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The transcript argues that a global pattern of environmental reviews, litigation, financing obstacles, and climate-driven policy shifts has throttled oil, gas, LNG, and petrochemical infrastructure projects, with broad economic and energy-reliant consequences. Key examples from the United States and Canada show repeated project cancellations or delays despite engineering promise and demand: - The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (600 miles from West Virginia to North Carolina) saw costs double from $4.5 billion to $8 billion during years of environmental litigation, leading Duke Energy and Dominion Energy to cancel in July 2020. - The Constitution pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York died the same year. - The PennEast pipeline won a Supreme Court case in 2021 but could not be built as New Jersey refused to issue state permits. - In Canada, TransCanada abandoned the $15.7 billion Energy East pipeline in 2017 after the National Energy Board required an unprecedented upstream/downstream emissions review. LNG export capacity expansion faced regulatory and financing obstacles at a critical time: - In January 2024, the Biden administration paused all pending approvals for LNG export terminals to non-FTA countries, freezing projects with tens of billions of cubic feet per day of capacity. - Venture Global’s CP2 terminal in Louisiana (20 million tons per annum) remained in regulatory limbo for over a year. - Rio Grande LNG in Texas, with massive plant capacity, stalled. - PTT Global Chemical’s proposed 10 billion ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio, announced in 2015, remained indefinitely on hold after failing to attract financing partners and climate-driven investor sentiment. - Across the U.S. Gulf Coast, 60% of planned plastic and petrochemical production projects sit on hold. Canada’s LNG sector faced parallel delays and overruns: - LNG Canada (Shell-led, Kitimat) took more than six years from construction start to first cargo, with a pipeline running 263% over budget. - Pleuradette Energy’s Goldboro LNG project in Nova Scotia, proposed since 2012, was abandoned in November 2023 after more than a decade of permitting and financing obstacles. Australia’s experience included: - Santos Barroso gas project halted midway after an environmental approval was overturned. - Woodside’s Scarborough project facing ongoing litigation from the Australian Conservation Foundation to block it on climate grounds. - France blocked a third gas interconnector with Spain citing climate neutrality goals. - The United Kingdom imposed a fracking moratorium in 2019 despite resource potential. - Germany shuttered its last three nuclear plants in 2023, increasing reliance on gas, while not developing domestic shale resources. - At the 2021 peak oil crisis, 70% of EU ammonia plants sat idle; CF Industries shut Britain’s largest ammonia plant at Bellingham; Yara International reduced operations across France, Italy, and Belgium and closed its Turk Belgium facility in October 2024 due to climate-driven gas costs. The overall narrative attributes slowed infrastructure and capacity growth to climate policy, environmental reviews, financing challenges, and anti-fossil-fuel sentiment affecting major energy projects worldwide.

New Englanders need more access to natural gas, and the Constitution pipeline project aimed to deliver it from Pennsylvania. New York stopped the pipeline despite its potential to create jobs, lower energy costs, and provide economic benefits. The pipeline's progress was halted by then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who used state-level powers to block it. The speaker suggests that one state shouldn't have the power to affect an issue impacting all of New England, comparing the situation to a highway being blocked. The speaker claims the current president has signed executive orders declaring a national energy emergency.

I stand by my observations regarding Joe Biden. I feel a sense of concern for him, as he seems out of touch and not in control. After becoming Speaker, I sought a meeting with him due to pressing national security issues, but his staff repeatedly denied my requests. Eventually, I went public, which led to an invitation to the White House. However, it turned out to be a setup with multiple officials present. During our conversation, I asked Biden why he paused LNG exports to Europe, which was detrimental to our allies and national security. To my shock, he genuinely did not realize he had signed the executive order to pause those exports. This left me deeply worried about who is truly running the country.

As the Biden administration ends, a new rule requires renewed surveys for well and pipeline drilling, raising drilling costs. These increased costs inevitably get passed on to consumers, hindering our efforts to lower prices. This regulation exemplifies a key reason for the inflation we're currently facing in America. My resolution aims to rescind this rule. While I won't comment on the originator's intelligence, I will say that we must eliminate this detrimental policy.

I'm Mike Pence. Gas prices have gone up since Joe Biden became president due to his energy policies. We have a plan to bring back $2 gas and lower electricity prices. Check out the Pence Energy Plan at mikepence2024.com to help us achieve energy independence and become the top energy producer by 2040. Let's lead America to a prosperous future with energy independence and leadership.

