The far-left has HIDDEN its disastrous energy policies within the Inflation Reduction Act, Glenn says, and this energy crisis WILL be fatal to people all around the world. But the left doesn’t seem to care. In this clip, Glenn explains some of the catastrophic consequences from their energy programs that may be coming soon (he also details MUCH more on this topic in his latest Glenn TV Wednesday Night Special, which is available now on YouTube and on BlazeTV.com). Also, Glenn previews an upcoming podcast episode with Governor Ron DeSantis, who spoke about energy policies as well (catch the full interview on YouTube on Saturday).
Transcript
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Hey. A power shortage.
We've been talking about this. Existing power plants, are projected to retire at a faster pace than installations of new units. This is from the epic times. Dependence on renewable projects are threatening widespread power shortages, according to a new report by the Regional Power Transmission Company, PJM.
They are going to be -- they are going to be really, really short on power soon.
And we kind of told you why that is happening. We -- I think broke some news. I don't know of anybody else who has reported on this.
But, you know, there's got to be somebody out there, that found this, besides us.
But the -- the Inflation Reduction Act, is nothing but a Trojan horse. And that is closing down our power plants. These companies are given billions of dollars. Your money. Billions of dollars. To shut down the operating coal-fired plants. And then build something else.
But what makes this really, really insidious. Is to get all of the money, you have to destroy or dismantle your power plant.
So power plants are going up for sale.
And some of them are selling dirt cheap.
These things take years to build. If not a decade.
And they cost billions of dollars. And they're being sold for scrap metal. That's good, huh?
Isn't that good?
And so I told you, there is a way you can do help. It is in the form of a bill, that was just passed in Utah. They're working on a similar one in West Virginia.
I urge you to ever to read all about it. Watch the TV show from last night. My Wednesday night special, on Blaze TV. Or listen to the first hour of today's podcast.
Because I outline exactly what is goggle. And this is -- this is a big one. There's lots of things we can pay attention to. This one, literally is lights out, if we don't -- if we don't act on this.
In it -- in the bill, you will see, that they don't just want to encourage new energy.
They are blocking the path, by destroying our power plants.
No one in their right mind. Even if you are agreeing, no one in their right mind, that cares about society, cares about our country, cares about human lives, nobody goes after all of the oil, all of the gas, and then shuts down operating coal fire plants, to replace it with wind and solar. You will have brownouts and blackouts.
People will die. People will die because of this.
And when you see your own government doing it to you, and without your permission.
We didn't have a big debate on this. In fact, what little debate we had, was in the build bang better bill. And in the green new deal. And because we did have a little bit of debate on that. And there was some sunshine on that. We all said no. And they knew they couldn't pass it. So they had to hide it in the Inflation Reduction Act.
That's where this came from. This is the Green New Deal, and Build Back Better.
And just relabel the Inflation Reduction Act.
If these people will do this to their own country and their own people, do you really have a hard time, Stu, thinking that these people would sabotage the European and Russian pipeline for gas?
I mean --
STU: No. Right. It's -- they're doing it, as part of public policy to their own people. Why would they care about another country?
GLENN: Right.
STU: We don't know for sure.
GLENN: No. We don't. We don't.
We have no idea, who did it.
There's some credible evidence that we did it.
And then the New York Times is coming out saying, it was a pro-Ukrainian group, that did it.
STU: No one is saying, what they said initially, by the way, which is that the Russians did it.
Which, of course, didn't make sense at the beginning.
GLENN: Right. Right.
So it was some shady group or the United States. That's really what it's down to.
And I wouldn't doubt if the United States trained or supported. Or some of the money that we just sent over there, just kind of disappeared. And ended up in the pockets of some oligarch. Who funded it. So we didn't have to directly fund it.
But the people that are running the world right now. Don't have a problem with people dying.
They don't have a problem. If they can get their stuff passed through, they have such a utopian view, that it's going to be great for all mankind, some day.
And they don't mind, if people die along the way.
STU: Bigger if I need to fry.
GLENN: Got to crack a few eggs. You know.
STU: It really does seem like that's part of the goal. Or at least a -- a -- an acceptable speed bump on the way to the goal.
GLENN: Sure. Sure.
Let me -- let me play a couple of things.
