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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews Economist Steve Moore

The Mark Simone Show

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4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Mark and Steve talk about Joe Biden refusing to turn on are oil producing facilities because he thinks it's okay to have gas prices close to $5.00.

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0:00.0

Oh, Steve Moore is one of our great economists. You got Larry Cudlow. You got Steve Forbes, Art Laffer.

0:08.3

Steve Moore, these are the best in the world. And by the way, Steve Moore has a new book you should get. It's called GovZilla. Govzilla. Excellent book. Make sure you follow them on Twitter. It's Stephen Moore at Twitter. Steve Moore, how you doing? Hey, Mark, I'm doing well. And by the way, I just, I hate to say I told you so, but I did tell you so, Mark, on, on, remember I've said many weeks in a row on your show that when Joe Biden has been saying, oh, I'm doing everything I can to reduce gas prices. I said, no, no, they're not.

0:38.0

They're doing everything they can to keep gas prices high.

0:41.2

And finally, did you see this week, Mark, Joe Biden kind of admitted it when he was talking

0:46.2

to the folks at the Dabo's conference in Switzerland and all those intellectual, you know,

0:53.3

elites.

0:56.3

He said, you know, this is, what was the term he used to get?

0:57.2

It was something like, oh, the one great grand transition or something like that.

1:02.1

And this is the pain we're all going to have to suffer because pretty soon we're going to

1:05.5

all have green energy.

1:06.8

And meanwhile, people are paying six bucks at the tank and they're pissed.

1:27.7

Yeah. Also, for people in New York who don't have a car and say, well, I don't drive, it doesn't affect me. It affects the price of everything because everything comes by truck, right? Yeah. You better believe it. And, you know, I was talking to some truck drivers not long ago when I was at the service station. They were, you know, pumping their diesel. And, you know, those are big

1:31.5

tanks, those big trucks have. And, you know, they're paying now like, they were saying like

1:36.0

$500, $600, $700 to fill up their tank. It's a lot of money. They said it used to be like $300.

1:43.2

So they're, yeah, of course those costs,

1:46.6

Mark, are passed on to the, to the consumer. You know, those big trucks are carrying the

1:51.5

merchandise and it's more expensive to transport them. They have to pass that on to consumers.

1:56.4

You're exactly right. That's one of the things that's fueled this, say, 8% inflation we have right now.

2:02.2

Yeah. I know Steve Moore, everybody has a conference or a convention. You know, there's a dental

2:07.2

convention. There's a conference of all the hardware store owners. Explain Davos. This is like a

2:14.0

convention for the most evil people on earth, isn't it?

2:22.0

Well, you know, these are basically all the Euro bureaucrats,

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