1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,480 If you live anywhere in Texas, this week is voting 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:03,920 week, so make sure you get out to the pools 3 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:05,760 and vote no on Prop 7. 4 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,280 People have been asking me about this, so let me 5 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:07,840 explain why. 6 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:09,760 Prop 7 is a response to the cold snap that 7 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:10,640 happened a little while ago. 8 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,320 What this does is it puts money into our power 9 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,720 grid, which at face value is a good thing. 10 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,800 If that's truly what it was, if it's about supporting 11 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,040 a power grid just like that, that'd be great, but 12 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:20,320 it's not exactly what it is. 13 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,800 Because this proposition sends no money to wind nor any 14 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,040 money to solar, a little bit to oil, and a 15 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:26,480 lot of natural gas. 16 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,720 This in no means is a proper response to the 17 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:29,840 cold snap that happened. 18 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,480 Yeah, back in the cold snap, every single industry provider 19 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:33,600 was hurting real bad. 20 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,120 Coal, wind, natural gas, but guess who the biggest loser 21 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:37,440 was? 22 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,240 Some wind turbines stopped working in the freezing cold. 23 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,800 But the biggest failure uh in terms of its its 24 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,760 magnitude and its impact was the natural gas system. 25 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,680 Natural gas, which actually contains water vapor, froze in storage 26 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:51,040 wells and pipelines. 27 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,200 Yeah, so natural gas was the biggest loser, yet this 28 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,440 proposition gives more money to natural gas than any other 29 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:56,080 industry. 30 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:57,280 And of course we all know why. 31 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,560 It's because Governor Advent has made himself rich, filthy, filthy 32 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,000 rich off campaign contributions from the natural gas industry. 33 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,720 This proposition is paid by the natural gas industry. 34 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:07,920 And think about this for a second. 35 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,840 If the natural gas industry have so much money in 36 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,080 their pockets that they're willing to just purchase and buy 37 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,800 out all these politicians, do they really need any more 38 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:15,280 money? 39 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,080 I mean, they're wasting money they could be putting into 40 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,480 their own grid by buying out politicians. 41 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,880 So if we do vote yes and we do give 42 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,040 them more money, are they really gonna fight fix their 43 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:26,000 infrastructure? 44 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,280 Or are they gonna just invest more into their politicians? 45 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,120 But hey, hey, let's just go ahead and shuffle that 46 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:31,360 topic. 47 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:32,800 Now let's ahead and talk about the response to the 48 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:33,440 cold snap. 49 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,760 You see, I have natural gas in my home, right? 50 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,360 That's how my heaters work. 51 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,560 Now, when the power went out, I lost the ability 52 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,560 to use that natural gas heating. 53 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,840 Because the igniter, the system that manages the natural gas 54 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,440 furnace, is electrical. 55 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,080 So when the electricity went out, even though I still 56 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,720 had natural gas coming into my home because my pipelines 57 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,800 happened to not freeze up, it didn't matter. 58 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,760 Because without electricity, my furnace can't run. 59 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,680 So yeah, just think about that when you're looking at 60 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:01,000 proposition seven. 61 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,320 Vote no on that, because that makes no sense 62 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,600 Supporting natural gas industry more than any other industry, that 63 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,080 is not the proper response to the cold snap that 64 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:09,400 happened.