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AFP - Gov Funding Deadline is Jan 30th · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: In twenty nine to fifty bout kersee de Talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Very happy Wednesday to you, Brian Thomas here in always
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  Speaker 1: looking talking and looking forward to talking to Americans for prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: helping you and me do the necessary steps to bring
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  Speaker 1: about some sort of logical and reasonable reform which will
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  Speaker 1: benefit all Americans. Welcome back from AFP, Donovan and Neil.
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  Speaker 1: It's great having you back on the show, sir Brian.
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  Speaker 2: Always great to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, sort of springing from my comment about German
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  Speaker 1: Chancellor Merge now finally admitting that it was stupid and
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  Speaker 1: suicidal to try to go full on carbon neutral. Look
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're building eight gigawatts of new gas
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  Speaker 1: fired power plants. Hopefully they'll get them online by twenty
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. This is County your twenty twenty six. I
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  Speaker 1: guess they have regulations that standing the way of a
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  Speaker 1: fishing production of new energy there too. But maybe we
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  Speaker 1: can bring about some efficiencies and reductions in the regulatory
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  Speaker 1: burden here in the United States, because who can deny
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  Speaker 1: that our energy demands are growing and that we can't
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  Speaker 1: rely on the sun and the wind to provide us
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  Speaker 1: our ever growing energy demands Donovan O'Neill. Well, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think what we're seeing is a shift not just around
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  Speaker 2: the world, but most importantly here in America, with a
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  Speaker 2: where returning the page from having a scarcity approach to
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  Speaker 2: energy policy making to an abundance approach to energy policy making.
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  Speaker 2: What that means, Brian, is we're gonna unleash energy abundance.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna instead of saying there's only so much of
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  Speaker 2: the pie to go around, we're gonna build a bigger pie.
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  Speaker 1: This scarcity model was built on a lie. It was
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  Speaker 1: a product of making energy intentionally scarce, not because we
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  Speaker 1: were running out of the opportunity to build it or
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  Speaker 1: create it. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, Okay, yeah, I want to make.
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  Speaker 1: Sure we were clear on that concept because it's something
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  Speaker 1: that really just pisses me off. You cut your own
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  Speaker 1: throat economically, in the name of all this is the
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  Speaker 1: religion we're going after, Donovan. Isn't it carbon dioxide? Evil
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  Speaker 1: plant food? We need to get rid of it.
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  Speaker 2: This is it.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, we're all coming out and waking up to the
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  Speaker 1: idea that we've been sold a bill of goods.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Well, and in talking with lawmakers about this,
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  Speaker 2: it's baffling to me. You know. Then there's number them
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  Speaker 2: that put these provisions of the place or direct to
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  Speaker 2: the regulators to do it. But a lot of this
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  Speaker 2: has been you know, those those in the shadows, regulators
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  Speaker 2: and controllers like PGM, who have pushed that idea right
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  Speaker 2: and said, hey, we don't want new nuclear, we don't
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  Speaker 2: want new coal, we don't want new gas powered. We
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  Speaker 2: want wind and solar. And when it's just not adding up.
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  Speaker 2: It's where we find ourselves in this situation today, high
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  Speaker 2: energy costs, low availability, and questions about grid stability.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Mertz, Chancellor Mertz to have acceptable market prices,
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  Speaker 1: i e. What you and I can afford, Donovan for
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  Speaker 1: energy production. Again, we would have to permanently subsidize energy
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  Speaker 1: prices from the federal budget. We can't do this in
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  Speaker 1: the long run. At least he's speaking reality now, Donovan,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe the pgams of the world were all itching
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  Speaker 1: and get you with excitement about putting up windmill farms
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  Speaker 1: and solar panels because they got all kinds of cash
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  Speaker 1: love from the federal government incentivized to do just that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, money aside. The difference here is between renewable
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  Speaker 2: energy sources and reliable energy sources. At the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, what we want our reliable sources right when
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  Speaker 2: it gets to negative ten degrees in Ohio, like we
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  Speaker 2: have happened from time to time in the winter, we
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  Speaker 2: need to know that that energy can be dispatched, generated quickly,
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  Speaker 2: and dispatched efficiently. That doesn't happen in cloudy cold days
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  Speaker 2: where with slip panels, or you know, even in frigid
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  Speaker 2: weather with wind. It comes from nuclear, coal, natural gas.
