Bill Cunningham, the Great American and of course electric vehicles, the Inflation Reduction Act, and also the clearer cutting a forest in order to provide ev battery facilities here in America is causing havoc. And one of the experts in the matter of energy is Jason Isaac. He's the founder and CEO of the American
Energy Institute. Jason Isaac, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And a note one of the columns you've written about the Chinese green energy form supported by Michigan State government is planning to the forest land to build an electric vehicle battery plant designed to help the state meet its climate goals. And it appears that Governor Whitmer is allocating two hundred million dollars in taxpayer funding for the development
while clear cutting the forest to provide for this. So can you tell me where we are here? We are in the great month of February of twenty twenty four, and all hell's breaking loose everywhere in the world, and at this point it appears America's energy needs are being supplied more by the Chinese than by anyone else. Can you explain to the American people what's happening in Michigan and how it relates to their life. Yeah, it's happening in Michigan,
and it's happening around the country. The federal government is heavily subsidizing unreliable variable generation, and the left is just hell bent on destroying the earth to so called save the planet. You know, and I talk about destroying the earth, you're right. They're going to mow down hundreds of acres of land, if not thousands of acres of land with great trees that are supposedly absorbing the CO two. You know, this gas that's necessary for life on Earth that
everybody wants to capture. And I say no. I embrace the high carbon lifestyle, and I think the rest of the world should get to live one too. But it's absolutely appalling. And that's why what the federal government is pushing through the Inflation Reduction Act, through the production tax credit that has been
around for decades, that is crushing grids around this country. It's a reason why you see so many foreign companies, companies with Chinese Communist Party affiliates in the leadership of those companies, investing in these projects because they can get our tax dollars we're subsidizing communism and socialism around the world. Well, when you
say, it's causing the opposite effect of what's intended. And we went into this thing headfirst because it's subsidized industries that were not viable, which is electric ev battery industry is not viable. And can you tell the American people as to how this helps the Chinese? You write that the irony is that China, the world's biggest polluter, is bulldozing pristine wildlife to build toxic electric car
battery plants. China's continued quests to dominate the battery industry should surprise no one. And we're playing into this because we're subsidizing it. You also say Biden's administration continues to push for electric vehicles that won't save the planet, it will decimate the global environment. So the environmentalists, instead of saving the planet,
is killing it by these electric batteries. So explain what the long term goal is by the communist red Chinese. Well, it's to control every aspect of our lives. And I think we've got some communist sympathizers within our governments around the country that are allowing them to do this. To make one electric vehicle battery for a small ev requires moving five hundred thousand pounds of earth. And where is this happening. This is happening in cancer villages in China where they're
utilizing slave labor to process the rare earth minerals. And then in China they control own and control over seventy percent of the mines for cobalt, where today you'll have forty thousand kids between the ages of four and thirteen using hand tools and their bare hands. They'll be covered in sulfuric acid dust mining cobalt to drive this electric vehicle revolution that you and I as taxpayers are contributing nearly fifty thousand dollars per electric vehicle, even if we don't own one, we are
helping pay for one. We're doing it through higher cost for electricity, we're doing it through direct subsidies to these companies, and we're doing it through buying internal combustion engine vehicles. Yes, they're actually contributing because of the crazy corporate average fuel economy standards, and they still with fifty thousand dollars of subsidies per vehicle, they still can't make money. And that's why many automobile manufacturers are
cutting back on their EV FORGAT Now you ran over that rather quickly. How many, how many? How much Earth's got to be moved to produce one one battery? How much one battery for a small EV five hundred thousand pounds of earth has to be moved, mined and processed. That's why I say they're destroying the earth. The so called save the planet, but their policies don't do anything to save the planet. All they do is separate us from our food, our fuel, and our money, also known as our freedom.
And I would think we also glossed over the item of these forty thousand kids My producer Tony Bender and others are not in mind somewhere on the Congo or Ecuador, on their hands and knees to get the lithium and other materials. How many these are all kids? Shall I use the term children of color? That these are not white kids from the US or from Canada.
