Power bills are the new eggs! (11-13-2025--Hour3)

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Energy m eh huh yeah, oh, energy, specifically the cost of your electricity or power bill. See. They they they toyed around with us a little bit in the last election from last week, and they feel like they've got a real winning issue here if they tie it to affordability, see affordability. See now they are super interested and focused like a laser on affordability because that is what the Prophet Mamdani has showed them. And so if you just say affordability all the time, nobody will remember that you passed massive spending bills which drove up inflation and drove up the costs of literally everything. So just say affordability, and I feel your pain about the high cost of energy. See it's gold, I tell you gold. Democrats plan to hammer Republicans over electricity prices in twenty twenty six and possibly beyond as they try to replicate their twenty twenty five successes. Candidates who won key races last week in states including New Jersey and Georgia talked frequently about the rising costs of electricity and pledged to bring them down. Now do you bring them down? Though? That's the question, right, or maybe it's not. As you know, the Prophet Mamdani piece be upon him. He never had to say how he's going to bring down electricity rates. Oh, I know, we can take money from the billionaires and just pay off your monthly electric bill. How about that? Who's on board for that? Huh? The issue will be part of a broader Democrat strategy of centering affordability, but it also marks a shift for the party in how they talk about energy and climate issues. See, this is where I think you might have a problem. And if I may be so bold as to offer a slogan, it's not well, it's not even really a slogan. It's it's really just one word that you could use if you are running against one of these Democrats, who are you know, preaching affordability and power bill prices? Here's the word nuclear, or as Homer simps that we call it nucular. Well, and George W. Bush nuclear? Where are you guys on nuclear? See? If whatever plan you're looking to roll out, I mean, aside from the soak the rich plan and have them pay for our power bills. If whatever plan you are pitching as part of your campaign strategy to center affordability, if it doesn't include the construction of a metric crap ton of nuclear plants, then you are not actually serious. You're not serious. Electricity prices rose five point one percent from one year ago. That outpaced general inflation, under which prices are only three percent higher than they were a year ago. Democrats looking ahead to the midterms see this issue as a winner. Here's a quote from Christina Polizi, spokesperson for climate politics group Climate Power. She says, electricity costs are the new eggs. So when everybody was hyper focused, and by everybody, I mean Democrats in the media, but I repeat myself, they were focused on the egg prices, you know, because Orange Hitler and remember Orange Hitler started talking about the price of eggs, because that was due to well you bird flu and all of that, they had to slaughter a bunch of chickens and such, but also due to inflation. And so then Trump gets in and you know, on this promise that he's going to bring down the price of eggs, and they're like, well, price fixson, going back to the normal price. What's going on. It's like, well, that's how inflation works. The prices don't ever come back down. But the prices have dropped. They've been cut in like half over the last two years or a year. So they're going to make your power bill the new eggs. Politzi added that Democrats should try to keep focus on the issue going forward and blame Republicans blame the Republicans for the high price of electricity. Eddie Vale a Democratic strategist, no relation to the Ski Country place, but Trump slashing all of these clean energy projects gave an easy link to being able to blame him for it. So they're going to claim that reducing the hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy handouts, that's the reason why everyone's power bill has gone up. It's not the offlining of coal plants, right, It's not the decommissioning of the various power plants that are too dirty that are killing us with all of the carbon dioxide. Has nothing to do with any of that. It has nothing to do with the what three trillion dollars in new spending that the Bided administration oversaw. It's got nothing to do with that, in the inflation that it caused, nothing to do with any of that. No, No, it's that the clean energy projects are are not being funded, which, by the way, wasn't clean energy supposed to save us money? That was the pitch, right that once we move to all the renewables, it'll be so much cheaper, right, Like this is gonna not just save our lives, but also it be it'll be cheaper, it'll be cost competitive, and all this like this was the way of the future. This was progress, we were told by the progressives. And I mean, if you can't trust the progressive to tell you what progress looks like, who can you trust? Really, they want to build more green power and that will do the trick. So we need to maybe borrow a couple trillion more build and subsidize more green energy projects and that will bring down the prices of electricity or something. Again, just I humbly submit to you. Simply respond. If you are on the campaign trail, you're in a debate or something with somebody who is complaining about the price of energy, ask them nuclear you like, can we add some some more nuclear? Because if we add some more nuclear, like that provides massive amounts of stable, low cost energy to the consumer, Like that would be fantastic. No, right, Oh, and the reason why we don't have as we haven't built a nuclear plant in America, like I think in my entire life. So why not build some more of those plants and then you don't have to worry about any CO two emissions either. It's like a win win. No. Yeah, we are still living with these terrible decisions from the from the sixties and seventies brought to us by the American left. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. 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Not many people will even think about decades of opposing nuclear, regulating everything and attacking fossil fuels as being the cause for higher energy prices. Yes, that is the challenge that Republicans have to meet, and the affordability issue is a very large one right now. Now, we don't know over the next year, something may change and become the issue for the midterm election. But as it stands now, all of these campaigns and parties and politicians, yeah, they're all shifting their focus to this affordability argument because prophet mam donni pieced upon him like he used this and just kept saying affordability. Ben Shapiro talked about this in an interview recently, where you just keep saying affordability, affordability, and you don't offer any real, actual pragmatic solutions that are realistic. But people don't care. Obviously, voters don't care. They just want to feel heard. You know, Oh, I'm suffering from affordability too. Oh my gosh. So Republicans are going to need to do something about this. They're going to need to, you know, get the economy humming along. And you can't play the Biden gaslighting game by telling people that things are actually much better than they are. People know the economy based on their own personal situation, and people's purchasing power has diminished, and there are many, many reasons for it, as Russ has said, regulation but also you know, profligate spending, the massive spending bills that the Biden administration pushed through along with Democrats and you know, celebrated by the media. All this stuff was needed, all of this was going to benefit us, and you know, people like me were saying, this is going to bankrupt us even more and it's going to create all of this inflation. And it did, and here we are, and now that inflation is just baked into all of these costs. Let me go over and chat with Jim. Welcome to the show. Hello Jim. Hey, Yeah, I've been listening to you on the energy issue. Or am I not mistaken that the people who have shoved quote unquote renewable energy or green down our throats for decades. Are the left that are going to now talk about affordability. Correct, And they're going to say that the way to affordability is through the renewables, Except. That's the most expensive way to pre create electricity. Correct. So the logic there is. No whoa, whoa, whoa. Let me just stop you right there. You said the L word logic does not apply in any of this. Oh okay, So telling the truth isn't going to work, correct. What The only thing I think that is going to work to combat an argument on affordability or or the lack thereof, is for people to actually believe that they are advancing, they are making more money, they have more disposable income, that there are a lot of jobs out there for them. House prices are coming down. This it's a very big lift. But again, it's it's the economy. You know, Well, it was the economy back when Donald Trump won m H. Correct. Yeah, it's always the economy. But the thing is that the yelling affordability in the next breath, yelling renewable. That's like saying that, well, congratulations, inflation is up at twenty two percent, but we're printing more money. Well, see you are you're relying on people to have some modicum of education. But because the left took control of the school systems, they don't know that, they don't recognize the inherent contradiction in these positions. So well, my ultimate favorite contradiction is the amount of oil based lubricants it takes to run a single one of those big, umongous windmills. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, once again you're applying logic to politics, and those are usually incompatible. Yeah, Jim, I appreciate it. I appreciate it, all right, Man, take it easy. That's that's Jim there. Yeah, And this is the challenge, Like you've got to drive prices down incomes up, house prices down, right, people have to feel enthusiastic about their economic position. That's and that's going to be on Trump and the Republicans. And they got you know, they got one year to do it. And I won't even mention the tariffs. Well, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I want to shift to climate because it's connected here, right, Is the climate grift collapsing? Is the headline by David Strom at hotair dot com. Is the climate grift collapsing. Okay, well, first off, no, okay, it's not. But he says peak climate is behind us. This is what he this is his assessment. Okay. He believes that we are now moving past the catastrophism and the hysteria that climate change is going to kill us all. And he sites the new found position of one Bill Gates, Microsoft founder purveyor of climate alarmism, and he wrote the other day there is