3 Podcasters Walk in a Bar Episode 25 – Texas Wind and Solar on the Grid
The guys are back at it today.
0:00 – Intro
04:48 – sustainable at losing $60,000 for every EV you sell
11:42 – wind, solar, and electric race in Texas
17:25 – Talks about Exxon acquiring pioneer -merging and has cash of $50 trillion
26:47 – United States is still one of the cleanest nations in the world
32:39 – Outro
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3 Podcasters Walk in a Bar Episode 25 – Texas Wind and Solar on the Grid
Stuart Turley [00:00:08] Â Hey, everybody. Here, have that. Uncle. That was kind of weird at a family gathering and everybody
David Blackmon [00:00:15] I hear that uncle anyway.
Stuart Turley [00:00:17] I don’t need to know that. But do they need Everybody in the family started digging for carpet and running away when he started out the joke saying there’s these three people that walked into a bar. I happened to have two of those other and we’re all podcasters. 3 podcasters walk into a bar.
Stuart Turley [00:00:35] This is our weekly edition and let me introduce my other two compadres. I’ve got the David Blackmon. He’s the podcast host for the energy Question. And I mean, this man’s about town kind of guy, not like Frankenstein out of Gene Wilder’s movie, Young Frankenstein. Welcome, David. Thank you.
David Blackmon [00:00:56] Well, thank you. I appreciate you calling me not Young Frankenstein. That’s quite the compliment.
Stuart Turley [00:01:03] Naomi.
David Blackmon [00:01:03] Crazy uncle. Yeah.
Stuart Turley [00:01:04] Yeah, the crazy uncle. But you don’t have Gene Wilder’s hair.
David Blackmon [00:01:08] That’s right. That’s right. And I don’t have the bald headed guys here either, so.
Stuart Turley [00:01:14] All right, now you’re rubbing it in. Yeah. See? Okay, now we got Artie. He’s one of them big executive EMT operators. He is the podcast host for the Energy Truth. I mean, the crude truth. Man, it is great to see. Artie. How in the heck is the oilpatch?
Rey Trevino [00:01:37] Oh, man. Done Well, up in north Texas got rained out yesterday, but. But doing doing well today. Hopefully to dry up and get back out there and yes I’m the host of the Crude Truth which we do our best to try to drop one episode every week if we can. But right now I’m excited to be here with my two compadres, my two amigos, Stu Turley, a big black man, all three podcasters walking to a bar where we get to kind of let loose a little bit, and if we’re lucky, we might even get to see David Blackmon smile and then smile and man, what you want?
Stuart Turley [00:02:14] I got to admit, both of us, since we’ve been doing this for quite a while and we’re on this will be episode, I think, 25 or something. David You’re Finally Smiling is our podcast listeners. Our podcast is going nuts off of wherever you do it. So we need to start letting our producers know to put in a beat any time that David smiles. Because David, the crude, the energy question is going absolutely bonkers. And then the energy transition weekly is going absolutely bonkers as well too. So, you know, it’s that one’s.
David Blackmon [00:02:50] Fun, too.
Rey Trevino [00:02:51] Yes, I.
David Blackmon [00:02:52] Smile a lot, man. One, two.
Rey Trevino [00:02:53] It’s his energy transition that’s with it’s a really great one. Yeah.
David Blackmon [00:02:59] With our Monday out.
Rey Trevino [00:03:01] And you really get a great idea of what’s that just going on here in America, but what’s going on all over the world and and what makes it unique is all his the host I read a slob, Tammy Niemi and Armando, they all are in areas that also have very much to do with the oil and gas industry. Yeah.
David Blackmon [00:03:23] Yeah, it’s fine. I’m actually having them all on my energy question podcasts here during the month of May, catching up with everybody individually. So that’ll be fun too.
Stuart Turley [00:03:34] And I’ll tell you what, you got one starter that’s fairly consistent on bugging you guys. Yeah the thing and I wonder what LinkedIn guy that’s available live on YouTube and LinkedIn and Artie you got to be there.
Stuart Turley [00:03:49] I jump in, in there and I bug them and I finally say, David Blackmon smiling today, or he looks awful or David Blackmon needs to trim his nose hairs and I mean are Mondo loves. So yeah for industry leaders out there in the industry thought leadership.
