 They're actually, in some ways, going to increase emissions.

00:17:29.000 Because you're going to have to increase the capacity of the grid.

00:17:31.000 You're going to have to rely on things like natural gas to replace those nuclear power plants.

00:17:37.000 Again, science does not lie.

00:17:39.000 You know, it's always left saying, follow the science.

00:17:41.000 How about follow the science when it comes to the science of energy efficiency?

00:17:45.000 Carbon-based fossil fuels are significantly more efficient than the other forms of energy that are being produced in the so-called green tech revolution.

00:17:53.000 Simple fact.

00:17:54.000 And you're not going to overcome that simply by yelling at people about it.

00:17:58.000 That doesn't solve the problem.

00:18:00.000 Michael Schellenberger, who recently attempted to run for governor in the state of California, He pointed out that this was a problem back in August of 2020.

00:18:09.000 He talked about the rolling blackouts that happened in the state that year.

00:18:15.000 He says that this is again because of California raising electricity prices because of its huge expansion in renewables.

00:18:22.000 He points out, even though the cost of solar panels declined dramatically between 2011 and 2019, their unreliable and weather-dependent nature meant that they imposed large new costs in the form of storage and transmission to keep electricity as reliable.

00:18:33.000 California's solar panels and farms were all turning off as the blackouts began, with no help available from the states to the east already in nightfall.

00:18:39.000 Electricity from solar goes away at the very moment when the demand for electricity rises.

00:18:43.000 The peak demand was steady in late hours, said the spokesperson for the ISO, and we had thousands of megawatts of solar reducing their output as the sun sets.

00:18:52.000 So again, take all of your energy offline and then be shocked when you have no energy.

00:18:57.000 This is the pattern.

00:18:58.000 And again, understand that for National Democrats, California is the model of what they wish to do environmentally, right?

00:19:03.000 Joe Biden is out there touting his Inflation Reduction Act, which is not going to reduce inflation.

00:19:06.000 And he said that it's going to fix the climate.

00:19:07.000 We're going to save the world.

00:19:09.000 No, you're not. 0.94

00:19:10.000 You're just going to do a bunch of incredibly expensive, stupid things, and then you're going to end up relying on the old forms of fossil fuels so long as the technology doesn't advance. 0.98

00:19:17.000 That's exactly what's happening in Europe, but that's not going to stop them from continuing to promote this nonsense. 0.81

00:19:22.000 Literally yesterday, Jennifer Granholm said that she supports the California gas vehicle ban by 2035.

00:19:29.000 ...made national headlines by becoming the first state to say, by 2035, we're not going to have any gas-powered vehicles that are new, that are being sold.

00:19:38.000 You can still drive your old ones, but you can't sell new ones.

00:19:42.000 You like this concept?

00:19:43.000 Yeah, I do.

00:19:44.000 I think California really is leaning in.

00:19:46.000 And, of course, the federal government has a goal of, the president has announced, by 2030, that half of the vehicles in the U.S., the new ones sold, would be electric.

00:19:57.000 Wow.

00:19:58.000 I mean, they're leaning in, guys.

00:20:00.000 I mean, they're leaning in so far that they're falling over and smashing themselves in the face on the pavement, but they're definitely leaning in.

00:20:05.000 And we should listen to Jennifer Granholm, our energy secretary, who knows nothing about energy, because after all, Jennifer Granholm is wearing smart people glasses. 1.00

00:20:12.000 That's the way that you can tell whether somebody really knows about energy policies, they wear smart people glasses.

00:20:16.000 Either that or they fly around in private jets like John Kerry and speak sonorously into the mic.

00:20:21.000 I believe climate change must be fought like a war.

00:20:26.000 Jennifer Granholm, by the way, also said we have to double the size of our energy grid using green energy. 1.00

00:20:31.000 Slow clap for this idiocy. 0.99

00:20:32.000 The grid's going to be ready for all this? 1.00

00:20:35.000 The grid's got to be ready.

00:20:36.000 We have to basically double the size of the nation's electric grid with clean energy.

00:20:43.000 Do you have any proposals for how to do that, lady?

