May 07, 2020

Ep 56 | Is It the Government's Job to Save Your Life? or to Protect the Pursuit of Happiness? | Guests: Alex Epstein, Kirk Edwards, & Brent Bennett

1 hour 33 minutes

Jacki and Alex Epstein talk about the role of government during a pandemic. Jacki lays out the cost in human life of shutdown (suicides, missed cancer diagnoses, domestic abuse) from her latest op-Ed in RealClearPolitics. Then, Kirk Edwards lays out a plan to save the American energy industry, including his view of tariffs, refining capacity, and a proposed, all-new North American Producers Alliance (U.S., Canada, Mexico working together like O PEC). Then, Dr. Brent Bennett of the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Life:Powered Initiative has written the only comprehensive guide to subsidies in the energy sector. Turns out wind energy receives 40 times as much tax benefit as traditional energy, and solar receives 200 times as much! These funds are nearly never factored in when "experts" claim that alternatives are now the cheapest form of energy.

GUESTS: Alex Epstein, Center for Industrial Progress; Kirk Edwards, Latigo Petroleum; Brent Bennett, PhD, Texas Public Policy Foundation.

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