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On this episode we discuss how Sri Lanka and Holland are on the verge of collapse due to green policies and ESG and how California is on the same path with their green policies.
Links Mentioned in Show
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-and-governance-esg-criteria.asp
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/05/dutch-farmers-fighting-esg-policies/
https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/european-protests-erupt-over-climate-change-policies-us-inflation-increases-amid
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/California-May-Need-Fossil-Fuel-Power-To-Avoid-Blackouts.html
https://polb.com/port-info/news-and-press/port-of-long-beach-boosts-push-for-zero-emissions-trucks-11-08-2021/
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So it's see taking a sip of coffee while it's still warm.
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I always have this problem where I start talking about, the time
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I get to the coffee later on. It's always lukewarm and it's
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not as tasty. So let's get started with today.
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Days. We're going to talk about on
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this episode. Specifically what I wanted to
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talk about a couple weeks ago, which was what's going on in
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Sri, Lanka and what's going on with Holland and ESG and what
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all that stuff is and why is that a bad Omen for what's going
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to happen here in California? And I think it's very evident,
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what's going to happen here in California, they're pushing
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harder and harder. We're going to go over a couple
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policies that they're already enacting some of How It's
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already biting Californians in the butt or at least the people
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in charge in California how it's biting them in the butt and all
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these this green policy and maybe leave it up to discussion
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at the end whether or not people will leave that have.
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We reached sort of the Tipping Point when it comes to a lot of
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these green policies are people really fed up with it.
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Are they tired of it? Because I always think people, L
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want to be as green as possible because it makes them feel good,
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until it hits their pocketbook, right?
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Like until it hits themselves at the kitchen table.
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I don't think people really want to be as green as they want to
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be my dad likes telling a story, he's a kitchen designer.
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He sells Custom Kitchens high-end kitchens.
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Not like you get it Home Depot or whatever, where you just kind
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of put them together and hope for the best high-end kitchens,
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you know. And during the, when he had his
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business, He was on kitchens that were worth, you know 50 to
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100 thousand dollars. People had a lot of money and
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put it into this stuff. He always likes to tell this
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story about how this was back in the late 90s, early 2000s.
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People would ask for well, I want to make sure this is really
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responsible and green and I want to use all recycled materials.
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So that way I'm not creating waste because green is really
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important to me and I said, oh yeah, sure that's fine.
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We could do that. I know how to get it.
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I know. Distributors, who can get that
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for you and he would give them the new estimate and say, this
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is the new estimate. Usually, it was a good 25% more.
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Once people saw how much more cost they all of a sudden, would
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not want to be so green anymore. So once it came down to it,
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people when push comes to shove, I think more people are going to
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really focus on not being green and focus on their own
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pocketbooks in their own well-being.
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So we're going to talk a lot about that today because I think
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a lot of this really Does have implications on what's going on
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in California. And again, California has that
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sort of, you know, love it or hate it.
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California does still have that effect of what happens here in
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California. Does kind of spread its way
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across the nation and which is another reason why I think it's
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important that you got to keep fighting for California and help
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turn it around. Because if you can defeat, you
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know, far left. Statism here, you can do defeats
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far-left statism anywhere in the country, and it's basically end
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of it. But before that, I do want to
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hop into the fact that a couple news stories that really
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interested me this morning one is that Beverly Hills City
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Council votes unanimously to not enforce County mask mandate.
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So Beverly Hills at the city, even though LA County wants to.
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Go back to masking up Beverly Hills, basically came out and
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said unanimously, the mayor came out and said we're not going to
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enforce it. We're not going to use our
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resources if people choose to do it.
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That's what they want to do. That's all fine and dandy, but
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if you have a problem with it, you The county sheriff and I
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don't think Alex Blown Away by the current count Ela Sheriff,
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really wants to send out people to enforce Mass, so it's
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interesting that Beverly Hills themselves who are in LA county.
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One of the most prominent areas in LA county is deciding not to
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really go forward with the mass mandate they've decided that
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their they're over it. So even if a place like Beverly
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Hills says were over it, how much weight do you really think
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any of this is really going to cause contradictorily in
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Sacramento the The health official.
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Let me see if I can pull this up.
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Do I want to make sure I get this right Sacramento County
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Public Health officer, David dr. Olivia cusser, a, I hope I
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probably butchered that name believes that masking should be
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mandatory. Even if California officials
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refused to take action, basically, she's saying that
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regardless of whether any of officials, whether any of the
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officials, actually do take action cheap, Is that should
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just be mandatory across-the-board that we
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shouldn't have really any choice.
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Any chance. She said she would comply with
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the Statewide mandate but has no plan to follow in the footsteps
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of Los Angeles County, where a new Mass man, it could be
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ordered this week. The state's current guidance is
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simply a strong recommendation in favor of masking indoors.
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However, I think a lot of this is going to really depend on the
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politics of it, which kind of punches a hole.
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Hole in the fact of the effectiveness of mass because if
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it's an emergency we're still not to the point where La is
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instituting. The mass mandate they already
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said they're going to reinstitute it but it's not for
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a couple more days. It's such an emergency mind you.
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It's such an emergency that they could await a full two weeks.
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Now you could say, does have something to do with the fact
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that they just had the All-Star Game.
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Maybe, maybe they didn't want to have a lot of people mashed up
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in l.a. making California. Look, bad, or make them look
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kooky and crazy because Rest of the world is kind of moving on,
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from covid. The politics of it is not not
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beneficial for a lot of people. Especially someone like Gavin.
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Newsom, who is eyeing a presidential run, it's more and
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more. Evident he wants to run for
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president, and I don't think he wants to look like he's going
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backwards because it's hard to claim victory over covid and
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that you've had the best covid policies when you're going
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backwards. So, I think a lot of politics
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will push back on this. LA County.
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I think there'll be a lot of pushback.
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Hopefully there's not a lot of compliance.
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I would hope that a lot of people just say we're not going
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to do this. I doubt anything.
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Like that's going to happen in like counties, like Orange
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County, or San Diego. I haven't heard one rumbling of
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whether or not that's going to happen in San Diego.
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I haven't heard any rumors about whether or not it's going to
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happen, San Diego. I don't know if anyone up in
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Orange County can vouch for the fact, whether they heard, it's
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going to happen up in Sacramento, but I don't think
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it's, I don't think it's got the legs.
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Is that it has even Alameda County gave up on their masks
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mandate after only a couple weeks where they were try.
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They basically did it for I think like two or three weeks,
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they had the mass mandate and they just basically gave up
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because people weren't complying and people were not listening
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and it didn't really have the effect that they wanted it to
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have. So interesting to see how the
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state now is sort of breaking off into different areas, which
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originally is what I thought, covid in California should have
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been handled. It's big enough that I think
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current County should really have their own jurisdiction.
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It shouldn't have been just like a big Statewide thing but, you
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know, noodles want it to play Emperor.
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And that's something that he, you know, he in his egotistical
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mine always, he can't give give he can't let go of the power
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right now. I mean, we're still technically
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in a state of emergency, I shouldn't say, technically, we
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are emphatic Ali in a state of emergency still because he
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doesn't want to give it up. Somebody said in the chat, I
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don't think will happen. San Bernardino County?
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I don't even think that's going to have.
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No, I think there's a lot of counties.
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I probably won't. Listen, so mass in the carpool
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lane, somebody saying the chat mass in the carpool, lane is
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always funny. We saw somebody yesterday
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pulling into the parking lot by themselves with a mask.
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On those always make me laugh, the people in the car by
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themselves, with the mask on always makes me makes me laugh.
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However, the one that really gets me upset is when you see
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parents with kids, And the kids are wearing masks, but the
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parents are not wearing masks that one always kind of makes me
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upset because you're forcing your kids to do it, but you're
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not doing it. How's the lawsuit against Nathan
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going sort of in a holding pattern right now?
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But we're going to probably start that up again.
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Soon, was it a Prius? No, it was a Tesla.
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So this other new news story that literally just got in my
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email this morning, headline one.
