Charlie starts this episode by outlining a very basic principle: a society requires cheap, abundant energy in order to grow, flourish, and expand the middle class. But in America 2022, which has been rich for 70+ years, many Americans, especially our elitist leaders, feel immune from the realities of economics. As America has waged a green energy war against fossil fuels, Russian President Vladimir Putin is watching the price of oil skyrocket, further underwriting his war machine. So can the sanctions imposed upon Russia by the West actually deter Russia from further aggression? Or are they, as a petrol state, perfectly positioned to weather the sanctioning storm and emerge stronger on the other side? As Joe Biden continues posturing as a tough guy who can go toe-to-toe with Putin, he's completely missing the only metric that Putin really cares about. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Cheap Energy Fuels Civilization00:12:35
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I want to dive into just a very simple question that a fourth or fifth grader should be able to answer, which is what is energy?
Well, if you look at a textbook definition of energy, energy is what allows us to do work, it gives us the capacity to make things happen.
So the left is very focused on progress.
They always want things to get better, which I think is in some ways an admirable goal.
Foolish at times.
Some things shouldn't try to be improved just for the sake of improving them.
We should perfect beautiful things, we should protect beautiful things, I should say, perfect, protect beautiful things.
But movement requires energy.
Progress requires energy.
And I don't just mean metaphorical energy.
I mean literal energy.
When you get up in the morning, you need food because your body needs to have the fuel required to think and to act and to move.
Now, every civilization has had the issue of energy in a variety of different ways.
We need food to eat.
As things progressed, you needed the ability to warm your homes, the ability to hopefully develop some form of hospitals or schools.
Now, when you do not have abundant energy, then you were basically held hostage to the sun.
You weren't really able to do much in the evening.
You had to do any sort of gatherings by candlelight.
And by definition, you know, in the winter months, you became less productive.
It was less efficient.
Now, in the 1700s and early 1800s, the development of the combustible engine and the exploration of what is now known as fossil fuels allowed all of a sudden humanity to be able to do less work and more thinking and more leisure time.
As we progressed and we found more forms of energy and better ways to use it, coal, nuclear, liquid, natural gas, we grew accustomed to being able to go long distances very quickly and affordably.
Now, as the wealthiest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, we should ask ourselves a question: why are we so wealthy?
And it's, of course, because of the rule of law, the entrepreneurs, the American story, all those sorts of things, but it's also cheap and affordable energy.
Why did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor?
An oil embargo is one of the major reasons.
They had difficulty being able to provide the energy for their society and their civilization.
So this is something that should not be ideological.
It definitely shouldn't be political.
That if you want your country, your people, your community to be able to flourish, then it should be a non-negotiable.
Now, are there certain forms of energy that in some ways might not be primary in 100 or 150 years, such as coal?
Yeah, probably, of course.
But there are third world countries that would do anything to be able to have access to coal.
And the literature tells us something very clearly of third world countries is you want to get them out of poverty as quickly as possible by giving them cheap energy.
Cheap energy allows people to progress quickly.
That used to be a goal of the Western progressives.
Now it seems not to be.
And what we've seen the last year under the current regime is a very focused agenda to basically unravel all of the very positive energy gains of the last couple decades and specifically the last couple years.
I'm talking about hydraulic fracking technology, liquid and natural gas development, where it made America, thanks to a lot of the policies of the previous administration, but also the entrepreneurs in the Permian Basin and in the Balkan Shale and the Marcellus Shale, the three largest depositories of liquid and natural gas in the country, it made us energy independent.
We could call our own shots.
If you are not dependent on another country to be able to move, eat, or be able to take risks or create products, you're free.
You see, we talk about energy independence, but rarely do we go a step further and explain why is that important?
Well, then you're not then held hostage by some sort of Middle Eastern theocrat in Iran or Saudi Arabia or whatever, or Vladimir Putin to keep the lights on in New Hampshire in February.
CUT 41 is a great setup of Tucker Carlson talking about this last evening when he was interviewed by Laura Ingram, Playtape.
Energy matters.
You can't run a civilization without it.
I don't care what Sandy Cortez claims.
The truth is we have progress.
We have lights.
We have hospitals.
We have airplanes.
We are not living in caves because we have cheap energy.
That's a prerequisite for civilization.
Germany cares about gas from Ukraine and Russia, period.
Why wouldn't they?
We should care.
We're pretending as if we don't need energy.
They're going to wreck our economy with this nonsense.
We've been rich for so long, we don't fully understand what that means, but it's a disaster.
