0 it's s eaking o and more custos today are relying on their carsa we r automatic emergency braking and lane departure warningamera, that's why our recalibrationsl that's why our recalibrationsl service is state of the arright we recalibrate your vehicle's camera so you can still count camera so you can still count on those safet all right. we're all finished. thank you so much. thank you. don't schedule now safe . >> let me pay a safe place. oh, good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. tonight on april twenty fourtht. of last year and you may have missed the state of california,a finally achieved what the greenl movement has dreamt about for decades. it happened the state energyerga authority in california was able to generate 95% outia wasfs total power from entirely renewable sources. they said it couldn't be done. th said it couldn't be done. but just months into the joe biden administration, california did it quote it sends chills down my spine, announced elliot meinzer who runs california's biggest power grid. >> it's amazing. we're making a real dent inre mk the state's carbon emissionsin. april twenty fourth. den 2020 one .t -- ladies and gentlemen, remember that date. it's a moment that will live alongside thomas edison's invention of the incandescenedt light bulb alongside neil armstrong stroll on the surface of the moon. it is a day we saw a glimpse of humanity's future that's in the news accounts told us . but actually there werefu some caveats to this achievement. for starters, april is not the time tr o test the power grid. it's the most temperate monthsog of the year when electricityri use is at its lowest. nor was the grid in question statewide didn't, for example, supply power to los angeles,lowt which is by far the biggest city in california. >> and now that we're bein bg honest, it wasn't entirelying ho renewable as the l.a. timenes conceded in a far lower paragraph despite its press release about renewables, renewa the state of california wabls actually , quote, also burningah a bunch of natural gas. >> now, according to scient, its natural gas qualifies as a fossil fuel and it's not technically renewable. and then there was this amazing but thoroughly downplayed fact. the green energy miracle thatnt sent chills down the spines of california power executives.n tf the event they described as , quote, amazing lasted for a total of can you guess, four o seconds, not days or hours, seconds for seconds. that's what california politicians were bragging about . four seconds oaf not actually renewable energy. but the celebration obscured an inconvenient fact just a few months earlier in mid-august, california green energy grid, had collapsed completely. half a million residentsrgy grir power in the middle of a heat wave. grid operators warned was aboutt to get a lot worse from late afternoon until evening, they predicted at the timeople as people return to their homes, and were hoping to usecity electricity as some americans do, the state would be short thousand megawatts and that meant millions of californians would be without any powerd me whatsoever. aou that would be catastrophe, an undeniable one . so to fight it, the state implemented a strategy the developing world has come to know well, rolling blackouts. >> it's almost 3:00 p.m. the mayor of los angeles tweeted on september six . twenty , twenty . time to turnalmost -s almo off r appliances, set the thermostat to seventy eight degrees oes," e a fan instead turn off excessexs lights and unplug any appliances you're not using. we need every californian toto help conserve energy except of course, for the mayor of los angeles. it get conservs to be on twitte whenever you want.me but really the message is clear. we give up. r: "we we're no longer pretending to provide a first world standard up!g to our citizens. the most heavily taxed inest america. we are tegucigalpa standard now. please play along. and for the most part, patient f californians did play along. buort the problem did noalong,te in fact, it got worse. the california energy thmmission has just issued a reporte sion - predicting widr power outages in the state of california for the next five years at least. and of course, september will always be the worst month e as the vice chair of the commission put it, quote, securing energy reliability is a tremendous responsibility . the responsibility is becoming increasingly difficult to fulfil fficultl with the tools we have in hand . oh, stop whining and keeping, the power on . but no, we don't have enough the p tools. what happeneower on, bd to all ? well, those tools would include the famous nuclear plant at san onofre. att that plant was shuttered a decade ago after 40 years of protest by green activists, supposedly on behalf somethingtn called the environment, something with which they are personally unfamiliar. envit. t didn't matter.tate the state shut it down. what happened next was the effect of shutting down saturno free . well, scientists estimate that closing san no frey led to the release of thirty seven million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. now if you believe that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and they all do, that would qualify as a very bad thing.th but it didn't stop california from plowing forward anyway. doing more of the samet di polluting in the name of saving the environment. now the state has announced a plan to close the san luis obispo diablo canyon nuclear plant. that plant supplies energy to millions of other californians . so as a result of these and many other closures of actual power plants, the statees of california now imports a third of its energy fromon elsewhere. and that would seem to be and embarrassing display froof itsmo supposedly supposedly our richest state. our richeste so see what you will about california politicians like or not. it's indisputable that on the question of energy, they have no idea what they're doing and we know this because their track record of incompetence is lengthe kny and unbroken. they are majestic ins leng their ineptitudeth. so naturally they wanteptitude more power over power. there'ey s so much more to destroy. this week, the state surgicallyo enhanced enovernor gavin newsom announced a new way touncing t overburden california's alreadyn collapsing energy grid. he's got an idea he wants torid. ban gasoline powered engines and force everyone to drive an electric vehicle, a vehicledriv that has to be plugged into outlets that in the state of california no longerch work. outlet >> we're not kidding. by the way. watch this. we will be the first w jurisdiction