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Million Californians, lack safe, drinking water under state law.
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Every California has the right to Safe clean, affordable and
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accessible water. But a blistering audit released
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Tuesday shows just how far the state is from turning that
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promise into reality. Rachel Becker of Cal matters,
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wrote acting state auditor, Michael Tilden, slammed
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Regulators at the state Water Resources control board for what
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he characterized as their lack of urgency to provide need
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assistance to failing Water Systems.
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Even as the eight funnels hundreds of millions of dollars
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into drinking projects more than nine hundred.
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Twenty thousand people face an increased risk of cancer and
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liver and kidney problems because they get drinking water
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from one of the more than 370 systems that didn't meet water
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quality standards as of December twenty.
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First one of the 150 of those systems have failed to meet
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those standards. For at least five years, an
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additional 432 serving. More than one more 1 million
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people are currently at risk of failing, the golden state has
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7400 drinking Our systems, according to the report more
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than two-thirds of the failing. Water, systems are located in
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low-income disadvantaged communities primarily and 8:00
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Central Valley County San Bernardino County and Imperial
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County forcing residents who can least afford to purchase more
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expensive. Bottled water for drinking and
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cooking purposes. Although the state water board
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has funding available to help these systems improve their
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water water quality. It took an average of 33 months
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in 2021 for systems to apply for and the board to award that
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money nearly double the Month average in 2017, making matters,
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worse. We're in the middle of a
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historic drought. And as the water quality
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worsens, or the water dries up struggling, water systems were
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urgently need funding and solutions from the state water
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board. So, if you're in any of those
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counties, be careful regarding the water.
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And just again, for all the money, we give to California.
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It's pretty incredible that we can't get clean, drinking water.
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So, add that to the great things about California, how
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Progressive California is, is We're going to talk about in a
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little bit. Why we can't keep the lights on
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and why we don't have the energy to keep the lights on, but add
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this to the other issues that we can't have safe.
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Drinking water here in the state of California.
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So add that to the list, right? I believe.
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It said it was Central Valley County San Bernardino County,
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Imperial, County are a couple of them.
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So just keep an eye out for that, but there are, it looks
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like there's a lot of problems in those areas in terms of the
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water systems and that they are not doing what they are supposed
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to be doing. They're not living up to it and
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San Bernardino, a lot of those inner counties, I mean, gets
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hot, it gets dry, people need water and right now that your
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looks like there's going to be a lot of problems with water going
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on in the state of California. So Add that to the many list of
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things that California is just absolutely crushing it.
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Let's see, we get a lot of. We usually get purified water
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from a local store that does purified water.
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But every once in a while, do you use tap water?
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So I'd like to hope that the water that comes out of the tap
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is actually pretty safe. So let's move into the main
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topic of today. What I wanted to talk about it
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all kind of comes down to. So if you haven't been paying
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attention, what's really going on?
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Sri Lanka, there was a huge Uprising in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
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is a smaller country and they were committed to doing a lot of
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this. SG.
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Now, what is ESG stand for ESG is environmental, social and
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governance criteria, it is a new form of.
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Basically, if you want to look at a company and you want to
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invest in that company, you have to look at them and say, well,
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what's your ESG score? And a lot of people thought it
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was a good idea. It's now coming to fruition that
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is not really a good idea. The idea is that if you wanted
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to put your money, where your Earth is in terms of if you
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wanted to invest in this green energy and you want to invest in
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companies that are being green and responsible and stuff like
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that. You could invest in these
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companies. So if they have a certain score
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Sri Lanka had a score of 98.7, I believe it was United States
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only has a score like 50% if that gives you any idea.
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So this, this has been slowly being implemented across the
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board in a lot of Operations and a lot of businesses and what is
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happening is that people are getting so obsessed.
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With this idea, ESG and being as green as possible, that they're
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forgoing the actual business making decisions of how it's
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going to affect their business, how it's going to affect the
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economy and how it's going to affect the market again.
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If you want a really good book on this subject, I would highly
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highly. Highly recommend checking out
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Henry hazlitt. That is Henry hazlitt Haz L ITT
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Henry hazlitt, and it's called the one lesson on economics.
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I believe is the one that, but if you look up Henry hazlitt,
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it's his most famous book, and it goes all the way into this,
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is that people do not think about a lot of these decisions
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in terms of how it's going to play out in the economy later
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on. It sounds really good and it
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sounds, fantastic. Like, this is great.
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We're going to make sure everyone is responsible.
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And that He is doing the right thing and all these corporations
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or we're going to prop those up and the free market will then
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push these businesses to be the best and those will rise to the
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top and I guess that was their idea.
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So fast-forward what is happening right now?
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And why I think that we may have hit a wall in a lot of areas and
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how at the end of the day, if you can't get food or water or
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energy you're not likely going to care.
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What the heck? Someone's ESG score is so we're
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going to talk about Holland. What happened with the Dutch
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farmers are talking about Sri Lanka and then we talked about
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some of the policies here in California that if you had to
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guess whether or not they're going to have a negative effect
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on the economy overall. So this is from Investopedia,
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this is a nice neutral site when you want to look up anything
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regarding business and Investments.
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So basically, I'm going to read this for you environmental,
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social and governance. ESG criteria are set of
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standards. A company's behavior used by
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socially conscious investors to screen potential Investments
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environmental criteria. Consider how a company
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safeguards the environment including corporate policies
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addressing climate change. For example, social criteria
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examine, how it manages relationships with employees,
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suppliers, customers and the communities where it operates
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governance deals with a company's leadership executive
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pay audits, internal controls and share holder rights.
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So that's basically the definition Ignition.
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There's a whole bunch of different.
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You can go read this for yourself.
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If you want to go check out Investopedia, go right ahead.
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But basically like I said, the point of ESG is to promote short
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of green conscious policies and they look at all this stuff and
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they determine whether or not your company rates on a certain
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scale for ESG countries, as well.
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I guess they're now, they're all they're doing this for countries
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as well. So everyone's favorite tech bad
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boy. Came out and said Elon Musk
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said, I am increasingly convinced that corporate ESG is
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the devil incarnate. Not mincing words there.
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And then NYU professor of Finance as worth Dahmer a
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dharan. Again, I probably butchered that
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he's been recently writing about yes, G, he has been chopping it
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into pieces, his conclusion and this is the whole thing because
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I think it's important to read. When I first wrote about ESG,
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two years ago, I did. So because I was skeptical I
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love the unquestioning belief that people had in its success.
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I initially believed that it was a flawed concept that needed
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fixing but after two years of interactions with people who
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claim to know the concept really well, but don't seem to be
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capable of making solid cases for it.
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And witnessing is take over a well-heeled entities with
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agendas. I am convinced that there will
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soon be room for only two types of people in the ESG space.
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The first will be the useful idiots, well-meaning individuals
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who believe that they are advancing the cause of goodness.
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As they toil in the trenches of ESG, measurement Services, ESG
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arms of consulting, firms and ESG investment, investment
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funds. This second will be the feckless
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knaves who know fully well, the void behind the concept but see
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an opportunity to make money. I know that they are not edifies
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and edifying choices but I do see.
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I don't see any good ones other than leaving the space
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completely. Good luck.
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So he basically believes that there's going to be the people
00:19:56
who absolutely fall in To it and believe.
00:20:00
It's a really good idea to do ESG and to follow on all of this
00:20:04
stuff and then he basically says there's going to be a whole
00:20:07
bunch of people who are going to game the system, meaning that
00:20:11
they're going to figure out how to get there.
00:20:12
ESG scores up without actually really doing anything that
00:20:16
really has any impact on sustainability or green policies
00:20:20
or anything like that. So basically it's really just a
00:20:22
shell game of you're going to have to people who do the really
00:20:25
good things or the, what you can call the really good things.
00:20:28
And really I into this ESG thing that is really going to work in.