You don't want to be a poor country.
And they're on the road to making this one.
Even despite all the subsidies and all the best efforts of the current regime, a year ago, 34% of our energy consumption was natural gas.
34% was traditional petroleum.
About 10% was coal.
About 9% was nuclear, which we should expand dramatically, by the way.
The French have been way ahead of the curve on this.
And a lot of the nuclear data, by the way, is skewed by incidents like Three Mile Island and other incidents.
And renewables about 12.5%.
Now, I'm all for exploring renewables of solar and wind.
You know, if you hate birds, you should love wind.
However, that's fine, whatever.
Not the focus of this.
But still, if you transitioned every single car to electric overnight, we do not have the raw materials to make the batteries to be able to make 130 million Teslas overnight.
We just do not have the ability to do that yet.
So the circumstance we have in front of us is we have more liquid natural gas than we know what to do with.
We are the world's leader in the development of it.
Now, why are we the world's leader in it?
Or we were.
We're the only country on the planet that allows private ownership of minerals.
We were running circles around Russia because we allowed entrepreneurs to be more efficient in the way they explored oil and natural gas.
Only country in the world that allows private ownership of minerals.
Russia, it's all through oligarchs and state control.
Venezuela, all through oligarchs and state-run control.
Saudi Arabia, Iran, all the Middle Eastern actors, the same.
Now, they're still able to fund their government through it, but a West Texas oil and gas entrepreneur up against some kind of sleazy Russian oligarch, it's not even close.
We win every time.
But a deliberate strategy from the Biden regime was to get rid of America's energy supremacy, not superiority, not advantage.
We were energy supreme.
We were able to call all of our own shots.
We could tell other countries, yeah, you know what, we can actually fuel our entire civilization.
China does not have that advantage, but they're getting it because they're partnership with Russia.
Now, what's interesting about the entire green energy craze is it takes rare earth minerals to create batteries, and we're totally dependent on China for rare earth minerals, where we have not even made the own exploration choices here domestically to be able to make the batteries necessary for all these Teslas driving on the road.
Now, what are the geopolitical consequences of all of this?
Well, it's very simple.
Because of ideology in the last 12 months, an intentional decision was made from the top down of the White House here in America to stop new leasing of fracking technology, stop the exploration of liquid and natural gas, inflate the price of oil, and make Vladimir Putin rich and powerful.
Energy matters for everything.
Now, only a civilization that has never had to worry about energy could think that it actually doesn't matter.
I want you to dwell on that as we segue into the news out of Ukraine and Russia.
This entire situation in Eastern Europe, all of it, comes down to whether or not we unshackle the American energy entrepreneur to explore our own assets and resources.
Putin would not be even thinking about going after Ukraine.
Not that it's our concern, I really don't care, but it's a top news item for whatever reason if we allowed ourselves to use the assets under our own feet.
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So, the question is, why would Biden and their entire team of quote-unquote energy experts, why would they be okay with this?
Well, he did run on it.
He did run on getting rid of fossil fuels completely, getting rid of oil and natural gas, despite oil and natural gas being one of the primary reasons we've been able to break out of pre-industrial living.
And one of the reasons why fossil fuels, liquid natural gas, petroleum is so effective is its ability to be able to do a lot of work for very low cost.
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It's able to have high degrees of combustion or to be able to have an airplane go a long distance, a massive weight, for all of a sudden a price that people could pay $250, well, they used to be able to, $500 to fly from New York to L.A.
And it's easy to act as if this is normal.
So when you have Alexandria Casio-Cortez or Leonardo DiCaprio or Greta Thunberg, and you were born into a world where your concerns were not how you were going to fuel your entire civilization, it's easy to fall into the trap of, well, the world's going to end because of this.
Well, no, it's not, obviously.
But the deeper and more important point is how you grow accustomed and how you grow used to things just always getting better no matter what.
That is not the societal norm.
The societal norm is not all of a sudden massive human progress year over year over year.
Now, technology, which allows human beings to do work easy, easier or in an easy capacity, is a new phenomenon.
Now, there's all sorts of different types of technology.
Technology is what you do with it.
It could be a wheel, it could be a fulcrum, could be a wall, or it could be something as complex as an iPhone or our TriCaster system that allows us to live stream.
And the deeper, more fundamental point, though, is how do you fuel technology?
And I think there's plenty of good entrepreneurs, Elon Musk and other people.
I mean, I have problems with Elon Musk, but he's certainly interesting in a lot of different ways.
