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00:03:20.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:04:14.000But one of the reasons why America was able to rise to industrial prominence and dominance is because we had the willingness, the ability, the technology, the fortitude, and the entrepreneurial capacity to use the natural resources God granted us all throughout all 48 contiguous states and not so much in Hawaii, but definitely in Alaska.
00:04:40.000One of the hallmark successes of the Trump administration was the ability that America was energy independent, that we were exporting more oil than we were importing.
00:04:52.000This is the first time that it happened in over 40 years that America was actually an exporter of oil and natural gas.
00:05:02.000You see, growing up, you know, during the con man Al Gore, who came and did the inconvenient truth in 2004 and 2005, one of the main arguments that Al Gore made was that we need to stop purchasing oil from Iraq and from Iran and from Saudi Arabia, makes them rich, and geopolitically, it makes no sense for us.
00:05:27.000And so there was always this push to try to make America energy independent.
00:05:34.000In fact, this was a promise by Barack Obama in 2007, 2008, when he ran for president.
00:05:43.000He said, we're going to make America energy independent.
00:05:46.000And of course, he had no intention to actually do that.
00:05:51.000Now, countries that have access to oil and natural gas and they don't use them, they're basically handing their adversaries and handing the economic competitive edge to people that could be potential competitors, having access to oil and natural gas depositories such as the Permian Basin, the Balkan Shale, or the Marcellus Shale.
00:06:17.000Those are three massive depositories in our country.
00:06:20.000And right now we're broadcasting on the flag radio network, Scott Hennan's wonderful channel up in North Dakota, and they know all about the Balkan shale up there.
00:06:31.000That one of the reasons why America has been so economically anti-fragile, which means the more that gets thrown at us, the stronger we become.
00:06:40.000One of the reasons why America has always had this entrepreneurial flair is, of course, our ethos, our character, our ability to come up with new ideas, to be solution-oriented, but also for access to energy.
00:06:56.000You see, when you want to start a new business, when you want to start a new manufacturing plant, one of the larger, one of the major costs that could prohibit you from doing that is energy.
00:07:09.000Energy is one of the most, if not, I don't want to say it's the most important issue.
00:07:32.000Well, then you have one of two options.
00:07:36.000You can have the federal government distribute the oil and natural gas and the natural minerals and resources.
00:07:44.000Or you can go into these unproven fringe ideological energy programs, such as the bird-killing machines, otherwise known as windmills, hydroelectric, which I'm a big fan of hydroelectric, by the way.
00:08:00.000The other side doesn't like hydroelectric because they say it's bad for the beavers or whatever.
00:08:05.000I'm a big fan of nuclear power as well.
00:08:08.000France has a huge part of their grid as nuclear.
00:08:11.000They decided they wanted to sunset it, but recently they want to expand it.
00:08:43.000Well, because of that, we were able to develop incredible new horizontal drilling or hydraulic fracturing or otherwise known as fracking technology, which allowed us to further explore massive previously disregarded depositories of oil and natural gas all throughout parts of West Texas,
00:09:03.000western North Dakota, parts of Pennsylvania, and New York has obviously decided they'd rather build casinos than put their own worker, their own citizens to work and increase their tax base.
00:09:15.000But the private ownership of minerals has been a competitive advantage for all Americans.
00:09:20.000If you have benefited from the American economy, then you have been a beneficiary of private entrepreneurs exploring the oil fields, coming up with new technologies, massively leveraging that exploration, by the way.
00:09:36.000And if you want to, and I know a fair amount about the oil and natural gas business, I'm not an expert, but I've been in my fair share of oil fields, and I know my fair share of wildcatters, crazy people, good people, but boy, you want to talk about people that are willing to take risk, people that will go to the bank and personally guarantee a loan to go explore 20 different positions, all to try to hope to make it big on one of them to pay off the debt on the other 19.
00:10:04.000Now, I think some people in oil and natural gas get a bad, obviously they get a bad rap, but some people think it's easy.
00:10:09.000Like, you know, you put a straw in the ground and all of a sudden it spouts oil.
00:10:13.000Connor, you know it doesn't work that way.
