elections and there is no break inside. from here he s heading to the g20 with a big meeting on monday with china s xi. neil in. neil: peter, thank you. peter doocy in cambodia with the president. all right, christian whiton was listening to all of this, of course, former state department official. it s one thing to forget country names and all that, i sometimes forget my own, but [laughter] leaving that aside, what do you make of the president s, you know, business as usual, back to climate change, back to these environmental issues? i m not taking anything away from the environment, its importance and all of that, but after this election and after americans, you know, were clearly making their pitch to deal with the economy where it s democrats whether it s democrats or republicans, it just seems out of step. it is. it s weird, and it just sort of reaffirms that beyond caring about the environment, this is sort of like a civic religion for the global elite, this climate change
and it s not just our president who went along with a large number of administration officials to egypt for the cop27, officials from across europe went where they are in an outright energy crisis, and all of these people seem completely undauted undaunted, completely unfazed. here in the united states we re still more than a million barrels a day below the peak production which fell in 2019. what in this sort of admiration, adulation of climate change concern is actually going to conceivably cut energy prices for anyone which really ought to be a goal of policy in and you re just not seeing that from anyone. neil: you know, christian, you and i talk about this a lot, this idea that don t favor one over the other. but even in germany they re going increasingly nuclear and, heaven forbid, fossil fuels. france looking at doing the same, italy concern my people, by the way, all in on all of
shutting down tiktok, the dancing video service [laughter] albeit controlled by the chinese. christian, thank you, it s always good catching up with you. thank you, neil. neil: all right. in the meantime here, they say hurricane season technically goes til the end of november, november 30th. but normally it does not. but that s not been the case of late. after nicole what could be next, and why is this happening so much? after this.
can t do that. there s just this allergy among progressive politicians to pipelines. so they re going to be buying more expensive natural gas from abroad and paying through the nose for fuel oil, which is basically diesel. neil: you know, christian, the big meeting, of course, is with xi jinping of china on monday. this will be the first chance for the president to, you know, directly talk about these provocative of actions that china s taken in the south china sea. it s sort of turning the other cheek when north korea keeps threatening in the region as well, its support of russia in ukraine. so it could be an eventful meeting. do you think anything comes of it? i think it s unlikely. it s the first actual in-person meeting between xi jinping and president biden. xi, in particular, has been hesitant to travel abroad during the covid crisis which continues in china. lockdowns continue on a daily basis. the biden administration previewed what it s going to discuss with xi and sort of