Joe Biden's energy policies are causing high inflation and hitting American families hard. He reversed actions that achieved energy independence and canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline. By reentering the Paris climate accord and blocking new oil, gas, and coal production, he is raising energy costs and hurting industries like food, shipping, and manufacturing. China benefits from these high energy prices, driving our heavy industry overseas. To become an advanced manufacturing nation, we need low-cost energy. Biden's energy agenda aligns with China's, as they sign global climate deals and break them. When I'm back in the White House, I'll bring back a pro-American energy policy, eliminating unnecessary regulations and approving energy projects quickly. This will create jobs, restore hope, and make America great again.

A year ago, it took an hour of work for a middle wage worker to get 5.5 gallons of gas, but now they can get 8 gallons. This is a 40% improvement. However, the current gas price is around $3.60 per gallon, compared to $2.39 when Biden took office. So, in less than 2 years, we are in a worse place. The speaker admits that things are worse than before, indicating a pretty bad situation.

The speaker denies coordinating with President Trump or his campaign while authoring the EPA chapter on Project 2025, stating it's misleading to suggest otherwise. They assert the Heritage Foundation's work on conservative policies predates Trump, with the "Mandate for Leadership" series existing since 1981. The speaker claims Vice President Kamala Harris avoided answering if Americans are better off economically than four years ago, arguing most Americans are struggling due to the Biden-Harris administration's energy policies. They cite rising costs of gas, electricity, and groceries as evidence of financial hardship caused by policies like restricting resource development and demonizing coal, oil, and natural gas. The speaker references an Institute of Energy Research report that claims over 250 actions by the Biden-Harris administration have hindered American energy production, including halting the Keystone XL Pipeline, limiting oil and gas permits, and impeding critical mineral access, increasing dependence on China. They state these actions have increased gas and electricity prices.

The Interior Secretary is being criticized for celebrating high gas prices and inflation as a positive outcome for the environment. Gavin Newsom claims that we are more energy independent under Biden, but the oil and gas industry disagrees. While there has been an increase in domestic oil production, it is due to policies from the previous administration and not sustainable growth. The Biden administration has restricted the development of fossil fuels and limited funding for future projects, leading to higher energy prices. This is something that Gavin Newsom failed to acknowledge.

I questioned the President about pausing LNG exports to Europe, emphasizing the demand from our allies and how it impacts the war in Ukraine by making them rely on Putin's gas. He was stunned and claimed he didn't do it. I pointed out the recent executive order and offered to have his secretary print it out for us to review together. He then said he only signed something to conduct a study on the effects of LNG. But I told him, no, he paused it, and it's causing massive damage to our economy and national security. It struck me that he genuinely didn't know what he had signed. It made me wonder, who is really running the country if he's signing things without knowing what they are?

I stand by my observations regarding Joe Biden. I feel a bit sorry for him, as he seems out of touch and not in charge. After becoming Speaker, I sought a meeting with him due to pressing national security concerns, but his staff kept making excuses for weeks. Eventually, I went public, and they finally agreed to meet. However, it turned out to be an ambush with many officials present, focusing on Ukraine funding. During our brief private conversation, I asked why he paused LNG exports to Europe, which was hurting our allies and fueling Putin's war. To my shock, he genuinely didn't realize he had signed the executive order to pause those exports. This left me worried about who is truly running the country.

Germany needs Russian gas, but the Nord Stream pipeline was blown up. The US is suspected. Instead of exporting gas to Europe, keep it in the US for manufacturing and industrial growth. Exporting gas raises costs and harms local communities. The US should prioritize domestic industry to create jobs and rebuild the economy.

I stand by my observations regarding Joe Biden. I feel a bit sorry for him; he seems out of touch and hasn't been in charge for some time. A year ago, I sought a meeting with him due to national security concerns, but his staff kept delaying. After weeks of pressure, I finally met him at the White House, only to find it was an ambush with others present. During our brief time alone, I asked him about pausing LNG exports to Europe, which I believed was harming our economy and aiding Putin. To my shock, he genuinely did not realize he had signed the executive order to pause those exports. This left me worried about who is truly running the country.

I asked the president why he paused LNG exports to Europe, which are crucial for our allies and impact national security. He seemed unaware of his own executive order and insisted he only authorized a study on LNG. This raised concerns about who is truly in charge. The situation reflects a deeper issue, suggesting Biden is not fully in control and is being manipulated by others. There are calls for criminal investigations into the actions taken during his administration, particularly regarding energy policies that harm the economy. The need to expose these issues is urgent, as they threaten national interests and reflect a broader pattern of disregard for accountability.