I think he's trying to do something right in this space that are trying to explore this, but you run into issues and you run into problems.
And one of the major problems, and this is one of the tenets of the Great Reset, is they know that if they are able to control energy, Western civilization as we know it crumbles.
Private property ownership becomes totally impractical, and farming and ranching becomes untenable.
You see, cheap energy empowers everyday people.
Cheap energy allows entrepreneurs to travel more distances to sell more products.
Cheap energy allows food prices to go down because it doesn't cost as much for you to get your avocados from Mexico.
I think that's actually a company.
Here's pretty good.
When energy prices go up, everything inherently becomes more expensive, and then you have to make choices.
Remember, economics is a war on scarcity.
Economics is the challenge of trying to deal with scarce resources.
Well, when things become less expensive and more abundant, you are winning that war on scarcity by definition.
And for a while, we were winning that war on energy.
In fact, there was an entire debate when Trump was president that energy was too cheap, that American producers were so worried that it was so cheap to fill up a tank of gas that energy producers were going to go bankrupt.
It was when energy was $25 or $30 a barrel.
And now it's right near $100 a barrel.
Now, in order to achieve the great reset from the World Economic Forum, they need to weaken the United States.
And one of the competitive advantages we've always had over other countries, despite, of course, having, you know, being neighbored by two allies, I guess Canada is still an ally, being neighbored by two massive oceans, having a sizable population, rule of law, private property rights, and a phenomenal constitution, and an aspirational and driven and hustling middle class.
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All those things are awesome, but we were able to empower normal people to be able to cover large distances quickly and to be able to do hard work quickly because we had energy at our disposal.
You can't take risks, I'm talking about big risks, if you do not have the energy and the ability to do that.
And they know that.
This is part of the agenda, which is they want it to be harder for you to move, create, and to flourish because they need to become a lot easier to control.
Now, Putin knows this, and he is using the green energy movement to his advantage to try to reshuffle the geopolitics of the world.
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I've said for a while, I really don't care about a family border dispute 5,000 miles away in a country that most Americans couldn't pinpoint on a map if they were able, given a million dollars.
I think most Americans say, hey, which one's Ukraine?
I think that it would be a 10% chance that they'd be able to label it correctly.
And I think most people would say, Oh, maybe it's the Belarus, sir.
Is it Lithuania or Latvia?
Yeah, okay.
So, not exactly a primary concern for me.
However, it is important to know that geopolitics changing in real time is worthy of commentary and exploration.
And if you think Vladimir Putin is like the greatest threat to democracy, which I don't believe, Ukraine is not a democracy at all, period.
They jail dissident leaders, they restrict opposition newspapers, and Ukraine is kind of a mishmash of a country anyway.
Western part of Ukraine is more kind of legitimately Ukraine.
The eastern part tends to be very sympathetic to Russia.
But again, that's not my concern or my issue.
But what is important, though, is how this impacts America.
And it's not about whether or not Putin is going to cross some arbitrary line in the snow.
What is important, though, is how we're going to get our energy.
That's important.
Cut 38, Biden talking about sanctions he's placed on Russia.
He says he blocked Nord Stream 2, but he didn't actually.
Instead of having a LNG contract where we could have supplied Germany with liquid natural gas from the Permian basin, the Marcellus Shale, if Biden is so worried about climate change, why is he okay with Russia fracking and not America fracking?
Same planet, same climate, or is there something deeper at play here?
Play cut 38.
We're implementing full blocking sanctions on two large Russian financial institutions, BEB and their military bank.
We're implementing comprehensive sanctions on Russia's sovereign debt.
That means we've cut off Russia's government from Western financing.
It can no longer raise money from the West and cannot trade in its new debt on our markets or European markets either.
Starting tomorrow and continuing in the days ahead, we'll also impose sanctions on Russia's elites and their family members.
They share in the corrupt gains of the Kremlin policies and should share in the pain as well.
Because of Russia's actions, we've worked with Germany to ensure Nord Stream II will not, as I promised, will not move forward.
So why is it that Putin annexes Crimea and goes after Ukraine while Biden is in the executive office of the White House?
Now, the talking point you hear from a lot of people, it's because we had leadership under Trump and not now.
I agree with that.
That's fine.
I totally agree.
Or they say it's because we had strength then and not then.
And what they're trying to do is they're trying to convince you we need kind of more drums of war conversation, that we need more tomahawk missile strikes.
No, actually, that's not right at all.
The only number that Putin looks at is not how many Tomahawk missiles we're sending into Syria.