00:20:32
This is what's really important and then you're going to get the
00:20:35
people who are going to take advantage of it and just kind of
00:20:38
game the system. So in essence, it's not going to
00:20:41
work either way. So let's talk now about what
00:20:45
happened with these Dutch farmers.
00:20:48
And again, I'm going to wrap this all up so we can get into
00:20:51
how this relates to California. My belief on what this has to do
00:20:54
with California because this is a podcast about California but I
00:20:58
think it's interesting to look at Kind of keep an eye on
00:21:00
everything outside of what's happening in California and not
00:21:04
just what's happening here. This is an article from The
00:21:08
Daily Caller Dutch Farmers. Launch revolt against climate
00:21:11
rules, threatening to end their livelihood.
00:21:14
The Dutch Ministry of Agriculture nature and food.
00:21:17
Quality told the Daily Caller news Foundation that the present
00:21:20
emissions reductions and resultant backlash.
00:21:23
Trace back to a 20-19 court ruling that found the
00:21:26
Netherlands, was not doing enough to protect Natural areas.
00:21:30
Citing the ruling. The Dutch government introduced
00:21:32
targets last month to have nitrogen oxide and ammonia
00:21:35
emissions, both of which are present large quantities of
00:21:38
lobster. Livestock manure, the ministry
00:21:40
told the DC and f that is working with Farmers to look at
00:21:44
a new way of doing business with Innovation, relocation extensive
00:21:47
occasion and involving more nature in agriculture.
00:21:51
Still many farmers are disillusioned quote.
00:21:55
We cannot invest our fathers or Uncle's cannot invest in the
00:21:58
future. And so is Young Farmers.
00:22:00
We also have no Prospect of taking over a farm. 23-year Old
00:22:04
Dutch, Dairy. Farm.
00:22:06
The Netherlands is the largest exporter of meat in the European
00:22:08
Union and exported almost a hundred billion dollars worth of
00:22:11
agricultural Goods. In 2019, the protest came as the
00:22:14
world faces food shortages. Brought on by the Russian
00:22:17
invasion of Ukraine and some fear at the ongoing Supply
00:22:19
disruption caused by the protests could increase prices
00:22:22
in the Netherlands and be on Al Jazeera reported over the
00:22:26
weekend. Dutch government appointed,
00:22:28
Johann rum keys to Talks between farmers and government officials
00:22:31
responsible for crafting, the emissions, reductions
00:22:33
regulations, Dutch farming, La BL to Dutch farming.
00:22:36
The lobby lto described REM Keys as quote an administrative
00:22:40
heavyweight with deep knowledge of the issues and scissors.
00:22:43
Open a tox, according to the AP. So this doesn't really go into
00:22:48
it. You can read it and basically
00:22:51
what happened. Let me paint the picture for
00:22:52
you. Is that these Dutch Farmers?
00:22:54
You probably seen pictures of it is they block highways.
00:22:58
They basically drove in their tractors in two big cities.
00:23:01
They've stopped a lot of Commerce and this is their
00:23:04
protest and they're basically letting the country now that we
00:23:09
can't operate as Farmers anymore.
00:23:12
And that what you're doing because you're so obsessed with
00:23:15
these green policies, we can operate anymore and it's not
00:23:19
profitable for us as that young farmer said, I have no Prospect
00:23:23
of ever owning my own Farm. If you're a family of farmers,
00:23:27
and this is your legacy, and your Or did it and your father
00:23:30
did it and now you want to do it.
00:23:34
There is no opportunity for someone to do that and when you
00:23:39
take those Farms out of circulation and especially in a
00:23:43
place like Holland where they provide so much of the meat in
00:23:47
Europe that it does have this trickle-down effect, I bet they
00:23:51
thought this is a good idea. We want to stop this one thing
00:23:54
because it may be bad for the environment.
00:23:56
But now you're starting to see the how it Plays out.
00:24:00
There's been food shortages there are empty shelves over in
00:24:04
Holland. Obviously you can't get as much
00:24:06
meat as you can because Farmers basically almost half of them
00:24:09
been taken out of the circulation and it has caused a
00:24:13
huge uproar in Holland. I don't know where it goes from
00:24:17
here and what's going to happen to them?
00:24:19
It looks like they're going to have some sort of talks, maybe
00:24:22
they're going to back off of this a little bit.
00:24:24
But this is one example of how these green policies when They
00:24:29
get implemented. People don't really think them
00:24:31
through and they don't think what's going to happen.
00:24:34
They should start thinking through on a 10 20 year plan of.
00:24:37
Well, if we get rid of this, then what else is going to kind
00:24:41
of cascade? But again, politicians aren't
00:24:43
beholding to that. Remember politicians?
00:24:45
Don't really care about what happens in the immediate term
00:24:49
because if politicians can create problems then it's a
00:24:52
problem. They can obviously try to solve
00:24:56
one reason why politicians don't really ever truly.
00:24:59
Solve problems is because if they solved problems, then what
00:25:03
would their job be? They'd go out and they'd solve
00:25:05
all the problems and they'd come home and say?
00:25:06
Okay, problems are fixed, we're done, but they want to keep
00:25:08
problems going as much as possible.
00:25:12
Let's see, this is a article from just the news as green
00:25:16
policies trigger protest, economic crisis, abroad biting
00:25:19
clings to climate change agenda. So we're already starting to see
00:25:23
here. Now, that covid is sort of
00:25:25
subside, we're granting this push and you're To hear the
00:25:29
Rumblings that now the new fear is going to be, we need to take
00:25:34
emergency action on the climate and they figured out that if we
00:25:39
can say that covid-19 state of emergency, then we can say,
00:25:43
climate is a state of emergency and therefore, we can do
00:25:47
whatever we want. We can trample all over your
00:25:49
constitutional rights. We can basically do whatever we
00:25:52
want. We can suspend the rule of law
00:25:56
and we can just Implement and shove.
00:25:59
Through our policies. I think it'll be a little bit
00:26:01
harder legally for him to do exactly what he's trying to do.
00:26:05
In terms of, you know, it sounds nice for Biden.
00:26:09
It's not really a non-binding executive order for him to say
00:26:12
all these things. But nevertheless it does show
00:26:17
their hand that they are trying to push through with this that
00:26:20
they are obsessed with this climbing thing.
00:26:24
It's not really about the climate because this, if this
00:26:26
was such a big issue, they would be talking about it or they
00:26:28
would try to But years and years ago but you ever notice it's
00:26:31
always ten years, ten years, ten years, ten years, down the road,
00:26:34
it's always well, the world is going to end in 10 years, kind
00:26:38
of, reminds me of that scene and Parks and Rec if you ever watch
00:26:40
that show where they go out, and they believe that Zorba is going
00:26:44
to come down, and they always pretend that they got the date
00:26:47
wrong, that's like, climate people who are always, like,
00:26:50
well, we thought the world was going to end in 10 years and
00:26:52
we're going to freeze over but sorry that our calculation was
00:26:55
on. I was going now in 10 years.
00:26:56
So give us more money and more power.
00:26:59
So this is from just the news. Let's see with green energy,
00:27:04
environmental and agricultural policies, triggering economic
00:27:06
crisis and popular Revolt in Sri, Lanka, and spreading
00:27:09
protests, and Netherlands and Germany.
00:27:11
The by Administration is showing little inclination to throttle
00:27:14
back on its own sweeping climate change agenda.
00:27:17
Despite historically High us food, fuel prices, The
00:27:22
government banned chemical fertilizer in April of 2021 is
00:27:26
is talking about Sri Lanka. Again you start to see the
00:27:29
difference or not the difference, you start to see the
00:27:32
same similarities which is when you get rid of fertilizer it
00:27:37
makes it really hard to grow things and when you can't grow
00:27:40
things, it's hard to grow things or raise any sort of livestock
00:27:44
the government banned chemical fertilizer in April 20-21.
00:27:47
To encourage organic farming boat before reversing the band.
00:27:51
November the band, however, decimated the country's
00:27:54
agriculture industry, according to DC and F.
