Robin Brooks
speaker
308 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 20 Aug
Robin Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right now, that cap on capacity basically acts like a wall between the international marketplace and the U.S.
marketplace.
Helium has a number of unique physical properties that make it indispensable for semiconductor chip manufacturing, which is the largest application for helium.
Those first few months before the supply chain gets reconfigured are going to be challenging, and everybody is going to be subject to either price surcharges or price increases.
Think about the amount of labor hours it takes to go and change the labels with stickers.
It could, you know, light up in a different color or flash or something, and it would notify employees that they need to be restocking this particular item or that particular item.
And as a result, those costs are going to go up.
It's like in West Virginia.
You know, can we just get back to coal?
You know, it's like in Detroit, can we just make cars in America again?
That sensibility is very strong.
Everything's going to change.
I mean, Shell officials stood up and said, when we turn the lights on at that facility, you'll never recognize your community again.
If the argument was that this was going to be a rising tide that lifted all boats, a lot of boats are doing worse off than they were in 2012.
A lot of the economics research indicates that small businesses are actually and local businesses are actually the number one job creator in the country anywhere you go.
Not a single person has gotten wealthy as a result of that.
But we've managed to create a local business and employ folks.
It's not a $14 or $15 billion investment.
When you start to stack these things up piece by piece by piece by piece by piece, his operation, modest as it is, generates north of a million dollars a year in economic output for Beaver County.
Great to be back, Kai.
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