The Sean Hannity ShowLarry Behrens is the communications director at Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs and Dan Weaver, President of the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association discuss OPEC’s decision to tighten the release of oil to America, and Joe’s decision to lessen sanctions against Venezuela instead of empowering America to become energy independent. Which we can do - EASILY. And Biden’s solution, use our Strategic Petroleum Reserves, which are meant to be maintained for catastrophic events
All right, our two Sean Hannity Show eight hundred and nine for one, Shawn our number if you want to be a part of the program. So, as shocking as it is, Biden has been trying to make a deal. Remember last year he imported six hundred and seventy four million barrels of oil, making the hostile actor and the hostile nation Russia and Putin Rich even a million barrels of oil from Iran, which had not been done since the nineteen nineties. And then he sent emissaries over to Venezuela. Now after he begged OPEC again and again and again and again and again and again, and they kept projecting his call to increase production. After he went to Saudi Arabia, what he called a Parian nation, and met with MBS to suck up to him, the guy that he accused of killing journalist Jamal Kashogi, and got rejected. Their OPEC turns around. Not only did they not increase production of oil, they decreased it. Of course, OPEC Saudi Arabia now working with Vladimir Putin in Russia and they want to maximize their profits and they are reducing the world supply purposefully in the hopes that they can get it. Yes, a barrel of oil up to a one hundred and fifty dollars a barrel. It's insane. We are following right in the idiotic footsteps of our Western European allies that gave into their climate alarmist cultist and became dependent on Putin for their the lifeblood of their economy. And now, as a result of Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Western europe support of Ukraine, he's just decided to turn off the spickett and he's now selling his energy to China and India and other countries. You know, we do have an answer, go back to energy independence, but I'd take it a step further. I'd go to energy dominance. How many more times is Joe Biden going to embarrass this country and allow Saudi Arabia, OPEC and Russia to humiliate him, because that's what's happened. How long is he going to force the American people to suffer paying higher gas prices at the pump, paying more for every product, every item they buy in every store they go to because it costs more to get it there because of the high price of diesel. You know White House can accuse OPEC of siding with Russia. All they want. They don't care, Joe. All they care about is maximizing their profits off of your stupidity. No one could explain to me what difference does it make to Mother Earth if you extract a barrel of oil from Russia or ran Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, any OPEC country, or if you extract that here domestically. If anything, we're going to do a cleaner we'll do it faster, we'll do it cheaper, and we'll be the masters of our own destiny. It's good for national security, it's good for job creation, high paying jobs in the energy sector, career jobs in the energy sector. Then we could even take it a step further, becoming energy dominant, providing a Western European allies with all their energy needs. And guess what, America would become filthy rich like all of these oil producing countries. We'd be making the profit. But they but Joe, that's not even on the table. They won't even consider that. You know, we had nearly seven hundred million barrels of oil in our strategic petroleum reserves, were now down about three fifty and Biden now is going to take ten million more barrels out of the strategic reserve. It's supposed to be for an emergency. You don't define an emergency as people getting mad at the Democratic Party in the lead up to an election because the high gas prices that they caused. So you artificially flood the market with more supply. Oh, Sea gas prices are down. We're responsible. So now the US is going to look to Venezuela and wind down sanctions against this, you know, murdering dictator thug Maduro clearing the way for Chevron to resume their oil operations and open the US and European markets to their energy. That means we're gonna make them rich again if he does. The Iranian deal will make the Mullos and i Ran rich again. US gas prices climbing day after day, nearly six fifty on average in California. You're paying over five bucks. In Nevada, you're paying a fortune in Argument, You're paying a fortune all over the country. We're gonna go back to five dollars gallon gasoline. And Joe's answer, well, we'll do another quick band aid fix, or at least more petroleum reserves, which compromises our national security, and we'll do it to the election. This way, we don't get hammered on high gas prices, will lose the election because of my idiotic energy and economic policies. White House denied the Wall Street Journal report that the US is looking for more oil from Maduro. I don't believe them. They have been