Fox and Friends – Fox News Channel – Broadcast September 7, 2024
Partial transcript:
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Vice President Harris is flip-flopping on yet another issue: banning plastic straws. …Now, her team says she doesn’t support banning plastic straws. Here to react is climate depot.com publisher Marc Morano. So what is this epiphany about what made her change her mind about plastic straws?
Marc Morano: We don’t know because, like every other epiphany she’s had, whether it’s on fracking now, EVs, oil, and gas –all of these reversals of her previous opinions are quietly released by basically unnamed campaign officials. The campaign now says she no longer supports that. Huh? what, no explanation given?! The obvious answer is she knows that plastic straw bans are wildly unpopular and she’s doing everything she can to scrub her history of the fact that she was the original co-sponsor of AOC’s Green New Deal back in 2019. She is desperate. Keep in mind in, the DC government right now in Washington DC, they have straw cops out, and they have tip lines for your neighbors to snitch on small businesses, — everything from Uber Eats to your local corner restaurant — if you catch them serving foam or plastic straws or cups. They want you to snitch. People have had it with these kinds of bans and this nonsense.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Yeah, they absolutely have. Let’s talk about Volvo because there was a lot of euphoria on the greeny side about EVs. Everything was going to go to EVs, but the demand for it just never materialized.
Marc Morano: What’s happening here: this is Volvo joining VW, joining Ford, joining Chrysler (Stelantis), joining Mercedes, joining Porsche, joining Tesla — we are seeing an utter wholesale collapse of the demand for any EVs. In other words, I think it was a Toyota vice president who actually said most of the people who wanted an EV had already bought it. What does that mean? 7% of cars, maybe a little over that over that, are EVs.
Volvo realized that they had a goal of 100% electric by 2030. Guess what their numbers are in 2024? They’re barely at 25%, but they’re not even at 25%. It’s all virtue signaling. It’s corporate government collusion, ultimately. These companies are taking hundreds of millions in federal funds. Look at what Stellantis did; it took hundreds of millions of federal money for EVs, saw no sales demand, and now they’re laying off Michigan workers. They took American taxpayer money — a foreign-owned corporation — and now they’re taking the money and running, and American workers are suffering. That’s the reality of the EV mandates and the gas-powered car bans of this Administration.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: We also have to talk about windmills because there’s also been a problem there as well. So these windmills — I don’t like them. I think they’re ugly. I think they’re bird killers, and I think they’re whale killers. Now, pieces of them are falling off of Martha’s Island, and all the rich people are getting upset, so let’s talk about these windmills.
Marc Morano: Everyone’s like, ‘Well, we have to have wind and solar!’ But 82% of U.S. energy is from fossil fuels. The global electricity rate for solar and wind does not even hit 14% — it’s like 13.9% — there is no there at the moment. The idea that we can mandate these sources of energy is absurd. There’s no cost-benefit analysis. In other words, they don’t produce electricity. Now, having said that, we have conservation groups saying that in the last half of a century, they’ve never seen whale mortality, whale deaths like we’re seeing now, and they’re linking it to offshore wind. Remember, every offshore windmill you see — the length the blades are the length of a football field, the height is as high as the Eiffel Tower, and the turbines go 200 miles an hour.
Of course, off Martha’s Vineyards, these giant windmills broke off, and now we have shards of fiberglass all over some of the wealthiest beaches in the world. The way to end these wind mandates and subsidies is to get rich people — who normally virtue signal — ‘Oh, of course we want windmills’ — but once it’s in their backyard, we may see the end of this nonsense.
Rachel Campos-Duffy: I’m glad you described how large they are. They are impossible to dispose of; they’re an ecological disaster. Marc Morano, always great having you on. Thanks for joining us this morning.
Marc Morano: Thank you, Rachel. Appreciate it.
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