force to investigation, they are breaking the law. obviously a u.s. senator the justice system works in a obviously. they re asking for an investigation. and here s the significance and the importance of this. i happen to believe, obviously that climate change is real, one of the great planetary crises we face. but when you have people like the koch brothers and exxon, mobil today, it slows up the world from aggressively addressing what is an international crisis. this is serious stuff. do you anticipate we ll see a lot of fossil fuel dollars flowing into this next election? do i anticipate that? let me guess. koch brothers are on record as saying they will spend in $900 million in this campaign cycle. they make most of their money through fossil fuel. and certainly the other oil companies will not be far hind. this is something i want to point out. on this particular area, in many cases, most of these guys deny the reality of climate change, or they say we re not sure.
obviously. they re asking for an investigation. and here s the significance and the importance of this. i happen to believe, obviously that climate change is real, one of the great planetary crises we face. but when you have people like the koch brothers and exxon, mobile tod mobil today, it slows up the world from aggressively addressing what is an international crisis. this is serious stuff. do you anticipate we ll see a lot of fossil fuel dollars flowing into this next election? do i anticipate that? let me guess. koch brothers are on record as saying they will spend in $900 million in this campaign cycle. they make most of their money through fossil fuel. and certainly the other oil companies will not be far hind. this is something i want to point out. on this particular area, in many
i happen to believe, obviously that climate change is real, one of the great planetary crises we face. but when you have people like the koch brothers and exxon, mobil today, it slows up the world from aggressively addressing what is an international crisis. this is serious stuff. do you anticipate we ll see a lot of fossil fuel dollars flowing into this next election? do i anticipate that? let me guess. koch brothers are on record as saying they will spend in $900 million in this campaign cycle. they make most of their money through fossil fuel. and certainly the other oil companies will not be far hind. this is something i want to point out. on this particular area, in many cases, most of these guys deny the reality of climate change, or they say we re not sure.
solar panel. do you know what that is? no. that s my best possession. that was one of the solar panels that jimmy carter put on the white house in 1979 and ronald reagan took down in 1985 because he wanted manlier forms of energy. it s not that we lack germ and china have better technology. that and put it in his private museum in china? i love that story. we have the technology. we have the entrepreneurs. we just don t have the political will to do anything with it because we ve got the koch brothers and exxon and everybody else in the way. we also have a reflexive ideological resistance to government playing a big role. i actually talked to mitt romney s policy director a few weeks before the election. i asked him, you know, what do you think government can do to make coal cleaner, carbon capturing sequestration by doesn t exist on a usable scale. he said i don t think government should play a role at all. there you go.