being caught lying on these issues again and again and again. Larry Berens is with US, the communication director at the Power of the Future, and national nonprofit organization that I advocates for American energy jobs. Dan Weaver is back with US as well, president of the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association. Dan, How dumb are we as a country to have put ourselves in this position, especially considering two years ago, less than two years ago, we achieved energy independence and we're a net exporter of energy for the first time in seventy five years. I don't know as a country as a whole, but as a leadership, yeah, we're pretty dumb. I mean, to be reaching out to countries that don't like us at all, and to look beyond our borders of what we can achieve within. It's fairly idiotic. To say the least. And we do have the ability. I mean exactly what you said, We have the ability to produce it here. And to go to your point, not only can we produce it here, we could produce it here more environmentally friendly. As far as emissions and standards, you don't. We have some of the highest standards the place in the world. So well, Dan, let me interrupt. You didn't as we became energy independent on the Donald Trump, didn't we have the largest reduction in CO two gas emissions, etc. Than any other industrialized country in the same period of time while we were becoming energy independent. Oh, absolutely absolutely, if you look up through twenty nineteen, um. You know, if we look at just take CO two, the significant drop of and just CO two with about thirteen hundred pounds of CO two per megawe just for dealing with building electricity, not even talking about, you know, utilizing natural gas for other resources or other sources for burning for fuel or anything along those lines. Just looking at the electrical market, which you know, we are the only country that's meeting or exceeding those standards that's out there. And it's it's foolish to think that other countries are are even capable of doing it or choose to do it as well as we do. Right now, let's get your take, Lowry, I think we've harmed our national security interest in this process. Number one? Number two, how many times will Joe allow himself to be embarrassed on the world stage? And number three? After all of this, why doesn't Joe Biden stand up to the climate alarmist cult in his own party and say, sorry, your policies aren't working. We don't have the technology of alternative sources of energy or as Pete Boodha judge says, we'll have to wait till we become energy independent with renewable energies. The technology, to my knowledge, does not exist. Does it exist in your world? No, it doesn't exist in any world set. And it's despicable that has taken Joe Biden less than two years to make OPEX great again. It has made us a lapping stock on the world stage. It's no coincidence that OPEC waited until our strategic patroying reserve. Was that the biggest low or forty years to make this cut? And you know who's made it really big cuts to the oil production as well, Joe Bide We're at more than a million barrels of oil less a day in the United States production because we have a president who leased the fewest amount of acres of any president since Harry Truman. And the part that goals us, I mean the families are paying too much. One in six Americans are having trouble paying their utility bills. But the part that goes the more is for Joe Bides to go begging FI, bumping to Saudi Arabia, begging to Venezuela when he won't even talk to a single American energy worker. Americans do it better, we do a cleaner, we do it more profitable, and we can't have energy dominance if Joe Biden would just turn away from his special interests. But he'll never do that. He's led out this pittance of ten million barrels of oil just to get him through the election. That's what Joe Biden cares about for your family. He doesn't care that you're worried about your heating bills. He doesn't care about your pants to pump. He cares about getting through the midterms. What is Joe Biden going to do to you? When the counter turns deliverer to night, and he still has some power. It is our chance to speak up and say no more. Well, it's a chance to do so. But I'm assuming Republicans will take the House. Hopefully they take the Senate. But I don't think Joe Biden would sign any legislation that would go against this climate cult of his. I mean it's sort of like once you're locked into a cult dan and their mindset and indoctrinated into it, and you believe it with all your heart, mind, and soul. I mean people that come out of real cults. They have people that are called deep programmers. I don't think you can deep program these people off of this idiocy at all, nor can you explain to them in any way they be willing to listen to that. We don't have the technology that they say that we should make the transition to, and if we did, whoever brought that fourth would be a multi, multi, multi trillionaire. If you can give us cheap clean energy in another form, well, I think you're exactly right. I think that's what I think you're spot on with with that statement. You know, we hear it all the time. It's