00:20:45.000 Because I'm not seeing any actual measures that you're proposing, other than just spending exorbitant amounts of money on really, really inefficient stuff.

00:20:54.000 People like Jennifer Granholm, they really have your best interests at heart.

00:20:57.000 They are experts.

00:20:58.000 These people are experts.

00:20:59.000 Well, if you don't believe me, if you think that actually the people who run the government are not experts and they're really, really bad at this, then maybe you don't want to give them tax dollars that they shouldn't have had in the first place.

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00:22:04.000 There's another choice here, which is you can just keep locking down for the climate.

00:22:10.000 Bjorn Lomborg, who has written extensively, he's been a guest on the program, has written extensively about the environmentalists' emission timetables.

00:22:17.000 He points out that the goals of the environmentalists radically decrease the availability of actual energy to people.

00:22:25.000 He wrote in the Wall Street Journal back in September, quote, From the news to late night shows, much of the media makes it sound as if renewables are on the verge of taking over, but that's far from reality.

00:22:34.000 In 2019, the latest complete year of data, 81% of the world's energy supply came from fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency.

00:22:41.000 Even if all nations were to fulfill their current climate promises, the IEA estimates fossil fuel use would still make up 73% by 2040.

00:22:49.000 How can this be possible when headlines constantly trumpet the future of solar and wind?

00:22:52.000 Partly, it's that renewables produce mostly electricity, which is only 19% of all the energy the world consumes.

00:22:57.000 The rest is used for things like heating, transportation, and the production of goods like steel and fertilizer.

00:23:02.000 Even if all electricity turned green, most of the world would still run on fossil fuels.

00:23:05.000 And most electricity isn't green.

00:23:07.000 Almost two-thirds is still generated by fossil fuels, with nuclear and hydro supplying another quarter.

00:23:11.000 The solar and wind favored by environmentalists generate 8%.

00:23:14.000 Though renewables are often touted as the cheapest energy source, that's only true when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing.

00:23:20.000 If it still might, you need backup power typically from fossil fuels, which makes electricity costlier because you now need to pay for both the solar panel and the gas turbine.

00:23:27.000 The European Union, which gets 17% of its electricity from solar and wind, also has some of the highest consumer electricity costs.

00:23:35.000 In fossil fuel use, says Bjorn Lomberg, the greenest continent is Africa because nearly half of its energy comes from renewables, mostly wood, dung, and cardboard burned for cooking and heating.

00:23:43.000 Which kills about 700,000 people every year in Sub-Saharan Africa with indoor air pollution.

00:23:48.000 More than half a billion Africans lack access to electricity.

00:23:51.000 Economic development can move them out of this unenviable position, but it also means Africans will use significantly more fossil fuels than they do today.

00:23:58.000 To give a sense of how it could grow, California uses more electricity on its pools and hot tubs than all 44 million inhabitants of Uganda consume total.

00:24:06.000 Cutting fossil fuels as quickly as some environmentalists want will be tremendously difficult.

00:24:10.000 In 2020, pandemic lockdowns forced the world to cut carbon emissions significantly.

00:24:13.000 But to fulfill the Paris Climate Accords completely, the UN says global emissions would have to plunge even further every year for the rest of the decade.

00:24:19.000 By the end of 2030, they'd have to have fallen by 11 times what they did in 2020.

00:24:23.000 Not exactly realistic.

00:24:24.000 So it's unrealistic.

00:24:25.000 It's a waste of money.

00:24:26.000 It makes people miserable.

00:24:28.000 And by the way, it has international consequences because you may have noticed that some of America's opponents, some geopolitical powers that don't care about things like carbon emissions, they're simply using energy as a weapon, which by the way, oil has been a weapon since people discovered how to use oil for energy.

00:24:46.000 Literally, since we began dredging up oil from the ground and using it in vehicles, using it to power the development of industry, since that began, oil has been a serious geopolitical issue.

00:24:57.000 It's why people cared about the Middle East. 1.00

00:24:58.000 It's the reason probably why Japan ended up attacking the United States at Pearl Harbor, because they were being deprived of the oil supplies that they needed in order to power their war machine through American blockade.

