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Nov. 12, 2024 - The David Knight Show
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GOP Green Grift of Carbon Capture: Zeldin, Burgum, Noem, Trump
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I continually see everywhere, even people who do good research, and we'll talk about that coming up, are saying, well, you know, Trump did get us out of the Paris Climate Accord in the first term.
No, he didn't!
He never got us out of the Paris Climate Accord.
He said in 2017, after much internal debate within his administration, you had Rex Tillerson and you had Ivanka Trump arguing that we had to stay in it.
You had some of the more subtle people say, well, you know, we're never really officially in it, so you don't have to get out.
And then we had other people like Scott Pruitt and some of the good people that he began his administration with.
He had some good people at the EPA. And I said, no, you have to say that we're out of it.
But the reality is, and Steve Malloy talked about this as well, I had him on, I talked about it at the beginning when all this stuff was happening.
Look at the dictionary.
The definition of in and out, right?
Don't you have to be in something before you can get out of something?
Yeah.
We were never in it.
We never had that treaty confirmed by the Senate.
Never.
There was never a vote.
And we talked about that.
We talked about how phony it was, how you had John Kerry, who was Secretary of the State at the time, said, he says, Obama and I have self-ratified this.
You can't self-ratify a treaty.
That's nowhere in the Constitution.
People should have called BS with that.
And the people who should have called BS on it were the Republican Senators.
Where was Mitch McConnell?
Where was Mike Lee?
Where was Rand Paul?
These guys that talk about the Constitution all the time.
They never said a thing about it.
They just let it go.
Trump said, I'm going to get out of it in 2017.
But according to the treaty, they put a clause in there, and I believe it's just for the United States, saying that if you decide that you're going to exit this treaty, you've got to give us four years advance notice, which means that it isn't going to happen in any single presidential administration.
So it didn't happen.
In Trump's administration, and it won't happen this time if they pretend that we are in that treaty.
And so Steve Malloy was saying, all we have to do is have one senator stand up and say, I want to vote on this treaty, and it won't pass.
But of course, nobody would ever do that.
And they wouldn't even do it then.
And we were talking about that and said, okay, everybody is rejoicing.
Because in 2017, he said, hey, I'm going to get out of it, but it'll be right after the election of 2020.
And so right after the election of 2020, they got out of it.
And then within, what, 60 days?
Biden puts us back in.
That's what he did on his first day.
He puts us back in.
If we're going to pretend that presidents can put us into treaties, or if we're going to pretend that presidents can take us out of treaties like that, we're just going to keep in and out, in and out, in and out.
Three articles talking about Trump and climate today.
Every one of them said that Trump got us out of the climate accord.
No, he didn't.
I've said it over and over again.
I even played, you know, when this was all happening in 2017, the big debate.
And then when he said, all right, we'll get out of it in 2020, I played the clip from Casablanca, you know, the White House.
Humphrey Bogart saying, we'll always have Paris, sweetie.
You know, right?
So, yeah, sweetheart, we've always got Paris.
We'll always have it.
We'll never get out of it.
They kept us in it.
And yet you've got people who are looking at this even with a critical eye.
And otherwise good researchers who just go for it.
Yeah, Trump got us out.
So, we look at Zeldin, who is coming in.
Lee Zeldin, who has been put in as EPA head.
And I was like, who is this guy?
And as I started to look him up, I saw some very, very troubling stuff.
This guy, back in 2019, was part of a congressional group to push subsidies for carbon capture.
Yes, that's right.
Even before Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, that was showering green subsidies on everybody.
For all of the imagined stuff, whether it's the charging stations, $8 billion charging stations, and they made seven of them in several years, or the windmills or whatever, but the carbon capture is one of the worst ones, and we talked about this in the run-up to it.
We had Doug Burgum, who was being entertained at Mar-a-Lago.
Doug Burgum, who is governor of North Dakota, And the South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem, also a Republican.
They both went to Mar-a-Lago.
And then there was the CEO of a company that's running a major pipeline.
I can't remember the name of it.
But we talked about it at the time.
And said, look at these three, what they're doing.
He's running this big pipeline.
Supposedly, people are going to capture carbon at power plants or wherever, manufacturing processes.
They're going to capture the CO2. Which we need.
CO2 is good.
We want more of it.
But they're going to grab it, and they're going to put it in a pipeline, and they're going to send it across the North American continent to South Dakota and North Dakota.
At great expense, by the way.
And at great ecological damage.
And at great destruction to private property.
They're going to pump this CO2 across the country And then pump it into the ground in North Dakota and South Dakota.
And so you've got the guy who's running the pipeline, the company, is there at Mar-a-Lago, along with Doug Burgum and Kristi Noem, two Republicans who are part of this scam.
And they were there at Mar-a-Lago.
So we said, well, we know what's going to happen with it.
Now, another piece of the puzzle has come in.
We have Lee Zeldin, who had introduced carbon capture legislation as a congressman.
He was a co-sponsor of the legislation to shower cash on people for this carbon capture insanity.
And if this isn't idiocracy, folks, This is the most insane thing I have seen yet.
The idea that we are going to, at great expense and great inefficiency to the coal and the gas plants that are operating, we're going to capture that carbon, pump it across the continent, and pump it into the ground.
What an absurd, idiotic idea.
People will buy anything, evidently, And you've got people like Lee Zeldin, again, the co-sponsor, a Republican, who co-sponsored this carbon capture stuff.
The carbon capture stuff, Republican governor, Republican governor, Republican congressman, and now Lee Zeldin is the Republican EPA head.
And guess what's going to happen?
Pretty darn predictable, isn't it?
That's his only experience that I could see that he has with anything environmental.
Now, Trump's first EPA director in 2017 was Scott Pruitt.
As Attorney General in Oklahoma, he had fought in opposition to the EPA. Lee Zeldin is not that way.
Lee Zeldin has pushed this grift, this greenwashing grift of absurdity, this carbon capture scheme.
He's a lawyer.
Do you think he could figure out that we never were in the Paris Treaty?
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