00:10:16.000It is heavy, labor-intensive, incredibly, what's the word I'm looking for?
00:10:21.000It's incredibly difficult as far as the machinery required.
00:10:27.000It's very stressful, and it's all but guaranteed.
00:10:31.000Some of the top oil and natural gas explorers, the Wildcatter folks, the independents, not the big ones, but the independent guys, they go under.
00:10:42.000Now, private ownership of minerals being a competitive advantage for the United States economy and entrepreneur is something this current regime wants to attack and get rid of.
00:11:00.000Oil independence, by the way, keeps us out of Middle East conflicts.
00:11:06.000Oil independence is an anti-war measure.
00:11:10.000I'm old enough to remember when the Democrats hated war.
00:11:14.000I'm old enough to remember Dennis Kucinich, which I actually have a lot of respect for.
00:11:18.000I'm old enough to remember John Kerry being anti-war.
00:11:22.000John Kerry going to the COPD conference in Scotland or whatever they call it, the COP26.
00:11:49.000We have more energy demands than any other country minus China.
00:11:53.000Now, we are doing an amazing job of developing and in an innovative capacity, using our oil and natural gas to actually bring down carbon emissions, if that's something you care about, which some people say you should and some people say you shouldn't.
00:12:08.000But I think we all agree that the air quality in Wuhan, China is not desirable.
00:12:13.000But natural gas is actually the way that we can go about and get that done.
00:12:17.000But instead, the current regime, they have a very specific reason why they are doing what they are doing.
00:12:34.000And I'm going to explain what the true intentions of the regime are and why they want you to pay more at the pump and why they want to break the back of American energy dominance.
00:12:46.000Do you want to be a hero for the holidays?
00:12:48.000How about getting your loved ones a new iPhone?
00:13:47.000You're going to pay more at the pump, and it's going to cost more to heat your home this winter by design.
00:13:54.000Again, the private ownership of minerals is a competitive advantage for the United States.
00:13:59.000Other countries with massive oil and natural gas advantages, they nationalize their oil and natural gas.
00:14:06.000Specifically, let's take three countries, for example: Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Venezuela.
00:14:11.000Now, that's not to say those countries don't benefit from it, but they also don't have the same efficiency, the same innovation, or the same decentralization around energy.
00:14:22.000You see, energy is used as a currency of the ruling class in almost every other country except America.
00:14:56.000They have to adventure into new lands.
00:14:58.000They have to manage it and they have to sell the product.
00:15:01.000And so because we've had a private property-focused energy sector the last 60 years, we do not have energy oligarchs the same way that Russia, Venezuela, or Saudi Arabia has.
00:15:15.000And trust me, there's plenty of people that are corrupt in the oil and natural gas sector.
00:15:24.000I'm sure there's plenty of people that are part of that group that are cutting corners the way they shouldn't, the Rex Tillerson types.
00:15:32.000However, because we trusted general market principles, all of a sudden fracking came online and there was a new form of entrepreneur that completely and totally disrupted the space.
00:15:44.000Now, Connor, I guarantee you, you go look in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there were articles that will say, we're going to run out of oil by XYZ Day.
00:15:57.000It's not true because of technology, we are now able to get 90% more out of a basin that we thought was depleted because of horizontal fracturing,
00:16:11.000horizontal fracking technology or horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, I should say, and using a form of technology of flushing out the well with salt water and then being able to penetrate the basin from other diagonal vectors.
00:16:30.000I'm trying to find the right word, but because of this, all of a sudden, we have more oil and natural gas than we would have otherwise because now we can use places that we thought those wells are completely and totally dry and empty.
00:16:43.000But understand that the current ruling class is upset that they can't control your life the same way that foreign governments can control their citizens' lives through energy.
00:16:56.000Energy is as simple as we're going to put your lights on, you can drive or you can't drive.
00:17:01.000And the regime is openly admitting this.
00:17:04.000This is why I get so angry when Republican senators go and vote for infrastructure bills that give Joe Biden more power to make this possible.
00:17:15.000Why is it that your representatives are voting for an infrastructure bill that makes this lunatic who works for Joe Biden more powerful?