00:27:56
And on Tuesday, the Prime Minister announced the country
00:27:58
bankrupt. So, if you saw the videos, they
00:28:02
were swirling around social media.
00:28:04
You saw a lot of people protesting.
00:28:05
A lot of people running into the presidential Palace and the
00:28:09
president actually fleeing by boat to get out of Sri Lanka.
00:28:14
That's how bad it got in Sri Lanka, is that absolutely
00:28:17
collapsed and it was just complete Anarchy.
00:28:21
The Netherlands and Germany meanwhile farmers are protesting
00:28:23
climate change policies. They believe are hindering their
00:28:26
ability to produce crops more than 40 Dutch Farmers.
00:28:29
Have protested against their government's policy of cutting
00:28:32
50% of livestock related emissions by 2030, which could
00:28:35
result in a third of ranchers, losing their business bcnf.
00:28:39
Reported after the US and Netherlands, is the world's
00:28:42
second largest food exporter. That's a big deal.
00:28:45
You know, I didn't know, the Netherlands was actually one of
00:28:48
the biggest. It was the biggest butt.
00:28:51
We produce a lot of food here. American farmers are also
00:28:54
experienced 60% increase in fertilizer prices over last
00:28:58
year, in part due to Rising Energy prices.
00:29:01
At the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission, has
00:29:03
proposed a rule that will require companies to report
00:29:06
emissions and other climate risk data.
00:29:08
A key goal of environmental, social and governance.
00:29:11
ESG ESG is used as a ray in a measure and entities advancement
00:29:15
of policies, designed to address climate change, increase
00:29:18
diversity and support a Progressive, quote social
00:29:20
justice, And again, I don't know why that has to be something
00:29:25
that a business is really worried about.
00:29:28
But sure, I mean, if you want to start a business and that's what
00:29:31
you want to do, you want to focus on these things, that's
00:29:34
what you get into business for. And if you can prove, you can do
00:29:37
it really well. All, you know, Mazel Tov all the
00:29:40
power to you. If you can do that, you can
00:29:42
start a non-profit and do this stuff, but to force other
00:29:45
businesses, that really have nothing to do with it into
00:29:50
complying with This I don't really see how this is going to
00:29:53
help the economy. It does hinder a lot more
00:29:55
businesses, Advocates seek to drastically reduce carbon
00:29:59
emissions and invest in renewable energy and hopes of
00:30:02
ultimately eliminating fossil fuels and if you have a chance,
00:30:07
there was actually really a one of my favorite podcast, probably
00:30:11
my favorite podcast part of the problem.
00:30:13
With Dave Smith, you did a whole thing about climate religion.
00:30:17
He did a great episode on this talking about how getting rid of
00:30:21
fossil fuels, would essentially Sentence billions of people to
00:30:28
Poverty, right? Because the world runs on it
00:30:34
runs on fossil fuels and a lot of people will require fossil
00:30:38
fuels to even live to even turn the lights on and you would be
00:30:45
sentencing. Billions of people into poverty
00:30:49
and the elites are fine with that.
00:30:52
They are fine with that because they won't really be harmed.
00:30:56
But everybody else would not be able to afford it.
00:30:59
They wouldn't be able to do it. There wouldn't be enough energy
00:31:03
in a house committee meeting. They had Pete Buddha judge,
00:31:08
being questioned by Thomas Massie where he asked them
00:31:13
about, how much electricity a house generates and how much
00:31:17
would a house need to generate. If we were all running electric
00:31:20
cars, it would basically be the equivalent of going from one
00:31:24
refrigerator in your house too. 225 refrigerators in your house
00:31:28
to be able to charge if everyone had to do electric cars.
00:31:32
And obviously, if you live in California, we all know that if
00:31:36
the temperature rises, one degree too hot, then all of a
00:31:41
sudden we're all brown out and that's it.
00:31:43
None of us have energy. So good luck trying to get
00:31:45
everybody to drive electric cars when we don't even have the
00:31:48
power. And we can't even turn on the
00:31:50
light switch without the use of fossil fuels to keep the
00:31:52
electricity on. Let's go.
00:31:56
Only with this article, I think that's basically it.
00:31:59
I want to talk about it, does finish off with this stuff, ESG
00:32:06
as how they get to push their awoke agenda into the corporate
00:32:08
board rooms by mandating these new ESG Provisions.
00:32:11
That's how you try to get the private sector Market to do what
00:32:14
the government lacked authority to do.
00:32:18
We have so many, small medium sized oil and gas providers.
00:32:20
That would love to drill Wells. But they can't get access to
00:32:23
Capital to drill Wells and if they can come across someone to
00:32:26
finance the well so they can drill it.
00:32:27
They can't get insurance companies out of Wall Street to
00:32:29
underwrite the drilling of the well because of environmental
00:32:32
social governance scores. The by Administration is pushing
00:32:35
to try and kill the petroleum and gas industry.
00:32:38
It's absolutely ludicrous by an Administration knows what the
00:32:41
problem is. They know that it's their own
00:32:43
making, it's their own doing. And yet, they're continuing to
00:32:45
say, stupid things like gas station, owners are the problem.
00:32:49
Right, let's keep going and then we'll finish up.
00:32:54
So what happened over in Sri Lanka?
00:32:56
You're seeing it. Now you're getting an idea of
00:32:58
what happened over in Sri Lanka, whatever happened Holland.
00:33:01
It's happening here as well in the country, which is a lot of
00:33:05
these companies are being forced to abide by and companies that
00:33:09
are doing things that the regime doesn't really care about or the
00:33:14
regime doesn't really want you involved in.
00:33:17
They're going to get low ESG. And people aren't investing
00:33:20
them. So like that article just said,
00:33:22
if you are a small or medium-sized drilling company
00:33:26
and you want to go out and you want to drill and you want to
00:33:29
get more fossil fuel, you want to get more oil out of the
00:33:31
ground, guess what? No one's really going to invest
00:33:35
in you because of these ESG scores, therefore, reducing the
00:33:39
actual amount of oil we have When there's less Supply and
00:33:43
there's more demand, obviously, you know, the issue.
00:33:45
It's the most one of the most basic issues over the of
00:33:48
economic Policies web by reducing the supply.
00:33:51
That's why we have so much. And of course, their biggest
00:33:54
response to anybody who complains about gas prices is.
00:33:57
Well, if you don't like gas prices, just go get an electric
00:34:00
car. Why don't you just go get an
00:34:01
electric car? That should be easy.
00:34:04
When, in reality, like I just said, you can't run everybody.
00:34:07
Can't have an electric car. We don't have the, we don't have
00:34:09
the infrastructure yet, we don't have the grid yet for everyone
00:34:13
to have an electric car. This is from Lysander Spooner,
00:34:18
University.com. It's just a little blurb about
00:34:22
what happened. Did you let see Chemical
00:34:28
fertilizer bands talking about Sri Lanka and 2021 to cut and I
00:34:31
nitrogen waste Implement green or Pharmacy.
00:34:33
Practice has drastically reduced crop yields and damaged Sri
00:34:36
Lanka is trade balance, the decision overnight shift away
00:34:39
from synthetic. Fertilizers was an absolute
00:34:41
disaster, talks about how it's gone bankrupt.
00:34:46
The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian
00:34:48
Affairs. Estimate in the report that Crop
00:34:50
Production for the twenty Twenty-One twenty-two season has
00:34:53
decreased by 40 to 50 percent and so far Farmers have only
00:34:56
utilize Quarter of the available land for the upcoming season
00:35:00
according to her parole report dated, June 9th.
00:35:03
Now, keep this in mind, right? This is something again.
00:35:08
Another good example of how people don't think about what
00:35:12
happens when they make these hasty decisions without thinking
00:35:15
about them is we're going to see a lot of the Fallout from what
00:35:20
happened with the pandemic and lockdowns economically for years
00:35:24
to come. This is going to take a while
00:35:25
for it to kind of ring itself. F out of the economy.
