Al Gore is back, this time finding ways to stunt Africa’s growth on the basis that offering abundant, affordable fossil fuels or nuclear energy to the world’s destitute is not green. Ken Braun, Senior Investigative Researcher with Capital Research Center, and author of “Al Gore Offers Africa Electricity by the Spoonful,” reveals the sacrifices Gore demands of the world’s poor, while making few of his own.

 

Then, the country’s largest freshwater aquifer, the Ogallala, and the country’s largest oil & gas play, the Permian Basin, are under threat from a plan to dump all the nation’s high-level radioactive waste atop of both… and so-called environmentalists arenowhere to be found. The Texas Governor and legislature are fighting back, with both Democrats and Republicans making a rare, united front against the federal and foreign actors who are steamrolling the will of the people. Jacki talks about this disastrous plan with representatives from Fasken Oil & Ranch – attorney Monica Perales and Tommy Taylor, Director of Oil & Gas Development.

 

Next, yet another of Jacki’s predictions (we like to call them “prophecies,” but they’re really just common sense) has been fulfilled: Coal is back and making money. Even in its darkest days of cascading bankruptcies, Jacki opined that coal will always have a future for as long as world population continues to boom. Even the poorest countries will see increased demand for energy as they move up to a more motorized and modernized future. Countries will not starve their people or economies to meet the regressive “green” goals of the United Nations, nor should they. Until alternatives are vastly improved, coal has a future. It is dense, cheap, transportable, and quickly dispatchable at times of high demand (say, Texas in a February winter storm), which is more than we can say for coal’s overhyped “competition.” The fundamentals made this one an easy call.

 

Then, one of Jacki’s dreams came true as she was able to visit Ted Nugent’s Texas ranch, take in his concert from the front row, and hear from Ted and his wife, Shemane, a plan to activate hunters across America to show up to vote, protecting the culture of freedom. We at The Jacki Daily Show are conservationists to the core, as are the great Americans at HunterNation: conserving nature and conserving our heritage and inalienable rights. Every last one of us should get involved at hunternation.org. Jacki is a Lifetime Member!