Congressman Adam Smith

They need to chill on that.

We need to chill on trying to block everything that China's doing.

So like I said, some form of detente would be enormous.

Yeah, I'm not an expert in that area.

And first of all, your point about EVs is awesome.

I will absolutely steal that going forward.

But that's part of the reason it is bad.

And if we expanded that, it would be even less bad.

Look, I think the biggest problem with utilities right now is they disincentivize reducing consumption and using alternatives.

Because look, I mean, the utilities, they're selling a product.

And how many companies out there are excited about, okay, here's what we're going to do.

We're going to create a situation where we want you to sell less of your product.

um there's a natural antipathy to that so i think we need to more intelligently regulate our utilities based on the premise that we want to generate more power and more efficiency that one of my great frustrations in energy and i i certainly have a frustration now that we're backing off on making investments in renewable sources and new sources of energy when it's so desperately needed but the other one is we still haven't invest invested in efficiencies in this country

And there's so many simple things.

We could – same generation of power, but if you have better light bulbs.

I always remember it was like 25 years ago.

I was in Japan and I got into the airport late and I'm walking up there and I notice I see the escalator and I'm like, yeah, shit, the escalator isn't working.

I walk up to it and it starts when I get close to it because there's no point in having a freaking escalator running all day long if nobody's on it.

Yeah, and we've just never embraced that because I think part of being an American is it is your God-given right to waste whatever you want to waste.

That's why we came to America, by God.