in the world toe ua require all new cars tllo be sod to be alternative fuel cars. aln we areat going through one of the great transformation os in our history energy transformations and the electrificatiosformatin is the architecture for economic transformation. so here's a guy who's never hadg a job, who couldn'uyt fix a broken lawnmower, lecturing you about energy and architecture and transformation. the same guyt energychitectu prr a state that can no longer power your washing machine is telling you he's going toe control what kind ofis car youts drive . now just think broad for f one second. if that guy can tell you what kind of car you're allowed to drive , what can't he tell you? why can't you tell y you what kind of job you can have, whatci kind of food you cangh eat, who you can sleep with ? so of the instinct behind all of this is totalitarian, which is to say total control over you and banning the gas engineea is , among many other things, an attack on your autonomy. electric vehicles, vehicles can peopbove all control rolled by the people who control the grid. and that means the next timeex that california's energy regulator decides to shut off the powehat r, you can't go anywhere. you can't leave california. avea now,li a few things you might notice about this first, is they're doing this because they're so concerned about carbon emissions and burning fossil fuels adds to carbonrbon emissions and is destroyingon the planet. if youinitiati actually were wol whatt that, what's the firstly thing that you would ban? well, private jet travel, think obviously private jet travelin emits a lot of carbon. a lot and just 60 minutes, a privateof jet emits more carbon accept,ou in fact, than the average american household emits in monte months in one flight. so private jet travel is responsible for more greenhouse gases than resp of denmark.s than commercial planes pollute at a rate about 15 times higher than commercial planes. so you would think since mostoud people who fly private are affluent by definition and the global warming culr aft is the t popular with the affluent, that these same people would have given up private jet travel because it's just such a n obvious offense against the climate. but no, just the opposite. private jet travel has becomeomo more popular since the pandemirc . business travel is up more than 22% since 2019. more than 70% of all privateha jet flights take place ins. the united states . what are they doing? well, they're fearing politicians like gavin newsom who does not fly commercial and of celebrities like taylor swift. famously, her jet emittedies li eight thousandke three hundred tons of carbon this year. so far . oh, interesting. so if you're looking to reduceiy carbon emissions, you would think they'd worry a little less about your minivan and a little more about their g4 for hope it they're not worried at all about their g4. and that's why taylor swif atre and gavin newsom and nancy pelosi and all the other peoplem out there lecturing aboutna climate, we'll never give up their privatncy e points becauseeir pr when you fly private, you'reivcs not only immune from covide wh i logginn nog on to wear a mask ow private plane. are you kidding? you put something shut up. >> but you're also immune from echangeutable laws of climat change. so california has no interest in preventing people who areintt making the rules like gavin newsom from traveling anywhere a they want. >>ng they want peo tplo controlm that you trave doingl now that's california. so you are tempted to say, that's well, okay, california'so bumpl, but it's obviously run by lunatics who are turning it into a third world country. s is just part of partr slate of ideas to wreck the prettiest placer slat on the planet. but no, it'se not justbut it california. it's not just happening. they'r'se it's also happening in more recent places like virginia, long virginia currently requires gasoline engines, gasoline cars pla, to be phased out by twenty thirty five , which is pretty soon state to massachusetts and washington have similar laws. so does new york . so does oregon. ins and washingtimilar l fifteee supported california's plan to force zero emissioegon.n vehicln none of which are actually zero emission. they're just electric and could theyd by the controlle energy grid and the regulators who oversee it. and it's not just 15 states. it's the federal government, according to by the administration, everybody will be required to drive an electriche biden car by twenty , thirty five . >> we obviously are all in on making sure that we meet the president's goals of getting to 100% clean electricity by twenty, thirty five and net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and if you drive an electric car , this would not be affecting you. >> clearly, there's no reason why you have to pay more or five dollars a gallon for gasoline when you could have it all electric vehicle after waiting for a long time to- have enough chips in this country to finally get my electric vehicle, i got it and drove it from michigan to here this last weekend and my every single gas station didn't matter how high it was, the more pain we are all experiencing from the highe price of gas, the more benefitte there is for those who canhose access electric vehicles. unother cascade of unemployable ,every one of whom has a long track record of failure, not one of whom has ever done anything in the real world, all of whom giving you a moral lecture about how your car is destroying the planet when they're flying private. w yohow you're going to put up with this. there's no reason to pay fourng or five dollars for gas or evenp electric vehicles, says edut markey, who's lived at public expense. his entire life. there's no idea what anything costs. a typical electric vehicleehicle costs more than 60 grand, bu ct that's only part of the cost.of charging an electric vehicle in countries that have a lot of electric vehicles. a lot of them is now more ex more expensive than fillingpe your tank with gasoline. and swedish journalist peter emanuelson put a quote, electricity prices i n norway are set to reach aboutin nor one dollar per kilowatt hour ata these prices, it would cost $100 to fully charge one tesla . and yet all over the world, countries, politicians who maye or may not have deals with the electric car companies are forcing peopledeany -- to buy ps they don't want. and force is the t word. this is not a transformation that is taking place voluntarily as it would in a democracy where people get to govern themselves and choose the way they live. no, this is being imposed by a small number of people