00:25:09.000 Oil has always been an issue.

00:25:11.000 It's one of the reasons why Hitler moved into the Soviet Union. 0.95

00:25:13.000 He needed an oil field.

00:25:15.000 Oil has always been energy use is always an issue.

00:25:17.000 So if you voluntarily destroy your own energy efficiency because you have some sort of idea about fighting the sun.

00:25:25.000 That's going to have some real consequences, which is why, by the way, Russia has decided to cut off Nord Stream, the Nord Stream pipeline, right?

00:25:31.000 They're cutting it off in the middle of a war with Ukraine because they're attempting to freeze Europe out. 0.84

00:25:36.000 Basically, they're now reversing their strategy in the War of 1812 with Napoleon.

00:25:44.000 Basically, what they are now doing is they're saying, OK, well, if you will not come to Russia winter, we bring Russian winter to you.

00:25:53.000 If you're not going to invade Russia and then get caught up, you know, like Napoleon or like Hitler in the middle of the Russian steppes and then frozen, we'll just freeze you, right? 0.93

00:26:00.000 We will deprive you of energy in your own homes.

00:26:02.000 And so Russia is cutting off Nord Stream at the beginning of winter.

00:26:05.000 We've known this is coming for months.

00:26:05.000 Everyone knew this was coming.

00:26:08.000 So you might have figured, hey, maybe they should get ready by, you know, going back to some fossil fuel use in a time of emergency.

00:26:13.000 And they've tried, but it's a little bit too late.

00:26:15.000 And so here is the shocked Karine Jean-Pierre saying, you know, Russia is weaponizing energy.

00:26:19.000 Really?

00:26:20.000 You mean, wait, hold up.

00:26:22.000 You're saying energy can be used as a weapon?

00:26:24.000 Is that what you're saying?

00:26:25.000 Are you saying that like, I don't know, six months after we decided to freeze out Russia from the oil markets?

00:26:31.000 You mean Russia can do the same thing to us?

00:26:34.000 No.

00:26:35.000 Shocking.

00:26:37.000 So you've heard us say this, that what what we see Russia's doing, and we've been very clear about this, is that they're using energy, they're weaponizing energy, and it's choosing to one of the things that has been out there to shut down the pipeline of Nordstrom one. 0.74

00:26:54.000 Wow, you know, they're using energy as leverage. 0.53

00:26:57.000 Who could have foreseen such a thing except for every sentient human being since the beginning of this war?

00:27:03.000 I mean, that's shocking, and unsurprisingly, it is working.

00:27:07.000 I've been saying for weeks on this program, it was very clear that Ukraine had to make a military push before the winter, because the winter was the end of this war.

00:27:12.000 Because the Europeans are going to start pushing Ukraine to start making territorial concessions to end this thing, because you know what starts to hit home a lot in Europe?

00:27:21.000 When your citizens are freezing to death in their apartments.

00:27:23.000 It turns out that cold kills a lot more people every year than heat.

00:27:26.000 A lot more people.

00:27:28.000 I know this runs counter to the prevailing wisdom, which is that global warming is the chief threat.

00:27:31.000 Cold, when it comes to what kills people, is the chief threat to human beings, not heat.

00:27:37.000 The head of the EU yesterday had to announce that they're reducing energy use.

00:27:39.000 They've basically gone into flex energy use the same way as California. 0.95

00:27:42.000 You can blame Vladimir Putin for that, or you can blame the fact that this entire continent decided to follow the advice of an idiot Swedish teenager for no reason other than she was very upset. 0.99

00:27:51.000 I'm outraged. 1.00

00:27:53.000 Greta, she's disappointed in you. 0.57

00:27:55.000 And they were like, oh my God, the 15-year-old Swedish teenager is screaming at us.

00:28:00.000 Let's make ourselves completely reliant on Russian oil.

00:28:03.000 And then you have to cut your energy use.

00:28:05.000 Geniuses over there.

00:28:07.000 What is expensive?

00:28:08.000 Because in these peak demands, the expensive gas comes into the market.

