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2021-02-15 | 🔗
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host slams the Green New Deal after a winter storm freezes Texas wind turbines
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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.