Stuart Turley [00:04:10] Hey guys I. David is one of the best. I get my fix every day with energy absurdity of the day. His Forbes article. I mean, I want to just drive down the street, give him a hug. I got one for you, though.
Stuart Turley [00:04:27] This one was kind of fun the other day. Let me read you the title. Ford loses nearly 60,000 for every electric vehicle sold. You know, I thought renewable energy was supposed to be sustainable. I don’t know about you guys, but I have no idea how somebody could be sustainable at losing $60,000 for every EV you sell. Last time I checked, it was supposed to be for for profit.
David Blackmon [00:04:58] If you think about it, the other story about Ford, their EV business last month was that they weren’t hardly selling any EVs. So if they’re losing 60 grand on every one they sell, you know, that kind of minimizes the loss because they’re not selling too many of them. But yeah, you know, and it’s it’s all about feeding at the trough of the federal subsidies. And that’s the only thing keeping them afloat right now. That plus they’re gas powered F-150s that they sell thousands and thousands of every day.
Stuart Turley [00:05:26] You know, we’re sitting here and we were looking at the stats and it said the caller. Carlton Plant would have a production capability of 210 marquees, which is their electric car and 150,051 F-150 lightning’s. That’s a lot of money to lose.
Rey Trevino [00:05:51] Well, you know, this also goes to show that, you know, the subsidies are key. That’s the only way forward is actually making a dollar off of each one of these through subsidies, which are, you know, our tax dollars going to a multibillion dollar corporation. But also that, you know what? The market is not ready for electric vehicles.
Rey Trevino [00:06:13] Capitalism is king. Okay. And since you cannot make a dollar off of renewables like electric or with solar wind, there’s only way that you’re going to win in that scenario is through the subsidies. So, you know, until we can figure out the getting back to it lost my train of thought until we can figure out what works.
Stuart Turley [00:06:37] Well for Small world.
Rey Trevino [00:06:42] But no, until we can actually figure out a way to make these things profitable. Wind and solar and electric. Electric. And more importantly in this topic, electric vehicles are not the way to go in a capitalistic world. Now we want to go to a socialist communist 1984 or wailing, Orwellian style universe, then absolutely, this is the way to go. Let the government pay for all the vehicles and tell us what to do.
Stuart Turley [00:07:12] And you know, David, what do you think about China? Because China has got such a big, heavy car ahead. Star Not a lot of things. Yeah, because they can produce all their electricity with one new coal fired plant per week going in. So I think EVs make a lot of sense if you can fire them up by coal.
David Blackmon [00:07:37] Well, look it look, yeah, that and look what else they control. They control the supply chains for all the energy minerals that go into the EV batteries and the wind turbines and the solar panels. They make the solar panels, they make the wind turbines, they make millions of electric vehicles that they’re selling, making huge inroads to selling in South America and Europe and other parts of the world. So, yeah, I mean, this is a bonanza for China. I mean, the dam’s a bonanza.
Stuart Turley [00:08:05] Yeah, Bonanza. That’s a win. Like, is that like, a bad day?
David Blackmon [00:08:09] Oh, but no.
Stuart Turley [00:08:11] But, Dad. But.
Rey Trevino [00:08:12] But.
David Blackmon [00:08:13] But think you would be able to put lot.
Rey Trevino [00:08:15] I want to get back to Bonanza real quick and I to be embarrassed here. Oh, when you say.
David Blackmon [00:08:22] Being Little Joe, I get to be Little Joe. Okay.
Rey Trevino [00:08:25] That’s fine. I’ll be my favorite was Adam all the time. I always look back and I was like.
David Blackmon [00:08:30] Next to Hoss. I mean, I’m his baby.
Stuart Turley [00:08:33] Hoss was cool, baby.
Rey Trevino [00:08:35] Oh, yeah, it was. But that’s all I think of when I hear the word bonanza. But. But I guess bonanza means a plethora. That was. That was.
Stuart Turley [00:08:42] A plethora.
David Blackmon [00:08:43] Of. Okay, but yeah, but hey, you’re quoting from my my favorite movie of all time, Three Amigos. And if we’re going to be Three Amigos, I want to be a guapo, that’s all. That’s my only qualifier.
Stuart Turley [00:08:55] O l guapo.
David Blackmon [00:08:57] Because that means the handsome one in Spanish, you know?