00:28:13.000 So what we have to do is flatten the curve and avoid the peak demands.

00:28:20.000 We will propose a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours and we will work very closely with the Member States to achieve this.

00:28:31.000 Guys, we're back to flattening curves.

00:28:33.000 Isn't that exciting?

00:28:34.000 Remember that time when we were going to flatten the curve by staying in our homes and wrecking our businesses and destroying the world economy?

00:28:39.000 That was great.

00:28:40.000 Let's do it again, but with energy.

00:28:41.000 Sounds like a great idea.

00:28:42.000 Meanwhile, in Britain, one of the solutions that is now being proposed in Britain is actually to, I guess, pay extraordinary subsidies to people for their energy.

00:28:53.000 So they're now engaging in an energy bailout.

00:28:56.000 According to Alex Wickham, A reporter at Bloomberg, on top of 130 billion pounds to freeze household energy bills, Liz Truss is nomalling another 40 billion pounds for small business. 1.00

00:29:06.000 That equals the annual National Health Service budget.

00:29:09.000 It is more than 5% of GDP.

00:29:12.000 This is what happens when you make yourself reliant on sources of power that are not efficient.

00:29:16.000 I can't say it enough.

00:29:18.000 Reality does not care about your energy-efficient priorities when you are green.

00:29:21.000 It does not care.

00:29:23.000 And so, more realistic nations are like, yeah, you know what, fine, we're just going to buy oil from Russia.

00:29:26.000 They don't care.

00:29:27.000 You know, like, let's stop pretending over here.

00:29:29.000 India, right, which is a developing and growing nation.

00:29:32.000 You can tell us all you want, but you know what we're not going to do?

00:29:35.000 We're not going to make our citizens unable to run whatever air conditioners they have.

00:29:38.000 Here's India's Petroleum Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, saying, yeah, we're going to continue buying oil from Russia.

00:29:43.000 Why wouldn't we?

00:29:44.000 Yes, we will buy from Russia.

00:29:46.000 We'll buy from wherever.

00:29:47.000 A democratically elected government.

00:29:49.000 And you don't have a moral conflict with the Russians at all?

00:29:51.000 No, no, it's no conflict.

00:29:54.000 I have a moral duty to my consumer.

00:29:56.000 Do I, as a democratically elected government, want a situation where the petrol pump runs dry?

00:30:04.000 Look at what's happening in countries around India.

00:30:06.000 But they did invade a democratically elected country.

00:30:09.000 No, no, I'm not getting into that debate.

00:30:11.000 It's a question of energy.

00:30:13.000 By the way, those who wanted to do that ideological punitive action, they're still buying.

00:30:20.000 I mean, he's right about this, by the way.

00:30:22.000 The countries are still buying, but through secondary parties.

00:30:24.000 They're buying secondhand Russian oil.

00:30:27.000 I mean, remember, when Russia turns off the pipeline, what does that suggest?

00:30:29.000 It suggests that until five seconds ago, the Europeans were continuing to buy Russian oil, otherwise they wouldn't have been running the pipeline!

00:30:38.000 What this demonstrates is that unless the West is willing to actually treat geopolitics as a serious business rather than committing suicide with regard to core resources like energy or, for example, semiconductors in Taiwan, unless they're willing to ramp up their own power, it turns out that competitive nations are going to look elsewhere.

00:30:57.000 If you're India and the West has nothing to offer you in terms of energy supply, of course you're going to turn to Russia. 0.97

00:31:02.000 Why wouldn't you?

00:31:03.000 You still have a billion citizens.

00:31:06.000 Like, what do you expect India to do? 1.00

00:31:09.000 This is just stupid. 1.00

00:31:10.000 It's stupid time in the West. 1.00

00:31:11.000 It's a serious time and we have unserious leadership who are consumed with what they have determined is the world's most serious problem, namely the gradual escalation of temperature over the course of the next hundred years. 1.00

00:31:21.000 Over a hundred years.

00:31:23.000 And the effect on humanity, which it turns out is really good at adapting to problems.