ill. You know, it's a transition it's a transition. It's a transition. This is what we need to do. This is where we need to be at. And the reality is this, listen, where we're at. Natural gas is what's providing you know, it's what's allowing this to happen. It's what's bringing down the CO two emissions. And I keep harping back upon that, but it's it's more than that. And so everybody says, well, how does that help MC gasoling? Well, you know, guess what, you can turn natural gas into gasoling and they's they're working on a plant care in Pennsylvania to do exactly that. Uh, you know, ngel natural gas liquids, right, so we'll be able to have gasoline that's you know, doesn't have sulfur, has half the carbon um as normal gasoline. However, you know the problem is just trying to get those permits and trying to get things in places everywhere. We have those roadbox and people want these things to happen overnight. Well, listen, the reality is that technology isn't here yet, not on a scalable form. You know, it's just not there. Plus it requires the fundamental building blocks for a lot of those technologies are still coming from natural gas and oil. Right, it's what the foundation of modern society is built on. And if you don't think that that agenda isn't being pushed by communist countries in the background, well then you're foolish. Well, we did learn multiple reports that came out that showed that in the lead up to Europe abandoning their own sources of energy, that it was putting himself, funding some of these radical environmental groups, putting the pressure on those countries to make that dumb decision. And look how that has played out at the end of the day. Why it's happening here, why we would go down the same road they have gone down. They're now anticipating in Western Europe that they're going to be people will be spending third plus percent of their annual income just to heat their homes. This winner that they're predicting people will free to death. They're predicting, you know, real doom and gloom, and there's nobody to fill the void. Now they're trying to very quickly get online, you know, mothballed, coal fired, you know, coal fired grid back up and running. Good luck with that after it's been what decades since they mothballed it. It's not going to be an easy an easy fix. What do I think they can get it done for this winner anyway? Larry, thank you, Dan Weaver, thank you. We appreciate you both being with us. We doubled down on stupid. That's what we're doing. It's unbelievable. All right, quick break, we'll come right back. We'll hit the phones. Eight hundred and nine four one, Sean our number if you want to be a part of the program. As we continue. All right, we continue now as we head to our busy phones, eight hundred and nine four one Sean. Let's get to Ron and Pittsburgh ground. We have a minute. It's all yours. Glad you called. Hi, Sean, appreciate you taking my call. I'm calling from Pittsburgh, which was next to Braddick, which our good friend John Fetterman is from. I've known John for over twenty years. I've done him twenty years ago. He hired me to do some work on his properties there in Braddick. And by the way, how does he hire you when he never had a paying job in his life and is a trust fund brat? And how did he get the six properties that he didn't pay over you know, all those all these taxes on while he wants to raise taxes on you. How did he get to do that. That's one of the questions I have. I mean, as the time, as a contractor, had no it was none of my business where the money was coming from. But now as he's running for senator, I have questions about things that happened even before he was mayor. It seems like every time you guys dig into his background you find more and more thank you, And I think I would suggest that you go back before he got into politics. There was some kind of a community group or something he was running down there, but there seemed to be money to burn. Well, the one way I can tell you is the population when he took over his or was around twenty two three hundred, went down to seventeen hundred and change when he left, and the average income was about twenty one thousand dollars per person. Not exactly a huge success. Well, I'll tell you if Chrodict is his claim to fame, then you need to go to Broddick and take a look around. It's been a very depressed town for years, and it's because it's been Runde Democrats with the John Federman mindset for years, and it's it's been pretty poor as long as I can remember. I've lived in Pittsburgh all my life. But I just want to say that he is a socialist through and through. He hated big business, he hated big corporations. He felt like the government should step in and basically taking troll of those businesses, those corporations, and dictate how the moneys and the profits were spent. It terrifies me to think that he's this close to becoming a senator. If this is the best we can do, then we're in pretty bad shape. Well. Obviously, his track record speaks for itself, and the people of Braddick haven't fared very well. As lieutenant governor, he does have one great distinction and accomplishment, and that is supporting the release of more murderers and hardcore violent criminals than anybody in the history of any state that we can find. He really is good on that part, did a great job there. I appreciate the call. Eight hundred nine for one, Shawn our number. If you want to be a part of the program, like many of you, if you suffer from insomnia, look there's nothing worse than that. I've had insomnia problems for a long time. One thing that really helped me in my life is all things my pillow. And when I got my first my pillow, I couldn't believe how comfortable that pillow is. It really makes a difference. I fall asleep faster, I stay asleep longer. You can too. Now you've helped build my Pillow into an incredible company that it is. 