Rey Trevino [00:09:00] So that’s me. But would you say that you have a plethora of gifts.
David Blackmon [00:09:04] Pinatas, a plethora of pinatas?
Stuart Turley [00:09:07] And actually.
Rey Trevino [00:09:11] That is one of my favorite movies of all time with God. And but when you go back and watch it, it’s like you just shake your head with the wrongness. You know, It’s kind of like, Oh, I know you.
David Blackmon [00:09:23] Couldn’t make it anymore.
Rey Trevino [00:09:24] But I know you couldn’t because, like, you know, I really describe it like the early nineties, Saturday Night Live. I’d watch it in the early nineties and laugh, not really getting it. Then you become, you know, a teenager and then you’re like, Oh my God, really? That what I was laughing at. And you know.
Stuart Turley [00:09:39] I love Martin Short.
Rey Trevino [00:09:40] I’d go back and watch The Magnificent Seven with Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner, and it makes Three Amigos just that much more fun.
David Blackmon [00:09:51] Is that, you know, Three Amigos is the same plot. It’s the it’s a remake of The Magnificent Seven. That’s what.
Rey Trevino [00:09:57] Plot. Yeah, It’s.
David Blackmon [00:09:59] The funniest script ever.
Stuart Turley [00:10:00] Written. I know The Three Amigos because I’m hoarse and I’m stupid.
Rey Trevino [00:10:05] Yeah, I know. I love how we go from Bonanza, The Three Amigos. But like, you know, when you look at the Magnificent Seven there, there’s a scene where they’re eating the food and they go, This village is starving, they’re poor, and they give all the food back to the villagers. Yeah. And in three amigos, Chevy Chase can’t even make a tackle. And he goes, We have anything besides Mexican food.
Stuart Turley [00:10:30] I personally just watched Blazing Saddles with my dad and he am.
Rey Trevino [00:10:36] Stunned by the movie.
David Blackmon [00:10:36] You can’t make it.
Rey Trevino [00:10:38] Oh, no.
Stuart Turley [00:10:39] But their fireside scene was a classic. Yeah.
Rey Trevino [00:10:44] Mel Brooks was ahead of his time, and he really was. They just got done doing a new history of the World part two, and they got a bunch of today’s comedians that, in my opinion, are very much further to the left. They’re just not quite the same as the original.
David Blackmon [00:11:03] So I can’t really see how they could even do a representative job on a sequel to that movie.
Rey Trevino [00:11:10] Now that it was Rock was.
David Blackmon [00:11:13] Yeah. My favorite scene, though, my favorite line for Three Amigos is, is Chevy Chase sitting there with his girlfriend and his girlfriend looks at him and says, Would you like to kiss me on the veranda, Ned? And he looks at her and says, No, the lips will be fine.
Rey Trevino [00:11:36] Anyway. Okay, enough, enough.
David Blackmon [00:11:38] Three amigos done.
Rey Trevino [00:11:40] Well, speaking of which, you know, the wind, solar, electric race. Oh, they’re having a tough time, especially here in Texas right now. Did you know, first of all, y’all know that Texas has four of the world’s largest wind turbine farms here, right here in Texas.
David Blackmon [00:11:57] I didn’t know that, but a drive through West Texas. It certainly wouldn’t surprise you now.
Stuart Turley [00:12:03] And only 10% of it works.
Rey Trevino [00:12:05] So, yeah, it makes. Yeah, well, we’ll fact-check you on that one. But I know it’s not a lot.
Stuart Turley [00:12:12] It was $3 billion to get the transmission lines from West Texas to East Texas. And on that, I had interviewed Robert Bryce and Meredith Angwin, and they had some stats on the.
David Blackmon [00:12:28] Great interview, by the way, Steve. Anyway.
Stuart Turley [00:12:31] Thank you. That was them.
Rey Trevino [00:12:33] Well, where to go do that again? Great interview. No, on my substack, I had an article regarding how the Texas Wind Farms and they’re coming out with the study that actually the temperature has risen. Yeah, the temperature has gone up in areas of this wind farm. And you know what they’re looking at here is that actually the hot air?
Rey Trevino [00:12:58] Because, you know, as we all know, hot air rises, the wind farm and those wind turbines are actually bringing the air back down. Cooling or heating up the surface. So not only are we heating up the surface, but let’s be real.