I will bring prices down starting on day one. But that isn't true. Since day one of my presidency, prices have not gone down. They're up, and inflation is getting worse, including the price of gas. Their plan is awful. The Republican plan is to win, families and families win, and billions win. That is the truth.

Gas is incredibly volatile, and we don't even produce it locally. The Jones Act and other regulations make it difficult to obtain gas here. It's worth remembering that I blocked two gas pipelines from entering the state.

I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one. That is simply not true. Since day one of my predecessor's presidency, prices have not gone down; they have gone up. Inflation is getting worse. The prices of gas are high. Their plan is awful. The Republican plan is simple: Billionaires win, and families lose. That is the truth.

Mario and the Professor discuss the scale and spread of the current oil and energy shock and its broad economic and geopolitical ripple effects. - Severity and scope: The Professor calls the crisis “pretty catastrophic,” possibly the biggest oil crisis experienced, potentially surpassing the 1970s shocks. He notes a gap between Washington rhetoric and underlying economic reality and emphasizes the war’s effects beyond oil, including fertilizer and helium, all of which pass through the Strait of Hormuz or related chokepoints. - U.S. economic backdrop (before the war): The Professor provides a pre-war table: - U.S. GDP growth in 2024 was 2.3%, 2025 about the same after a dip in 2024 to 2.2%. - Jobs: 2024 added 2.2 million; 2025 added 185,000, with tariffs contributing to a manufacturing job loss of 108,000. - Productivity declined from 3% to 2.1% in 2025. - He argues the U.S. economy was already slowing and that the war exacerbates existing weaknesses rather than creating a boom. - Immediate physical and downstream effects: - The closure of the Strait of Hormuz affects more than oil: up to 20% of world oil, a third of fertilizer, and helium used in chip manufacturing (notably in Taiwan) pass through the strait. - The closure’s ripple effects include fertilizer shortages and higher prices (fertilizer up about 50%), and broader supply chain dislocations as related infrastructure and inventories (oil, fertilizers, helium) become depleted and must be rebuilt. - Relative impact by region: The U.S. is more insulated from physical shocks than many others, but financial markets (stocks and bonds) are hit, with higher interest rates and a rising 10- and 30-year bond yield. Europe and Asia face larger direct physical disruptions; India, Taiwan, and others bear notable hits due to fertilizer and helium supply constraints. - Global energy and political dynamics: - The U.S. remains a net importer of oil, though it is a net exporter of petroleum products; fertilizer reliance and pricing reflect broader global constraints. - The professor highlights the political costs: protectionism (tariffs), militarism (increased defense spending and involvement), and interventionism (policy actions). He notes polling is negative on these directions, suggesting policy headwinds for the administration. - The escalation and motivations for war: - A theory discussed is that the war was driven by a belief in decapitating Iran’s leadership to force regime change, a strategy the professor says many experts have warned against. He cites New York Times reporting that Mossad and Netanyahu supported decapitation, but that former Mossad leadership and U.S. intelligence warned it would not work; the escalation suggests a divergence between theory and outcome. - He acknowledges another view that controlling Hormuz could economically benefit the U.S., but ranks it as a lesser driver than regime-change objectives. - Possible outcomes and scenarios: - If the Houthis control the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and the Beber/Mendeb is blocked, the consequences would intensify; the professor describes a “freeway turned into a toll road” scenario in Hormuz and greater disruption in the Gulf, including potential attacks on desalination plants. - The economic signaling would likely worsen: downward revisions to growth, higher import prices, and increased financial market strain; a prolonged closure would intensify these effects. - The escalation ladder and endgame: - The professor warns that escalating with boots on the ground would favor Iran and could trigger widespread disruption of Gulf infrastructure, desalination, and regional stability. He suggests Russia would be a clear beneficiary in such a scenario. - He concludes with a stark warning: if Hormuz and the Beber/Mendeb remain closed, and desalination and critical infrastructure are attacked, the situation could resemble or exceed the scale of the 2008 financial crisis—“look like a birthday party” compared with what could unfold. - Overall takeaway: The crisis is multi-faceted, with immediate physical shortages (oil, fertilizer, helium) and cascading financial and political costs. The duration and depth depend on how long chokepoints stay closed and whether escalation occurs, with the potential for severe global economic and geopolitical consequences.

