Valuetainment - May 24, 2026


＂Funding Putin's War Machine＂ - Newsom's Climate HYPOCRISY Is DESTROYING California


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7 minutes

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1,281

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In this episode, we talk about the environmental disaster that is California, and how the state is making it worse. We talk about what's going on with the unions, the cost of doing anything, and the climate agenda.

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00:00:00.000 The three big drivers of all the cost and nightmare of doing anything in California is unions, lawyers, trial lawyers, and all of this litigation.
00:00:09.700 And then the third is the climate agenda, as they call it.
00:00:12.040 The climate stuff is really driving a lot of this.
00:00:16.140 The obsession with meeting this net zero 2045 goal, totally arbitrary, actually makes no difference to the actual climate.
00:00:25.020 It's not, you know what I mean?
00:00:26.900 Well, I mean, the report came out this last week that Trump tweeted saying that was all BS.
00:00:30.600 I don't know if you saw that or not.
00:00:31.820 I didn't.
00:00:32.360 You didn't see this?
00:00:33.280 Oh, you're going to have to see this to be able to use it while you're out there.
00:00:36.760 Rob, do you have the story of what you showed it a couple days ago on the podcast?
00:00:42.260 I think you had the tweet.
00:00:44.260 Yeah.
00:00:44.780 Trump literally came out and the claims of the RCP 8.5.
00:00:49.460 If you want to go back, you just had it right there, Rob.
00:00:51.340 Go back to all right there.
00:00:53.520 Fact check.
00:00:53.860 there was a tweet that came out about this that climate change they got the numbers wrong and
00:00:58.920 they were claiming that it was all this that we have to be worried about oh i did see a report of
00:01:03.020 that yeah i didn't see what the president said yeah the president tweeted about it says we were
00:01:06.220 right all along um well even the thing about this is that after 15 years of uh democrats promising
00:01:11.800 climate change going to destroy the planet it says top climate committee just admitted that
00:01:15.180 its own projections of uh rcp 8.5 were wrong wrong wrong far too time too long climate activism has
00:01:21.280 been used by democrats to scare americans push horrible energy policies and fund billions into
00:01:25.520 their bogus research programs so look that and and the reason it's so important to focus on this
00:01:31.480 again these are examples of the bigger picture they they layer this climate stuff into everything
00:01:37.300 so we just talked earlier about housing costs gavin newsom pitched these two pieces of legislation
00:01:43.060 last year ab 130 ab 131 as we're now solving the housing crisis we're going to have abundance with
00:01:49.280 housing. Fantastic. We're going to build more housing. And the centerpiece of it was exemptions
00:01:54.640 from that environmental law I mentioned, CEQA, for housing. Except you only get the exemptions
00:02:01.140 if you use union labor. So already you're adding back in a whole bunch of cost from that.
00:02:07.400 And the second thing is that because they've got part of the climate story is that they don't want
00:02:14.080 sprawl, as they call it, because if you have sprawl and people drive more, that's bad for
00:02:19.220 climate. So they've got this mechanism, this regulatory mechanism called VMT, vehicle miles
00:02:25.660 traveled. It's a calculation that's put into permitting for projects. If you want to build,
00:02:35.100 this is in the new legislation that Newsom touted as the solution to the housing crisis.
00:02:41.660 They put in a VMT charge that's an actual cost that's paid,
00:02:46.860 it's basically a tax.
00:02:47.980 If you want to build a new single-family home,
00:02:51.160 the cost of the VMT that they will put in,
00:02:54.480 the developer pays it,
00:02:55.480 obviously then goes to the price, the purchase price,
00:02:59.360 $325,000 over 20 years.
00:03:02.820 Just for this, extra.
00:03:06.120 So, like, the climate stuff is just embedded in everything.
00:03:10.100 Obviously, in obvious ways, like gas prices, and of course gas prices affect, and diesel affects business, you know, delivery costs, all of that.
