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On today's show, we have a special guest on the show to talk about the possibility of the Keystone XL pipeline being shut down in Michigan, and the impact that could have on the economy and our energy grid. Also, the White House is considering shutting down Line 5, a pipeline that provides the life blood of energy to the midwest, and could have a major impact on our economy.
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still we talked about covid today we have a big special coming up this week we had uh jordan
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shachtel on um who is the this this great investigative reporter who actually um he found
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some video live in the uk from bill gates and bill gates was saying yeah you know this one really
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isn't that effective this vaccine so we got to come up with some other things things that you
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and i couldn't say online also a guy a representative tim walberg talking about how
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maybe build back better and the associated plans to get rid of pipelines not really going to help us
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and our and our inflationary uh problem yeah you'll understand why line five is very very important to
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you oh and also don't worry about inflation you have the money you've been saving it during covid it's
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no big deal all that and more on today's podcast don't forget to subscribe to blaze tv.com slash
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look our view is that the rise in gas prices over the long term makes an even stronger case for
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doubling down our investment and our focus on clean energy options so that we are not relying on
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the fluctuations and opec and their willingness to put more supply and meet the demand in the market
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that's our view we feel that but we also feel that there are a number of actors here including price
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gouging that we have concerns and we've seen out there we feel we've seen we've asked the ftc to look
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into the need for opec to release more that are the larger issues here and that's why we've been
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focused on those options well you know it's really weird because uh do they think that nobody knew we
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were energy independent just last december that we weren't relying at all on opec uh price gouging
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no it's probably that you are doing everything you can to shut down the oil business that's probably
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what's happening and now they're talking about shutting down line five a pipeline that is
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that provides the lifeblood of energy to the midwest uh we have um congressman tim walberg he is a
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republican from uh michigan uh and he can bring us up to speed on what it means if the line five pipeline
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is shut down good morning glenn hey how are you thank you before i say anything else thanks for
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all of the unbelievably good work you did in afghanistan oh thank you very much sir maybe you
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can do the same here in michigan and encouraging our governor to uh not do an insane thing of shutting
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down a pipeline that has uh had the benefit given to the people of michigan as well as the people of
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the world when you figure that uh most of the fuel that goes into the jets and the metro airport and
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the delta flights for instance i'll be taking off on shortly after i get off this interview uh come
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from the the line five um and if you shut that down you shut down a lot of other things that would go
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right and in fact as as you pointed out um last december here in michigan i was paying a buck 79 a
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gallon for gas we weren't buying from opec except what we desired and we basically told them we
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don't have to buy from you in fact we're exporting resources all over the world now because we're
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totally energy independent and this type of action that the president did with keystone pipeline the
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first thing he did was shut that down and now he has been considering but i think relative to our
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letter that we sent uh bob latta from ohio jack bergman and myself and then 10 others uh from uh
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the surrounding states sent to the president saying hey you can't be thinking about doing this
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especially when we come to winter when in michigan and these northern states people are going to freeze
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or be unable to purchase fuel if you shut down a pipeline that has worked safely since 1977
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you are going to have the same kind of winter that we had here in texas for a few days where we had
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rolling blackouts um and if you remember right after that one of the other pipelines in the south
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was hacked into and it was it was shut down for five days and the havoc that that that uh uh uh brought
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to america and our airports and everything else and that was only about five days this is 500
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140 000 barrels a day um uh jennifer granholm who was our new energy secretary said quote this is
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going to happen and people have to get used to it the energy is going to be more expensive this year
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than last and there's only one reason it's a change in administration the policy with president trump
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we had an administration that said let's use all the resources we have including those found on
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federal lands we did that uh we became independent we had the surpluses that we could that we could
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export to our friends and neighbors around the world they paid us and we didn't have to pay opec
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for the resources that we needed to take now we're forcing the rest of the world to have to rely upon
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russian dirty gas far more dirty than anything that we would be uh putting in our pipelines and
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ultimately putting in our cars uh using as propane to dry our grains and michigan right now is harvesting
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with grains uh corn and and soybeans needed to be dried and that comes from propane drying and natural
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gas and so it's a thought of of expanding the cost still further which is almost doubled for our
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farmers let alone for our homeowners that live in the upper peninsula of michigan that heat primarily with
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propane this is this is insane what's going on here and i hope the president walks back anything he decided
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to do with line five and i hope the governor understands that her election at the very least is at peril
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if she allows people to freeze to death this coming winter so gas prices it's predicted could go as high
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as 50 a surge as high as 50 percent if they shut down this line oh absolutely absolutely and that impact is
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not only on heating not only on on uh energy for our cars for airplanes etc but it's jobs we're talking
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of thousands of jobs to be lost across the region as a result of this and then if you shut the pipeline
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down which has never had a problem even the the ding that it took from an anchor that was dropped in
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the wrong place didn't impact it at all but we'll have to take all of these uh resources which are
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hazardous and put them in in uh cargo trucks and and uh and railway uh containers and take them
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around through communities all around the state of michigan wisconsin and ohio that that doesn't
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sound smart to me and i don't think it sounds smart to most people when in fact we have a system in