That these are migrant children that are in the minds being paid little or nothing to get the ingredients to put into a battery shipped over to China in order to make And how many children are injured or killed every year because of these mining efforts of the environmental wackos in this country. How many children of color are killed and injured? Yeah, it's appalling. Their life expectancy is less
than twenty years. That of hours they're working in these unsafe conditions, and there are hundreds of children every year that actually just disappear and these mindes collapse. They dig these tunnels with hand tools, they get in there to get the cobalt, and they're known to just collapse. I've seen heartbreaking videos of
people trying to pull people out of these minds in the Congo. It's unfortunate, and I love it when woke people, you know, in these urban areas that are just so wealthy, they've got so much time on their hands that they can go out and block highways and they worry about environmental justice, And I say, where's the environmental justice for the forty thousand kids that are making the products that you say are going to save the planet that do absolutely
nothing to mitigate a changing climate. You know, many many decades ago, Edward R. Murrow did a good friend of Tony Bender, did a report on the Harvest of Shame, in which children south of our border were consigned to work in fields, all the days of their life bent over, and
because of that we had child labor laws. It's amazing to me. That's sixty minutes, and the mainstream media doesn't send an entire production crew somewhere in South America or into the Congo and follow the day in the life of a child slave on hands and knees in the third and the dark, digging for cobalt to satisfy the needs of suburbanites who want to drive a tesla. Are you amazed? That's the story of the EV batteries that are destroying the world
seeking to save it. Why isn't that story being done? I wish I knew, But because it's not. They should be done in Chile and looking at the surface mines there where they're getting lithium. They should be in the Congo. No, they can't really go in the Congo because they'll get shot and killed because of the Chinese communists control over the areas. You know.
So Darth Caro wrote a book called Cobalt Read, and he was almost murdered during the time of writing this book because he got access and was able to get some of these pictures of these appalling conditions. But We have lithium deposits right here in the United States, and the Biden administration is rejecting permits to mine those where they would be just like all the rest of our energy, oil, gas, colon nuclear, we produce it more responsibly than anywhere else
on the planet. But the Biden administration and other states are rejecting applications to mine cobalt than lithium here in the United States. Maybe it's because the costs are way too high and they've just thrown cost benefit analysis out the window. Well, Joe Biden, once again, who's been racist his entire life. Joe Biden has taking racism into new levels. He wants kids of color all over the world. He doesn't want lithium mining inside the United States of America
for environmental concerns. He doesn't care about the Congo or Chile because that's a different issue. Speak to me about Hurts, the largest running car company in the world. They just dumped of two months ago, twenty thousand, twenty thousand evs onto the market because customers don't want them, and that we're told in another three months they're going to drop another twenty thousand. They have eighty thousand evs. They're going to drop in the market in the next year.
Hurts because people don't want these electric vehicles because to return them you must stand in line somewhere, and for those of us that don't own one in the first place, you have to wait. You have to return it with a full charge. How much has the cost been to Hurts, which is put into the cost of your run car, all the money they've lost one hundreds of millions of dollars. Well, why did Hurts go this way? Were they paid to do so by the federal government? Well, it was virtue
signaling. As I've testified in front of Congress, Virtue signaling is proving to be very expensive, and companies like Hurts are going to write down billions of dollars in losses. And ultimately, you've got to look at the shareholders of
these companies. You look at who is an investor in Ford who had this incredible you know, we were going to push full forward with evs and now they're saying that they're losing over sixty thousand dollars per lightning Ford F one fifty, that they're selling these sell for ninety two thousand dollars with the extended range batteries, you know, so you're talking about moving you know, multiples of five hundred thousand pounds of earth to make the batteries to go in one lightning
and plus the fifty thousand dollars in subsidence at there getting for me and you these trucks would cost over two hundred thousand dollars on the lot. And no one's going to buy that for an F one fifty that doesn't get any range during cold weather and takes hours to charge. So I I think the chickens are coming home to roost for companies like Hertz. Ford is cutting production and half they're tired of losing billions of dollars. But who should really be tired
is the pensioners. And why the pensioners because you look at companies like black Rock Bank are at State Street, these large asset under management companies, these financial institutions that are forcing companies they invest in to go down this path of
evs and their returns. Ford's returns and profits would have been much higher, more than I think nearly double their last annual report, which would have been beneficial to people like firefighters and police officers and teachers who are having their pension dollars weaponized against these companies and they don't even realize it. We're fighting back, I know legislators in Ohio. We're fighting back and pushing back against this
