How Much Does Combatting Climate Change Cost?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
How much of your paycheck are you willing to contribute to combating climate change? Or should such efforts be paid for by the taxpayers at all? You may have an easier time answering those questions after you hear how much the U.S. has spent with very little to show for it. Are we delusional about what the “Energy Transition” really looks like? Time for a reality check, as Mark P. Mills of the Manhattan Institute talks with Michele.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to sideline sanity. I'm Michelle Defoya. We are sponsored by Legacy Precious |
| 0:05.2 | Metals. There has never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Go to LegacyPMinvestments.com. |
| 0:12.1 | LegacyPMinvestments.com. We talk a lot on this show about energy, nuclear, fossil fuels, green energy. |
| 0:20.6 | What's real and what's not? Where are we delusional |
| 0:24.4 | on this push toward going green? We'll discuss it with Mark Mills after this. |
| 0:32.9 | For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. |
| 0:38.6 | She started very young. |
| 0:44.2 | She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national championships. |
| 0:45.4 | And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious |
| 0:51.7 | dose of sanity. |
| 0:53.9 | This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the thinks we need a serious dose of sanity. |
| 1:00.1 | This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the sanest people on planet Earth. |
| 1:01.6 | Michelle Tofoya. |
| 1:10.9 | So let's harken back to the campaign of 2020. |
| 1:17.1 | Joe Biden was asked a number of times about fossil fuels, about climate change, et cetera. |
| 1:20.8 | Let's roll in a little bit of what he said back then. |
| 1:26.9 | Would there be any place for fossil fuels, including coal and fracking in a Biden administration? |
| 1:30.8 | No, we would work it out. We would make sure it's eliminated. |
| 1:36.6 | No more drilling on federal lands. No more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period. I guarantee we're going to end fossil fuel. |
| 1:42.0 | What about, say, stopping cracking and stopping pipeline and infrastructure and end? |
| 1:47.7 | No more, no new fracking. |
| 1:49.5 | We are going to get rid of fossil fuels. |
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