00:31:27.000 So we're going to do that, but we're just going to hand all power over to Russia and then we're going to yell at India if India decides that it's going to buy oil from Russia to take care of its citizens today. 0.80

00:31:34.000 These geniuses.

00:31:36.000 I will give a shout out here to my friend Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:31:40.000 Who has been trying to urge all of these oil companies to stop falling for the soft fascism of the government working in concert with ESG priorities.

00:31:50.000 So basically the government, left-wing governments, work in concert with groups like BlackRock and Larry Fink over at BlackRock to push oil companies to produce less energy and to get them to commit to environmental social governance.

00:32:04.000 And when they do that, what they are doing is basically telling energy companies to stop producing energy.

00:32:08.000 So Vivek has said, because BlackRock owns a big chunk of a lot of these energy companies, Vivek's proposal is, well, what if a bunch of us buy big chunks of these energy companies also, and then we tell them to stop listening to BlackRock, which is an excellent solution.

00:32:23.000 Good piece over at the Wall Street Journal talking about what Vivek did yesterday.

00:32:26.000 He sent a letter to Chevron CEO Mike Worth and the company's board.

00:32:30.000 He said, quote, I want to liberate you from the constraints imposed on Chevron by its ESG promoting quote unquote shareholders.

00:32:36.000 He writes that he looks forward to engaging with the company before next year's proxy voting session.

00:32:41.000 The Chevron effort is a response to last year's proxy victory by hedge fund Engine No.

00:32:45.000 1 at Chevron's rival ExxonMobil Corp.

00:32:47.000 that forced Exxon to accelerate energy transition efforts.

00:32:50.000 Strive's letter, that's Vivec's company, calls for energy producers to dump their current strategy of limiting investments and returning cash to shareholders.

00:32:57.000 It's one of the first formal calls for an oil giant to do so.

00:33:01.000 So, again, I'm a big fan of this strategy and I think that many of us should invest in things like Strive in order to drive up ownership in important aspects of the economy.

00:33:11.000 If you think those oil companies are eager to get into the inefficient business of solar, for example, you are off your rocker.

00:33:18.000 They're doing it because of government pressure.

00:33:20.000 They're doing it because the government has basically said, we are going to cut all these companies off at the knees by depriving them of their investments through regulatory power.

00:33:27.000 And so there needs to be some pushback here or the West is going to fall by way of its own hand.

00:33:34.000 Speaking of which, Joe Biden continues to tout the future of the economy.

00:33:37.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

00:33:38.000 The left believes they are winning the culture war.

00:33:40.000 This is wish-casting.

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00:33:54.000 Our goal is to provide you an alternative because the woke left is on the march in every area of our culture, including, for example, children's content.

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00:34:05.000 Help us keep the momentum by watching and sharing the film.

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00:34:16.000 Meanwhile, as Joe Biden continues to run the country into the ground, he's optimistic about the future of the country.

00:34:21.000 Well, maybe that's because he's I believe we're winning the race to the future.

00:34:33.000 Details matter, though.

00:34:34.000 Execution matters.

00:34:36.000 And I look forward to everyone here today giving me an update on your departments.

00:34:40.000 And I'm incredibly optimistic about the future that we're building here in this country.

00:34:46.000 But it requires solid work making these laws work.

00:34:51.000 The devil's in the details.

00:34:55.000 Inspiring stuff there from our babbling leader.

00:34:57.000 He also says that don't worry about it.

00:34:58.000 We're going to spend taxpayer money wisely.

00:35:00.000 If I spend taxpayer money wisely, he means he's going to load trillions of dollars into a leaf blower and then just sort of blow it out wherever he sees humans who might vote for him.

00:35:12.000 I suppose that's spending the money wisely.

00:35:14.000 It's a redefinition.

00:35:15.000 I'll give him that.

00:35:16.000 Here we go.

00:35:17.000 I've asked each relevant cabinet agency to come forward today with a plan to help get the American people and our economy on the right side as fast as possible, and to spend taxpayers' money wisely.

00:35:31.000 I might add, with all these legislations we've passed, Madam Vice President, we've still reduced the deficit substantially.