a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this, In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us. Just look at the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature, he says, Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Bill Gates says, this has Bill Gates seen the light. Has Bill Gates reversed himself based on studying and researching and looking at the evidence. Or maybe he's looking at AI and the power needs of AI, and so we're going to need AI a lot more. We're gonna have to make a lot more power, and so maybe we are going to have to do the old Indiana Jones swapping out the totem for the bag of sand thing you know, and swap out climate A for for AI for power generation. So here's the shift. This is the thing. And to Jim's point in the call, like you do have to just sit back and admire the audacity, the shamelessness, you know, of being able to just completely abandon something that you held a belief, you held a position or an argument to just immediately drop it and move on to the thing that's going to win you the power right now. It is pretty it's pretty impressive. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. 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The majority of energy companies who built solar and wind projects received huge tax right offs to do it, Otherwise it would not have been cost effective. An example is Duke Energy in Warsaw, North Carolina. Warsaw or Waxaw anyway, Duke got twenty million dollars tax right off on that one project. It's a Democrat scam. Yeah, always has been. From Dennis Pete. You are killing me with the prophet Mamdani, Peace be upon him. Very funny, uh, Jeff, is affordability like votainer? No, it is not. Votainer is actually a thing. No. Now, I would love votainer to be a campaign slogan. If somebody were to run on a platform of normalizing the word votainer, I would vote for that person, no matter their politics. That's how in the tank I am for the campaign to legitimize the word votainer. Yeah, pretty deep in the tank, is what I'm saying. Yeah, so, David Strom says or sorry, No, this is from Bill Gates. Bill Gates writing at gatesnoes dot com, which I guess this is website, saying that the view of cataclysmic climate change, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences, particularly for people in the poorest countries, it will not lead to humanity's demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further. Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near term emissions goals, and it's diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world, like AI. Everybody, Am I right? Or am I right? Right? Right? Okay, he didn't say that last part about AI. But that's what this is about, David Strom, and he and I share the same sort of opinion on the climate change. I don't deny climate change. Climate changes, right. I equate it often in an analogy to your oven or your refrigerator, or your air conditioning unit or your heating unit. Right. You have a temperature that you set it at, but it does not stay at that temperature. It goes above it, and then it goes below it. And then when it goes too low, if you're trying to heat the place, if it drops too low, it'll then fire up and raise that temperature back up. It'll go a little bit above and then it'll cut off, and then it'll come back down. And that's the idea. It's not a constant level. And this is one of the things that kills me about the climate alarmists. Is they think that there is some optimal temperature for the entire globe and that if somehow or other, you know, we can capture all the cowfarts that will maintain this static temperature. But I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but the globe is a pretty big place. Like it's really big. Like you couldn't even walk around it in like a week. It's really really large. And so I think it's a fatal conceit. It's this hubris of man to think that the stuff that we are doing is going to destroy this entire massive rock floating through space. That's not to say that I think we should go out and actively, you know, pollute and make our air dirtier and all that. There are all sorts of reasons why we shouldn't do that. But this idea that like, oh, if you don't think global warming is as catastrophic as I say it is, then you're a climate change denier. I'm not a denier in climate change. I am just looking at the balance sheet, right, I'm looking at the trade offs, pros and cons, costs, benefits, all of that stuff. And if you're going to tell me that we have to impoverish America and the developed world, and we have to keep in poverty the third world. Meanwhile, bad actors that don't give a fly in fig Newton about the planet. They get to just race ahead building a coal power plant a day in China. Well, the no like that. That's not a good, that's not a cost benefit return, you know. So he says, I don't know whether to whether and to what extent human beings are impacting the climate. But I don't think that the hypothesis that we are impacting the climate. I don't think it's insane. What I do think is insane are the claims that the science and data says that we are doomed or even particularly threatened. The data sucks, it's manipulated, The models are ridiculous, and the science is following the money, and the money is huge, as in trillions of dollars a year. Climate alarmism has been a gold rush for many and a power grab for everybody in the transnational elite or folite as I call them. The more horrifying the stories they can concoct, the more money