Rey Trevino [00:13:16] These wind turbines have such a large footprint from shipping them on 18 wheelers to the cranes needed to send them all up to the concrete, large concrete pads that they’re going to be on forever. And all the oil that’s needed to continue to keep it lubricated go in a circle.
Rey Trevino [00:13:33] These are large footprints already, and it’s actually warming up the the surface, which means it’s going to be harder for vegetation to grow in these areas where these farmers have allowed wind farms to be. What a what? What a mess. Well, it really is. Really, really.
Stuart Turley [00:13:51] It’s just real quick. I’ve been doing a lot of number crunching and I finally got a hold of some folks. Meantime, between failure on a also is tied to when it is monetized or when it goes out.
Stuart Turley [00:14:06] You have a couple of features. Ten years to 12 years is when carbon net zero actually comes in to a wind farm. So it takes ten years for that wind farm to 12 years to become carbon net zero to generate carbon free electricity.
Stuart Turley [00:14:28] Because you have diesel, you have ships, you have manufacturing, you have steel, you have concrete. So ten years, they say they will last 10 to 30 years. Okay. My numbers have come out with. Are you ready? Oh, hello, Kitty. For our podcast listener.
David Blackmon [00:14:46] Hey, wind power.
Stuart Turley [00:14:48] Yeah, We have a beautiful cat lined up here, and. Ah. Keep your jokes to yourself. And. And so now my numbers have been showing less than ten. Closer to a And I got quoted yesterday, and it’s pretty cool. Mine. And they even had other numbers that validated my numbers. So this is kind of cool. Not really. So we spend trillions of dollars putting out these wind farms. The cost of electricity goes up. And then, oh, by the way, they only last eight years in.
David Blackmon [00:15:25] The instead of 25. Right.
Stuart Turley [00:15:27] And they’re two years shy of becoming net zero. And then they kill kill the whales in the bird. And so let’s say let’s let oil save the whales again. Two times. All right, David, I’m sorry. In our time, I’ll set up.
David Blackmon [00:15:45] Oh, that’s. That’s good. Good. Very philosophical, Stew. I’m proud of you. It’s like. Like. It almost makes me emotional.
Stuart Turley [00:15:56] I’m getting over Clint.
Rey Trevino [00:15:58] Well, I. Well, we’ll say this. I’m just happy to see that David’s rubbing off on Stu a little bit there.
David Blackmon [00:16:05] Absolutely.
Stuart Turley [00:16:06] I don’t want David rubbing up on me like a cat. No.
David Blackmon [00:16:10] Set off. Not a.
Stuart Turley [00:16:11] Oh, I’m sorry, dude. Well, our cat was.
David Blackmon [00:16:15] Rubbing up on my leg. That’s why I had to pick him up.
Stuart Turley [00:16:18] I don’t want to go there. Okay. Now, that was a cute cat, though, for our podcast list.
David Blackmon [00:16:23] Better looking devil in me.
Rey Trevino [00:16:24] He is.
Stuart Turley [00:16:25] Did you call R.T.? Good looking?
David Blackmon [00:16:28] No, My cat. Oh, hey, Max King.
Stuart Turley [00:16:31] I’m. I’m about to throw up now. David. Artie, that was some great stuff that you brought up. Great. Substack, everybody. It’s crude truth that Substack comes at, correct?
Rey Trevino [00:16:43] Yes. Yeah, that is correct. I enjoy. Well, it’s the time I try to put something on there, but I know the other day, a monday was a pretty busy day, so I pulled a great article from Oilprice.com about Exxon, and I even had a chance to talk to David about that one that, you know, Exxon is you know, they’re sitting on this cash of, like I want to say, over $50 billion. That’s a B with a B, if I’m correct, it’s definitely more than 40.
David Blackmon [00:17:11] I think it’s a lot of money.
Rey Trevino [00:17:13] A lot of a lot of money. Yeah.
Stuart Turley [00:17:14] It’s a few billion between friends.
Rey Trevino [00:17:17] Right. But that they’re being picky about because, you know, there’s all this rumor about them acquiring pioneer and you know are merging. But who are we kidding? You know, it ain’t going to be a merger.