00:03:18.720 That's why groceries are the highest in the country.
00:03:21.420 Electric bills, more than double the national average.
00:03:24.520 With gas prices, we're the highest in the country, higher than Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, even though we have abundant oil reserves.
00:03:32.380 Electric bills, we're the second highest only to Hawaii.
00:03:35.020 We have gas-fired power stations in California, natural gas-fired power stations that are deliberately being run at 10% to 15% of their capacity because they're only being used as backup for wind and solar.
00:03:49.540 So we've basically got this infrastructure for energy that we're not using.
00:03:53.500 And we have abundant natural gas in California that is just being kept in the ground.
00:03:59.600 and we're now importing nearly 80% of the crude oil we use
00:04:04.480 and 90% of the natural gas.
00:04:06.640 Where from? Where are we importing it from?
00:04:08.220 I can tell you. I was just at a refinery.
00:04:09.440 So for crude oil, it's coming mainly from Iraq and South America,
00:04:18.520 the Amazon rainforest.
00:04:20.160 We're in Ecuador and Brazil.
00:04:21.580 So just when Newsom was in Brazil for the climate conference,
00:04:27.540 the latest data came out.
00:04:28.980 We're now buying half the oil that's being drilled in the Amazon because it's heavy.
00:04:35.100 And the refineries, it's a particular kind of crude oil that fits the refineries.
00:04:38.620 It's like California oil. It's heavier.
00:04:41.100 So in the name of climate change, California is driving an expansion of oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest.
00:04:48.560 So that's the crude oil.
00:04:49.480 The refined gasoline is worse than just the crude oil because they've shut down the refineries
00:04:54.640 because there's not enough business for them and because of the cost of doing anything.
00:04:58.980 And we're now importing not just crude oil, but refined, finished gasoline.
00:05:04.140 We use about 800,000 barrels a day in California.
00:05:07.600 We're now only refining about 550,000.
00:05:10.260 The rest is being imported.
00:05:11.520 That's coming from mainly India and South Korea.
00:05:15.600 Where does India get its oil?
00:05:17.640 Russia.
00:05:18.720 So in the name of climate change, California is now funding Putin's war machine.
00:05:26.420 It's just insane.
00:05:28.000 By the way, here's another thing.
00:05:30.000 This oil, whether that's crude oil and finished gasoline,
00:05:34.080 that's being shipped halfway across the world,
00:05:36.320 those ships run on bunker fuel.
00:05:38.500 It's the most polluting form of transportation you can imagine,
00:05:42.080 the dirtiest form.
00:05:44.000 Spewing out carbon emissions, these ships,
00:05:46.900 when we could be sending it in a nice clean pipeline,
00:05:49.300 a couple of hundred miles from Kern County near Bakersfield,
00:05:52.080 where Bakersfield is.
00:05:52.900 I literally was there last night.
00:05:54.440 I was in Bakersfield last night.
00:05:56.140 The heart of our oil industry.
00:05:57.060 Padres Hotel, were you at...
00:05:59.540 I didn't pay the night because I was on a flight to come here,
00:06:02.160 but so instead of taking it in a nice pipeline
00:06:06.180 to the refineries in Long Beach or wherever,
00:06:09.080 in a ship 7,500 miles across the ocean,
00:06:11.660 spewing out carbon emissions,
00:06:13.120 to make all that insanity work,
00:06:15.220 here's another, the regulatory agency for a lot of this stuff
00:06:19.220 is called CARB, the California Air Resources Board.
00:06:22.620 They're insane about making businesses report
00:06:25.160 report on their carbon emissions through the supply chain.
00:06:29.320 Like, you've got to account for your carbon emissions.
00:06:31.520 Except for this, they only count the carbon emissions
00:06:35.380 for these ships bringing the oil
00:06:37.080 once they're 12 miles off the coast of California.
00:06:41.480 So 7,500 miles, ignore it.
00:06:44.800 12 miles, that's when they start counting the carbon.
00:06:47.740 It's crazy.
00:06:49.760 They're actually increasing carbon emissions
00:06:52.200 in the name of climate.
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