00:35:28
I mean inflation is the biggest one affiliation because with the
00:35:31
stimulus checks under both Trump and Biden and the amount of
00:35:34
money that they printed to keep businesses in business and keep
00:35:38
people on payroll when they could have just let people just
00:35:41
stay open as opposed to shut the entire world down.
00:35:46
We're seeing that through inflation, but if you've noticed
00:35:50
you are seeing less than the grocery store, things are not as
00:35:54
reliable as they used to be. So what happened?
00:35:57
In during the pandemic is, you saw a lot of these farmers who
00:36:02
were there was no demand for what they're doing restaurants,
00:36:05
were closed and they were throwing tons and tons and tons
00:36:09
of vegetables and produce out what happened then is because
00:36:13
they didn't know when we were going to come out of this
00:36:17
because our politicians were so wishy-washy on whether or not,
00:36:21
they wanted to be Pro lockdown or they want to be anti lock
00:36:25
down. They planted Unless because they
00:36:28
weren't going to plant as much as possible, because they didn't
00:36:34
know whether or not there was going to be demand.
00:36:35
They didn't know if restaurants were going to be open, who knew
00:36:37
of California was going to be open for over two years.
00:36:40
It seemed like everything was shut down, and there wasn't
00:36:42
enough demand. So what you have now is it takes
00:36:45
a long takes a whole year to plant and to harvest and then
00:36:50
you get to the next year where there may be increased demand,
00:36:52
but guess what? The farmer a year ago said, I
00:36:54
don't know if we're going to be open or not.
00:36:56
I don't know if we're going to be able to Plan, whether it be
00:36:58
bows are going to be demand, so they planted, let's say half of
00:37:01
the onions. I'm just using onions as an
00:37:04
example, but let's say they say, well, there was no demand for
00:37:08
the usual amount of onions that I grow, and then I'm going to
00:37:13
play half the amount of onions. Well, next year, we're fully
00:37:16
open. Everybody wants onions for
00:37:17
cooking and for all this stuff well guess what?
00:37:21
We only planted half the amount of onions.
00:37:22
So now your onion has doubled in cost because of that, because
00:37:26
there's less Onions on the market you can't just all you
00:37:30
can't quickly. Grow a lot of this stuff, it
00:37:32
takes time and it takes planning and you're going to see this
00:37:36
happen with Sri Lanka this year. Is because if they're only
00:37:40
planting on a quarter of what they can use, there's going to
00:37:44
be food shortages next year, and what Sri Lanka going to do when
00:37:47
they have food shortages and they don't have enough food to
00:37:49
feed everybody. It's going to become probably a
00:37:52
humanitarian crisis, probably going to have to have other
00:37:55
countries step in and fly. Food, if we have food and again,
00:38:01
this is stuff that people don't really think about.
00:38:04
Let's see. It goes on inflation and Sri
00:38:08
Lanka, stood at 54.6 in June, according to the tray economics,
00:38:13
with food prices, rising 82, 80.1%, and transportation 128.
00:38:19
Since May Reuters reported, half a million people have sunk into
00:38:22
poverty as early as 2020 to half a million.
00:38:26
People have sunk into poverty, just this past year.
00:38:30
In Sri Lanka, think about that. Think about 500.
00:38:34
People have have sunken into poverty.
00:38:37
So you're already seeing the effects of what happens when you
00:38:40
push these policies. Is that food shortages, energy
00:38:44
shortages people are sliding back into poverty and therefore
00:38:51
I guess they that was their whole plan.
00:38:53
I mean the Prime Minister left he's out he probably took a
00:38:56
whole stack of cash with them. He's out Sri Lanka has an almost
00:39:01
perfect ESG score at ninety one point eight.
00:39:03
So I was, I was off by a little bit.
00:39:04
Ninety one point eight titles. It Tajikistan, according to the
00:39:08
data, from the world economics for comparison, Sweden, sits at
00:39:12
96.1 and the United States stands at 50.7.
00:39:16
So it looks like is this is literally the go get woke, go
00:39:22
broke, sort of mentality, is that they went with.
00:39:26
We're going to do these ESG policies, and we're going to
00:39:28
push this green policy. And look what happened.
00:39:30
We've had 500 people sunken into poverty.
00:39:32
There's probably gonna be food shortages next year.
00:39:34
It's probably energy shortages. Next year.
00:39:37
The country is absolutely bankrupt.
00:39:39
It's absolute chaos, Anarchy and Chaos in Sri Lanka all because
00:39:44
they wanted to be more green. Now, let's move to California
00:39:50
because California, obviously is pushing a lot of these policies.
00:39:54
And we're right on the cusp of it and we're not going to see.
00:39:58
We're going to see where I mean, we're going to see it soon, it's
00:40:00
going to happen, but here are some things that are interesting
00:40:04
to me in that we're going to start seeing.
00:40:06
Over the years, whether they, and if they don't get stopped,
00:40:09
we're going to be in big trouble here in California.
00:40:11
And again, if California is in trouble as a breadbasket is a
00:40:15
big agricultural state, that could be a lot of problems for
00:40:19
the rest of the country. So this is an article from oil
00:40:24
price.com. California may need fossil fuel
00:40:26
power to avoid blackouts and this was July 1st 2022.
00:40:31
California is by far the most ambitious state in the u.s. when
00:40:33
it comes to climate goals. But even it cannot power itself.
00:40:36
Harley with solar and wind yet is currently working on
00:40:39
expanding its storage capacity, but this expansion will take
00:40:42
time especially with the lingering supply chain snags,
00:40:45
that plague industry since the start of the pandemic have not
00:40:48
gone away after its end. The measure is a short-term one.
00:40:53
Let's see. Oh no, it's talking about Gavin
00:40:55
Newsom to establish the Strategic reliability Reserve,
00:40:59
talking about different types of energy measures short-term one.
00:41:04
However is the gas-fired plants are set to close Who's next
00:41:07
year? Diesel generators will also be
00:41:09
killed off as a source of energy in California beginning.
00:41:12
Next year, reactions to the bill vary depending on where they
00:41:15
came from, a Republican state. Senator, for instance, said it
00:41:17
proved California's. Still needs fossil fuels.
00:41:20
We don't get these packs guys. Powered plants to fire up.
00:41:22
When we need them, you will not be able to flip the switch and
00:41:25
get electricity. When environmental is blamed on
00:41:28
a lack of ambition. When it comes to the state's
00:41:30
climate cools, the state is saying, we need to rely on
00:41:32
fossil fossil power and they're not fully admitting that because
00:41:36
it's a lack of Ambition. Okay?
00:41:39
Or it's just a reality of it. One thing that that brought up
00:41:46
is an article. I read interesting about the in
00:41:51
the LA Times is talking about solar panels.
00:41:53
I should have brought that up article up as well to talk about
00:41:56
but I think we have enough to talk about.
00:41:57
We would this has been a jam-packed show so far is how
00:42:02
California is facing a really bad disaster when it comes to
00:42:06
the Disposal of solar panels that right now.
00:42:11
California doesn't know what to do with a lot of these solar
00:42:13
panels, because a lot of them are coming up on their 10-year
00:42:16
expiration, right? They only last 10 years and then
00:42:19
you got to get new ones. So they're not as reliable or
00:42:23
they're not as long as these people think and when you try to
00:42:27
recycle them there's a lot of toxic material, it's very
00:42:30
hazardous. It's very hard to do.
00:42:32
We're talking about hundreds of thousands of solar panels are
00:42:35
going to be coming up for Recycling pretty soon in the
00:42:38
state of California alone. Now, there is a company
00:42:41
literally across the border in Yuma and then you can't make
00:42:45
this up literally across the border in Yuma, because the
00:42:49
regulations to do what they do are too strict in California
00:42:53
that they actually can't do what they need to do.
00:42:55
Which is recycle solar panels. Even though California is in
00:42:59
dire need of companies that are willing to work to help.