00:35:39.000 You have not reduced the deficit!

00:35:41.000 Okay, this is the biggest lie in American politics.

00:35:43.000 Again, if I spend $10,000 over my credit limit last month, and then I spend $4,000 over my credit limit this month, that's not me reducing the deficit.

00:35:51.000 That's me being wildly irresponsible.

00:35:53.000 He's spent more money than any president in American history, bar none.

00:35:56.000 Two weeks ago, he announced the largest executive action in the history of the country.

00:36:02.000 $500 billion minimum to unconstitutionally, quote unquote, relieve student loan debt.

00:36:07.000 He spent $1.2 trillion on an Inflation Reduction Act, which is an oxymoron.

00:36:12.000 You can't spend money on inflation reduction.

00:36:13.000 That's not how that works.

00:36:16.000 I'm going to spend more money to reduce the price of this good.

00:36:19.000 Genius.

00:36:21.000 And then he calls it a Climate Change Act.

00:36:22.000 Spent $2 trillion in the middle of an economic recovery to fight COVID or some such.

00:36:29.000 The American Rescue Plan.

00:36:31.000 He spent a trillion plus dollars on infrastructure.

00:36:34.000 That's aside from the $4 trillion budget every year.

00:36:37.000 He's spending more money than God or man has ever seen.

00:36:39.000 And then he's telling you he's fiscally responsible.

00:36:42.000 That the inflation is not his fault.

00:36:45.000 That he's doing a great job, guys.

00:36:46.000 He really is.

00:36:47.000 Well, you know who disagrees is the stock market, which continues to have an awful quarter.

00:36:51.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.

00:36:52.000 stock indices fell on Tuesday, driven by expectations for tighter federal reserve policy and an energy crisis in Europe.

00:36:57.000 And by the way, This is the pattern of governance. 0.80

00:37:00.000 You do a really crap job and then somebody has to come in and try to put a band-aid on it.

00:37:03.000 So the Federal Reserve did a really, really bad job in terms of ramping up the inflation during 2020 and continuing to buy up trillions of dollars in assets, injecting money into an already overheated economy in 2021.

00:37:15.000 But what's really exacerbated the problem is horrible legislative policy from the Biden administration and executive policy in 2021-2022.

00:37:22.000 And that means now they're begging the Federal Reserve to come in and fix the problem.

00:37:25.000 It's the same thing with the energy supply issues.

00:37:28.000 Like, wow, you know, it turns out that the energy supply issues, a systemic problem generated by our bad policy.

00:37:34.000 What if we could have a Band-Aid?

00:37:35.000 And the Band-Aid would be in the form of, you know, subsidies.

00:37:37.000 The Band-Aid would be in the form of buying energy from other states.

00:37:40.000 Or maybe we'll keep a nuclear plant online a little bit longer.

00:37:44.000 Bad policy requires you to continue slapping band-aids on the bad policy, but these are gangrenous wounds.

00:37:50.000 They are only cured by lopping off limbs at this point, and you're not lopping anything off.

00:37:54.000 You're just sitting there watching as the rot grows and rooting for it.

00:37:57.000 The rot's good.

00:37:58.000 The rot is the recovery, you see.

00:37:59.000 The rot's amazing.

00:38:01.000 The S&P 500 declined 16 points, or 0.4%, to 3908.19 after the long Labor Day weekend.

00:38:09.000 The Dow Jones Industrial slid 173 points, 0.6%.

00:38:11.000 The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite lost 0.7%.

00:38:16.000 That is down for seven straight trading days, the longest losing streak since November of 2016.

00:38:20.000 Within the S&P 500, seven out of 11 sectors were in the red on Tuesday, with industrials, healthcare, real estate, and utilities gaining.

00:38:27.000 There's this weird thing that's going on in the stock market, and it's really, really funny, actually.

00:38:30.000 And that is, the Federal Reserve will announce that they are raising interest rates, and everybody goes, oh no!

00:38:36.000 And they sell.

00:38:38.000 And then five minutes later, they're like, well, maybe they'll get control of it and then they buy.

