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The great energy lie: Global warming politics in a world where the Strait of Hormuz can close overnight

AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK

AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.7527 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – Energy security is not an academic exercise. It is the foundation of national survival. The Iran conflict and instability across key maritime corridors demonstrate that global energy flows run through narrow, vulnerable arteries. Roughly a fifth of the world’s oil moves through the Strait of Hormuz. A disruption there is not theoretical—it is existential for...

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Todd Royal.

0:13.0

I'm your host of Geo Power, Energy and Real Politics.

0:17.0

And boy, today are we going to get real.

0:20.0

We definitely got real last week.

0:21.0

When I want to talk to you about how net zero is an absolute fantasy, I really want to

0:26.3

focus today on just continuing that fantasy.

0:29.6

And I want you to know that something I don't do is I don't name people by name when I

0:35.9

disagree with them.

0:37.4

I think that's a real problem that goes on in public policy, energy, this podcast, world media.

0:45.2

You know, you're supposed to say, oh, I hate Tucker Carlson because he said this.

0:52.2

I said that.

0:57.1

No, I may disagree some things he's doing right now, but the body of his work is pretty unmatched. In that regard, people that I really

1:04.3

talk about often, whether the Breakthrough Institute or Halle-Dossey,omburg, which we're going to get to here in just a

1:12.8

minute. But someone that I folks that deeply respect had said something recently that we certainly

1:24.0

know what's going on right now. We certainly know that the Iran war, people disagree

1:29.7

with it or they agree with it, but that there's this whole notion that you see people who

1:38.7

typically vote Democrat or consider themselves green, environmentally friendly, that renewables will save us.

1:46.4

In the U.S., it's going to be Professor Mark Jacobson from Stanford, who I deeply disagree with,

1:52.9

and whose work has been thoroughly discredited.

1:56.0

I name him by name because what he says is dangerous.

2:00.7

In that regard, I'm not going to name this person by name

2:03.8

because they're not dangerous. But somebody, there's a quote that came through things that I regularly

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