00:17:24.000But the bottom line is that this president and this administration are looking at every single tool to shield American families from the impact of rising energy prices.
00:17:36.000And we're working through an energy transition.
00:17:41.000And we've got to start by adding energy.
00:17:44.000And the reality is we have to take some time to get off of oil and gas.
00:18:12.000Instead, natural gas, which, by the way, is one of the most environmentally friendly forms of energy, cheap, widespread, accessible, easy to transport, by the way.
00:18:22.000Natural gas is incredibly easy to transport.
00:18:26.000Why is it that then the regime wants to bankrupt these core industries and want to transition away from oil and natural gas?
00:21:31.000Now, we are not the only country in the world that allows private ownership of food.
00:21:35.000Obviously, there's other countries that have that.
00:21:38.000We're not the only country in the world that allows private ownership of water, but we are the only major industrialized country that allows the private ownership of minerals.
00:21:48.000So, Russia, they have these pseudo-oligarchs that they put in place to act as if it's privately owned.
00:21:54.000They're just thugs and allies of the Putin regime.
00:22:00.000And putting those people in place only further enriches the Kremlin.
00:22:07.000Venezuela has, by some estimates, the largest depository of oil and natural gas on the planet.
00:22:14.000The same can be said in Saudi Arabia, where the royalties of or the price of oil basically determines the well-being of the open welfare state of the entire nation.
00:22:26.000The United Arab Emirates are also very similar in that sense.
00:22:30.000But in America, because of the tradition started by the ethos of the West, because of the Homestead Act and name it, you see it, you name it your climate-type mentality, if you will.
00:22:45.000And let me say this: that the tradition, the spirit of the West, is something that is uniquely American.
00:22:54.000You will not find that in any other nation on the planet.
00:22:58.000Resiliency, perseverance, a grittiness, a ruggedness, a commitment to the code of the West.
00:23:07.000And then, as all of a sudden, the Industrial Revolution began to pick up steam, there was an insatiable demand for fossil fuels, which correlated nicely with the Rush of the West, largely prompted by what was then the most valuable resource a human being could get their hands on, the gold rush in 1849 in California.
00:23:34.000But then all of a sudden, a new gold was discovered.
00:23:37.000A black gold, they would call it, where there was a discovery phase that all of a sudden, if you had land or proximity or the ability to explore and find natural resources that came from the ground that could fuel your entire economy, that was going to be the most valuable aspect or the most valuable discovery one could have.
00:24:05.000And America preserved the tradition of the private ownership of fossil fuels.
00:24:12.000One of the reasons we have been so competitive over the last hundred years is because of this.
00:24:18.000Now, the other side wants to destroy oil and natural gas at every turn.
00:24:26.000Combustion of natural gas, though, emits about half as much carbon dioxide as coal and 30% less than oil, as well as far fewer pollutants per unit of energy delivered.
00:24:38.000Its substitution for coal has helped reduce power sector emissions to mid-1980 levels.
00:24:48.000Natural gas emits 50 to 60% less carbon dioxide when combusted in a new, efficient natural gas power plant compared with emissions from a typical new coal power plant.
00:25:04.000And so now America has something called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:25:09.000Most Americans don't even know this exists, or something that people have never been told to worry about.
00:25:15.000It was created after Jimmy Carter's oil crisis in the 1970s, and it has existed to supply Americans during a war or other emergency.
00:25:26.000The Strategic Petroleum Reserve currently holds about 638 million barrels, or approximately 1,000 days of net petroleum imports.
00:25:37.000At the maximum drawdown capacity of 4.4 million barrels per day, the SPR, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, would only last about 145 days.
00:25:51.000But a release of the 4.4 million barrels per day would be impossible because it would leave us strategically undefended.
00:26:00.000But the Biden White House has just announced that the president is making available 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:26:12.000Even though the energy crisis we face is a result of Biden's own policies and Republican governors unwilling to fight Biden and defy his orders to actually explore oil and natural gas in the key states.
00:26:25.000Of course, Biden got rid of the Keystone XL pipeline, which Republican governors should ignore and build the pipeline anyway.