Ranking member Raskin is creating a "boogeyman" that isn't there. The speaker authored the EPA chapter on project 2020 5, but did not work with President Trump or his campaign. The speaker is not vying for a position in the next administration and now lives in Mississippi. The leading candidate is running away from policy actions that make Americans' lives difficult. Vice President Kamala Harris did not answer when asked if Americans are better off than they were 4 years ago. Most Americans are struggling with expensive gas, electricity, and groceries due to the Biden-Harris Administration's day 1 energy policies. Since January 2021, President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Congressional Democrats have taken over 250 actions that make it harder to produce energy in America. Actions include stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline, issuing a moratorium on new oil and gas permits on federal lands, greenlighting Putin's Nord Stream 2 pipeline, rejoining the Paris climate agreement, blocking the Twin Metals mine, and slowing permits for LNG facilities.

I stand by my observations about Joe Biden. He seems to be out of touch and not in control. When I became Speaker, I sought a meeting with him due to pressing national security concerns, but his staff repeatedly denied my requests. After weeks of pressure, I finally met him at the White House, only to find it was a setup with other officials present. During our brief moment alone, I asked him about a pause on LNG exports to Europe, which I believed was harming our allies and fueling Putin's war. To my shock, he genuinely didn’t know about the executive order he had signed. This left me worried about who is truly running the country.