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It's against a liberal Pelosi Democrat named Jerry Conley. The guy the Republican running is Jim Miles. He'll join us in a second here, and uh, you know, it's it's just very interesting what's happening. If you go back to Glen Yuncan's victory. A lot of it was based on age appropriate materials being taught our kids in school, parental involvement in the school system without being investigated as domestic terrorists. A lot of it had to do with CRT, transgenderism, etc. Etc. Anyway, there's a new development. It's not quite in the district of Jim Miles, but Loudon County school Board candidate yea one that wants to deep fund the Louden County Sheriff's office. Far left activists by the name of Nick Gothard was running for the Loudon County school Board in a special election there's November. Apparently wants to defund the Louden County Sheriff's Office, which of course provides all of the school resource officers that keep the schools safe, and that's now become an issue front and center in Jim Miles Race. He joins us, Now, how are you, sir. I'm doing well, Sean, thanks so much for having me on your show today. It's amazing how glen YUNCN was able to pull off such a massive victory in the Commonwealth of Virginia. I've been pretty much convinced that I had the write off Virginias as hopeless. That's not the case. You have an opportunity here to win this seat from a Pelosi acolyte. What are the odds you're going to win this? You know, I think they're really good. They're early voting. I've been going to and people are so energized. We love our children here in Fairfax. And again my hat's off. I applied Governor Yunkin. He's released that Virginia Department of Education the model policies, and again it comes back to a parent's fundamental right to control the education and the health of their children. Now they're into equity grading here as kind of the latest I read today, and I don't know where they're going to try to go with that, but I gotta tell you. We moved here, my wife and I a young son here in two thousand and four, and part of the reason we settled here in Burke was the outstanding Fairfax schools and we tried to pull our son out last year and we could not find a school with space that we could afford. Into schools or their hemorrhaging students. It's nearly ten thousand and they're losing more because they just don't here about academic excellence like they did in the past. But now it's all about indoctrination of our children's sexualization, this pressure for gender identity, and it's just having a really bad effect on our children here and parents are very upset, you know. And it's the obvious is definitely going to be in play for the election. That is record high inflation, high gas prices, open borders. But on the other side of that, you've got other issues that Americans are really concerned about. One is education and the other is law and order and safety and security and battling back against the insanity of these nobel laws and defund and dismantled policies. Is that coming into play where you are, Oh, without a doubt on I tell you, we're getting a little bit nervous here at Fairfax Colony. When we moved here was like just one of the safest places that you didn't even need to worry about locking your doors at night. But no more. I mean we've had I was just at an event today in Tyson's Corner and they've had shootings there now in Tyson's in the Springfield Mall and smashing grabs, and it's really getting a dangerous place. And that it all comes down to two things. First is the deterrence. We've defunded police. We've lost two hundred officers here in Fairfax and that's having a devastating effect on morale. But it also affects deterrence. If people don't think the police are out there, they're going to commit crimes. And I think even worse, we've got a woke prosecutor and he's turning people loose back out there, or violent criminals into the street. In criminals see, they're not going to get caught and they're not going to get punished. So the end result is we're going to see a lot more violence here in Fairfax County. And as a parent with a family here, I am so concerned, and I know so many other people here in Fairfax County are. I think you have a great track record, an interesting background. You're sixty three years old, you're a veteran, you're a retired federal judge. You're specialized in social security Medicare issues. Democrats every election like to