Episode 155 - This Mortal Oil
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Is this just another oil war? This week, Briahna interviews Intercept national security reporter Ken Klippenstein & Daily Poster founder David Sirota about how energy and climate policy play a role in the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Brie asks Ken about his recent piece titled "Saudi-Russia Collusion is Driving Up Gas Prices -- And Worsening Ukraine Crisis" and asks Sirota about his recent coverage of how various interest groups are lobbying to avoid being touched by sanctions against Russia, while others advocate for more oil drilling at home. If the options are cuddling up with Russia, Saudi Arabia, or the green new deal, why aren't progressives beating energy-independence drum louder? Brie also asks the pair about the State of the Union, including Rashida Tlaib's response to Biden's remarks, and Pramila Jayapal's shady take on her speech.
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| 0:00.0 | We are headed to Kaggle flood comes and |
| 0:12.7 | don't think that this building will be the |
| 0:19.7 | problem that's in the |
| 0:22.6 | increase. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm very glad to have an apply cast for the first time, Kim Clipperstein, who is the National |
| 0:41.4 | Security Reporter for the Intercept. |
| 0:43.3 | Previously, the nation's DC correspondent, welcome, Kim. |
| 0:47.2 | Good to be with you. |
| 0:48.4 | And returning to the podcast for the upteam time, the journalist whose coverage I would be |
| 0:52.9 | lost without founder of the Daily poster and Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Saruto. |
| 1:00.2 | Welcome. |
| 1:01.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:02.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:03.2 | We are here today to talk about an aspect of the Ukraine conflict that's a little bit |
| 1:07.9 | attenuated from it. |
| 1:09.1 | We dove in last week, and I want to broaden us out a little bit. |
| 1:12.8 | And what made me want to talk about the subject is that you can wrote an article last week |
| 1:17.6 | in the intercept called Saudi Russia. |
| 1:19.7 | The collusion is driving up gas prices and worsening the Ukraine crisis. |
| 1:23.6 | And over the Daily poster, David, you have done some coverage of how energy lobbyists |
| 1:29.2 | are trying to exploit this moment. |
| 1:31.8 | So I wanted to have this conversation about what the energy sector implies for this broader |
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