Rey Trevino [00:17:28] I mean, a merger is when you get two different companies actually come together and do something, you know. But I could just see them really acquiring Pioneer more than anything else, probably let it run it the way they were for at least the first part, kind of like they did with ex-CEO.
Rey Trevino [00:17:44] But anyway, back to it that, you know, when you invest $50 billion in a new asset, you really are going to be picky and you want to make sure that you’re spending your money on something that’s going to be a homerun. Because even at 10% loss, that’s a large chunk of change when it comes to $50 billion.
Rey Trevino [00:18:04] So that was another article. Some not all my articles are 100% what I’ve written. Just some days. You know, again, I do drill oil wells and rework oil wells for a living. So unfortunately, I just cannot write something every single day. But I do enjoy the subject.
Stuart Turley [00:18:23] And know you could write it. What we didn’t know, you could write.
David Blackmon [00:18:27] You write.
Stuart Turley [00:18:28] He can write.
Rey Trevino [00:18:29] But but I’m enjoying the Substack articles, you know, and I know David is. And of course, David is letting his out every day. But as they continue to do these little chatter band shadow bands on LinkedIn, sub standards are really going to become a great way to get information out until they truly control the Internet, you know?
David Blackmon [00:18:50] Yeah, you can tell Substack is having an impact because all the other social media places are, you know, trying to shadow ban articles from there. Yeah. I mean, Twitter’s got all kinds of crap going on and so people are getting worried about Substack there’s it’s, it’s a different deal.
Stuart Turley [00:19:08] Substack notes. I’ve just started playing with it, but it seems like substack nodes and again, I don’t know, but substack notes looks like it could be a Twitter kind of thing.
David Blackmon [00:19:18] Then it’s fairly similar to Twitter, the way it functions. Yeah, and that’s that’s what Elon Musk concern is. I, I use Twitter as much as I use Substack. Frankly, I like them all. I like LinkedIn too. But LinkedIn has really started shadow banning my stuff big time.
Stuart Turley [00:19:36] Oh, in fact, the founder of LinkedIn, didn’t I see him in the news yesterday because he was, I think, either Epstein or left-wing? I can’t left-wing Epstein, I, I’m not sure I have to go to fact himself, but he was on Fox News as a person of not so savory character.
David Blackmon [00:19:59] You’re talking about Jeffrey Epstein, who did not kill himself, by the way.
Stuart Turley [00:20:03] No, he yeah, he we I still want to know where Hillary was during that time period, but we’ll leave that joke alone.
Rey Trevino [00:20:12] Yeah. Yeah. Hillary was far away from there.
David Blackmon [00:20:15] Far, far away, I’m sure.
Rey Trevino [00:20:17] I can guarantee you that.
Stuart Turley [00:20:19] I just. I don’t know. I know nothing.
Rey Trevino [00:20:23] I don’t think she was in a fancy New York midtown jail. On the day. Jeffrey, I’ve seen that. I’m pretty confident on that.
Stuart Turley [00:20:36] Are you saying you’re her alibi? Oh, God.
Rey Trevino [00:20:41] No. I see what you did there. I see what you did there, sir. I see what you did.
Stuart Turley [00:20:48] Well, David, on your energy obituary of the day or your article yesterday or today, could you tell us what you had?
David Blackmon [00:20:55] $50 trillion. A thousand times what Exxon has on hand in cash today. That’s the cost. The Biden climate policy plan. Okay. Over the next 27 years. How much was tacitly confirmed? 50 trillion with a t confirmed by the deputy secretary of energy.
David Blackmon [00:21:18] I will name David turk with whom i share a first name. I hope that in an exchange with Senator John Kennedy, my favorite senator from Louisiana, David Turner, basically confirmed that a reasonable estimate of the total cost of the Biden energy and climate plan over the next 27 years is $50 trillion.
David Blackmon [00:21:44] Now or some context. We’ve all been talking ad nauseum about last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, which had $369 billion with a B billion dollars of green subsidies in it. $50 trillion is 135 times 369 billion. That amounts to over 27 years.
David Blackmon [00:22:13] What’s five times 27? A lot. 135. So the cost to the Biden energy and climate plan is five additional IRA bills passed by Congress every year for the next 27 years. It’s also more than the combined gross domestic product of the United States, China, India, Japan and Germany. Combined. That’s what the Biden people expect us to pay for energy and climate policy in just 27 years.