00:38:41.000 And then five seconds later, the Federal Reserve is like, we're raising the interest.

00:38:44.000 Oh no!

00:38:44.000 You can see the stock market riding that wave like it's a Six Flags ride.

00:38:50.000 According to Jerome Powell, by the way, they're now looking at another 0.75 point percentage point increase rather than 0.50.

00:38:56.000 They can go for three quarters of a percentage point increase, 75 basis points.

00:39:01.000 Fed officials have done little to push back against the market expectation of a third consecutive 75 In a speech August 26th, Powell underscored the central bank's commitment to boosting interest rates enough to lower inflation from 40-year highs.

00:39:18.000 He says we'll keep at it until we are confident the job is done.

00:39:23.000 Again, he's been signaling this for a while.

00:39:26.000 And Mohamed El-Erian over at Allianz, he's been saying, you know, you guys, you should've been tapping the brakes a long time ago.

00:39:31.000 Now it's a little bit late.

00:39:31.000 You're going to have to slam on the brakes.

00:39:33.000 And when you slam on the brakes, the chances are that the economy is going to crash.

00:39:37.000 Again, globally speaking, a lot of other countries which have been following the United States' lead are about to take it directly on the chin.

00:39:42.000 Goldman Sachs is predicting 22-point inflation in places like the UK.

00:39:49.000 Apparently, officials are going to submit their new economic projections at their meeting this month, showing how high they expect to lift the Fed funds rate by year's end.

00:39:56.000 New York Fed President John Williams said, quote, their next steps need to be guided by where we want to see the interest rates by the end of the year and into next year.

00:40:01.000 If based on the data, it's clear we need to get interest rates significantly higher by the end of the year.

00:40:05.000 Obviously, that informs a decision at any given meeting.

00:40:09.000 Powell is set to speak Thursday in a moderated discussion at the Cato Institute.

00:40:12.000 Those are his last scheduled public remarks before the coming Fed meeting.

00:40:16.000 Meanwhile, over in Britain, Liz Truss is attempting to put that country back on the right track, given the fact that they're about to launch off into unprecedented inflation, like the worst inflation that they've seen in maybe a couple of hundred years, depending on how you measure it, because the pound is about to reach parity with the US dollar.

00:40:32.000 She said yesterday in accepting the gig as PM of the UK, That she was determined to deliver and she's going to do so by lowering taxes, lowering regulation, and hopefully jacking up energy supply, which of course is the proper move here.

00:40:44.000 Our country was built by people who get things done.

00:40:48.000 We have huge reserves of talent, of energy and determination.

00:40:54.000 I am confident that together we can ride out the storm.

00:40:59.000 We can rebuild our economy.

00:41:01.000 And we can become the modern, brilliant Britain that I know we can be.

00:41:08.000 This is our vital mission to ensure opportunity and prosperity for all people and future generations.

00:41:17.000 I am determined to deliver.

00:41:20.000 Thank you.

00:41:22.000 Yeah, and I'm hopeful that Liz tries. 0.64

00:41:25.000 Maybe she's Margaret Thatcher, part two. 0.74

00:41:26.000 Maybe what we get here is Margaret Thatcher preceding a Ronald Reagan here in the United States, because that's what the West needs. 0.69

00:41:31.000 It needs an actual clear-eyed vision about how to ramp up its own power in the face of predatory foreign governments like China and Russia.

00:41:39.000 I'm just amazed at people in the West who keep saying they want to confront places like, I mean, Joe Biden says this.

00:41:44.000 He says, we need to confront Russia and Ukraine. 0.99

00:41:46.000 We need to confront China. 0.99

00:41:47.000 And then undermines the economic power of the United States and the military power of the United States.

00:41:51.000 At the same time, they are getting confrontational with foreign powers.

00:41:54.000 It's kind of an amazing thing.

00:41:56.000 Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing now.

00:41:58.000 You don't want to miss it because we are going to be getting into Jennifer Lawrence, who apparently has been dreaming about Tucker Carlson. 0.91

00:42:03.000 I know it's super weird.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 07, 2022

The Green Suicide Pact | Ep. 1569

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