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Tempest in a Teapot

Bill Whittle Network

Bill Whittle Network

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4.8745 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Crime levels are soaring. The roads would be a disgrace in Mogadishu. Drug overdoses are killing thousands. The tax base is fleeing the state in record numbers. But thank God, California has managed to address the one really critical issue plaguing the state; namely, can you own your own gas heater in Berkeley? Scott Ott goes where no man had gone before. Help keep speech free while you still can by becoming a Citizen Producer right here: billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Well, you get to keep your gas stove if you live in Berkeley, California, and the Wall Street Journal is crowing as it is a triumph for the fossil fuel industry.

0:10.9

But I say, not so fast.

0:12.8

Hi, I'm Scott Ott by audio only with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green.

0:16.9

And this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at bill whittle.com.

0:20.7

As we've mentioned in other episodes this week, I am traveling abroad. and this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

0:26.6

As we've mentioned in other episodes this week, I am traveling abroad to see my first grandchild,

0:31.5

and so we're doing this with the thin internet connection that we have here,

0:33.6

so that we can keep doing it for you.

0:39.2

Gentlemen, there is a ruling that I read about in the Wall Street Journal's editorial board opinion piece under the headline, Gas Stoves Triumph over Berkeley. And basically,

0:48.0

the journal editorial board is crowing about the fact that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

0:52.9

has overturned a ban passed by the Berkeley,

0:57.3

California, not the university, but the town or the city of Berkeley, banning new hookups

1:03.6

for new residential construction for natural gas. So there's an issue here that people tend to be

1:10.3

on the conservative side of the aisle care about,

1:12.3

and that is the ability to continue to use fossil fuels while they're developing other forms

1:17.0

that don't have to be eventually government subsidized.

1:20.6

And the case, when you read a headline and a first paragraph that says Steve Green,

1:29.3

that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has done something and slap down Berkeley, California.

1:35.7

To me, that is full stop, not a yellow flag.

1:40.0

This is a red flag.

1:41.2

The race is over.

1:42.2

We hold still.

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