The Charlie Kirk Show - Biden Regime Drains Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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00:03:58.000 So, America is the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:04:02.000 Now, we are not great because of our natural resources.

00:04:06.000 We're not great because of our geographic proximity, but it sure does help.

00:04:10.000 Russia has access to natural resources.

00:04:12.000 They're unafraid to use it.

00:04:14.000 But 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.

00:04:38.000 A lot of energy up in Alaska.

00:04:40.000 One 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.

00:04:52.000 This is the first time that it happened in over 40 years that America was actually an exporter of oil and natural gas.

00:05:02.000 You 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.

00:05:27.000 And so there was always this push to try to make America energy independent.

00:05:34.000 In fact, this was a promise by Barack Obama in 2007, 2008, when he ran for president.

00:05:43.000 He said, we're going to make America energy independent.

00:05:46.000 And of course, he had no intention to actually do that.

00:05:51.000 Now, 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.

00:06:17.000 Those are three massive depositories in our country.

00:06:20.000 And 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.

00:06:31.000 That 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.

00:06:40.000 One 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.

00:06:56.000 You 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.

00:07:09.000 Energy is one of the most, if not, I don't want to say it's the most important issue.

00:07:13.000 I don't think it is.

00:07:14.000 I think it's top five, though.

00:07:16.000 Without a robust energy program that allows the decentralization of oil and natural gas, you could call it exploitation, exploration.

00:07:29.000 That's a better word.

00:07:29.000 Not exploitation.

00:07:30.000 Exploration.

00:07:32.000 Well, then you have one of two options.

00:07:36.000 You can have the federal government distribute the oil and natural gas and the natural minerals and resources.

00:07:44.000 Or 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.

00:08:00.000 The other side doesn't like hydroelectric because they say it's bad for the beavers or whatever.

00:08:05.000 I'm a big fan of nuclear power as well.

00:08:08.000 France has a huge part of their grid as nuclear.

00:08:11.000 They decided they wanted to sunset it, but recently they want to expand it.

00:08:15.000 France is getting back to that.

00:08:17.000 Do you know that America is the only country in the world that has widespread private ownership of mineral rights?

00:08:29.000 So America is the only nation in the world where the government, the central authority, does not have first dibs on oil and natural gas.

00:08:41.000 Now, why does that matter?

00:08:43.000 Well, 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,

00:09:03.000 western 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.

00:09:15.000 But the private ownership of minerals has been a competitive advantage for all Americans.

00:09:19.000 Make no mistake.

00:09:20.000 If 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.

00:09:36.000 And 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.

00:10:04.000 Now, 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.

00:10:09.000 Like, you know, you put a straw in the ground and all of a sudden it spouts oil.

00:10:13.000 Connor, you know it doesn't work that way.

00:10:16.000 It is heavy, labor-intensive, incredibly, what's the word I'm looking for?

00:10:21.000 It's incredibly difficult as far as the machinery required.

00:10:26.000 It's arduous.

00:10:27.000 It's very stressful, and it's all but guaranteed.

00:10:31.000 Some of the top oil and natural gas explorers, the Wildcatter folks, the independents, not the big ones, but the independent guys, they go under.

00:10:40.000 They go bankrupt.

00:10:42.000 Now, 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.

00:11:00.000 Oil independence, by the way, keeps us out of Middle East conflicts.

00:11:06.000 Oil independence is an anti-war measure.

00:11:10.000 I'm old enough to remember when the Democrats hated war.

00:11:14.000 I'm old enough to remember Dennis Kucinich, which I actually have a lot of respect for.

00:11:18.000 I'm old enough to remember John Kerry being anti-war.

00:11:22.000 John Kerry going to the COPD conference in Scotland or whatever they call it, the COP26.

00:11:29.000 It's too many cable television ads.

00:11:31.000 I'm sorry.

00:11:32.000 Every time I saw it, I said, I have a weird association.

00:11:34.000 The COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

00:11:39.000 John Kerry is making war more likely the more he engages in green energy.

00:11:45.000 Why?

00:11:45.000 We have a 330 million person economy.

00:11:49.000 We have more energy demands than any other country minus China.

00:11:53.000 Now, 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.

00:12:08.000 But I think we all agree that the air quality in Wuhan, China is not desirable.

00:12:13.000 But natural gas is actually the way that we can go about and get that done.

00:12:17.000 But instead, the current regime, they have a very specific reason why they are doing what they are doing.

00:12:23.000 They want gas prices to go up.

00:12:26.000 They want an energy crisis.

00:12:28.000 And it's more than just ideology.

00:12:31.000 It's part of it.