This is from the podcast, that airs, beginning today, on Blaze TV. And will come out Saturday. Let me play the one on -- where is it? The energy. Cut 17. Here is DeSantis on energy destruction.
What we're talking about.
VOICE: How stupid can you be to try to neutral our own ability to reduce our own energy.
GLENN: But they're doing it.
VOICE: No. I know. But how does it make our country stronger to be relying on.
GLENN: It doesn't.
VOICE: And here's the thing: Biden will not want it done here. He'll go beg Maduro for oil. He'll go beg other people for oil.
GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.
VOICE: You know, everything we produce in terms of fossil fuels, it's done so much cleaner here than it is in these other countries. Are you kidding me?
So it's all -- it's all for them to exert more control over us. That's what this is all about. And the good thing about it, is some of this stuff, I think can be remedied through changing some of the bureaucratic rules. There's a lot of people out there in these industries, they really want to get going again. But they just can't get under the current circumstances.
GLENN: Texas is thinking about making it -- their own bank just for energy.
VOICE: Yeah, and Florida, look, I have -- private-owned investor facilities.
They have to make money.
And I have some that are doing more solar. We don't have subsidies, anything like that. They're doing it. It's economical in certain situations. Fine. Yeah. Fine.
GLENN: I have solar on my house.
Don't force me to do it.
VOICE: Here the thing: When I had Hurricane Ian come through. You know, we had millions of people knocked out of power. We had 52,000 linemen get it restored.
Largest restoration, fastest in history.
I needed oil and gas. You know, I just -- wasn't -- the wind and solar. We're not going to get those people going again. You had the habit. We actually had some people who had the electric cars. And some of them were catching on fire. Because of the saltwater and all that stuff.
But if you can't charge it, you're having that tank of gas in your truck or your car, can mean everything. So we are not going to be without fossil fuels in our lifetime.
And if we try to go without fossil fuels in our lifetime, you will see the standard of living plummet. You will see our security plummet, and it will be a disaster.
GLENN: We will be Venezuela.
Let me play -- let me play one more thing. Because what I said, a minute ago. That they don't have a problem with people dying. Is a pretty horrible charge to make on somebody.
But listen to what he talked about, when he said, I was talking to -- stop, please.
When we were talking about Dr. Burkes (phonetic). Remember Dr. Burkes? COVID?
Listen to what he says. Cut 13.
You talk about this in the book, with Burkes, and it's a little terrifying, when she said, well, this is just our kind of little science experiment.
VOICE: Very much so.
GLENN: Can you tell that story?
VOICE: So the White House task force was hammering me for the first really thee months, because they wanted me to be clamping down harder.
And, you know, she -- so I called, Deborah, tell me when in American history, has this been done. And what were the results?
Because I kind of feel like, we're flying blind here.
We may be doing things that may be damaging.
She said, it's kind of our own science experiment, that we're doing in real time.
And that didn't sit well with me. You're a citizen of a republic. You're not a Guinea pig.
GLENN: No.
VOICE: And so I think that -- there's a whole bunch of other things that I talked about in the book.
You remember the George Floyd riots, the epidemiologist.
GLENN: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
VOICE: Because people were saying, you've been telling people, you have to stay in your home. And like in Florida, they were killing us. Even in those early days, you know, when we were following federal government guidelines loosely.
But we were following some. We were playing golf. I mean, the villages, they're setting record for golf.
People are boding all this stuff. They were so mad at Florida for doing that. People on the beach. All that stuff.
That was their position. You are killing people, if you leave your house. So then all these people -- thousands of people are protesting.
Two thousand of these epidemiologists write a letter saying, we do not condemn these protests because of COVID. Indeed, we think they're vital for public health, because they're fighting --
GLENN: Right. It's a bigger disease than COVID.
STEVE: Exactly. So that's when I knew.
This public health -- this public health clan of people, they are sing. I mean, they are -- they are ideological captured, and these are not people that should be anywhere near the levers of power. So I basically, from that point on, I would exclusively listen to a very handful of people.
You know, Bhattacharya from Stanford. Martin Kulldorff from Harvard. Scott Atlas. Sunetra Gupta from Oxford.
Then my Surgeon General, Jill Lattapo, we brought in from UCLA. Great.