Rey Trevino [00:22:56] Been saying would then not make us go broke as a nation.
David Blackmon [00:23:01] Yeah, we’re already broke. I mean.
Stuart Turley [00:23:03] Our national debt.
David Blackmon [00:23:04] Devalue the currency.
Rey Trevino [00:23:06] But I mean, what is. I want to get. Okay, here’s my question. Absolutely nothing to do with the article. And $50 trillion. What is their endgame plan? I mean, is it this? And again, I don’t mean to get off on it.
Rey Trevino [00:23:24] It’ll get off on a tangent or on something crazy here. But with those types of dollar amounts that you’re talking about, David, that is just as concerning as this breaks lines. It’s something that we may not be able to stop.
Rey Trevino [00:23:42] And if and so it’s like, what is it this new world order where it’s just one government is what they’re trying to do? Or I mean, and again, I’m not trying to be crazy or go all Stu Spears theory or anything like that.
Stuart Turley [00:24:00] You’re bringing it up there, Sherlock.
David Blackmon [00:24:03] I’m not going to try to assess what their end goals are. I mean, there are a lot of theories flying around about that. All I’m trying to do is convey what the actual cost of the Biden energy plan is. And it was essentially confirmed at that hearing by David Turk.
David Blackmon [00:24:23] The videos viral out there. You can go to my Substack Blackman dot substack dot com and not only view the video. I compiled a transcript of that exchange for my readers just as a service to my loyal readers this morning. Took me about an hour and a half and you can see the exchange for yourself. You don’t have to believe me. Unbelievable. Yeah, it’s it’s just stunning. $50 trillion.
Stuart Turley [00:24:51] Money does not grow on trees. Inflation grows on printed money.
Rey Trevino [00:24:56] Yeah, it just.
David Blackmon [00:24:57] Exactly.
Rey Trevino [00:24:59] I mean, this thing. Oh.
David Blackmon [00:25:02] Anyway, I’m trying to figure out who will publish that for me. I have submitted it to The Daily CALLER. Hopefully they’ll publish it. If not, I’ll find somebody else.
Stuart Turley [00:25:14] We know Forbes one.
David Blackmon [00:25:16] I didn’t say that. I haven’t thought about submitting it to Forbes.
Stuart Turley [00:25:21] I would agree.
Rey Trevino [00:25:25] That’s a chunk of change. And, you know, getting back to just your article and there’s 50 trillion I mean, I believe in saving the planet just as much as the next person. And I believe and as you both know, I have a goodness, he’s almost one and a half now, year one and a half-year-old boy. You know, he got my name.
Rey Trevino [00:25:50] So I’m very proud of the word legacy. I don’t use it very much because I think that it gets played now more than it needs to be. But I enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping. My son, I think he would live and breathe outside. And he’s only 17 months old. He loves it outside.
Stuart Turley [00:26:09] I sure hope he.
Rey Trevino [00:26:10] Loves to be able to take a deep breath, a bear.
Stuart Turley [00:26:12] I sure hope he looks like he I hope he gets his looks and brains from his mom.
Rey Trevino [00:26:17] Oh, we all know he definitely gets his looks from his mom. There’s no doubt about that. And oh, and hopefully the brains as well. Oh, but anyway. I do my best to conserve. I pick up my trash and make sure that we’re drilling a well or reworking a well are just have crews out there that’s like, guys, let’s not tear up.
Rey Trevino [00:26:41] Let’s stay on the path. Let’s do what we need to do. But of hoarseness down our throats when the United States is still one of the cleanest nations in the world, has some of the cleanest air in the world we produce with our West Texas, oil areas are some of the cleanest air in the world. Why is it that we are continuing to spend trillions with a T to try to make the rest of the world do something that we just can’t do? It blows my mind.
David Blackmon [00:27:17] Well, he. David. Dirk. Deputy secretary. The secretary of energy, by the way, claimed to have covered just on that day when that hearing was being held. So, you know, obviously, she didn’t have to be questioned by Senator Kennedy. But anyway, his proclaimed his belief that if the United States leads on this matter, all these other countries are going to follow. Now, do you think China and India care about the United States.
