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Part of it's, um, just a bad stretch of cold weather, but it's fascinating to me how we spent.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
a couple hundred billion dollars a year over the past couple of years from this inflation reduction act, like where the states are cramming solar installations and wind turbines down people's throats, you know, giving you every incentive in the world to fortify that.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
But, you know, like I said, a third of the entire region in the Northeast is, their heat comes from the oil tanks.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
So, you know, all that stuff's old.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
So why is the government, like,
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
pushing these things down our throats that aren't efficient ways to generate energy.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
They're letting these aging things, these aging tanks, be the main source that people have.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
And a lot of people can't afford to fill their tank up twice a month.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
So it's funny where the priorities go.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
It's funny that we spent all this good money after bad investments, but we're letting the vast majority of people literally can't heat their house right now.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
They're relying on fireplaces or wood pellet stoves.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
Yeah, I mean, I think you know where I'm going to go.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
I'm going to go to the unions.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
I mean, I think that whether it's unions or whether it's minimum wage requirements, I think that's the main cause of less jobs being available to people.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
Like, is it really a $170,000 job, the value that they're providing?
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
Probably not, but the unions had to force their way, and they demanded that, and I even saw crazier numbers than that.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
So I think it's partially that, it's partially AI, but...
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
Looking at this in a way of panic, I think it's a glass-half-empty mindset.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
I think there's so many opportunities with AI, and especially with just the data centers being built alone.
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Trump's LA Rebuild TAKEOVER, Google's $68M Spying Case, UPS Layoffs + Energy Costs EXPLODE | PBD 727
A lot of people who have gotten wealthy, I've noticed, they just go in the direction the government's going in terms of where the money's flowing.