RADIOJuly 25, 2025

How California's inevitable FUEL CRISIS could affect YOU

California Democrats have done it again! The state is scrambling to find a buyer for two local refineries which were driven away by the Democrats’ ridiculous policies. Glenn Beck explains how a gas shortage in California would affect the rest of the country.

Transcript

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GLENN: Yeah. Let me talk to you a little bit about Democrats trying to find a buyer for a refinery. After they ran the refinery out of town, the California energy commission is reportedly actively seeking buyers to stop the closure of the Valero Refinery in Benicia, California.

Now, here's what happened: They're scrambling because they have driven all the refineries out of business in California.

They've got so much regulation, and more regulation coming.

They haven't built a new refinery in California, for decades he has

I think it's since the 1970s.

Now, this refinery is closing.

And the Phillips 66 refinery.

How many refineries are there in America? There's not a lot. The Phillips 66 Refinery is closing in -- at the end of this year. Valero is also closing. And they can't find a buyer!

Well, I wonder why, California. I mean, who would want to do that? Who would want to buy a refinery in California? Where they're constantly trying to put you out of business.

So you lose two refineries in California.

Who is going to make the gas?

Now, remember it's a special blend in California.

It's already $8 a gallon.

Because it has to be a special blend.

They have all of these things that are only for California.

So these refineries are making the special blend for California.

You lose two refineries. Two!
In the state of California. There's going to be a gas shortage everywhere else.

Why?

Because now it's going to go to the highest bidder.

Now they'll have to go out of state and say, to these other refineries, that are making our gas.

Can you make up for the loss of these two refineries?

Well, no. I'm providing gas for Texas, and Oklahoma. And New York.

And everything else. No, I can't. Look, we need gas. What would it cost?

Well, I mean, we could do it, but we will have to shut down for other customers. So, you know, I'm not going to charge you, the same I'm charging them.

You will see ten, 12-dollar a gallon gasoline, in California.

Because they will have to pay for it. They will have to pay for the refining, somewhere else.

And everybody else is at the top of their refinery.

Of their refining. So they have to put something offline. Which means, look, I'll do. I'll do a job for you.

You know, you need your house built. Well, I'm building this house over here.

And, I mean, I'm really. I have to take care of this house.

Yeah. What would it take for you, to build my house first?

Well, I mean, I don't know.

I've got to finish this one. I'll pay what it takes.

I have to have my house. That's what California is about to have to do.

I mean, what are you going to pay. And they still don't get it.

They still don't get it. They're still adding more EPA laws. More -- more laws about gasoline, in California.

And refining in California. Two refineries are about to shut down. And these people wonder why.

Oh, it's America. No, it's not.

No, it's not. I want you to -- if you happen to be under 30, I want you to listen to me, carefully.

Don't believe me, don't believe -- don't believe anybody.

Listen to yourself.

You have seen none of this works. And you have seen your older brothers and sisters, and they bought into all this crap that was taught in college. They bought into all of this stuff. And you see how empty it is for them.

Right?

You see it!

Be the exception. Because I believe the hero generation right now is between 12 and 30 years old.

These are the people that are going to change everything.

And I shouldn't design the country for you.

Because I'm going to be dead by the time this is fixed. I'll be dead.

It's your country. It's your future. It's your job.

So find truth.

You know -- you see your friends killing themselves. You see how empty everybody's life is.

You see how this is all falling apart. This is not capitalism's problem.

Capitalism -- we haven't done real, honest capitalism, like Wealth of Nations and moral sentiments.

We haven't done that in a while. This is captured capitalism. This is crony capitalism.

This is corrupt capitalism.

The free market. The free market works.

But what's happening is, you have these ruling classes. That are saying, nope.

I want it this way.

And you have dumb enough people to follow, and to not see, wait.

Those policies are putting me out of business. I mean, In-N-Out Burger.

Gone. Can't do business. It's a California company. Proudly Californian. Can't do business there anymore.

And you wonder why. It's not America's fault. It's not the Constitution's fault. It's your fault.

For voting that way, California. And these are the people like Gavin Newsom, I can guarantee you, they will not take responsibility. When gas is $12 a billion, they will be blaming it on somebody.

I mean, I wouldn't take had it their business as a refinery. Because I know, if I'm producing California fuel, at the top price, because I have to give up somebody else, and so they have to make it worth my while, I'm not going to take that. Because Gavin Newsom will say, you know who it is?

It's the Glenn Beck oil refinery that is charging us.

We have to go after him, because he's gouging us.

I'm not taking your -- no way. I'm not making anything for you.

Because you have no loyalty to the truth, at all.

You will not accept the fact that you put them out of business.

And now, when the people go, I can't afford 12-dollar a gallon gasoline.

You'll say, yeah. You know who is fault it is for him

That refinery with Glenn Beck in Texas.

They're just gouging our eyes. It's price gouging.

Get them!

No way.

You know this doesn't work.

You're smart enough to see what your brothers and sisters. And how miserable their life is.

They went to college.

I hope -- you know, I hope before you went to college. And you were indoctrinated.

But if you're watching your brothers and sisters go through college, and you see how they come back. And they're all screwed up.

And then you see them five years later, and they're empty inside. And they can't find a job.

And they don't have anything meaningful in their life.

You're finding meaning.

You're more conservative than I am.

You are finding God, at a time when God is lost, on most people.

And I'm not saying, finding church.

I'm saying finding God.

You know there's something spiritual out there, and you are searching for it. Don't listen to anyone.

Who is telling you, you're not good enough. Don't listen to anyone who is telling you, you don't get it.

Don't listen to anyone who says, the system is rigged against you!

Don't listen to anyone who says, vote for me, or your life is going to be a pile of dog crap. Only I can solve your problems. Don't listen to them. Don't.

The American dream was never about being rich.

It was about being free enough to make your own choices. Make your own choice. Carve it out. Your brothers and sisters. Who are slightly older than you. They've been convinced, they can't make it. You know what happens when you're convinced of something, and you keep saying it over and over again? It's not my fault.

I can't make it because of these guys. It becomes true.

What becomes true?

I can't make it. They'll never make it.

They'll never make it.

And I know this, because I grew up in a family that was really dysfunctional.

Alcoholics.

No one was successful in my -- in my family.

Nobody went to college in my family.

I didn't go to college in my family.

And believe me, I didn't get any special breaks. I worked my ass off. And I'm 13, 14, 15, 16 years old. And I'm sleeping on the conference room floor, on weekends, because I work six hours on, six hours off.

Six hours on. Six hours off.

From Friday afternoon, until 6:00 a.m. Monday.

And then go to school.

I worked my butt off.

But I knew if I worked hard, and if I could outthink everyone, that was in my business.

And I got a little lucky, I would be successful.

But it wasn't until my 30s, that I realized, no, it's not just that.

You have to be true to you.

You are special! Each one of us.

We're different.

We're born with what we need.

My first half of my career, I imitated.
I imitated. Because I couldn't do. So I imitated others. I took little ideas here and there.

And I pieced them together.

And I thought, that's a good idea.

That's a good idea.

And that worked to some extent, but until you realize, you are unique. You are the only one that can do you!

And in my case, you just don't care anymore, because you know what you're doing is not working. And so you just let go. I'm an alcoholic that lost everything. Believe me.

World is not stacked against -- you're stacked against yourself, when you listen to people who tell you, it can't be done.

You can't do it. System is rigged against you.

You'll defeat yourself every time.
Don't listen to those people.

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.