planet. we have got to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy. pete: that s bernie. turns out senator bernie sanders is so concerned about climate change that he reportedly demanded. demanded private jets while campaigning for hillary clinton in 2016. according to the. if ec, federal election commission, sanders spent over $300,000 on private flights in the two years following the election. here to react is marc morano, the executive director of climate depot.com and the author of the politically incorrect guide to climate change. mark, thanks for being here. walk us into the mindset that is i m the cheerleader against climate change yet, i demand private jets? yeah. this is amazing. you have got beyonce, jay-z, katy perry and bernie. what do they all have in common the hillary clinton campaign all paid them fly around and campaign for her in private jets.
we have opportunity zones that are going to allow people to defer to their capital gains investments, potentially eliminate with ao on that entirely over ten years to put into revitalizing communities thatat have been left behind ovr the last many years. you can actually combine that with other programs that help install renewable energy systems. tucker: i know. retrofitting buildings. tucker: i m not against infrastructure. nobody is talking about strong airplanes. actually, a member of conscious whose tape i just play you had stopping all fossil fuels. the idea is to transition to new forms of energy. i m saying why would i listen to policy makers who know nothing about thef policy. none of these people know anything about energy and making promise us that are insane that they can t keep why are they credible? i m not asking you toca listen to them, right? i m asking you to consider
but the growth sector for out last few years biggest supporter of natural gas in the world. what would it mean to kill that in 10 years. how it powers every single thing we do from agriculture. every part of our economy isst dependent on cheap, reliable, abundant domestic energy. it frees us from the shackles of international conflict. gives us a lot of autonomy. it lowers the cost of all the goods from everything we eat. there is environmentalists watching this show eating avocado in new york. does the person realize this is only possible because of nd energy?dantsi tucker: maybe i m getting old but it seems yesterday both parties, democrats for sure, were saying we need to become energy independent so that we are not tied to these lunatic countries in the middle east that hate us. we did that. notice.eemed to now we are going to kill it? exactly. this all happened despitehe
a fan. he says eliminating fossil fuels immediately is a moral imperative. that it is absolutely imperative and a life and death issue that we have got to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy. [applause] tucker: what s so interesting about that is that the party of science somehow forgot to consult actual scientists about their plan. talk to someone who studies energy and see for yourself. we are nowhere near being able to do any of this. wind power is a scam. it s an elaborate rip-offnd perpetuated on impoverished rural america by a few heavily subsidized corporations that arf getting rich for making the landscape uglier. solar is a promising technology actually,pe but we are still far from being able to efficiently store the energy it producesll and storage is key in a power grid. solar is not a replacement for fossil fuels now or any time soon.
no fossil fuels in 12 years, is even possible, it is, as the congresswoman just said, an ambitious goal, let s consider what it would mean for the united states. no fossil fuels would mean no coal, no oil, no natural gas. and that would mean no cars and no airplanes. it would mean shutting down the single most vibrant part of the u.s. economy which is the energy sector. it would mean putting at least 6 million americans out of work immediately. as of today, america is thee largest oil producer in the world. the country exports more natural gas than any other place. more than 90% of all of our energy comes from fossil fuels and nuclear power. we would have to figure out a way to replace that in 12 years using primarily solar and wind power. ambitious? that s one way to describe it. more destructive than a major war on u.s. soil woulde be another way to describe it. senator kirsten gillibrand calls the prospect of all of t this a really exciting thing. kamala harris agrees. bernie sand