Jay Weber Show transcript 1-22-25
That’s right: the winning segments are back, baby.
It might be one of the best ways to detail some of the immediate Trump and GOP victories....
Which in a lot of ways- are simply a return to common sense.
Today’s winning segment focuses solely on energy prices...given how many executive orders president trump signed on Monday- and the major changes they will bring about.
And when it comes to these EOs, I don’t see any of the court challenges that could be filed against them being successful: long-standing precedent and procedure makes it clear that a president has the right to do these things-
After all-virtually all of them are simply repealing EOs that an earlier president put in place. Joe Biden.
Win number one: Trump ordered his team to kill off Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, which climate activists had hoped would amount to a de facto ban on gas powered vehicles.
All of that is ‘winning’...and it’s not the end to Trump’s attacks on Biden’s eco-zealotry: he and his team have also vowed to kill off the EV credits in the inflation reduction act-which was the dem’s big ‘trillion dollar’ climate change bill.
Folks- ending mandates meant to kill off the gas-powered car and ending taxpayer subsidies that distort the marketplace and have-us- taxpayers- paying to put our own ‘climate shackles’ on-
It’s winning.
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The next ‘energy win’: trump reversed Biden’s ban on new natural gas export facilities and is encouraging more deportation of our liquid natural gas.
We-and the world- should be using more clean-burning natural gas- not less- and this is a win.
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The next win on energy: Trump is reversing a few offshore drilling bans that Biden had put in place over the last several years-including two he rushed to announce before he left office.
One of them is that massive move at the last minute that had democrats and their media accomplices claiming was going to be nearly impossible to undo. Trump can’t undo this.
Bull-plop.
But if trump’s exec order gets hung up in court, congress could undo this as part of the reconciliation bill-and should.
This is the 625-million acres of water around the outer continental shelf.
But again- there is no question that congress can do it-and republicans should include that repeal in the upcoming reconciliation bill.
Another move Trump made Monday promotes more oil drilling in Alaska- in general
Biden’s interior department refused to follow the law and hold lease auctions in Alaska. They held virtually none of the auctions that were mandated by law-and then-
In the few that they did- Biden’s regime rigged the rules and requirements to the point that no oil company would possibly meet the requirements to even hold the lease.
It was all intentional.
Trump is stripping it all away. This represents some-massive-winning for the lawmakers and people of Alaska...who have been furious at the Biden regime’s insistence on bringing economic harm to them.
Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy was joyous yesterday, after trump had taken the Biden stranglehold off of his state.
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Before we conclude this winning segment- I also wanted to do this: lock the current price of gasoline into the listener’s brains.
Let’s note where gas prices are ‘around here’ and what the official national average price is for a gallon of gasoline.
I do this so that everyone in my audience will know that the democrats are lying when they claim that gas under Joe Biden was 2.50 a gallon...or whatever lie they’ll eventually be telling on this.
Because they -will-lie about it- once prices drop.
I locked in this number when Biden took over for Donald Trump: the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was 2.38 a gallon.
Biden got into office and that quickly leapt to three dollars a gallon. Then 3.50. Then nearly four dollars a gallon...before it eventually settled back down around 3 dollars per gallon-which is where we are now.
Nationally-the official price of a gallon of gasoline as Joe Biden left office- is three dollars and 13 cents a gallon.
Lock it in, mentally: 3.13 a gallon, nationally.
Around here- the prices have varied more widely than normal over the last few weeks- but have been anywhere from about 2.65 to 2.99 a gallon.
I paid 2.86 a gallon yesterday morning. So... the Wisconsin price we’ll set- for the sake of future argument- at about 2.80 a gallon. How about that.
The super-official national price, though? Is 3.13 a gallon as joe Biden leaves office. It’s the official triple-a figure that everyone uses.
And by the way- last year at this time? As Biden’s team started ‘year three’? The price was virtually he same: 3.08 a gallon.
And so, it will be entirely accurate to say that gas prices in the Biden era were ‘at least’ 3 dollars a gallon for most of the time he was in office.
Remember that, when dems pretend that Joe Biden had given us 2.50 a gallon gas prices...and trump should get no credit for the drop in prices-if we start to see it happening.
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