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Dirty Jobs host, Mike Rowe, issued a serious warning to the Democrat Party about their misguided policies on Brian Kilmeade’s radio show.
Rowe was discussing fossil fuels and the detriment that completely getting rid of them would cause.
He said, “If you make fossil fuels the enemy, then you are going to reap a whirlwind of unintended consequences really, really quickly. I get that a lot of people are convinced the end of days is coming 12, 15, 20 years down the road.”
He said that there’s no context for the Left’s calls to get rid of fossil fuels.
“I get that, but there’s no proportionality and there’s no context. And when you talk about flipping a switch and getting rid of oil and natural gas and even coal, for that matter, you would hasten that Armageddon to an exponential factor.”
“China and India alone are building a coal plant every week for the next 30 years. That’s not going to change.”
He mentioned that wind, solar and hydro energies are not going to be able to supply the amount of energy needed with the number of people in the world.
“You have to do it responsibly, and you have to deal with fossil fuels responsibly.”
“But you can’t just go no, fossil fuels are the enemy, period, it’s over.”
“That will hurt on every imaginable level, in my view. Alex Epstein wrote a great book. It’s called “Fossil Future.”
“And in it, he just says, look, let’s have the conversation, let’s at least understand that fossil fuels have saved more lives over the last hundred years than anybody is really thinking about, it’s fossil fuels that have protected us from the climate, and in so many ways.”
Rowe also didn’t hold back in discussing the “Inflation Reduction Act” and the Biden administration.
“Now, if the Inflation Reduction Act truly reduces inflation, then we can start with a conversation about the nuts and bolts of the bill.
“But we’ve come to the point where nothing actually means what it says. And that gets us into an emperor’s new clothes kind of mentality, where it’s not one kid in the crowd going, Hey, that guy’s naked.”
“It’s the whole country going, Wait. Again with this? Again with the name of a thing that doesn’t seem to reflect the thing?”
“And so we got to peel back the layers and we have to look at it. And then we have to have the conversation: how does this impact the middle class? What the heck do I know.”
“If it lives up to its name, it’ll impact them in a positive way. If it doesn’t, it’s another pie in the face,” he said.
The Inflation Reduction Act is the bill that allocated more money and resources to hire the 87,000 new IRS agents.
