BUCK: Gotta be out there making the case.

BUCK: Jim Jordan gets it. Welcome back to Clay and Buck. This is where we’ve gotta focus in, I think, so much more energy because, one, the Democrat base is, unfortunately, they’re already energized. They’re energized because Trump is in the news cycle, they’re energized because Dobbs, they’re energized for a number of reasons.

The media is encouraging them to think that they can blunt the Red Wave, and that perception can become reality when the actual votes are cast. Independents are expecting the case to be made on the right, they’re expecting conservatives, Republicans to be saying, “Hey, here’s what we’re gonna do differently if we have the power to do so, which requires your vote. Here’s what Democrats have done wrong, and here’s what would be better and we’ll at least push for it in Congress even if we can’t necessarily in the near term get it done.” I think that’s a critical piece of this.

I mean, because the libs are insane, Clay, we return to a basic theme of the show, in California now. And this is I believe gonna affect Virginia too because the Virginia State legislature when it was all blue there was this period pre-Youngkin election where, you know, the top three officials — the governor, lieutenant governor, and I guess state attorney general were all Democrats, the state legislature was Democrat dominated.

They created some policy that would follow causal emissions standards, which just seems bonkers beyond words. Right now, California — and there are other states as well that are following suit — are saying they want to ban the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035, meaning cars that run on gas.

At a time when gas prices are still high, mortgage costs have skyrocketed under Joe Biden so far as a percentage, right? Gone from roughly 3% on average to over 5%. So, the cost of people buying homes is going up.

You’ve had these challenges. Now, they could go a lot higher. I mean, the eighties mortgages were — what’s the high — I think the eighties it got up to, what —

CLAY: 17, 18%, I think. Way up there.

BUCK: Mortgages, you know, got crazy high. So, still relativity speaking we’re in good shape. But as a percentage increase it’s dramatic. There are all these things that really affect people.
Companies, big consumer product companies are saying they’re getting ready for a really week holiday season when it comes to buying because people don’t have the same disposable income, a lot of people running up credit card debt.

These kitchen table economic issues are critical to the Red Wave that we are hoping happens. And blue states are banning the sale of cars by 2035 if they run on gas, Clay.

CLAY: This is one of the dangers of the Green New Deal. I know we all kind of laugh about it, and certainly Biden has managed to get through whatever it was, almost $800 billion in his Green New Deal energy plan. But, Buck, I think one of the huge stories that is not being covered right now is what is happening to gas and oil prices, energy prices, effectively, all over Europe.

The war that is going in Ukraine — and this is one of the areas where Trump was incredibly prescient where he saw exactly what was going on. The idea that you could cut Russia out of the oil and gas market in Europe and that there weren’t going to be severe consequences I think is being proven to be really, really wrong.

And in England, inflation rates they’re now forecasting are going to around 14%. And I was reading over the weekend, their home gas prices, heating and oil, going up 80%. The average British family is going to be spending $4200 a year to heat their home and be able to live a normal life, up 80%.

And I don’t think there’s been enough discussion about — this renewable energy idea is fine. It doesn’t exist, Buck. It doesn’t exist to replace the existing oil and gas infrastructure. So 2035, do you really feel like you’re gonna be able to charge phones — charge cars everywhere and it’s gonna be super-efficient?

We talked about that great story the Wall Street Journal wrote, Buck, of the reporter who drove from New Orleans I believe it was to Chicago on an electric vehicle and how insanely difficult it was to try to find charging stations along the way, how long it took, how often they were occupied.

And at the end she was desperate to just be able to pull into a gas station, pop in the fuel. I don’t think that we understand how radical many of these energy policies are and how difficult they are going to be to implement and how many crazy, difficult energy shortages we’re going to end up with in the years ahead trying to make this Green New Deal, reduce emissions thing happen.

And, in the meantime, we got — I love these. You know you see ’em. You got all these people flying in private jets —

BUCK: Oh, yeah.

CLAY: — pulling up in electric vehicles to park beside their private jet. I believe one private jet flight — and I’m not judging anybody who does it — but I believe one private jet flight overseas from the United States to Europe is 10 years’ worth of the emissions from a vehicle. So, all these guys pulling up in their Teslas to hop on a private jet is really the height of hypocrisy.

BUCK: In California the plan here for their great green leap forward is to make it effectively cost prohibitive, cost prohibitive to sell gasoline-based cars over this time horizon they’ve set out. If automakers don’t comply with the percentages — this is pure market plantation.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: This is intervening in the markets to direct a social policy through economic policy, they will face a $20,000 fine, Clay, for each vehicle sold in violation of the percentage of vehicles that must be electric. So, you would hit the electric percentage number over time. This starts in 2030.

So, this is five years ahead of the total ban. Or else they’ll fine you $20,000, which just means obviously you can’t sell your cars in California. These people are out of their minds. Like when I go into the store here in New York City and when I still want plastic bags, okay?

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: I want a plastic bag. No, I did not bring a reusable bag. I don’t walk around with a canvas tote bag on all day. I just want a plastic bag, libs. Stop being crazy. Oh, they give me a paper bag.
The bottles, the milk, whatever I have falls through the bottom and I look like a moron out on the streets. These people have an anxiety disorder and an absolute obsession with virtue signaling and controlling other people.

CLAY: I wonder, Buck, whether there’s gonna be a massive — you know how in Cuba they can keep cars running from the 1950s because the marketplace has never really allowed them to get new cars? I wonder how many people in California are going to be still selling — so 2035 you can’t buy new — in California, but can you drive to Arizona and buy one?

Can you drive to Nevada and buy one? But more importantly, inside the state, I wonder whether there’s gonna actually be people who continue to want gas powered cars, and so there will be a marketplace where these used cars continue to have value longer than they otherwise would because some people are like, hey, I just want to rely on a gas as opposed to a charging station.

BUCK: In a period of let’s call it 30 years, maybe you could say even 20 years, but in a period of 30 years, California, which is in so many ways as a physical geographic entity, the jewel of America, I mean, it is unbelievably blessed with natural resources, gorgeous coastline, amazing vineyards.

I know I sound like I work for the tourism board there, but it really was an incredible place, and this great American dream was, you know, go west, go west to California. They’ve ruined the cities. They’ve made it so that there are brownouts that occur ’cause they don’t have enough electricity.

They have, you know, the worst wildfires because of brush mismanagement effectively, and forestry mismanagement. Worst fires they’ve seen in probably a century, you have water shortages all the time, but they gotta make sure the delta smelt have enough water, which is little fish that they’re protecting.

It is an absolutely case study in mismanagement. It is hemorrhaging residents as a result. And they’re doubling down. This is libs in America today. They’re like, “Yeah, more of this.”

CLAY: And they’re destroying what should be one of the greatest places in the world.

BUCK: It’s rough to watch it play out. I just hope the rest of the country sees this, takes notice. I hope Georgia and Pennsylvania and Arizona say, don’t California us in terms of policies and governance and the way things are run. We’ll see.