00:43:03
Recycle solar panels California because of our restrictions and
00:43:06
are overburdened. And some regulations, they can't
00:43:10
even operate. So you have to go across state
00:43:12
lines. Take those solar panels to Yuma,
00:43:14
you know, right. Literally on the border of
00:43:16
California and Arizona to get these panels recycled, but a lot
00:43:19
of people don't really know what else is going to happen.
00:43:22
They don't have enough recycling plants.
00:43:23
They don't know where they're going to do with them.
00:43:25
So, this is another example of people don't really think
00:43:27
through when they kind of went wholeheartedly into solar panels
00:43:31
last story. And then I want to open it up to
00:43:33
chat because I can see a lot of people in the comments are going
00:43:36
nuts. Talking about this stuff and I
00:43:38
want to get your feedback on whether you think were in Dire
00:43:42
Straits and whether we're going to head the way of Sri Lanka.
00:43:44
And Holland, this was something I have to give a hat tip to my
00:43:49
wife, who actually told me about this story, the Port of Long
00:43:53
Beach boost push for zero emission trucks.
00:43:56
At least 10% clean driving areas ever to support a goal of zero
00:44:00
emissions truck Fleet by 2035, the Port of Long Beach will
00:44:04
start collecting its clean truck.
00:44:06
May and April 1st 2022 as approved by the Long Beach Board
00:44:10
of Harbor. Commissioners the rate for
00:44:13
non-exempt trucks of $10 per twenty-foot equivalent units.
00:44:17
A standard measure for 120 foot. Long cargo was set in March 2020
00:44:21
by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to encourage the
00:44:23
trucking industry, to invest in cleaner and vehicles and reach
00:44:27
zero emissions. Zero-emission trucks are exempt
00:44:30
from the rate and the Port of Long Beach has approved.
00:44:32
An expiring exemption for the cleanest natural gas, powered
00:44:35
trucks. As a transitional step To a
00:44:37
future. When zero emission cargo trucks
00:44:39
are widely available. The clean truck fund rate is
00:44:43
expected to generate 90 million in the first year of 45 million
00:44:46
dollars per Port. As part of the Monday's action,
00:44:48
the board approved an initial funding prioritization for both
00:44:50
low, nitrogen oxides, and zero emissions trucks with at least
00:44:53
10 percent of funds to provide for 20 Mission trucks.
00:44:58
We are the green ports at Harbor, commission president,
00:45:01
Steven eel. Speeding progress toward the
00:45:03
zero-emissions truck school is important, in spite of the
00:45:05
business uncertainty Entities created by the pandemic.
00:45:08
There should never be any doubt that we will fulfill This
00:45:11
Promise. This rate allows us to bounce
00:45:13
aggressively pursuing, zero Mission goals with economic
00:45:15
vitality and competitiveness. We have a responsibility, find
00:45:18
solutions to protect public health and vulnerable
00:45:20
communities. So this is actually coming
00:45:24
straight from the Port of Long Beach.
00:45:27
This is what their push is. I couldn't believe it myself,
00:45:30
right? 2035 is a long way off and this
00:45:34
is only, my wife told me is that the Port of Long Beach would
00:45:36
like all Trucks that are going to come and pick up stuff.
00:45:39
Have to be zero emissions right now.
00:45:43
From what she's told me, you are about, I don't know, six months
00:45:49
to a year, if you order an electric semi truck, right?
00:45:54
Six months to a year to get your hands on one electric semi
00:45:59
truck. How many trucks do you think are
00:46:03
out there in the United States? How many trucks do you think are
00:46:06
out there trying to get into Long Beach?
00:46:10
Now, keep in mind, this is the same port where you saw Boats
00:46:16
and boats and cargo ships all parked right off of the shore.
00:46:19
If you live in that area, you know what it was like you could
00:46:22
look out and see all the, all the boats and all that out there
00:46:25
that were parked there because they couldn't get enough people
00:46:30
and enough trucks to actually get in and get the stuff out of
00:46:35
this port. So what they've done is, they
00:46:38
are so focused on this zero missions.
00:46:40
They are again overlooked in the fact that there is not An
00:46:45
infrastructure for these trucks yet.
00:46:49
Where are these trucks going to charge?
00:46:52
Where are these trucks going to be built, where they going to be
00:46:57
manufactured right now. There are not enough people
00:47:01
producing enough, because there's not enough demand.
00:47:03
A lot of people think it's economically viable to actually
00:47:07
buy one because they again, there is no infrastructure for
00:47:10
where these trucks are actually going to get charged and is
00:47:14
California, prepare to start. Powering up thousands upon
00:47:19
thousands of semi trucks you know they I want to make
00:47:22
everything electric and keep that number in mind that I
00:47:26
brought up before about Thomas Massie, what he said.
00:47:29
Basically, if you want everyone to have an electric car and this
00:47:32
is just electric cars. So like a Tesla or Nissan Leaf
00:47:35
or something else like that you would be the equivalent of
00:47:38
running 25 refrigerators in your house, on top of your normal
00:47:42
electricity, okay? So keep that in mind.
00:47:46
That's just for electric cars. Now, if you think about it, how
00:47:51
much is it going to To take for our infrastructure to be able to
00:47:54
power, thousands and thousands of semi trucks.
00:47:59
I don't think we have the infrastructure for you in 2035.
00:48:03
Let a little over 10 years from now.
00:48:05
Do they think they're going to radically change the entire
00:48:08
infrastructure overnight? So that they can actually get
00:48:11
this done? And if you're one of those
00:48:14
independent contractors which again, you might not be able to
00:48:17
be an independent contractor, under a B5, you might not be
00:48:20
able to afford electric shock. You may have just went out and
00:48:23
spent your life savings. To buy a truck to start your own
00:48:26
business to be an independent contractor.
00:48:28
Actor and now all of a sudden, State of California saying.
00:48:31
Well, I guess what you can't pick up from the Port of Long
00:48:32
Beach because you're not a zero-emission truck, and we're
00:48:35
going to start taxing the hell out of you until you get an
00:48:38
electric truck. So with that, I will say this.
00:48:44
Do you think that this is stuff that is going to end up biting
00:48:47
California in the but not only biting Californian the but
00:48:51
biting the rest of the country in the butt, because where are
00:48:55
we going to start porting or where are people going to start
00:48:58
importing? A lot of these Goods have Long
00:49:01
Beach, and Los Angeles are basically saying we're not going
00:49:03
to accept any trucks that are run on diesel.
00:49:06
That's a huge amount of goods that are not going to get
00:49:10
picked. It up.
00:49:11
Okay, that's a huge amount. And we're talking about
00:49:13
supplying chain crisis. We already have a supply chain
00:49:16
crisis and they're making it absolutely worse by doing this.
00:49:21
Could they go to Oakland maybe if Oakland doesn't do the same
00:49:25
thing, right Oakland's? Another big Port.
00:49:28
But these are the biggest ports on the west coast that were
00:49:30
talking about Long Beach is an enormous poor.
00:49:32
It's a very, very important, crucial port.
00:49:35
In fact, it's probably one of the reasons why Long Beach
00:49:37
actually is on the map is because of its port.
00:49:40
In the amount of work that goes into keeping that Port up and
00:49:43
running, same thing with Los Angeles and we're also they're
00:49:48
going to go they're going to get Seattle like it.
00:49:50
Does that make sense? No the idea is you want to get
00:49:53
into Long Beach because there's plenty of freeways and there's
00:49:56
plenty of arteries to get out into the country and get on the
00:49:59
road and get going so I don't know what they are.
00:50:04
I know what they're thinking, they're not thinking that
00:50:09
they're not thinking. And logically, they're not
00:50:11
taking Henry hazlitt's lesson which is you have to think about
00:50:15
Economic Consequences, 12 steps, 20, steps years down the line,
00:50:20
what's going to happen? So this all sounds great and
00:50:23
good, but the end of the day, this is going to end up hurting
00:50:29
truckers. It's going to end up hurting
00:50:31
supply chain. It's going to end up hurting
00:50:34
Americans is going to end up hurting Californians and this is
00:50:38
just the beginning. Again, they Transition.