It's not whether or not he thinks we're willing to deploy troops, but he might be a little moved by that.
It's the price of oil.
Russia is primarily funded.
Their whole government is funded through the petrodollar.
And so when the price of oil goes above 60, Putin is running a surplus.
When the price of oil goes to 80, he's swimming in Russian rubles.
When it goes to 100, he becomes a very wealthy country, like very wealthy.
So he's able to take risks.
And guess what?
If he were to invade, the price of oil will go even further up.
You see, Russia ran some very serious structural deficits.
They locked down their country because of COVID and all that.
This is all economics.
And yet we're supposed to believe that it's some sort of like Russian kind of conquest to go reunify eastern Ukraine.
I'm sure that's part of it.
But the Washington Post said, quote, Russia warned that America will fully feel the consequences of the United States sanctions on the Kremlin after it deployed troops into two pro-Moscow separatist regions of eastern Ukraine.
The West is bracing for Russia to retaliate against the measures, which Moscow said would hurt global financial and energy markets, obviously.
Putin knows that since we are not exploring our own energy, there are no new substantial new leases happening, that we destroyed the Keystone XL pipeline, which is one of the most inexplicably foolish things that a president has ever done.
Putin holds the cards.
So if you actually think Putin is like the worst person ever, which I think he's a thug and he's awful, but not exactly even in the ballpark of the threat to American future as Xi Jinping, then why wouldn't you want to take his cards away?
And this really is an interesting contradiction of the American left, is what do they care about more?
Do they hate Putin more or do they love green energy more?
Can't have both.
If you want to go fully green, Putin becomes super rich and powerful, and you're going to live under whatever type of Europe he wants you to live in.
Or you have to deploy a bunch of troops and go to war, okay?
Or you can say, you know what, this green energy thing, it's a nice thought experiment.
Alexander de Casio-Cortez, really great.
Thank you for expanding our horizons.
Go become a novelist.
Thank you.
We're going to live in team reality.
You can't have both.
It's a binary choice.
You can either have Vladimir Putin continue to do this stuff in Eastern Europe, or you can have cheap and affordable energy.
It's that simple.
They're tied together.
And the Biden regime recently ignored a law requiring a report on how many jobs were lost in the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation.
Quote, the Biden administration continues to flout a law that requires it to produce a report on the number of jobs lost by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, in addition to describing how its action may have impacted energy markets.
So while you're telling everyone about how Ukraine is this wonderful democracy and it's not, it's a super corrupt country.
And yes, Russia is a super corrupt country.
Here's a good rule of thumb, everybody, okay?
When two corrupt countries want to go to war, probably a good opportunity for us to kind of watch.
Usually, that's not a, don't put that in like the Ten Commandments of foreign intervention.
But Ukraine is not exactly Spain.
Okay?
Ukraine is very corrupt.
Yes, Ukraine is a smaller and weaker country.
Okay.
But they have their own long track record of abuses, including paying the president's son $55,000, whatever it is, $80,000 a month, and having this entire kind of corrupt organization behind it.
The White House's messaging has been all over the map.
Instead of actually getting to the heart of the issue, Biden is talking about why we need more troops there.
So here's the thing.
You want green energy?
Then your sons and daughters have to go to Eastern Europe to go fight Vladimir Putin.
That is the great bargain from the current regime.
Solar panels everywhere, no more oil and natural gas, and troop deployments all across the planet.
You see, if you actually thought this was a concern and the price of oil was actually going down, Putin would say, wait a second, I'm not going to go invade Ukraine.
I can't balance my budget.
I can't even feed the people.
And Russia is kind of a largely socialistic state.
It just is.
But instead, they want us to go send troops to Eastern Europe.
Play cut 31.
The United States will continue to provide defensive assistance to Ukraine in the meantime and will continue to reinforce and reassure our NATO allies.
Today, in response to Russia's admission that it will not withdraw its forces from Belarus, I have authorized additional movements of U.S. forces and equipment already stationed in Europe to strengthen our Baltic allies, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Look, George Washington warned against having permanent alliances.
Now, the NATO defenders, and I think NATO's probably been an okay project the last 30 to 40 years.
It certainly has its flaws, and it's kind of a joke recently.
But there are no permanent friends or allies.
There are only permanent national interests.
And right now, it's in our long-term interest to cooperate with Russia as a bulwark against China.
Instead, the entire national security apparatus has it backwards.
Like, oh, we can fight both of them.
We can't even fight our own domestic wars, and you think we can saber rattle against Vladimir Putin.
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While we also are restricting our own energy supply.
