i'm still pissed

you know what I've realized

uh the government it causes more

problems in our lives than it solves so

get this California spends a hundred

billion dollars on a high-speed rail

that the Cato Institute thinks is going

to take 71 years to break even

economically and environmentally that

means we're going to pollute for 71

years trying to build something green

and we're going to waste 100 billion

dollars for

71 years but folks what's fascinating is

what you could be doing with that money

you could literally remove income taxes

on people making less than 250 000 for

three years literally the vast majority

of Californians 99 of Californians

could have zero income taxes owed for

the next three years

if we didn't spend 100 billion dollars

on the high-speed rail

or many of you know that we have a water

crisis in California

we cost around five to six billion

dollars to build an aqueduct from

California Los Angeles to Boston that's

literally all the way across the United

States we could build an aqueduct and

States who have lots of water in between

could hook up and sell water to us

that's cheaper and cleaner than what we

do here in California

the high-speed rail costs 100 billion

dollars let's say that Aqueduct even

cost us rounding up a lot here

like 50 more say it cost us 10 billion

dollars we could build 10 of them 10 of

them instead of the high-speed rail we

could literally end our water crisis in

California

at the same time we have too little

water to feed our crops and too little

water

for our homes

we have some of the worst fires because

we have some of the nastiest way most

aging infrastructure in the country

folks Wonder like oh you know must be

global warming must be global warming

Lucas I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make

an argument here about global warming

I can tell you a lot of our fires are

sparked by old power lines aging

infrastructure infrastructure that is 20

to 30 years over its useful life

expectancy and we're somehow shocked

that a power line snaps and breaks and

causes a fire come on we we know the

systems are old

that we spend money on High-Speed Rail

100 billion dollars we could spend that

money in

improve every single infrastructure

program that we have in the state in

terms of the electrical power grid twice

over but California doesn't want to

actually upgrade a lot of our existing

infrastructure because the argument is

well

if we spend money improving something

safety or efficiency by 8x

that has to be a hundred percent green

because otherwise the politicians don't

feel good because if it's not 100 green

it must not be good so in other words

give you a specific example here making

Natural Gas

production eight times more efficient in

California or lowering the cost of

gasoline is a political No-No because it

disincentivizes maybe people from going

green

so in other words

California politicians would rather have

aging infrastructure that causes

wildfires that cost us billions of

dollars a year at the same time as not

managing our forest fires or managing

our forest to prevent fires and so they

rather have aging infrastructure that

causes fires and prevents solving our

Water Crisis so they can have a

Pet Project like a high-speed rail

at the same time as refusing to

transition to more efficient Machinery

refineries Peak or plants for

electricity were stuck with the old

stuff now I know peaker plants are

sometimes uh it's a political hot button

it's oh well if you build a peak or

plant that's going to last you 50 years

folks so what

so what build it if a company is willing

to invest in it and just wants to build

a new Peak or plant and that means we

don't have power outages anymore we

don't have blackouts anymore build it so

we stop having blackouts so we stop

having issues with our power grid

improve the systems we have

now some folks say well Kevin that's

that's not green enough well guess what

you can do when you actually have a

power grid that doesn't fail guess what

you actually can do when you have

infrastructure that works you can build

solar farms and wind farms and actually

bring that power to cities without

overloading the cities putting too much

tension on the power lines and guess

what happens you actually end up net

positive you end up with more green

energy than you would otherwise

but I don't think California politicians

get it because they don't want their

name on oh well I helped improve the

natural gas industry and I saved 8X and

I prevented fires that's not tangible

enough for them no it's got to be oh

I've built X many solar panels why don't

you do both how do you kill the

high-speed rail and do both look I built

X many millions of kilowatts of solar

power at the same time we made natural

gas 8X more efficient at the same time

we made gasoline at the pump 30 less

expensive because we actually improved

our systems and we estimate that we

prevented X number of fires in doing so

but logic defies politicians here

that's what I'm realizing and it's very

very frustrating

it's so frustrating

and so I stand for something different

I want to share that if you support that

go to meet kevin.com donate support the

campaign we got a lot of work to do

there are a lot of things we can solve

but we got a lot of work to do thanks

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