and power they can grab. There are far more pressing problems in the world, including hunger, disease, poverty, and the enduring lack of resilience to natural disasters. You know, spending trillions of dollars on cutting CO two emissions every year, that's not going to solve any of these problems that he just listed, right, and it doesn't make any impact on human well being, either now or in the future. A few hundred million wiping a few hundred million dollars that we could spend wiping out mosquitoes in tropical climates. That'll actually do more to improve human life spans and well being than a few trillions spent on reducing CO two by some marginal percentage. But that's not my point, he says, Well, what is his point, Pete, glad you asked? I will tell you in a moment. All right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 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David strowm at hot air dot com where I left it in a cliffhanger before the break there. You know what is his point of this piece that he wrote is the climate grift collapsing. He says, O obviously rational arguments have made no impact on the climate quote unquote debate over the past few decades, and they surely won't now with the people who lie awake at night wondering what Greta Thunberg would do. These are not rational people. Here's the thing. People are losing interest in the issue, and the stasis in European economies is giving members in the transnational fau elite, at least on this side of the Atlantic, it's giving them pause. Right. We see you, Germany, We see what's happening. You guys shut down all your nuclear reactors and now you're buying oil from the Russians while you while you're chastising them for launching their war against Ukraine, giving them the leverage to turn off your oil if you get too far out of line. So yeah, that's not a good spot to be and know. And meanwhile, the price of heating your home in Germany has become prohibitively expensive. So we see you. What was good for business aka the climate grift is now not so good for business. See. Energy crises in Europe will soon enough lead to the fall of governments and the rise of populism, as has happened in the US with Trump. The idiocy of climate alarmists has been obvious to anybody who paid attention for years, and it's infuriating that people like us have to fight against disastrous policies for years or decades before we are proven right. We don't even get thanks or credit for being right, and the idiots don't get punished for being perpetually wrong. It's like COVID, it's forgiven. Forget with these foletes. Imagine if we had built one hundred more nuclear power plants or two hundred since the eighties. Imagine. But no, the fearmongers stopped us, and the result is that we have spent decades trying to restart an industry that we killed for no reason other than alarmism. See it's not until the damage is done and is obvious and the bill is outrageously high. It's only then that people who made all of those mistakes, who led the charge on all this garbage, it's only then that they move on. Now his colleague at hot air dot com, Stephen Moore, former Trumpet senior economic advisor, co founder of Unleash Prosperity. He says some conservatives have snuffed that Gates has shifted his position on climate change because he and Microsoft have invested heavily in energy intensive data centers. Yes, that is why I believe Bill Gates is now saying what he's saying. What Gates has done, though Stephen Moore says is courageous and praiseworthy. There are not many people of his stature who will admit that they are wrong. I don't know. I didn't see that he admitted he was wrong. But but okay, I guess he's changing course and maybe others will. We'll fall in line behind him now that you know the permission structure is erected, and maybe you know the preference cascade kicks in. Okay, right, that might be good. Countries should be encouraged to grow their economies, said Gates, even if that means a reliance on fossil fuels like natural gas. Oh my goodness. Economic growth is essential to human progress. And here's the other thing. Economic growth is also how you guard against the disasters that Mother Nature inflicts upon human beings. That's how you save people's lives. When you become wealthy enough and advanced enough that you can build systems and housing and infrastructure to protect as many people as possible from the climate change, which, by the way, this is based on some modeling, so m yeah, I'm not really I'm not really putting all of my eggs or any eggs actually into this basket, but New York Post has a headline climate scientists claim the Gulf Stream could be near collapse. The Golf Stream predicting a new ice age. So yeah, because the polarized caps are melting and then the cold water goes into what's called a marine hot pocket, which sounds delicious, and it goes in there and then it cools down the Gulf Stream and then that's going to cause an ice age. So all this time we've been worried about the global warring and it's actually an ice age, which actually people were predicting like back in the seventies, but then they change it to global warring and now they're back onto Like I feel like I am trapped in like I'm trapped in an enclosed space with somebody who just keeps looking at the hourly weather forecast telling me I need to put a jacket on and take it off. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 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