Okay.
I want to get to some more sound here, which Jensaki says the following in Cut 32.
So there's a bit of a different tactic, a bit of a different approach, and that's probably why President Biden and not his predecessor was able to rally the world and the global community in taking steps against Russia's aggression.
So she says that Biden has done a great job of uniting our allies in some sort of international coalition against Russia.
It's just interesting how Putin feels so invigorated to do this under this regime and not the one prior.
I mean, Biden made this a big point of his campaign.
This was like a center point of his campaign.
Play cut 28.
With regard to being weaker, the fact is that I've gone head to head with Putin and made it clear to him we're not going to take any of his stuff.
He's Putin's puppy.
It's interesting, he didn't invade one sovereign country or one area under Trump.
Whether or not he invaded a sovereign country or not, it's up for debate because these are separatist regions.
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So, what if I told you that Xi Ji Ping and Vladimir Putin are actually cheering for the Great Reset?
Now, they're not cheering for the Great Reset in their country, but they would love nothing more than any of their rivals, their competitors, or their enemies to basically forsake their national sovereignty and become part of some sort of woke, weak globalist project.
And Putin and Xi Ji Ping can figure out what to do while they're the only two remaining nationalistic countries that have any sort of strength.
The Great Reset focused primarily on Western countries is all about private property confiscation and Western value deterioration and owning nothing.
We've gone through that list multiple times.
But one of the currency is a big part of it, obviously, but energy is the one that's the most obvious.
Remember the gas shortage in May of last year and gas prices have gone nothing but up since.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, remember she said, if you drive an electric car, fuel shortages, it won't affect you.
Play Cut 45.
Obviously, we have the acute issues with the coronal pipeline ransomware attack, but looking more holistically in a macro view, how does this speed up the efforts at DOE to move in more of a renewable direction since this is going to have an impact on people at the pump?
Yeah, I mean, we obviously are all in on making sure that we meet the president's goals of getting to 100% clean electricity by 2035 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
And, you know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.
And this is what she's just, it's just so hard to watch.
So where does electricity come from, then, Jennifer Granholm?
Oh, it just comes from the bolts.
Yeah, it's the holes in the wall.
Yeah, you know, energy shortage is not like, you know, we just rub our hands together and the lights go on.
Right.
Cut 46, Jennifer Granholm, who doesn't get nearly enough press, threw her head back and laughed when asked if there was a plan to bring back gas prices down.
Play Cut 46.
Durgis, Michigan, it is $2.89 a gallon.
I guess that's better than in California.
What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?
Oh my God.
That is hilarious.
I must have missed the joke.
Now, if you really want to get into the environmentalist part of this, and any environmentalist can come on the show at any time, and I'm just going to ask some very simple questions.
What are you going to do with the batteries?
All these electric car batteries, where are you going to put them?
Because they're really bad for the earth.
Like they're really bad.
So we're kind of new in this curve because electric vehicles haven't been around for that long.
And so five years from now, we're going to have millions of electric car batteries we're going to have to get rid of.
Where are you going to put them?
Have you ever, have you done any sort of kind of analysis of how corrosive battery acid is to the earth?
Or is that just kind of you're just factoring it in?
Oh, I know.
They'll dump them in Alabama because we hate those people.
Got it.
Sure.
Remember, Trump exposed NATO for paying billions of dollars to Russia for energy.
He was right about this.
He was totally spot on.
I know a lot of people listening didn't like Trump's tone or demeanor or whatever, but his focus on energy superiority and supremacy was just a basic instinct.
It's not ideological.
It's like, okay, wait, if you can't fuel your civilization, how are poor people going to become rich?
Cut 47.
Well, I have to say, I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
So we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries.
And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.
So we're supposed to protect you against Russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to Russia.
And I think that's very inappropriate.
I got to tell you, the setting, he was at a NATO lunch, and this is supposed to be usually they do a photo op and, oh, look at the beautiful building and all this.
And he just goes off for like 10 minutes on how NATO is allowing Putin to become rich and basically like, wait a second, if this whole thing's supposed to be against Russia, why are you guys like buying natural gas from them?
Of course, they were silent and leaked on him, and they didn't like those kind of questions.
It feels good to say you're for the environment.
It feels good to want to go put solar panels and wind farms everywhere.
But does it feel good when all of a sudden we're now going to be dependent on the Middle East or Putin or wherever for energy that we have right here?
The civilization that channels and uses energy the best and most efficiently wins.
And we're currently doing a pretty poor job of that.
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