Rey Trevino [00:27:49] With China opening up a new coal plant every week when India is doing nothing but buying cheap Russian oil? No, they don’t care. And these developing nations don’t care. Why? Because oil and gas are the most inexpensive, most abundant ways for a nation to come out of poverty, then into at least a developing status in the world. And that is what the good things oil and gas is doing. Just look what Kelcy Warren’s done in Honduras. I think it is with natural gas and electricity down there. I mean, he has helped out that place tremendously.
Stuart Turley [00:28:32] Not great?
David Blackmon [00:28:33] No. I think Stu’s is trying to signal us that we’re running out of time here.
Stuart Turley [00:28:37] We got about 3 minutes, guys. Three page three each. Let’s go around the horn. Artie, you were very articulate. You sounded great. Holy smokes. Did you sleep at a Holiday Inn Express?
Rey Trevino [00:28:57] No, no, I.
Rey Trevino [00:28:58] Just had one extra day to prepare for a four-hour podcast. That’s all I started, actually. And again, to our listeners out there, I want to say thank you very much. You know, if you’ll watch my podcast, Accrued Truth or David’s The Energy Question or his with the others in a transition, or if you listen to Stu’s Daily Energy Newsbeat with Michael Tanner, I hope you can enjoy this one in a way that’s kind of more laid back that you can laugh along. Yes, these are all very serious topics, and we touch on them probably in a more serious tone on our different podcast and TV shows. But man, it is just so much fun to do this with Stu Turley and David Blackman on a on a daily basis.
David Blackmon [00:29:43] Especially to.
Rey Trevino [00:29:45] So. So please. Thank you, guys. Oh, please get out there. Subscribe to our stuff. Give us only five-star reviews. And also, you know, I’m looking at David’s Substack article on the 50 trillion and it says for breaking news down at the bottom. So I don’t know what that’s about. David, your turn.
David Blackmon [00:30:07] I don’t know either. It’s probably from some other story idea. But anyway, yeah, so that story out there, we, we do something new every day. It’s substack. Big question. My gosh, we must have recorded eight episodes last months.
David Blackmon [00:30:26] Do you know, even doing a more frequently than a week is just so many people to interview and so many topics to cover, you know? Yeah. Like Artie said, please, please give us a positive review whenever you like something. And when you don’t like something, you know, just stay quiet. You know, we don’t need the bad reviews.
Stuart Turley [00:30:47] No. And anyway, that’s great. That’s it.
David Blackmon [00:30:49] For me.
Stuart Turley [00:30:51] The Sandstone media. It looks like we’re going to be hitting a million downloads here pretty quick. And you guys are all in that sandstone media. And also yesterday, Energy Newsbeat had 40,000 people on it yesterday and we seriously attacked by 12 denial of services out there. So it means it’s telling us that your articles are articles and everything out there is being attacked. Somebody doesn’t like it.
David Blackmon [00:31:20] So it was like Russian election interference.
Rey Trevino [00:31:23] Hey, Stu.
Stuart Turley [00:31:24] I don’t have a laptop that was stolen.
Rey Trevino [00:31:28] Real quick. Two things. One, a shameless plug. I’ve got some great people coming along. The crude truth. Yes. Even I’ve got a railroad commissioner, Christy Kramnik, on an episode coming up. I even have a couple of other service oil and gas service companies that are all out in West Texas.
Rey Trevino [00:31:45] They’re in the Permian Basin. Just so excited. I mean, without service companies, we’re not doing anything as operators. So I got to highlight them now real quick. You know, Stu, with 40,000 people looking in an energy news beat and the Samsung Group with all of our podcasts doing a million downloads, you know, are there sponsorship opportunities for more listeners out there?
Stuart Turley [00:32:08] Absolutely. And they can reach out to either May you or David. And if you want to get the word out, is where you get it out.
Rey Trevino [00:32:17] There, go.
Stuart Turley [00:32:18] All right. With that, guys, we’re going to see you next week, but we’ll even have some more entertainment next week. So with that, we.
David Blackmon [00:32:26] Wait to even think.
Rey Trevino [00:32:27] That. I know.
Stuart Turley [00:32:29] I don’t know. Is that possible? I don’t know how we get any funnier. What’s a few trillion between friends next week?
David Blackmon [00:32:35] All right. I know how to use.
Stuart Turley [00:32:39] It’s a year and me stop recording.
Rey Trevino [00:32:42] That’s. I don’t know, David. I don’t know. Three amigos.