Affordable Energy? Not After This Winter…And Election | Steve Haner
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we've got Simon on the line. Simon, young people, they're just all a bit, a bit lazy, aren't they? |
| 0:09.0 | What are you for? |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to McDonald's. |
| 0:11.0 | Have you get the six minutes, please? |
| 0:12.0 | Some say young people are work shy, but at McDonald's, we hired 47,000 of them last year. |
| 0:19.0 | How's your night? |
| 0:20.0 | Like George here, who keeps things running during a Friday rush. |
| 0:25.1 | Resilience, making it happen at McDonald's. |
| 0:30.0 | Setting down with us to talk about a great piece that he has written in, if you don't follow |
| 0:34.9 | Steve Hainer and just get an alert every time he publishes something new, |
| 0:39.6 | you should. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm not even sure if there's an app for that. |
| 0:42.5 | But Steve Hainer of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy joins us to talk a little bit about the piece that you can read. |
| 0:50.9 | I read it at Bacon's Rebellion. |
| 0:57.5 | The title of it is Fern versus Abigail, |
| 1:05.3 | and how the winter storm that we're still waiting to melt off completely has exposed at very least, I'm going to say it the nice way, but I think Steve is a little more concerned with what it shows about the governor's |
| 1:13.7 | promises regarding affordability, especially for our electric bills. Steve, thank you for |
| 1:18.7 | joining us. How are you doing, sir? I'm doing well. My wife just texted me. She ran out and said |
| 1:23.7 | this is flurrying outside in Richmond again this morning. So here we go. Maybe just a little |
| 1:29.4 | flurry. That's when, you know, what was the Pink Panther movies? Whenever Inspector Cluzzo's name |
| 1:37.3 | got mentioned, the inspector's eye started twitching. Cluzo, Cluzzo. It's snow, more snow, and our eyes start twitching again from it, Steve. |
| 1:49.6 | People are going to open up their electric bills, people are going to open up their natural gas bills in the next couple of weeks, and they're going to be stunned. |
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