Speaker 0: Nearly two weeks into this conflict, the official story is cracking, and the number of Americans wounded is slowly coming out. Yesterday, we reported based on our sources that the number of American wounded was at least one hundred and thirty seven. After our report ran, the Pentagon has now publicly acknowledged about one hundred and forty wounded. That confirms our sources on this. So why did it take a little news show like ours to report this information? Why wasn't Fox News reporting this information? The Pentagon I know it's really weird. Why is the mainstream media silent on this? The Pentagon finally comes out and actually admits to this. Speaker 1: Reuters comes out and reports this. Exclusive. As many as one hundred and fifty US troops wounded so far in Iran war. They just published this today, this morning. March 10. That's remarkable. Exclusive. Just curious how that's an exclusive when we reported it yesterday. Yesterday. Whatever. Hey, Reuters. Bite me. Anyway, this war is clearly not winding down no matter what the messaging says. President Trump is saying the war could end very soon. But Iran says talks with The United States are off the table for now. Tehran is prepared to keep striking as long as it takes. And they're vowing an eye for an eye. So what is an eye for an eye actually mean? Does it mean you hey, you killed our leader. We kill yours? Does it mean, hey, you killed all these girls who were the daughters of members of the the Iranian Navy at a girls school, do we also do that to you? Like, what is actually does that look like? Speaker 0: Does it mean we took out your water infrastructures or you took out ours? So we do that. Right. Your gas infrastructure, civilian infrastructure, that's that's a war crime. But we did it. Your oil infrastructure, we do that. Like, what exactly does that look like? Meanwhile, the Strait Of Hormuz is getting worse by the minute. US intelligence tracking Iranian mine laying threats now as Gulf energy infrastructure there is taking a major hit with about 1,900,000 barrels per day of refining capacity across Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and The UAE. All down. CBS now says shipping through the Strait Of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt. Nothing getting through. That's of just a few minutes ago. And Israel's hammering Beirut's southern suburbs and Lebanon. So they've essentially invaded Lebanon. Speaker 2: And then there's the neocon political class in Washington saying the quiet part out loud. Senator Lindsey Graham is now openly talking about, you know, going back to South Carolina to tell the sons and daughters in South Carolina, you know, you gotta send your loved ones to the Middle East. That's what I'm doing here in South Carolina. I gotta tell them to go fight in the Middle East, and he's calling on other Middle East countries that have been sitting on the fence that we've supported over the years as allies. Get off the fence. Go bomb Iran. Help out with Iran. And, oh, by the way, Spain, we're pissed off at you because you don't want us using your air bases or airspace to bomb Iran. Listen. Speaker 0: To our allies step up, get our air bases out of Spain. They're not reliable. Move all those airplanes to a country that would let us use them when we're threatened by a regime like Iran. To our friends in Spain, man, you have lost your way. I don't wanna do business with you anymore. I want our air bases our air bases out of Spain into a country that will let us use them. To our Arab friends, I've tried to help you construct a new Mideast. You need to up your game here. I can't go to South Carolina and say we're fighting and you won't publicly fight. What you're doing behind the scenes, that has to stop. The double dealing of the Arab world when it comes to this stuff needs to end. I go back to South Carolina. I'm asking them to send their sons and daughters over to the Mideast. What I want you to do in The Mideast to our friends in Saudi Arabia and other places, step forward and say this is my fight too. I join America. I'm publicly involved in bringing this regime down. If you don't, you're making a great mistake, and you're gonna cut off the ability to have a better relationship with The United States. I say this as a friend. Speaker 1: Ugh. He's an odious friend. Speaker 0: Say this as a friend. Speaker 3: With friends pick up a gun and go fight yourself, you coward. Yeah. I freaking hate that. But you're calling so, like, bluntly for somebody else to go die for his stupid cause. Speaker 0: Yeah. Speaker 1: I am so curious about this. I mean, he's a liar. But how many people in South Carolina are really walking up to him and saying, who are we gonna get to fight with us? Who are we gonna get to fight Iran? Worried about this. My son can go, but who's going with him? Let's make some war playdates. Who does that? Speaker 0: Larry Johnson is a former CIA analyst, NRA gun trainer, and, he's been looking at all of this and doing some incredible writing over at his website, Sonar twenty one. Larry, thank you for joining us. Great to see you back on the show. Speaker 4: Hi, guys. Good to see you. Speaker 0: So I wanna talk about the American war wounded first because Mhmm. I know that this is, near and dear to your heart and, of course, something that you've been watching, closely. And the lies, of course, that are coming out about this. Again, I spoke to sources over the past forty eight hours that were telling us here at Redacted about 137 Americans wounded. Then the Pentagon comes out and then confirms about a hundred and forty. So right pretty much right on the nose. And does that number sound low to you? Or does that sound about right? Speaker 4: That sounds a little low. So on March 4, let's go to Germany. Stuttgart, just North West of Germany, there is a hospital called Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. Landstuhl's primary mission is to handle American war wounded. On March 4, they issued a memo telling all the pregnant women that were about to give birth that, sorry, don't come here. We're not birthing any more babies. We gotta focus on our main mission. So that was the first clue that there was there were a lot of casualties inbound. I know, without mentioning his name, somebody who was involved dealing with the combat casualties during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he dealt with the personnel at Lunstul. And he called someone up and said, can't say anything, but there's a lot of casualties. Then 13 miles to the east of Landstuhl is an army base called Kaiserslautern. Kaiserslautern and the Stars and Stripes issued for that base had an appeal, a blood drive appeal. Hey. We need lots of people to show up and donate blood. So those that was on March 5. So I wrote about this March 6. So I wrote about this four days ago, that, yeah, we had a lot more casualties, and there are more coming, because Iran's not gonna stop. You know, right now, we're getting signals that the Trump administration is reaching out, trying, oh, hey, let's talk, let's talk cease fire. Iran's having none of it. They've been betrayed twice by Donald Trump and his group of clowns. Speaker 0: Right. Speaker 4: You know? And and so they're not ready to say no. No. They've got the