Marc Morano - Publisher of The Climate Depot Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, something other than green. Five fifty two is our
time here in Houston's boring News, right American Thinker has
a piece entitled Teriff's threatened to put the nail in
the green energy coffin. Not sure how that would work,
but I'm sure Mark Moreno wouldn't mind if that happened.
He's the publisher of the Climate Depot. That might be
a side benefit, I guess, to the terrace. But how

(00:21):
does that impact the green energy business?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, unfortunately, green energy isn't really green to begin with.
It digs the earth, and I'm not talking about a
nineteen seventies Brady bunchway. I'm talking about a rare earth
mining lanthanides and cobalt, nickel and copper way. That China
is now the world's leader in this kind of mining.

(00:46):
And so whenever we're talking solar wind EV batteries, your
average Tesla battery, by the way, is a half a
million pounds of materials dug up, and we are relying
on China for that. So tariff, particularly China, are going
to have a massive cost impact on the green energy
can hire green energy menu of whatever you choose, and

(01:10):
of course, fossil fuels especially with Donald Trump expanding coal
is going to be cheaper and home grown.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
I was going to ask you about the coal thing.
You like that objective order he signed for coal yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Absolutely, I mean coal is the most strategic of all
fossil fuels. No matter what country you are, if you
have coal in your country and you can produce it domestically,
you were not beholden to even your friendly neighbors for energy.
In the United States is the Saudia Arabia of coal.
We have more coal available to us than adest nation

(01:42):
on Earth. And before people start panicking about air pollution.
Since the first Earth Day, which we're coming up on
Earth Day in nineteen seventy, we've radically improved our air
quality well at the same time increasing our population economic growth.
We've largely solved even the environmentalists conceive the air problem
other than a few pockets, have been largely solved in
America in terms of air quality and improvement. Even the

(02:06):
new coal plants are now ninety five percent of some
of the most recent stats I've seen in terms of
how much cleaner they are than the ones from the
seventies and eighties. So technology and embracing energy is our
future and not relying on China to the rare earth
mining for energy, solar and wind combined producing the less

(02:26):
than five percent of our total energy, lesson fourteen percent
of our electrical grid, despite massive subsidies, massive mandates. It's
incredible to have Donald Trump doing what he's doing in
the area of energy and climate. This is unprecedented. It
blows away anything he did in his first term. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I think he's also talking about bringing more nuclear into
the picture as well, which would be a game changer
or a potential potential game changer there, But that he
understands the key for economic success is just to bring
down the overall cost of energy, and I think he's
doing whatever you can to try to come up with
ways to do that.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, it's all about supply and demand and the barrel.
The price for barrel is now dropping under sixty dollars
a barrel, So the question is how long will that
take to really show up at the pump? Hard to say.
The tariffs are going to be kind of like in
order to make an omelet, you've got to break a
lot of eggs, So that could have a short term
negative effect on everything, including energy prices. Inflation, but I

(03:25):
think it's mostly a negotiating tactic and reset of global
trade deals. So you know, it's just regardless of what
any of you and you're listening audience and thinks about
these tariffs. It is amazing to have a president of
the United States in twenty twenty five, based on his
personal lifetime conviction, standing up against the world, his own advisors,
the establishment, his own party, and literally pursuing something he's

(03:50):
dreamed of doing for fifty years. And in terms of
his just his life, he's always believed this. So we're
not going to see this again in our lifetime. Someone
is committed to an agenda that's going to be against
the establishment and against conventional wisdom. Just that alone is
amazing to watch. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
You're right about that, Mark Breno, thank you as always
appreciate it. Publisher of the Climate Depot, Mark Morano. It
is five point fifty six now here in Houston's Morning
News