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  Speaker 2: It really comes from a diverse array of energy. But
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  Speaker 2: we need these reliable sources to provide that dependable, affordable
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  Speaker 2: energy that so many people need to heat their homes
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  Speaker 2: in the winter and cool them in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the whole thing about PGAM puzzles. Yes, they're
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  Speaker 1: on that green energy tract and they don't seem to
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  Speaker 1: be doing anything. And politicians up in the Northeast tend
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  Speaker 1: to be blue states, and for whatever reason, they're against
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  Speaker 1: the idea of efficient, quick, reliable energy production just because
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, is it the cult of global warming
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  Speaker 1: that they're convinced on, or is it some of the
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  Speaker 1: nefarious purpose that they're up to. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: the idea that that region keeps drawing more and more
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  Speaker 1: AI data centers, Like, why would you hook yourself up
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  Speaker 1: to the ubilical court of unreliable energy knowing full well
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  Speaker 1: that there are other places in this country that provide constant,
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  Speaker 1: easily reliable energy sources. So put it over there and
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  Speaker 1: not up there, if you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we just saw Actually, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you saw this. I know you're a big nuclear fan, Bryan. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Vistra just announced partnerships with our with data centers Meta
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  Speaker 2: to do some additional private investment in nuclear here in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the key to really unlocking this up right,
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  Speaker 2: as we get the permitting reform done, get the red tape,
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  Speaker 2: the regulators out of the way, we allow private companies,
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  Speaker 2: billion dollar companies right like Matt, Amazon and others who
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  Speaker 2: are also draining a lot of this energy to be
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  Speaker 2: able to invest in in strong, dependable, reliable energy like nuclear.
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  Speaker 2: That's how we not only maintain our ability to have
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  Speaker 2: these data centers as the national security interest here in
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  Speaker 2: the United States, but we also help bring down the
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  Speaker 2: cost of energy by getting a more private investment into
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  Speaker 2: the energy sector.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, and maybe the Speed Act might be something transformative
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  Speaker 1: to permit us to get in that area or to
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  Speaker 1: do just that. We're going to hear about some of
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  Speaker 1: the details of the Speed Act, which AFP is calling
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  Speaker 1: on lawmakers to embrace more with Donovan Neil, plus a
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  Speaker 1: word or two about the government funding deadline fast approaching.
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  Speaker 1: On the thirtieth at seven forty fifty five KRCD Talk Station,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas here with Donovan and Neil, Americans for Prospered.
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  Speaker 1: Do we do this? Everyone? Stay be again at seven
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  Speaker 1: thirty talking energy policy. Well, Donovan, it sounds like we
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  Speaker 1: have met the me and they are us, at least
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  Speaker 1: the giant swath of us, those being the elected officials
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  Speaker 1: who intentionally cut our throats and deprive us of inexpensive,
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  Speaker 1: easily deployable energy in the name of whatever. Obviously it
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  Speaker 1: has a nefarious element, totallyst I'm sticking with my view
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  Speaker 1: of that. But there is the Speed Act, which AFP
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  Speaker 1: describes as a game changer. What is the Speed Act?
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  Speaker 1: And do we have an option to actually get this through?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it passed out of Congress, the lower chamber, and
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  Speaker 2: it's over at the sitting with the Senate right now,
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  Speaker 2: and we see an opportunity with this January thirtieth funding deadline.
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  Speaker 2: They've got to get the rest of their regular order
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  Speaker 2: bills done or pass the Continuing Resolution. We think they
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  Speaker 2: can get this included in that marathon sprint to January thirtieth.
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  Speaker 2: And what it would do, Brian, for your listener's benefit,
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  Speaker 2: is it would really modernize the federal permitting process. We
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  Speaker 2: already did this at the state level, and I've been
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  Speaker 2: on your show a few times talking about it with
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  Speaker 2: a piece of legislation called House Bill fifteen. The Speed Act,
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  Speaker 2: to me, does a lot of the similar things, but
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  Speaker 2: just at the federal level, modernizing the modernizing NEPA, setting
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  Speaker 2: deadlines for feral agencies to make permitting decisions, as well
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  Speaker 2: as limiting scope among other things. And that limiting scope,
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  Speaker 2: I think is important because you get these overzealous regulators, right,
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  Speaker 2: these folks who think they're going to change the world
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  Speaker 2: by broad interpretations of congressional authorization, when what their job
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  Speaker 2: really is, right, Congress makes the laws, the executive branch
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  Speaker 2: enforces those laws, and they're not supposed to go beyond that.
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  Speaker 2: Even with modern reforms like Chevron and regulatory reforms like
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  Speaker 2: Grains Act, we see these oversualous regulators get a little
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  Speaker 2: outside of their lane. The Speed Act would help limit
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  Speaker 2: that scope to really what the proximity caused by the project,
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  Speaker 2: rather than know these through or fourth or fifth order
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  Speaker 2: issues that they kind of construe as reasons for not
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  Speaker 2: allowing energy projects or other products to proceed. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Are these unnamed, unknown, unelected regulators behind the scenes that
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  Speaker 1: are making life so complicated for us to have the
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  Speaker 1: energy that we know we could easily produce I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: smile modular reactors Again, Are they political idelogs?
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  Speaker 2: I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Or do they have some sort of nefarious intent behind them?
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  Speaker 1: Do they want to deprive us of the greatness that
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  Speaker 1: we can achieve even more so with abundant energy? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what's their deal? Donovan mean, do.
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  Speaker 2: We know does anyone fully understand the mind of a bureaucrat?