world, by the testicles is the polite way of saying it, withholding the Strait Of Hormuz. They've shut down the movement of not only oil, liquid natural gas. They're the supplier of about 25%, 25 to 30% of the world's liquid natural gas, and, about 30%, 30 to 35% of the world's urea, which is used for fertilizer. Now, that may not I just learned that that may not be as important as I once thought it was because most of it comes out of Oman. Oman, you don't have to worry about things going through the Strait Of Hormuz. But on oil and liquid natural gas, huge. 94% of The Philippines depended upon the flow of gas, both liquid and the petroleum oil, out of the Persian Gulf. India, 80%. Japan, South Korea. So this is gonna have a major impact on certain economies in the world. Now there there I I I've said this ironically. I I think Vladimir Putin's sitting there going, maybe Donald Trump really does like me, because what he's done is he's making Russia rich again in a way I mean, they're getting, you know, they were selling they were forced to sell their oil previously under sanctions at, like, $55 a barrel. Now they're getting $88.90 dollars a barrel. Well, and they just opened it up to India. I mean, that story over the past forty eight hours, like, so they The United States has eased its restriction on Russian oil flowing to India. I mean, talk about an absolute disaster. Speaker 4: Well, yeah. And remember what had happened there is India was playing a double game too. You know, bricks India is the I in bricks, and Iran is the new I in bricks. And so what was India doing? Well, India was pretending to play along with The United States, but then going to Russia and saying, hey, Russia. Yeah. We'll buy we'll buy your oil, but we needed a discount because we're going against the sanctions, and we need to cover ourselves. So Russia said, okay. As a BRICS partner, we'll let you have for $55 barrel. So they got a discount. So now when all of a sudden the the the oil tap is turned off, including the liquid natural gas, India goes running back to Russia. Now remember, on, February 25-26, India was in Israel buttering up the rear end of BB, Net, and Yahoo, kissing rear end all they could. Oh, man. It was a love fest. We're partners with Israel. And then Israel attacks their BRICS partner. And what does India say? Nothing. Zero. They don't say a thing about the murdered girls. So now all of a sudden, the oil's turned off. It's nine days now with no oil coming out of there for India. They go running back to Russia. Hey, buddy. Let's let's get back together. And Russia says, sure. That's great. But it's gonna cost you $89 now a barrel. No more friends and family program. Gonna get market conditions. Speaker 0: We've had many journalist friends that have had their bank accounts shut down. We were literally in the middle of an interview with a great journalist from the gray zone who found out that his banking was just shut down. Literally, in the middle of an interview, he got a message that his banking was shut down. 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So support our show today and other creators by clicking the tip button on our Rumble channel. Speaker 1: Now I wanna ask you about president Trump responding to CBS News reports that there may be mines in the Strait Of Hormuz. That doesn't make a ton of sense. He says we have no indication that they did, but they better not. But they are picking and choosing who gets to go through, and their allies can go through. So why would they mine their allies? What do we make of this? Do we need to respond to this at all? Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't think they've done it yet. But let's recall the last time Iran mined the Persian Gulf. They didn't mine the Strait Of Hormuz. They mined farther up. It was 1987, 1988. Why did they do that? Well, in September 1980, when Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski were still in office, The United States encouraged a guy named Saddam Hussein, don't know if you've ever heard of him, but they encouraged Saddam Hussein to launch a war against Iran. And then Ronald Reagan comes in with Donald Rumsfeld and Cap Weinberger, and by 1983 had provided chemical weapons, or the precursors that Iraq needed to build chemical weapons, and Iraq started using chemical weapons against Iran in 1983 and continued to do it in '84, 85, 86. During that entire time, Iran never retaliated with chemical weapons. They were not going because they saw it as an act against God. They were serious about the religion. So 'eighty seven, 'eighty eight, they start dropping mines there in the Persian Gulf. Well, at that time, they didn't have all these missiles, so the United States Navy, a Navy SEAL, a good friend of mine, set up what was called the Hercules barge, and he had a Navy SEAL unit with him, and they fought off attacks by Iranian gunboats. He had some Little Bird helicopters from the one sixtieth, the special operations wing of the Air Force. And but we ended up disrupting the Iranian plan to mine The Gulf back then. Well, we couldn't do that today. We do not have that capability because Iran would blow us out of the water with drones and with missiles. You as we've seen, it's been happening over the last ten days. So United States would be in a real pickle. Speaker 1: And especially given the rhetoric of US war hawks in power for three decades. Like Yeah. Yes. They kind of had to prepare all of this time. Did we think that they weren't paying attention when we said it to the world? Speaker 4: Well, when we're writing our own press clippings and then reading them, there is a tendency to say, god, I am great. Can you see this? How good we are? And so they really believed that our air def the Patriot air defense systems and the THAAD systems would be they they could shut down the Iranian missiles and drones. And what they discovered was, nope. They didn't work. And they worked at an even lower level than the you know, Pentagon kept foul. We're shooting down 90%.

Gas prices in America have dropped from over $5 to $3.39 since I took office. To continue this progress, energy companies should lower the cost of a gallon of gas to match the price they pay for a barrel.

Alaska oil and gas leases are being canceled, causing market volatility and dependence on foreign energy. The speaker emphasizes that America has the reserves and safety measures to produce energy efficiently. They criticize Biden for making the country reliant on Arab sheiks and claim it is purposeful. The size of the exploration pad needed is compared to a postage stamp on a football field, highlighting the minimal impact on the environment. The left is accused of using the issue as a fundraiser and advocating for energy rationing and censorship. The speaker mentions that petroleum affects every aspect of our lives and expresses frustration over rising prices, citing a recent $120 truck fill-up.

Kamala Harris supports the far-left Green New Deal, which entails new taxes, higher utility bills, and a ban on gas cars. She is committed to passing a Green New Deal and ending fracking. Kamala's fracking ban would eliminate jobs and increase gas prices. Only President Trump can restore Trump's strong economy. Donald J. Trump approves this message.