The Tom Woods Show, episode 1327.

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Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

We're talking about the so-called Green New Deal proposal that has been circulating around

Washington, D.C. and is being talked about all over the place.

It's associated in a lot of people's minds with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but there are many people who support it. And I thought,

you know who'd be a good fellow to talk to about this? Our old friend Alex Epstein, whom we've talked to a

couple times before, who's the author of the book book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

And he also has a podcast called Power Hour, where he discusses issues relating to energy with leading thinkers on the subject.

He is the president and founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, which you can visit

at industrial progress.com. I'll have all this stuff linked at tomwoods.com slash 1327.

Alex, welcome back. Thanks for having me. I mean, come on, this green new deal. How am I not going to

talk to Alex Epstein about this? The thing is taking off not legislatively. I'm certainly

it's not going to get signed into law, but wow, it went from zero to being widely discussed in

almost no time at all. So what I'm going to do is link on the show notes page, which is

Tom Woods.com slash 1327 to the actual

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