'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host slams the Green New Deal after a winter storm freezes Texas wind turbines
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Good evening and
welcome to Tucker Carlson
tonight,
the green new deal has come to
the state of Texas, and we are
here with the report.
Hows it working out so far.
The good news is all that
alternative energy seems to have
had a remarkable effect on the
climate as intended.
Last night, parts of Texas got
the temperatures that we see in
Alaska,
in fact, the same as they were
in Alaska. So global warming is
no longer a pressing concern in
Houston. We solved that problem,
ca,
schools, closed cars, crashed
hospitals, canceled surgery
in Fort worth, people had to
boil their water because of no
electricity.
The ironically named electrical
reliability council had no
solution to any of this and told
people to stop using so much
power to keep warm so hundreds
of shivering Texans headed to
the civic center like refugees
to keep from freezing to death.
Some people did almost certainly
freeze to death day and thats.
What happens when it gets that
cold?
We will learn just how many more
were killed by carbon monoxide
poisoning as they tried to keep
warm with Jerry rigged heaters
and barbecues and car exhausts.
When the power goes out, even
advanced societies become
primitive and dangerous people
die
weve, seen it happen repeatedly
from California for years now,
rolling blackouts and a
purportedly first world state
that is living steadily into
chaos, but in Texas,
who saw that coming
not just because Texas is mostly
republican.
If theres one thing Texas would
be able to do its keep the
lights on.
Most electricity comes from
natural gas and produces more of
that than any place on the
continent.
A huge natural gas deposits all
over Texas,
it is an oil and gas famously
running out of energy at Texas,
is like starving to death at the
grocery store.
You can only do it on purpose
and Texas did
rather than celebrate and
benefit from their states. Vast
natural resources. Politicians
took the factional route and
became recklessly reliant on
so called alternative energy,
meaning windmills
fifteen years ago, virtually no wind
farms in Texas last year,
roughly a quarter of all
electricity generated in the
state came from wind.
Local politicians were pleased
by this bragged about it like
there was something virtuous
about destroying the landscape
and degrading the power grid.
Just last week,
Governor Greg Abbott proudly
accepted something called the
window leadership award given
with gratitude by a company
getting rich from green energy.
So it was all working great
until the day it got cold
outside the windmills failed,
like the silly fashion
accessories they are in people
in Texas died,
a lot more of them died in the t,
the capital on January, sixth,
its a great state actually,
but to give you some sense about
whats about to happen to you. Am
I to every state heres, the new
president, explaining his plan.
Weve already waited too long
to deal with this climate crisis,
and we cant wait any longer
thats. Why im signing today an
executive order to supercharge
our administrations, ambitious
plan to confront the existential
threat of climate change?
It is an existential threat
just reading the
script.
Climate crisis existential
threat, ambitious plan
here- are those phrases a lot and
youll notice. They are all
suspiciously nonprecise. So what
did they mean for you?
They mean higher energy prices.
For starters, gas is already up
in case you havent noticed
electricity will follow.
Higher costs always does, but
its worse than that
green energy inevitably means
blackouts and some day that may
change as technology progresses.
But as of right now in the
current state of technology,
that is true.
Green energy means less reliable
power grid period.
It means failures like the ones
we are seeing now in Texas, where
it is not a talking point, not a
political slogan, not taking
money from Exxonmobil to say it
again. That is true
its science,
so of course, theyre denying
it
heres. Our new climates are
taking a quick break from
spewing carbon in his private
jet to a lecture, the rest of us
about a topic. He knows nothing
about private sector jobs and
how more windmills are going to
generate tons of them.
The president of the
United States has expressed in
every comment he has made about
climate: the need to grow the new
jobs that pay better cleaner.
You look at the consequences of
black lung and measure that,
against the fastest growing a
job in the United States before
Covid was solar power technician
technician.
Similarly, you have the second
fastest growing job. We Covid was
wind turbine technician.
This is happening.
This is happening
so here us, please, Americas,
mistreated, working class.
John Kerry has a plan for you
settle down. John Kerry is here
the old plan. Youll remember is
coding going to learn to code
all the guys in pickup trucks
were going to run the internet
after reset their jobs to China.
That was the plan learn to code
code.
In the end, we just imported
people from China to code so
that didnt actually happen. But
John Kerry has another idea:
high school educated rural
people are going to be in wind
turbine technicians, so what they
used to do with transmissions
whatever it is, that was, they
will do with windmills, put
bearings in them or something
so. Everybody wins
its possible that John Kerry
actually believes that maybe
been wow, never been within
twenty feet of a wind turbine
possible.
They dont have wind farms in
aspen or Marthas vineyard, and
they are not getting them.
John Kerry once fought to keep
wind farms out of sight of his
summer house on Nantucket
thats hypocritical. You might
say,
obviously,
but not surprising,
people who support wind farms as
a rule live very far from wind
farms.
People who live near wind farms
have a totally different view,
and why wouldnt they?
How would you like a massive
power plant in your backyard,
humming and buzzing and chopping
up birds
thats? What a wind turbine is,
if youre ever in Rural America
go see one for yourself,
youll be shocked by how awful
it is once you get up close
your first thought may be. This
is supposed to be good for the
environment.
Wind farms are one of those
ideas. You can only support if
you dont into much about them,
maybe thats, why theres never
been mass popular support for
them.
No large group of citizens has
ever demanded some Goldman Sachs
Back company destroyed the
natural environment, with Chinese
made windmills that dont work
when its cold out
wait more expensive and much
less reliable,
ugly, inefficient and made by
people who hate us and we can
kill endangered species
id like some of that,
in fact, make it a double.
No one anywhere has ever said
that, but it doesnt matter,
because green energy is the
ultimate inside game.
A tiny number of people profit
from it from government
subsidies and regulated prices,
and everyone else gets a lecture
about climate change. Anyone who
complains gets called for Nazi
by Cory, Booker
theres a lot of people
blowing back on the
green new deal practical and
too expensive, but if we use to
govern our dreams that way we
wouldve never gone to the moon
and when the planet has been
imperil in the past, who came
forward to save earth from the
scourge of Nazis and
totalitarian regimes,
we came forward.
The guy, who has
literally never had a job,
accept your windmills, bigots
youre about to hear it a whole
lot more.
The problem is the demagogues
like Cory. Booker have no earthly
idea. What a wind farm is.
They dont know how to run a
power grid or anything else for
that matter.
They talked they brag, but they
dont build anything, much less
affix or maintain it because
they cant
they have no skills and if you
dont believe that take a look
at what they have done to our
city, not a single major
american city is prettier or
more functional than it was in
one thousand nine hundred and fifty
seventy years ago.
The parks that previous
generation so lovingly built are
filled with vagrants and
junkies.
The monuments they constructed
are covered with spray paint.
Public transportation is a
disgrace. Filthy,
the streets are dangerous.
Are you really surprised
Cory? Booker was once the mayor
of Newark New Jersey,
you shouldnt be
Cory. Booker couldnt fix your
ice maker. Much less understand
your wind farm. None of these
people can
its bad enough that they
control the sociology.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-03.