scare seniors and say Republicans want to take away your Medicare, and they want to take away your social Security and let you eat dog food and cat food until some Republican comes along throws you in a wheelchair and throws you over a cliff, which is kind of their standards. So it sounds like you're uniquely qualified for this job. If yeah, if I can just come, And I was a Air Force instructor pilot, I came, became a fighter pilot. I flew eight tens along the DMZ there in Korea, and I stood on the table there with a white line down the middle there, and I got to tell you other way. Did you know that it was fifty meters in the DMZ zone. Yeah, but I knew what side. You know, our allies were unto that line. So I just thought that was kind of interesting last week. But but yeah, I was enjoyed, enjoyed my time in the military and went on, like you indicated to become a federal judge. And yeah, I stand with seniors. I am one. I'm on Social Security myself, and I also believe as a federal judge, I swored uphold the Constitution, and I really believe in the equal application of all the laws to every America and regardless of race and sex and religion. And I have to say now, I think political affiliation is almos becoming a protected class because the people in charge here now I think have just abandoned their civic duty and their legal responsibility to treat everybody fairly under the law. And we really need to change course here. Well, we'll following the race closely. Jim Miles going up against a Pelosi disciple by the name of Jerry Conley the eleventh District of the Commonwealth of Virginia. We wish you luck, mister Miles, and We'll follow the race closely and hopefully in thirty three days you'll be the winner. Oh I think I will be, Sean. And thanks so much again for sharing your time in your audience with me. Appreciate you being one with us. Eight hundred and nine f one, Seawn our number. You want to be a part of the program. Brenda is in Florida, Brenda, Hi, how are you glad you called? Hi? Sean. It's a pleasure to speak with you. This is my first time I ever trying to call in. Glad you made it. Let me thank you. I've lived in Florida and it's been one heck of a week this last week. Yesterday I was driving when an update came over the radio. Atlanta Governor Deciantist and the President after visiting victims and the devastation Governor's this Antis gave an impressive update on the work going on there. I was so impressed. My heart felt with leadership and I felt I felt comfort. And after then he gave the podium over to the President after he greeted him as Gov. I might add, the first thing out of his mouth was something about global warming. Yeah, the debate is over. We had a hurricane during hurricane season. That means that global warming is now one hundred percent definitive. It's not exactly. And even if that is your argument, now is not the time. This made me so incensed that he talks about fires in Colorado and something about Colorado River being in a stream, something about let me ask you, does it really shock you? Does it really surprise you at this point? Okay, but that's a different that's a different point, that's a different reaction. Nothing that Joe Biden says or does shocks me. You know. The fact that he adheres to and clings to this fanaticism and climate cultism the way he does, that's the shocking part. The fact that all his fellow Democrats do as well. I'll even predict I don't think they'll make the adjustments, the changes after the shellacking, hopefully in thirty three days, because they're that married and that indoctrinated into their own narrative. Governor DeSantis is dealing with a catastrophe right now. We're looking at October in the state of Florida. October is our busiest hurricane months for the West Coast of storms hitting Florida, and we already have this kind of devastation. He's got an election in four plus weeks and he has not made anything political. He's taking care of the citizens, and the president, the leader of the free world, makes it political. Why but why does that surprise you? That doesn't surprise me at all. I don't know why it surprised me. But these aren't places where rich people like. These are places where US Floridians have brought our children as as kids. We've been a lifetime. I'm never lave at Santabelle and Captiva and you know there's mom and pop restaurant. Listen, I have a heart for you know, all the years I had a place in Naples, Florida, and knowing Fort Myers as well as I do know in sarah Sota as well as I do. Uh, it's heartbreaking, you know. One of the great things that they were able to accomplish very quickly. I can't believe over ninety five percent of Folridians now have their power back. And that's somewhat miraculous, in large part because they staged and they had prepared for the hurricane and the immediate aftermath thereof, and they knew that they were going to be in great need of the services. And they had three football fields of trucks of you know, electric company trucks ready to go the minute they could get in there. And they got in there and they fixed it. They're doing great. They're everywhere. The trucks are everywhere, and we're applauding them