weaponization of capital. Several states have joined the ranks of Texas and pushing back, and so I hope there's some good efforts to wake up these woke financial institutions that are weaponizing are capital against our best interests. Jason Isaac, founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute. What percent of the atmosphere is CO two? I'm watching this hearing these us I think I think it was Kennedy
of Louisiana as one of the environmental wackos. Can you tell me? We're trying to stop CO two emissions and CO two is critical to the survivability of plant life and the human beings. But nonetheless, the estimates of the experts was ten percent, twenty percent of the atmosphere CO two? What percent of the Earth's atmosphere we're trying to prohibit the rise of CO two? What percent
is it? Did? Zero point zero four percent? Let me get that number, zero point zero four yes, yes, zero point zero four And what is the goal to keep them from going to what's zero point zero five or six? What's the goal? And we need see so a zero point zero four is the composition of the atmosphere of CO two. Everything's about stopping
these carbon fuels put here by God Almighty himself for our use. They're part of God's great plan to have oil and natural gas, et cetera, and earth for Americans to use for another one hundred years until we discover the true value of di lithium crystals. Until that point, what was the do you have some number? Of course the environment of Waco, say the CO two most thought we're ten to twenty percent, it's zero point zero four. What
is the goal to keep it from rising to what? Zero point zero five? Yeah, they're saying, well, we've got to stave off one point five degrees of warming, Which is funny because just in the last couple of weeks people are coming out and saying we've actually cost past one point seven in what's happened during that time Over the last hundred years, as we've so called warm the earth one and a half to two degrees, you've seen deaths from
weather related events because of the economic prosperity from producing hydrocarbons. Deaths from weather related events have gone down ninety nine percent for a while our population has quadrupled. Ninety nine percent reduction of human deaths because of the brilliance of natural gas and oil and what it brings to middle class values. Ninety nine percent reduction in human deaths from you would think listening to the CBS Evening News and ABC
does it every night. It's a weather report. We have a thunderstorm somewhere over New York City and that leads. So you're saying that in the last one hundred years we've had a ninety nine percent reduction in human deaths from weather related events. Ninety nine percent reduction zero point zero four percent Z two and they're selling us. Do you think even environmental wackos understand this. No,
they don't, and they really don't care. They think that humans are the problems and they think that there needs to be a lot less of us on this planet. When you really get down into their policies, they're very Malthusium. I think there's too many humans on the plant. I couldn't disagree more. We need to have more of us go forth and multiply. There's plenty of food as long as we have nitrogen fossil fuel based fertilizers to sustain life.
And you look during that same period of time, a greater than half of the population lived in abject poverty one hundred years ago. Today that number is around eight percent. These are and our population is quadrupled. These are incredible numbers. It's flourishing because of access to affordable, reliable energy. And unfortunately we've seen just over the last few years, we've seen a climate policy
crisis being created by a leftist administration at the federal and state levels. Electricity costs are of twenty five percent between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two. There's a thirty percent increase in people getting their electricity disconnected, a seventy six percent increase in people getting their natural gas disconnected. And that's here in the United States. And to think that we just cut off LNG export term and
also FIDE administration just paused. Guess what. There's over seventy percent of the fertilizer plants in the European Union are offline, not making fertilizer because they don't have their feet stock natural gas and guess what we're standing over here in the United States to see if it produced better than anywhere else on the planet, that we could be exporting to our friends and allies in Europe so they don't
have to be dependent on Russia and China. People that really truly want to do as harm could care less about the environment, not much to say about human rights. I want the American people to fixate on zero point zero four percent of the high carbon lifestyle. Embrace it. And one last thought from Gregory Wrightstone, geologists and executive director of the Zero two Coalition. According to the UN, the greatest threat to engager species as habitat loss. Apparently we
need to destroy the environment in order to save it. And you got to follow the money, Jason Isaac, who's getting paid? Who isn't getting paid? But thanks for coming on on the truth will set us all free. Zero point zero four percent, Let's destroy the planet. Let's kill a bunch of kids in the Congo and Chili. Let's disconnect electricity all over the world because we have to keep it from going from zero point zero four to zero point zero five. It is a crisis, Jason isc Once again, we'll
have more flourishing. We have more crises, and thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. We'll put the facts out. Let the American people decide. Jason Isaac, thank you very much. Great to be on. God bless you. Let's continue with more Wow. Over the last one hundred and twenty five years and ninety nine percent reduction in deaths from weather events. But every evening on the evening news, it's a total crisis. Bill Cunningham
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