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  Speaker 1: No, But you're pointing out illustrates the reality we've been
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  Speaker 1: dealing with such a long time, absent to Chevron decisions
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  Speaker 1: and others which have endeavored to pair back this liberal
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  Speaker 1: viewpoint that all these unelected officials have behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: that they once given any subject matter, they can put
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  Speaker 1: out a regulation that rules over something so broad it
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  Speaker 1: was never contemplated by Congress, and yet they've been doing
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  Speaker 1: it forever. I mean, what is their motivation? I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'm really struggling with that because it always ends up
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  Speaker 1: working on very poorly for us as a nation. See
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  Speaker 1: the current energy crisis we're facing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll get a little philosophical here of but to
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  Speaker 2: the soul I think outlined it in his Conflict of
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  Speaker 2: Visions book, right where there's a constrained and an unconstrained
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  Speaker 2: vision that people hold, we as conservatives, but in fact
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  Speaker 2: our nation, our funding fathers held a constrained vision for
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  Speaker 2: our nation. And that's not in a bad way. Right.
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  Speaker 2: The Declaration of Independence gives us I'm sorry, the Constitution
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  Speaker 2: gives us those those negative rights, that ability that this
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  Speaker 2: is the things that the government can do, and the
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  Speaker 2: rest are retained by the people. Right where the unconstrained
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  Speaker 2: viewpoint says, you know, the ends justify the means. In short,
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  Speaker 2: right the rest of it be damned. The idea is
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  Speaker 2: that you know, you give me enough power and I
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  Speaker 2: can solve the problems of the world that far. That's
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  Speaker 2: the dilemma.
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  Speaker 1: If all they were trying to solve the problems of
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  Speaker 1: the world. I mean, go back to Germany again. They
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  Speaker 1: cut their own throats. They made it unaffordable to produce energy,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing Barack Obama was his plan. I use
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  Speaker 1: this line all the time because he said it over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. The price of gasoline will necessarily increase.
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  Speaker 1: Why do laws of supply and demand? Nope, because we're
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  Speaker 1: making it harder. Is that solving a problem, Donovan, No,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's making the existing problem that much worse.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And we see it play out, whether it's in
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  Speaker 2: the energy sector where we got to five dollars a
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  Speaker 2: gallon prices in Ohio. I think it was close to
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  Speaker 2: five dollars yere in Ohio. During the Biden administration, healthcare
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  Speaker 2: costs that we've talked about on your show many times
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  Speaker 2: skyrocketing again not to Republicans in action, but in fact
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  Speaker 2: Democrats actions, voting consistently to increase subsidies and march us
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  Speaker 2: down this path of perpetual Obamacare that's making everything more affordable,
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  Speaker 2: from painkiller tailand alls to to X rays for your
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  Speaker 2: kid's broken arm. It's insane. And these policies, right, it's
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  Speaker 2: this idea that out of Washington d c they know
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  Speaker 2: better than the people in Ohio. It's the classic trust
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  Speaker 2: the experts of COVID line right, and we see this
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  Speaker 2: and that's what's made energy so expensive. But fortunately, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: let's bring it back to the sunshine and rainbows here.
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  Speaker 2: That is very much in front of us right now
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  Speaker 2: and as an opportunity, the Speed Act. Congress has got
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  Speaker 2: it done, the Senate, the House of Representatives has got
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  Speaker 2: it done. The Senate is holding onto it and can
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  Speaker 2: do this thing. It's a priority of the leadership team
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  Speaker 2: there the Republican majority. President Trump one of his first
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  Speaker 2: actions as president nearly nearly a year ago, now got
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  Speaker 2: to his administration to work and identify these problems. The
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  Speaker 2: Speed Act would help codify a lot of those problems
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  Speaker 2: that the Trump administration identified and said, we want Congress
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  Speaker 2: to remove the authority from the executive branch to unlead
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  Speaker 2: so this. By doing that, we can unleash energy abundance
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  Speaker 2: in this country.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Donald, and nail Americans for a prosperity call
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  Speaker 1: to action. It sounds like we need to get in
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  Speaker 1: touch with our senators.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, contact Senator Moreno, contact Senator houstaid, let them know
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  Speaker 2: they need to bring the Speed Act up, and believe
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  Speaker 2: it or not, they do. Listen. We've had a number
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  Speaker 2: of our activists calling their office as of late, reaching out,
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  Speaker 2: and there are human beings on the other line who
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  Speaker 2: take those calls and are more than happy to pass
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  Speaker 2: that message onto the Senator. He's told. Senator Marino has
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  Speaker 2: told me that himself. So reach out, tell them to
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  Speaker 2: get the Speed Act done before January thirtyeth.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, we'll see if the government shuts down on January
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  Speaker 1: thirtieth too as well over defunding ICE. Yeah, okay, Donovan
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  Speaker 1: me Americans for a prosperity on behalf of my listening audience.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you and everyone with everyone with AFP for what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing and appreciate your giving us the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: utilize your sources to help it make Getting in touch
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  Speaker 1: with our elected officials and working toward achieving these good
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  Speaker 1: goals goals that will help us and getting them actually
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  Speaker 1: passed and into law. Will continue to help you out.
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  Speaker 1: You continue to help us out. We'll talk again next Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Donaldan O'Neil, thanks for what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks as always.
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  Speaker 1: Briany seven fifty five KRC the Talk Station Foreign Exchange