Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report. With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host. Daniel, welcome to the program. Good morning, Dr. Paul. How are you this morning? Good. Are you ready and raring to go? I will do my best, sir. And I was worried that all the problems would be solved before the weekend was out. But guess what? I found, just looking around a little bit, I found something.

But before we get into some of the things we want to spend a little extra time on,

I just want to mention one little news clip which is economically related that I found, you know,

rather typical in the age that we live in, the age of economic interventionism.

This comes out of zero heads, one of our favorite sources. Energy Department announces

$100 million in funding the refurbish of U.S. coal plants. I wonder how much we spent to close them,

you know, and ruin them, you know, and they've struggled with all

the radical environmentalism, but all of a sudden, $100 billion to do this. And it's, it just

really doesn't make any sense to me. And, you know, we're in this age of, of, you know, worrying about inflation and the spending.

But the bigger picture is, is why did we ever get involved? And then you say, well, the government

messed it up, so they should help clean it up. Well, we ought to learn how to, a little bit

about prevention of problems like this.

So they're going to do something. They'll come up with some regulations and spend the money

and to rebuild these plants and make up for all the problems that they gave.

I think, obviously, it doesn't take a genius.

I think this is an inefficient way to provide for energy.

And besides the cold threat, you know, we have to be careful, but I think it was blown way out of proportion.

And when you think of some of the problems with windmills, more windmills than solar,

but some of that, you know, is worth studying, but to force it on people, you know, it's back

to the force.

Government will force them to do it.

And then there's certain areas of the country. Energy prices are still going up. You know, energy shouldn't be that

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