The Truth About The Power Grid Outage Risk in America
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Patrick Bet-David explains why the U.S. power grid is vulnerable to attack by foreign adversaries and several other areas. Why is power grid security not a priority for the U.S. government? Protect yourself against CBDC control with - American Hartford Gold https://bit.ly/3T56IqR Connect one-on-one with the right expert to get the answers you need with Minnect! https://bit.ly/3N2FZqK Visit Valuetainment University for the best courses online for entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/40XG5WD Get best-in-class business advice with Bet-David Consulting: https://bit.ly/47RYW7S Visit VT.com for the latest news and insights from the world of politics, business and entertainment: https://bit.ly/3RiqFZW Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Your Next Five Moves
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| 0:00.0 | By the way, before COVID, did you ever think that you and I were going to go through an epidemic or we're going to be |
| 0:04.3 | be told that, you know, we're going to shut down everything, you're going to be working from home, you better |
| 0:07.5 | quarantine, put the mask on, have gloves on, when you're going out there, don't touch this, don't do that, |
| 0:11.6 | kid stay home. |
| 0:12.1 | Did you think that, like, did that thought even cross your mind when 2019 was going into 2020 and you're preparing in December |
| 0:18.3 | did you say honey we better be ready for a potential pandemic to happen we did did not think about it and all of a sudden |
| 0:23.7 | we were hit with it right? You know it's one thing no one's talking about that is very |
| 0:27.7 | likely that could happen a power outage. So imagine power outage happens. |
| 0:32.2 | No light, no fridge, food is no longer good, no phone |
| 0:35.5 | charger, phone is done, no internet, what happens to your life? FYI, come up Pat, that would never |
| 0:41.8 | happen to us. So let me give you our score on how good we're doing with power energy system |
| 0:46.0 | the American society of civil engineers which gave the US energy |
| 0:50.3 | system a c-minous Great, on its 2021 infrastructure report card, said that the grid |
| 0:55.9 | investment trends will eventually lead to a funding gap of almost $200 billion in 2029, |
| 1:01.8 | and also in 2021, threat assessment from the office of the director of |
| 1:05.2 | National Intelligence stated that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have the capability |
| 1:11.1 | to cause harm to the energy grid. |
| 1:13.2 | What? |
| 1:14.2 | Also at the same time, the Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm |
| 1:17.6 | confirmed that America's adversaries possess the capability to shut down the grid? |
| 1:23.6 | What? |
| 1:24.5 | We're gonna talk about that today. |
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