00:12:32.000 It's more than just climate change.

00:12:34.000 And 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.

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00:13:47.000 You're going to pay more at the pump, and it's going to cost more to heat your home this winter by design.

00:13:54.000 Again, the private ownership of minerals is a competitive advantage for the United States.

00:13:59.000 Other countries with massive oil and natural gas advantages, they nationalize their oil and natural gas.

00:14:06.000 Specifically, let's take three countries, for example: Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Venezuela.

00:14:11.000 Now, 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.

00:14:22.000 You see, energy is used as a currency of the ruling class in almost every other country except America.

00:14:31.000 Let me tell you this.

00:14:32.000 Let me make this argument for you.

00:14:34.000 In Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela, access to energy means you will be the wealthiest, most powerful people in the country.

00:14:43.000 Now, in America, we have plenty of people that have made billions of dollars in the energy sector.

00:14:48.000 But the point is that they don't have it by default.

00:14:52.000 They don't have it by blood right.

00:14:54.000 They have to earn it.

00:14:55.000 They have to borrow.

00:14:56.000 They have to adventure into new lands.

00:14:58.000 They have to manage it and they have to sell the product.

00:15:01.000 And 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.

00:15:15.000 And trust me, there's plenty of people that are corrupt in the oil and natural gas sector.

00:15:20.000 Plenty.

00:15:21.000 There's the ExxonMobil committee.

00:15:24.000 I'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.

00:15:32.000 However, 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.

00:15:44.000 Now, 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.

00:15:55.000 Now, why is that not true?

00:15:57.000 It'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,

00:16:11.000 horizontal 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.

00:16:30.000 I'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.

00:16:43.000 But 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.

00:16:56.000 Energy is as simple as we're going to put your lights on, you can drive or you can't drive.

00:17:01.000 And the regime is openly admitting this.

00:17:04.000 This 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.

00:17:15.000 Why is it that your representatives are voting for an infrastructure bill that makes this lunatic who works for Joe Biden more powerful?

00:17:23.000 Play Cut 24.

00:17:24.000 But 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.

00:17:36.000 And we're working through an energy transition.

00:17:41.000 And we've got to start by adding energy.

00:17:44.000 And the reality is we have to take some time to get off of oil and gas.

00:17:49.000 We recognize this.

00:17:50.000 This is a transition.

00:17:52.000 You hear that, everybody?

00:17:52.000 It's a transition.

00:17:54.000 It's like weaning yourself off of addictive drugs, is what she's saying.

00:17:59.000 She wants to put millions of people out of work. 1.00

00:18:02.000 And for what, what is the replacement?

00:18:04.000 Wind?

00:18:06.000 Solar?

00:18:08.000 They don't want hydroelectric.

00:18:10.000 They don't want nuclear.

00:18:11.000 No, no, no.

00:18:12.000 Instead, 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.

00:18:22.000 Natural gas is incredibly easy to transport.

00:18:26.000 Why is it that then the regime wants to bankrupt these core industries and want to transition away from oil and natural gas?

00:18:44.000 The answer is very simple.

00:18:47.000 They are less powerful the more successful our oil and natural gas sector is.

00:18:53.000 And by crushing oil and natural gas, they become more powerful.

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00:21:10.000 Oligarchs are naturally less powerful when independent operators and entrepreneurs are able to have access to the lifeblood of humanity.

00:21:23.000 Now, there are a couple lifebloods: food, water, energy.

00:21:29.000 Those are the three main ones.

00:21:31.000 Now, we are not the only country in the world that allows private ownership of food.

00:21:35.000 Obviously, there's other countries that have that.

00:21:38.000 We'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. 0.97

00:21:48.000 So, Russia, they have these pseudo-oligarchs that they put in place to act as if it's privately owned. 0.86

00:21:54.000 They're just thugs and allies of the Putin regime. 0.97

00:22:00.000 And putting those people in place only further enriches the Kremlin. 0.96

00:22:06.000 Same in Venezuela.

00:22:07.000 Venezuela has, by some estimates, the largest depository of oil and natural gas on the planet.

00:22:14.000 The 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.

00:22:26.000 The United Arab Emirates are also very similar in that sense.

00:22:30.000 But 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.

00:22:45.000 And let me say this: that the tradition, the spirit of the West, is something that is uniquely American.

00:22:54.000 You will not find that in any other nation on the planet.

00:22:58.000 Resiliency, perseverance, a grittiness, a ruggedness, a commitment to the code of the West.

00:23:07.000 And 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.

00:23:34.000 But then all of a sudden, a new gold was discovered.

00:23:37.000 A 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.

00:24:05.000 And America preserved the tradition of the private ownership of fossil fuels.