because we were affected here with water as well. But we'll tell those guys when you see them. Guys working on my road, I don't know, a year or two ago and and we had power outages and issues involving all that stuff. To be honest, it doesn't impact me. I have a big generator buys everyone. If you can get even a small one, it helps a lot. But anyway, so they're there, and I just said, guys, let me buy you a lunch, and I came back came of a bunch of pizza. You have no idea what it means to these guys meant a lot. So they're going to be working, you know, eighteen hour days. They're going to be tired. They're they're just working so hard to get the grid back up and running and doing it successfully. So they really deserve our respect and applause. Well, my word out to Floridian Satacina. There's going to be a lot of poles that are going to be down as result of this whole thing. I don't know how that's going to affect everything, but please don't take it for granted. We need to keep the leadership. There's a reason that people are leaving from all over this United States to come to Florida. And I've got double feelings about that because it's made it very expensive for those of us who live here. But it's an amazing place and we need Governor DeSantis to be in power after this next election. I think Governor DeSantis will do well. Latest pole has him up by eight. Latest pole has Rubio up by seven. We're watching every race closely and taking nothing for granted. Brenda, appreciate the call, quick break. We'll come back more of your calls. Eight hundred nine fold one, Shawn our number. If you want to be a part of the program. Final Hour roundup is next. You do not want to miss it, and stay tuned for the Final Hour. Frieverall on the Sean Hannity Show. Let's set to our busy phones. George is in the Great State of Maine. George, how are you glad you called sir. Good afternoon, Sean. How are you and I'm wonderful to talk with you. Thank you so much for having me. I wanted to chat about this global warming fiasco. I'm an engineering physicist in my work is science, and what's really interesting is most people don't realize this petroleum is not dinosaur juice. It doesn't come from dinosaurs that died millions of years ago. Actually, what happens is petroleum oil comes from green plants that are primarily in the water, and coal comes primarily from green plants that are on land. And so what happens is right now, almost all the of the oceans are a great big solar collector. When you burn gasoline in your car, you're burning solar collected energy that was collected years and years ago. What happens right now. In photosynthesis, you get six molecules of carbon dioxide from from the atmosphere. You get six molecules of water H two from the atmosphere. You combine the Sun's energy, and you get one molecule of C six H twelve O six, which is grape sugar. That's the simplest packet of energy in all carbon based fuels and plus six beautiful molecules of pure hydrogen, pure oxygen given right back to the atmosphere. Sean, So petroleum recycles all the time. I've run the numbers, and it's just like the United States or all of human kind using petroleum is like a birthday cake the size of a gymnasium. And you walk in there and you take one little scoop of frosting off the side of the birthday cake the size of a gymnasium. That's how much oil we humans use. It's in the noise, and it all recycles, and it didn't stop recycling when the dinosaurs died. It does so to this day. All all of the oceans with green plants are photos are synthesizing C six age twelve O six and producing oxygen. The last thing I had to say, Sean, is that and your friend Joe Bastardi, I believe, has mentioned this. I love listening to him too when you have him on what happens is right now, the approximate concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is about four hundred and seventeen parts per million. Green plants are really efficient when the concentration is between a thousand and fifteen hundred parts per million, So we're actually, believe it or not, in a carbon dioxide deficit right now and the land. What happens is the higher the concentration of carbon dioxide, the greater the capacity of the green plants to scrub it from the atmosphere and renew it in the carbon based fuels that we can use. So this whole global warming thing is a fraud. And if you take a look at the universities, they all have a climate change institute. Imagine if some of these these faculty lounge dwellers with letters after their names came out and said, well, you know, I don't really believe that global warming is all at big a deal or climate change, they'd lose their funding and a heartbeatch on. I understand completely what you're saying. I really do, and I don't understand the science obviously, as you do. This is what you do for a living, this is your area of expertise. But I'll say this, Donald Trump brought us energy independence, and we were the biggest in terms of a country. We reduced more carbon emissions than any other country on the face of the Earth, while simultaneously becoming energy independent. You can't dispute that fact anyway. Appreciate you being one of us. George eight
