Daniel Turner
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521 appearances
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2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 5 Sep
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They break down. They're hard to maintain. They're meeting communist China with slave labor. Outside of that, they're great, right? Outside of that, they're a wonderful thing. So, yeah, I think, and especially with this administration, look, this is an industry that would like to work on volume and be left alone.
In the first Trump administration, when they were allowed to operate, what did the oil and gas industry, especially here in America, what did it do? It produced more for less for a greater number of people at a lower price point. It lowered emissions. And I think the emissions games are all lies, but I'll just play their game because that's the metric we have to go by. But it lowered emissions.
It was only until Joe Biden came into power that we started hearing these accusations of price gouging and profiteering in greed. How come the big oil guy in his first term, you never heard of accusations of that? And that's because the industry wants to operate on volume. And if they're able to have permitting and access, if they're able to drill,
they're going to do more of it and you're going to have more oil and gas at lower price points. And then all of your goods and services are going to become less expensive as well. It's a proven formula. So I think the industry itself will get on board, even if they've got a couple of crazy board members who they put on to appease Greta Thunberg, right? Who are going to say, what about the climate?
I wish it would be bolder and kick them out. Is it really important to appease Greta? I don't know. Yes, because she'll bring her crazy minions and they'll throw bricks at your office all the time. Wait a minute.
The best thing about the current state of disaster of the left in general is that climate change is no longer the cool thing. And granted, it's winter, right? No one lays down in traffic in the cold. So, well, they'll come back when it gets hot. But right now, all the momentum, all the enthusiasm is either protecting government bureaucrats or hating on Israel. And that's where all the crazies are.
So maybe if they're all doing their other nonsense, the oil and gas industry and the coal industry can start thriving again.
Yeah, I don't believe in that. I don't believe in all of the above. I think phrases like clean and green are made up. And the people who want to push their product invented the phraseology and asked us to start speaking their language. I don't support all of the above because all of the above doesn't work.
And this is where I have a lot of argument with elected leaders and they'll say, well, if you look right now, 30% of our electricity comes from renewables. Well, right now, because the wind is blowing, but what happens tomorrow? Is the wind going to blow? You can't predict that. Is the sun going to shine? You can't predict that. And because we can't predict it,
and you cannot prepare for it as a commodity, the prices are unstable. And we have felt that nationwide. Electricity prices, utility prices are up 30%. In Europe, they're up 1,000% over the last couple of years. Now, they have capped them for consumers, but the government is just paying the difference. They're paying $1,000, 1,000 euro per megawatt hour in Europe. Now, they capped it at 300%.
But it's absurd. Why? Because they're all in on renewable. And there's never, no matter how many wind turbines you build, if the wind doesn't blow, they are useless. And so why would I ever support an energy policy that says, let's get more of the variable in our life? Part of being a good business or anything is getting rid of variables.
And wind and solar are crappy, awful, made with slave labor, foreign, unreliable, intermittent. I would rip them out of every, all across the country and get rid of them.
It's huge. And it really is a game changer. And these are the raw materials that we need for the technologies that we're using. And unless we're willing to alter our lifestyle and give up our smartphones and our smart TVs, we're going to need more lithium. And wouldn't you rather get it from America that will have a nod to the environment?
I mean, I'm talking to you from my sheep farm in rural Virginia. I am an environmentalist. I live in nature. I'm a farmer. where we protect the earth and the land and the water better in America. We want the American jobs and not four-year-old children in the Congo mining our lithium.
But what's going to happen is that, and this is the way the left operates, the environmental left, as soon as they start getting the permits, They are going to find a short-haired grouse that is on the endangered list. They're going to find a native tribe that they will find a reason to try to shut this down. And this is all paid for activism for nefarious purposes. And they have to be defeated.
And that's what we try to do at Power of the Future. Yeah, I understand that.
I started the organization a couple of years ago because I live near Appalachia and it's a lot of old, retired, destroyed coal mines. And it started because of Barack Obama's war on coal. And if you recall, we're going back some time, but when he ran for president in 08, he said, I'm not going to make coal illegal, but I'll tell you this, if you own a coal mine, you're going to go bankrupt.
And everyone applauded and everyone gave him awards and said, how great. But if you're one of those 4,000 coal jobs in a rural town all across America, your livelihood was destroyed and no one fought for you. In fact, they made fun of you and they told you to learn to code, right? Start the gig economy. Their own representatives turned on them, right? Look at Pennsylvania.
Thank God Dave McCormick won. Their own senators turned their back on coal miners in Pennsylvania because they're not cool and sophisticated and yet we need coal. We use more coal than ever because you can't make cement and steel and all these products around us are all made or forged from products that come from coal.
So, all we did was just destroy Americans and it bothered me so much and I had to get off the sidelines and I would have these conversations with people in the political space and I appreciate you saying I don't mince words. I wanted to speak this forcefully. Everyone said, you can't say that. Whoa, you can't call these guys communists. They just care about the earth. And I'd say, no, they're not.
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