00:24:12.000 One of the reasons we have been so competitive over the last hundred years is because of this.

00:24:18.000 Now, the other side wants to destroy oil and natural gas at every turn.

00:24:26.000 Combustion 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.

00:24:38.000 Its substitution for coal has helped reduce power sector emissions to mid-1980 levels.

00:24:44.000 Natural gas is a fossil fuel.

00:24:48.000 Natural 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.

00:25:04.000 And so now America has something called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

00:25:09.000 Most Americans don't even know this exists, or something that people have never been told to worry about.

00:25:15.000 It was created after Jimmy Carter's oil crisis in the 1970s, and it has existed to supply Americans during a war or other emergency.

00:25:26.000 The Strategic Petroleum Reserve currently holds about 638 million barrels, or approximately 1,000 days of net petroleum imports.

00:25:37.000 At the maximum drawdown capacity of 4.4 million barrels per day, the SPR, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, would only last about 145 days.

00:25:51.000 But a release of the 4.4 million barrels per day would be impossible because it would leave us strategically undefended.

00:26:00.000 But the Biden White House has just announced that the president is making available 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

00:26:12.000 Even 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.

00:26:25.000 Of course, Biden got rid of the Keystone XL pipeline, which Republican governors should ignore and build the pipeline anyway.

00:26:32.000 Biden 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.

00:26:50.000 Adjusted for inflation, the $2 per gallon prices that prevailed under Donald Trump were the lowest in U.S. history.

00:26:58.000 But again, Jennifer Granholm has said that we're working through a transition.

00:27:04.000 But 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.

00:27:18.000 Where were they shipped to?

00:27:20.000 Joe Biden has been trimming the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and sending the oil to Asia.

00:27:33.000 During the virtual meeting between Biden and Xi Ji Ping, this was discussed.

00:27:39.000 Now, do we know if any of it went to China, Connor?

00:27:42.000 It did.

00:27:44.000 So our oil and natural gas, our competitive advantage, instead of going to lower gas prices here in America, we're making China energy independent.

00:27:58.000 Now, the Biden regime is saying the private part out loud.

00:28:02.000 Saule 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. 0.87

00:28:12.000 What is she trying to be?

00:28:14.000 A banking commissioner or something?

00:28:16.000 Very scary individual.

00:28:18.000 A professor, a communist, legitimate communist, by the way.

00:28:23.000 She has said out loud that we need to bankrupt energy companies.

00:28:31.000 Now, 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?

00:28:48.000 Why 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? 1.00

00:29:01.000 Why are Republicans putting up with this?

00:29:03.000 Answer, they don't actually care about their constituents.

00:29:06.000 They just say they do.

00:29:08.000 Play Cut 44.

00:29:10.000 Many coal industry and oil and gas industry.

00:29:13.000 A lot of the smaller players in that industry are going to probably go bankrupt in short order.

00:29:21.000 At least we want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change, right?

00:29:25.000 We want them to go bankrupt.

00:29:29.000 Have you ever heard, Connor, maybe I'm maybe I'm forgetting.

00:29:35.000 Have we heard of a government official outwardly cheering for the bankruptcy of American industry?

00:29:45.000 Is this unprecedented?

00:29:47.000 I 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.

00:30:00.000 And by the way, despite Joe Biden announcing the strategic petroleum energy reserve, guess what?

00:30:06.000 Oil is up.

00:30:08.000 Oil is up 3%.

00:30:11.000 And of course, oil was down majorly during the Fauci virus pandemic and our reaction to it.

00:30:18.000 And now it's been up because we then throttled production.

00:30:23.000 Connor, get the clip of Joe Biden in the debate when he said that we need to phase it out.

00:30:27.000 Remember that?

00:30:28.000 But Joe Biden said this out loud.

00:30:31.000 And I know so many people that work on the oil rigs that voted like their life depended on it because it did.

00:30:37.000 But let me understand this.

00:30:39.000 Let me hope you understand this.

00:30:40.000 We get rid of oil and natural gas, we will go to war soon.

00:30:44.000 We get rid of oil and natural gas, 15 million people will lose their jobs.

00:30:49.000 We get rid of oil and natural gas, which is the stated position of the Biden regime.

00:30:54.000 We need to make them go bankrupt is what she said.

00:30:57.000 Energy Secretary, we're in a transition phase.

00:31:01.000 What does that mean?

00:31:03.000 War?

00:31:05.000 Calamity?

00:31:06.000 Entrepreneurs being crushed at every single turn?

00:31:09.000 A higher price of living?

00:31:11.000 A higher cost of living?