on top. again, the the revolution aimed downward. as always, a bank in australia has announced it will be ending loans for gas vehicles you just can't buy when you can't finance it. the eu parliament hag loans voto support a ban on the sale of new gasoline and diesel carsa beginning in twenty thirty five in all of europe. now, europe, as we told you last night, is a place where they're turning off traffic lights because they don't haveao enough energy to keep themff on. so how was this going to work? well, the fact it's happening at all is amazing. take three steps back banning gasoline engines, which we have had for more than one hundred years, which have completely defined modern society and that if you're a normal person in this country and don't use the subway from the upper west side to midtown ever areto usey day but actualle like the overwhelming majority of americans, this is the biggest change in your lifetime. have you been consulted on has there been a debate about it? no. all you hear is you must dot? this because it's good for the environment. but that's why be, because it' y allai. electronic vehicles are terrible for the environment. rf roger magrath took the time toth spell it out recently and chronicles magazine, as he noted, supplying the materials necessary for the batterbut y on electric car alone. just the battery requiresquires and we're quoting process usingn fossil fuels, of course, of at least 50 tons of or it takes a lot of energy to process or a single battery. an electric car needs at least quote, thirty pounds of lithium. sixty pounds cobalt. one hundred and thirty pounds of nickel. ninety pounds of coppeobalr, 90p one hundred and ninety pounds of graphite and roughly five hundred pounds of steel aluminumou90 poundof, magnesiumc and other materials and quote all of which are derived from mining. where's that mining going tod oe take place. one third world countries with no environmental regulations whatsoever . how is this good for the environment speaks volumes. we can understanod. and yet in california, under gavin newsom's new order, every vehicle would require those materials. here's the problem. we don't have that much lithiume or cobalt in the united states . >> so wheree are those elementsl going to come from? which are required for electric vehicles? well, lithium mines in china. te did you know the answer to that already? probably did. and the congo, let's go exploit africa so we can feel virtuous as the "new york times" reported last year and we're quoting production oedf raw materials like lithium, cobalt, a nickel that ar e essential to electronic technologies are often ruinous to land water, wildlife and people, end quote. and by the way, land, water, wildlife and people are exactly the four things that the environmental lobby has notd interest at all in. they don't care about the land. they don't care about the water . they don't car de abouon'tt the wildlife and they don't care about the people. it'she peoplit's n not about thi it'ss a religion. it's about making them feelng te like good peoplem and increasig their control over you. period w way. none of this even addresses the national security implications of this. adst as with solar panels and wind turbines, the materials required for electric vehicle batteriesal see from. and you know the answer, china, china process is 40 percent ofoe the world's raw lithium. china's market share for lithium ion batteries of thes it 80%. that's according to bloomberg. and even if we somehow avoidwe s that problem by mining lithium volcanoes and say, nevada minin and polluting the environment there, then what? well, then you have hundreds off millions of americans dependent upon cars that the government can turn off in a second that are, by the way, runningut to be software that tracks your every movement. now to high trust society wherer everyone thinks the government's on their side, a society that eve hasn't just hired eighty seven thousand armed irs agents to crush small business. anyone doesn't vote for them in a society like that, like maybe sweden is going to be totally fine because we trust that, they're on our side. but in a country in whichin the united states is giving thspeech two dayes from now declaring half the population a criminal element, probablynt? wi not a good idea to turlln your vehicle over to those people. this is the vehicular - equivalent of digital currency-b . electronic vehicles are o disastrous forf the energy grir a disaster for the environment and a disaster for your personal autonomy. if this happens, ithi will represent the single biggest change in the way you and your family live in generations and yet no one's even talking about it. glenn junkin , to his credit, is talking about he's the governor of virginia. he sayyss he's going to reverse' res state's plannes d ban on gasoline powered cars enacted under the previous administration. governor , thanks so much for joining us tonight. this is one of those topics. yothink you're one of the only governors in the country who's talking about this. iny do the cou yountry w think h addressing? first of all, tucker, it's great to be with you. and when virginians elected me governor last year, they wanted to put a stop to an effort from the previous democratic led administration to turnfr virgina into california. litt little little did they know that they had signed legislation and tied virginia took decisions are going t-o be made in california. so not only did they pick a state that has demonstrated it has no idea how to run itself to tie itself to, but they abdicated their responsibility to serve virginians. and so we find ourselves today with this ludicrous law that virginia has to follow california's laws. go tso we're going to go to work and stop this because virginians shoul, d be making decisions for virginians. and that's why i was electedn'ta governor lasket year to stophav a government that was very comfortable telling people what to do all the time and forgetting that we're here in fact, to make our own decisions. freedom, in fact, matters inre a virginia. that's why parents make decisions about whether kids wear masks today. that's why people can make a decision about whether they want to get a vaccine or not. le makdecisions and i'm going to make sure they can decide what kind of car they want to buy.ntu >> i think that is well, i think that's right. rig and thank yohtu for doing that.t and that's. the premise of democracy is it's self-government which is curiously lacking at this point. democrai wonder how many virgis evre even aware that their cars were about to be banned? well, i don't