00:26:32.000Biden has halted new oil and gas and coal leases on federal lands, which, of course, there's only eight states right now that have average prices of $3 or under: Oklahoma, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Alabama, and Missouri.
00:26:50.000Adjusted for inflation, the $2 per gallon prices that prevailed under Donald Trump were the lowest in U.S. history.
00:26:58.000But again, Jennifer Granholm has said that we're working through a transition.
00:27:04.000But here's the thing that no one is talking about: about 1.6 million barrels of crude oil were shipped out in October from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:27:44.000So our oil and natural gas, our competitive advantage, instead of going to lower gas prices here in America, we're making China energy independent.
00:27:58.000Now, the Biden regime is saying the private part out loud.
00:28:02.000Saule Amarova, otherwise known as Leon Trotsky in a skirt, who's trying to, I think she's trying to become the FTC chairwoman or something.
00:28:18.000A professor, a communist, legitimate communist, by the way.
00:28:23.000She has said out loud that we need to bankrupt energy companies.
00:28:31.000Now, before I play Cut 44, why are Republicans even picking up the phone and negotiating with the regime that has members of the cabinet that wants to unemploy millions of people in the key states of West Virginia?
00:28:48.000Why is Shelly Moore Capito going for an infrastructure signing bill behind Joe Biden while his nominee wants to make tens of thousands of West Virginians out of work and energy prices go up?
00:29:01.000Why are Republicans putting up with this?
00:29:03.000Answer, they don't actually care about their constituents.
00:29:47.000I mean, I do remember they were calling for the bankruptcy of the firearm industry, but saying that we want our amazing competitive energy advantage to go away.
00:30:00.000And by the way, despite Joe Biden announcing the strategic petroleum energy reserve, guess what?
00:31:48.000Allow more fracking, allow more exploration.
00:31:51.000Therefore, the incumbents, the Chevrons and the Exxons, won't have the same sort of restrictive monopoly on the ability to supply the market with petroleum.
00:32:02.000So let's just, let's do this together.
00:32:07.000What percentage of our current grid is renewable energy?
00:33:13.000The agenda is to make you subservient, perpetually begging for the ability to flourish.
00:33:27.000America's been free for many reasons, and one of the reasons we've remained free is because we do not have a group of unelected people that controlled our energy, and they're trying to change that.
00:33:39.000Now, not everyone's interested in precious metals, IRAs, or 401k rollovers.
00:33:44.000Some people are happily putting their life savings on the stock market.
00:33:46.000Some people are launching themselves into property investment.
00:33:49.000Charlie Kirk here, all that, what looks like the top of the market.
00:33:53.000What could possibly go wrong with the supply chain issues and inflation is here and also coming even more, unemployment climbing.
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00:34:54.000How important, what would you do if elected to make sure Louisiana gets its fair share of oil and gas revenue as so much drilling is done off the Louisiana coast right now?
00:35:02.000Well, first of all, I think the drilling off the coast over time has to go into being phased out.
00:35:08.000Now, that wasn't the one in the debate.
00:35:57.000Well, the White House is announcing that it will be releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to combat rising gas prices.
00:36:04.000In a statement that the White House just put out moments ago, it said that the Department of Energy will release 50 million barrels from the SPR and that the president stands ready to take additional action if needed.
00:36:17.000How about you allow this Keystone XL pipeline?
00:36:20.000How about you allow more leases and have fracking continue?
00:36:25.000No, instead, they think they can transition us from our competitive advantage of having oil and natural gas to a green energy, heavily controlled way of organizing the American economy.
00:36:44.000But instead, Biden has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether oil and gas companies are participating in illegal conduct aimed at keeping gasoline prices high.
00:36:58.000Allow private entrepreneurs and risk takers to continue to develop, explore, produce, and transport the gifts that God gave us in our country.
00:37:10.000They want green energy not because they love the environment.
00:37:14.000They want green energy not because they're afraid of climate change.
00:37:17.000They want green energy because they want power and they're afraid of you.
00:37:22.000Green energy is a gateway for them to crush your voice and make themselves permanently powerful.
00:37:29.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:31.000Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:34.000And we'll see you all in Phoenix, Arizona.