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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2131 We Need More Fossil Fuels

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

News, Government, Politics

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The heroic Alex Epstein joins us to discuss why human flourishing requires more fossil fuels, not less.

Book Discussed: Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas -- Not Less

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Show notes for Ep. 2131

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 2131.

0:03.2

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.8

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.

0:11.3

The Tom Woods Show.

0:14.4

Hey everybody, I'm giving away three free courses from my Liberty classroom.

0:18.7

One of them is X-Marxist Michael Rectonwald,

0:21.8

teaching about critical theory,

0:23.7

so you can understand leftism and fight it better,

0:26.4

as well as our course on how Alexander Hamilton screwed up America

0:30.7

and the history of the conservative and libertarian movements.

0:33.8

Check it out at threefreecourses.com.

0:38.1

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:39.4

I am so delighted to be joined once again by our old friend Alex Epstein of the Center for

0:44.4

Industrial Progress because today is the release day of his brand new book, and I'm telling you

0:50.2

this book is an absolute blockbuster.

0:52.8

It's called Fossil Future. Why global human flourishing requires more oil, coal, and natural gas,

1:00.0

not less? How about that? Alex, welcome back.

1:03.2

Thanks Tom, I'm always great to be here.

1:05.0

All right, look, this thing is a blank and he blank masterpiece, this fossil future.

1:10.8

I mean, if I wrote a book like this as thorough and convincing and that absolutely demolishes

1:21.1

something that every respectable right-thinking person thinks we all know,

1:25.9

I would feel like I could legitimately retire and feel like I'd had a successful life.

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