00:31:15.000 What does Elizabeth Warren blame all this on? 1.00

00:31:18.000 She says she blames higher gas prices on corporate greed.

00:31:22.000 Play cut 43.

00:31:23.000 But prices at the pump have gone up.

00:31:26.000 Why?

00:31:26.000 Well, let me give you a hint.

00:31:29.000 Chevron, Exxon have doubled their profits.

00:31:35.000 This isn't about inflation.

00:31:37.000 This is about price gouging for these guys.

00:31:40.000 Price gouging, right? 1.00

00:31:42.000 How about you allow more supply, Pocahontas? 1.00

00:31:45.000 You want to try to bring prices down? 1.00

00:31:47.000 It's very simple.

00:31:48.000 Allow more fracking, allow more exploration.

00:31:51.000 Therefore, 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.

00:32:02.000 So let's just, let's do this together.

00:32:07.000 What percentage of our current grid is renewable energy?

00:32:17.000 20%?

00:32:18.000 30%?

00:32:19.000 No, 11%.

00:32:21.000 11% of our current grid is renewable energy.

00:32:25.000 8% is nuclear power.

00:32:28.000 Now, what's amazing is how the other side never wants to talk about nuclear power, ever.

00:32:34.000 37% petroleum, 32% natural gas, 11% coal.

00:32:40.000 And out of the renewables, 20% of it is wood, 20% is biofuels.

00:32:45.000 This is of 2019, so it could change by a little bit, but it's generally right.

00:32:49.000 24% wood of the 11%, I mean, a wind, 22% hydroelectric.

00:32:56.000 Why don't we ever talk more about hydroelectric, Connor?

00:32:58.000 Why is that?

00:32:59.000 It's because the environmentalists care more about beavers than human beings.

00:33:05.000 You think I'm kidding.

00:33:09.000 This is an agenda, everybody.

00:33:13.000 The agenda is to make you subservient, perpetually begging for the ability to flourish.

00:33:27.000 America'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.

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00:33:53.000 What could possibly go wrong with the supply chain issues and inflation is here and also coming even more, unemployment climbing.

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00:34:43.000 Remember Cut 46?

00:34:45.000 Joe Biden pledging in the debate he was going to phase out energy and wiping out even more jobs.

00:34:52.000 Play Cut 46.

00:34:54.000 How 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?

00:35:02.000 Well, first of all, I think the drilling off the coast over time has to go into being phased out.

00:35:08.000 Now, that wasn't the one in the debate.

00:35:10.000 That was the private interview.

00:35:12.000 Cut 46.

00:35:13.000 Member Joe Biden says, we're going to phase out fossil fuels.

00:35:16.000 Play cut 47.

00:35:18.000 That's okay.

00:35:19.000 These guys are okay.

00:35:21.000 They want to do the same thing I want to do.

00:35:23.000 They want to phase out fossil fuels and we're going to phase out fossil fuels.

00:35:26.000 Phase out fossil fuels.

00:35:28.000 Phase them out.

00:35:29.000 It's hard to believe that this guy became president, but he was implemented.

00:35:33.000 The regime needed him badly.

00:35:34.000 Trump was too big of a threat.

00:35:35.000 Trump had his energy independent, had his going away from war, the southern border secure.

00:35:40.000 All those things were an existential threat to the regime.

00:35:43.000 Play Cut 41, Biden announcing that we're going to tap the petroleum reserve in a desperate attempt to lower gas prices.

00:35:49.000 But guess what?

00:35:50.000 Did you know that gas prices already have factored in the strategic petroleum reserve?

00:35:55.000 Good luck.

00:35:55.000 Play cut 41.

00:35:57.000 Hi, Jay.

00:35:57.000 Well, the White House is announcing that it will be releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to combat rising gas prices.

00:36:04.000 In 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.

00:36:16.000 Additional action?

00:36:17.000 How about you allow this Keystone XL pipeline?

00:36:20.000 How about you allow more leases and have fracking continue?

00:36:25.000 No, 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.

00:36:44.000 But 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.

00:36:56.000 The solution is very simple.

00:36:58.000 Allow private entrepreneurs and risk takers to continue to develop, explore, produce, and transport the gifts that God gave us in our country.

00:37:10.000 They want green energy not because they love the environment.

00:37:14.000 They want green energy not because they're afraid of climate change.

00:37:17.000 They want green energy because they want power and they're afraid of you.

00:37:22.000 Green energy is a gateway for them to crush your voice and make themselves permanently powerful.

00:37:29.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:31.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:34.000 And we'll see you all in Phoenix, Arizona.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - November 23, 2021

Biden Regime Drains Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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