00:50:41
All of us off fossil fuels. They want to get us all and
00:50:44
clean power but we don't have the infrastructure.
00:50:47
We don't have the energy. Now, if you want to talk about
00:50:50
building or bringing online, you know, three or four nuclear
00:50:54
power plants and then we have reliable curling clean energy.
00:50:57
Let's talk about that. Let's talk about that.
00:50:59
You want to get nuclear energy back on the map.
00:51:03
And then you say, oh, we can we have the power to power millions
00:51:07
of electric cars and trucks because we use nuclear energy.
00:51:10
Now, you're starting somewhere, but you can't just say, hey,
00:51:14
we're going to go ahead and do this.
00:51:16
And then you say, well, okay, but do we have the
00:51:19
infrastructure to power any of these trucks and they go?
00:51:22
Well, no, we don't have the infrastructure.
00:51:24
Yeah. Okay.
00:51:24
Well what's your plan and you go?
00:51:27
Well, we got to get there. What do you mean?
00:51:29
You got to get, you don't have a plan, you're just going to say
00:51:31
2035 sounds great because it's 10 years in the future, it
00:51:34
sounds far enough away that people don't really think it's
00:51:37
that immediate, but it's close enough.
00:51:39
That people think it's actually A difference or that it and then
00:51:42
they just say well we'll figure it out along the way.
00:51:44
Yeah but people's livelihoods are on the there on the slab
00:51:49
right now and you're worried about zero-emission trucks and
00:51:52
we can't get stuff supply chain stuff into the country and
00:51:55
you're worried about zero-emission trucks.
00:51:57
So anyway That's it for today, on terms of the I want to switch
00:52:04
now to the conversation in the comments, I know you guys have
00:52:09
been going nuts in here. I hope you enjoyed that one.
00:52:13
That was a little bit more of a deep dive into what is going on
00:52:18
and how you can take lessons from what's going on around the
00:52:22
world and see how it's being implemented here in California
00:52:25
and how California is possibly on the same path in terms of
00:52:29
their obsession with green. Policies, not that I'm against
00:52:34
Green policies. I'm not against Green policies,
00:52:36
if it makes sense to do something that's green and it
00:52:39
works and people can afford it. Great.
00:52:42
The free market will push its way.
00:52:45
I think we've it pushes its way the way forward.
00:52:49
The most economically, the best way for everybody to really take
00:52:52
part but like you saw in Sri Lanka, if you push these
00:52:56
policies and then you push 500 people into poverty,
00:53:00
what have you done? Are you going to Pat yourself on
00:53:03
the back and say, yeah, we did it.
00:53:05
We, we have a 98% ESG score, but half a million of our citizens
00:53:10
are in abject poverty. Go us.
00:53:12
That's great. Is that what's going to happen
00:53:14
here? I mean that's what's happening
00:53:15
here in California, right? Push green policies, as much as
00:53:19
possible even though we have one of the biggest income inequality
00:53:22
disparities in the world, probably top 10 and they're just
00:53:27
like, well, we still got to do this.
00:53:29
We got to do this. Anarchism and gets a bad rap
00:53:32
when in theory people who cover freedom and liberty should be.
00:53:35
Yeah, I read the more I read about Anarchy, Michael malice,
00:53:39
if anybody doesn't know, Michael Mouse is a great spokesperson on
00:53:43
the and he writes about Anarchy and he talks about a lot about
00:53:48
Anarchy and really what Anarchy would look like.
00:53:53
Well, Anarchy is really true freedom.
00:53:55
I mean, it's true, Liberty and freedom because there's no State
00:53:57
really infringing upon your Liberty.
00:53:59
It's just somebody Um, you know Vinny boy, brought it up in the
00:54:02
chat. He's talking about Anarchy.
00:54:05
Yeah, so if you're, if you're interested in it, you don't have
00:54:08
to buy into it. Like I would say I might be more
00:54:11
of a Min artist if I had to pick.
00:54:14
I'm definitely not an anarchist, but they're sometimes.
00:54:18
I look at and go Anarchy's, not a bad idea.
00:54:20
Let's all just go live in the woods and do whatever the hell
00:54:22
we want and that's the end of it.
00:54:24
So let's see. Somebody said when there's a
00:54:28
fire, my area p g and H 2 Turns off our electricity.
00:54:31
How then would we charge Anything Electric?
00:54:33
I would be stuck if I do, let your cars the foam packing
00:54:35
opposed or not thought through. Yeah.
00:54:37
And if everyone's working from home and you all working on
00:54:42
computers, your computer has a dying battery life.
00:54:44
And if the power goes out, what's powering your modem, you
00:54:48
know, it's what happens when power goes out.
00:54:52
Your internet goes out. Right.
00:54:53
So how are you going to work at home?
00:54:55
If you can't use the internet so who exactly is pushing these
00:55:00
Zero. Oops sorry push in the zero.
00:55:03
Emissions green policy I'm wondering if a particular
00:55:05
company investors are lobbying for these policies.
00:55:10
I would say I don't know you know I'm not going to about to
00:55:14
go into some rabbit hole like Alex Jones style Rat Hole but
00:55:16
who's actually pushing this. I've always thought that they
00:55:22
figured out climate change. Is something, I mean, climate
00:55:28
change was the original thing that could get people scared
00:55:32
enough to let the government figure out how to control us
00:55:37
more. Because it again, government is
00:55:45
not very good at solving, a lot of things, you know.
00:55:47
Government is really. I mean I'm a visibly government.
00:55:53
Really has a couple basic functions.
00:55:55
And right now, a lot of them, they don't really do any of
00:55:59
those really that. Well, but they got caught up in
00:56:03
this climate change stuff. And what it does is it allows
00:56:06
them to raise taxes and get more power.
00:56:10
It's a way for politicians to really power grab because if you
00:56:15
look at the data, you look at the signs talking about climate
00:56:18
change, they've changed their their stance on climate change
00:56:23
for the past 50 years. So Nothing whatever.
00:56:27
They say doesn't hold up in the Long Haul.
00:56:30
But the one thing that's always consistent, is that if you want
00:56:34
to solve climate change, You have to. give them more power
00:56:40
and more money, so sorry sounds like somebody's trying to The
00:57:00
last two years were just the test run, how far the government
00:57:02
can push us now. They're still pushing through
00:57:04
with radical ideas. Yeah.
00:57:09
I think in terms of, if you ever looked up with the Overton
00:57:12
window is, I think they, they cracked open the Overton window
00:57:18
and they saw just how far they could go.
00:57:22
They saw that. Probably about 50% of.
00:57:28
The people will listen to it. And I don't know, I would say
00:57:35
like right now I don't know if I think in the beginning a lot of
00:57:39
people were scared and we're trying to figure out what's
00:57:42
going on. I think now that number has gone
00:57:44
way way, way down in terms of who will just ultimately trust
00:57:50
the government and do whatever they want to do, but they kind
00:57:55
of cracked it open and see how far people would go and and Just
00:57:58
wanted to see, but it did condition.
00:58:01
A lot of people that the government is your benevolent
00:58:04
savior, it didn't condition the people to believe that.
00:58:07
Hey, the governor has your ultimate Savior and we're the
00:58:10
only ones who know what's best for you.
00:58:13
So give us all the power, give a give away all your
00:58:16
constitutional rights and that's it, you know, trust us with your
00:58:20
business. You don't need that business.
00:58:22
Trust us, we'll take care of you.
00:58:24
So that did turn a lot of people.
00:58:26
A lot of people did fall into that trap.
00:58:28
But I think a lot of people also may have started off one way and
00:58:31
it had the opposite effect wherever you a lot of people
00:58:35
woke up. And you know, tomorrow night
00:58:39
we're going to talk to Dan Fulkerson again.
