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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews Economist Steve Moore

The Mark Simone Show

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4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Mark and Steve talk about electric cars and the power that is needed to build the batteries. Under the democrat's power plants all over the country have been closing down because of restrictions brought on by the left.

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0:00.0

well steve more the brilliant economist by the way you should get his book govzilla his new book govzilla

0:07.0

is great reading uh also uh join the committee to unleash prosperity you can get their daily

0:14.3

newsletter and briefing it's very good stuff it's free committee to unleash prosperity uh com

0:20.5

steve more how you doing?

0:22.9

Hey, Mark, it was so good to see you last night.

0:24.8

We had the whole gang together with Art Laffer and Steve Forbes and Larry Cudlow and Mark

0:28.9

Simone and the whole gang.

0:30.8

So it was fantastic.

0:32.5

Look, a big decision today just came out about an hour ago on this West Virginia power plant issue.

0:40.1

Yeah, this is a really important Supreme Court decision. You explain this decision?

0:44.4

Yeah, it's really important because, look, this country is built on coal. We use a lot, a lot of coal in this country.

0:51.0

And we always have, and the rest of the world's using a lot of coal

0:55.8

and so what this what had happened was that the environmental protection agency was shutting

1:00.8

down our coal plants around the country and at a time when the demand for coal is as high as ever

1:05.8

and this will not eliminate but reduce the ability of the EPA to put our coal plants out of business.

1:13.5

And natural gas, by the way, because the law doesn't like natural gas either, even though we get, you know, 60% of our energy and electric power from natural gas and coal.

1:21.0

So this is good.

1:22.2

I mean, I'll give you one example, and this comes from the hotline newsletter.

1:25.7

You probably saw it a couple days ago.

1:33.5

While the United States has reduced our coal production by about 50%, do you know what country's coal production is going through the roof, Mark?

1:37.5

I can guess. What?

1:40.6

China.

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