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place that works very well and an energy company that's that now that uh says we're going to build a
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tunnel underneath the great lakes for that five mile stretch that's all it is and we'll put the
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pipeline in that it'll never be touched by water let alone an anchor and you can also put
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communications technology through that same tunnel system and by the way we'll do it at our own cost
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and they've started it already and now the president steps in and puts a little bit of a pause on it
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again i hope sanity returns and we do what's right for america let alone what's right for the world
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so can the the governor is doing this she can do this herself can't she no not really okay our
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former governor went into agreement with both canada and the enbridge uh fuel company uh and the
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agreement is still in place it's this radical attorney general and governor that we have in
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michigan that decided because the radical influence and environmental lobby that put huge huge millions of
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dollars in their campaigns that they're going to shut it down i think they're starting to feel the
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heat right now not necessarily coming from the gas but coming from people who understand that this is
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a wrong solution you've got treaty a treaty that's been in place with with canada and and the united
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states specifically michigan for many years and it is very nebulous right now whether the president
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could violate that but we want to make sure that he doesn't and we think that in the courts
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ultimately the governor will lose all right so you have written a strongly worded letter to joe biden
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but that's not going to get it done and you know that what will get this done how can we help
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what can be done well i think continued pressure pressure from all around this country understanding
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that what comes through this pipeline doesn't only go to michigan doesn't only go to ohio it's it's
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refined in michigan refined in ohio but sent out all over to make an impact when you think of the
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flights that go through metro airport in detroit on a daily basis and that fuel that goes into the
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planes that that take off and land comes from the line five that makes an impact that's that's at
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least national in perspective i think the push that went to the president has caused him to back
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off a bit now they're saying they never said they were going to shut it down they just wanted to make
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sure it was safe well we also have the pipeline and um and and um uh hazardous material safety
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administration phimsa try to remember what phimsa stood for for a second there they've done the check
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already they they gave the go-ahead this was over a year ago to keep the process moving so we've we've
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checked the boxes i think the administration is seeing that they know they've wound themselves up
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into something that this governor got them into and probably they shouldn't have and now it's down to
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the governor and i think the continued push from citizens in this great state of michigan
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as well as any others who have the impact that comes from line five will be greatly appreciated
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thank you very much congressman i really appreciate it uh keep up the good work and keep us informed if
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there's anything that we need to know uh or anything that you know this audience can do nationwide
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please uh get in touch with us and let us know grateful for that glenn thanks for uh keeping
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people up to date you got you got it uh that is congressman tim walberg um all right so why is all
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of this happening why is all of this happening and why for the love of beat uh does the white house
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say that this is actually going to uh be solved with the build back better uh bill
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how could all of this be solved with that listen cut five or sorry cut six here they are listen
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if we don't act on build back better what we're doing is we are won't be able to cut child care
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costs in 2020 we know that is a huge impact on people's daily lives and american families
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we won't be able to make preschool free for many families starting in 2022 saving many families 8600
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we won't be able to get ahead of skyrocketing housing costs i mean that's a part of this bill too
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has a major investment in uh building new housing uh affordable housing uh units so that people can
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uh can move into them and live in them and address the the pending housing crisis and we won't be able
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to save american americans thousands of dollars by negotiating prescription drug prices so our view is
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this this makes a strong case this is a strong case for moving forward with this agenda because
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what we're really talking about is cost to american families how it's impacting them this is what
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they're saying they're saying that this is going to help with costs and this spending bill will
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actually help with inflation you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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most dangerous thing is really really clear it is the truth it's the truth when you're armed with the
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truth you can empower others you can change things when you have the truth
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the draconian measures that our government has shoved down our throats can be stopped
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but it'll only be stopped when we are armed with the truth and we demand it
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we need the power of numbers there is power in numbers there is victory in truth
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now there's only one way to amass those kinds of numbers and that is enlightening people
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the millions of people who have blindly marched towards the cliff in lockstep
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or to enlighten those and give courage to those who are too afraid to step out of line to question
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but that is changing people are more curious and more willing to say and it is going to get stronger and stronger
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as your gas price goes up as the price of meat and a loaf of bread goes up
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the truth is dangerous because the truth is powerful and that's why big tech de-platforms anybody who dares question
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control us by controlling information and they are hiding the truth
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and those who are on the internet are being stifled more and more
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instagram just put in a new filter for your protection
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but they only slightly reduce the transmissions
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all these institutions that did the coronavirus modeling
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so responsible for steamrolling through all of these policies
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it seems that he doesn't even want to talk about it anymore
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and profiting billions of dollars off these things
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and it's just shocking to hear that from the man
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and from having power over this entire industry