00:58:41
He's a good example of someone who wasn't really that political
00:58:47
or wasn't really paying attention, and stuff and then
00:58:49
covid happened and then all of a sudden he became really
00:58:51
political and started to talk about this stuff because he felt
00:58:54
like he didn't, he couldn't just sit by he couldn't It by and let
00:58:59
it happen. So at the end of the day, I'm
00:59:02
not sure what the end goal is because if you saw happen in Sri
00:59:07
Lanka, they push and they push and they pushed and they lost
00:59:13
and then Same thing happened in Holland, they push and they push
00:59:18
and they push and they're probably going to lose Sri
00:59:20
Lanka. Is probably the best example of
00:59:22
people can look to and say, look, you push, and you push,
00:59:27
and you push with these green policies.
00:59:29
And then your country goes bankrupt, five hundred thousand
00:59:32
people going to poverty, and the Prime Minister has to flee the
00:59:36
country. So that's that's what's going to
00:59:38
happen. Once the garden said, the
00:59:41
Constitution is not absolute. That woke.
00:59:43
A lot of people. Oh yeah, there's a lot of people
00:59:44
who still, you know, left and right.
00:59:47
I think there's a lot of people who are like people on the left
00:59:50
ubu said, hey I still believe in the Constitution.
00:59:53
It doesn't mean you can trample all over it and that they still
00:59:59
believe in these constitutional rights.
01:00:01
They still believe that you had these rights.
01:00:04
So it did wake up a lot of people and I think that's one of
01:00:07
the Silver, Linings of what happened.
01:00:10
Cobin. Everyone should be doing things
01:00:12
to self-sustain their families. Yeah, I mean, it's not a bad
01:00:16
idea to consciously, go over. You know, if everything was gone
01:00:22
tomorrow, if electricity was gone and the internet was gone.
01:00:28
Will there be a lot of crap talking about Benny Johnson
01:00:31
tomorrow night little Benny Johnson will come up tomorrow
01:00:33
night. But, but anyway, to finish my
01:00:35
thought. Yeah, I think it's never a bad
01:00:39
idea. Idea it's kind of like emergency
01:00:41
preparedness my you know they always tell you like especially
01:00:43
here in California. They so what happens if there's
01:00:45
an earthquake, what I like what should you do?
01:00:47
You should have extra water. You should have like lights and
01:00:49
stuff like that. So yeah, never a bad idea.
01:00:56
Yeah, HR 1808 has been punted. Yep.
01:01:00
Yeah, that was good news that they punted it until after the
01:01:03
break. And guess what?
01:01:05
That probably means is not going to come to a floor vote, which
01:01:08
means all this assault. William Weapons ban is just
01:01:10
going to slowly die out and it won't come to a floor vote and
01:01:15
I'll be the end of it. So good news for us and all the
01:01:20
the, to a people. Very, very good news for us.
01:01:22
I didn't think it would have the votes to pass in Senate though.
01:01:26
I don't think there were ten people.
01:01:27
I don't think I return. Republicans, I do.
01:01:29
I doubt, you know, Mansion would have voted for it but
01:01:34
Constitution says, we have a duty to remove a corrupt
01:01:35
government wondering why it hasn't happened yet.
01:01:38
Well, not people are comfortable.
01:01:39
You know, a lot of people are comfortable.
01:01:41
There's a lot of legal, right? And you know, I'm not I always
01:01:44
say, I don't think we're there yet.
01:01:45
I don't think we're there yet. I think a lot of people got a
01:01:49
pathetic. Excuse me.
01:01:51
I think a lot of people got a pathetic in terms of voting pay
01:01:54
attention to their politics and this is sort of where we've
01:01:58
gotten excuse me. Something got caught in my
01:02:03
throat and I think it really the best way right now, is for a lot
01:02:09
of people to wake up and just pay attention to what's going on
01:02:14
politics. That's really what it comes down
01:02:16
to. That gives time for all our
01:02:22
California in front of to be declared unconstitutional based
01:02:25
on. Yep.
01:02:25
Yeah. Hopefully that all you know
01:02:27
they're re-evaluating a lot of these decisions the high
01:02:30
capacity and stuff like that is all being re-evaluated.
01:02:32
So did you just say wake up died?
01:02:38
Just a wake-up. Know I I forgot.
01:02:40
I don't remember saying wake up. Okay.
01:02:42
Somebody asked about you're going to ask.
01:02:47
Are you awake yet? No, I'm not going.
01:02:49
I'm not going to ask, are you awake yet?
01:02:51
Why aren't you awake? Because people say that to me in
01:02:52
the DMS all the time, they're like they're like you're a rhino
01:02:55
and you're not awake yet. Wake up man.
01:02:58
I'm like bro I've been awake longer than you've been paying
01:03:01
attention to politics so you know no one was talking about
01:03:05
California politics when I started this show but now a lot
01:03:08
of people are really concerned about it.
01:03:09
So not a lot be we're doing about politics before the
01:03:14
pandemic happened. So it's great that a lot more
01:03:17
people are paying attention. Bruh.
01:03:20
Bruh. Somebody asked what's going on
01:03:24
with major Williams? Because I think someone's really
01:03:26
interested in asking what happened with major Williams.
01:03:31
So me and as the attorney for the housewives, I don't know why
01:03:38
I'm putting that in quotes have filed a suit against major
01:03:42
Williams regarding his original suit, and it was regarding What
01:03:49
it's for is malicious prosecution.
01:03:51
So basically what it's saying is he filed the suit, he had no
01:03:59
probable cause he didn't really intend on going through it.
01:04:03
The suit, which we believe was true because he after we filed
01:04:08
our motion, he basically gave up and dismissed the suit.
01:04:12
Basically. I think we believe that he filed
01:04:15
suit to try and silence these women And so we filed a suit
01:04:22
against him now. So now he's facing another
01:04:24
lawsuit. He's facing a lawsuit now so you
01:04:27
know, turnabout is fair play. So he was served yesterday and
01:04:30
that's what's going on with the major Williams and he still
01:04:33
hasn't paid. He still hasn't paid his court
01:04:35
order. Judgment.
01:04:36
That is now I don't know. 60 days overdue Camille's in the
01:04:39
chat. She wouldn't know better.
01:04:41
So yeah, he's way past overdo. It was court ordered.
01:04:48
He had to pay it in. 60 days that was 60 days ago.
01:04:52
I believe he's way past that day and as it made any really effort
01:04:55
to do to try and settle up, but this whole new lawsuit is for
01:05:01
something else for malicious. Prosecution for filing the suit
01:05:04
last year, 105 days ago. Wow.
01:05:08
Okay, Camille's really keeping count of how many days it's
01:05:10
been. So, All right, any final
01:05:14
comments questions. Tomorrow night again.
01:05:18
Dan focus is going to be on, we're going to be chatting with
01:05:20
him, you know. It's going to be sort of a free
01:05:23
for all as to, you know, maybe talking about what got him into
01:05:25
politics and talking about this stuff and what he really
01:05:28
believes in and you know, how he's been helping out as an
01:05:32
attorney. And that's basically it for
01:05:35
today. Thanks again for everyone who
01:05:39
tuned in. Sorry, again, about last week,
01:05:41
work to come up and stuff. I had to take care of that.
01:05:44
But you know, as always every Wednesday at 9 a.m. we do this
01:05:48
coffee in California politics and we'd sit we chat, we talk
01:05:53
about California politics over lovely coffee and you can get
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one of these in my store. I did fix up the logo.
01:06:02
It pops a little bit more. Now, I did notice that it does.
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It is a little weak or not weak, but it's hard to see.
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So I did fix that too to make it pop.
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The California underground with the American flag celebrating
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It will be ending at the turn of August.
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right now. It's women's men's.
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And women's tees. You can grab those.
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Do I have stickers? Yeah, there are stickers.
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There are stickers in store unbelieve.
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There's actually, there's also a sticker with the American flag
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to, so, if you want to grab one of those, you can grab one of
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those stickers are great. Thank you.
01:06:43
The logo. Yeah, it was sort of just a
01:06:45
last-minute thing. But you know I kind of do like
01:06:47
the logo logo, probably stay around.
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I do that the shirts and stuff like that.
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