th Japan or does it just open up a market? I don't know.

Apparently India agreed to make us its leading supplier of crude oil and petroleum. But isn't that just increasing demand on our energy? So here are the two examples of increased demand. Increased demand doesn't lower your cost. I mean if you increase production to meet the demand it's still not doing anything. Trump is reopening 625 miles of ocean that Biden had banned from drilling. But is anybody drilling? Is there anybody who's like yeah we're going to get going in that place we wanted to but weren't? So wouldn't you like to know about that?

They also saw that making peace with Russia should have some impact on energy prices because that would allow Russia to produce more energy. I don't know. I think they're producing all they want so I don't see how that's going to lower our prices. And then Trump did call on OPEC to increase production which if they did that would lower energy prices. But are they doing it? So you see the problem, right?

Trump made a big deal about betting on American energy. So if we increase our energy production we could not only make more money by selling it, yay, but we could lower our own costs by having more supply than there is demand, at least changing the balance. But is any of that happening?

So here's what I would suggest for the administration. I feel like Doug Burgum needs some help and like I said he's probably a solid interior minister but sometimes promotion is a whole different field and he doesn't seem like the promotion guy. Now I don't want to see a bunch of BS but don't you think that real things are brewing that could actually lower energy costs? And if there aren't, well I'd like to know that because pretty much our entire future depends on energy booming and lowering our energy prices because nothing else is going to take the price of eggs down.

Right now I do love the things that Trump is doing, the lowering with DOGE etc. So as long as we can get Congress to not spend all those savings, which I think they want to do, then maybe in the long term prices and inflation will be controlled and that helps on prices. But I'm not seeing the Trump administration draw a straight line between what they're doing and the price of eggs or even the price of energy. So we need that, don't we? It's conspicuously missing. Given that the Trump administration is so good at promotion and energy's got to be right at the top of the things that you would want to promote if there's something happening. But I guess I'm going to say I'm not aware of anything that would make a difference. So that's a little disturbing.

Here's a new study on studies. I like studies about studies. This is a study that shows the research papers. They looked at 82 climate studies. What do you think they found? Don't get ahead of me. It said that not a single paper of those 82 disclosed a conflict of interest in over 29 years. So over a 29-year period nobody who did these studies ever disclosed if they had a conflict of interest. Do you think they had any?

Well here's what they found out. So 68 percent of NGO-funded studies claimed that climate change drastically increased hurricane activity. So more than two-thirds of all NGO-funded climate studies say oh this is making the hurricanes much worse. What do you think would be the answer of people who are not funded by an NGO? Now an NGO would be something like the green climate initiative. NGO. So it's basically people who want the study to say that climate change is real and they want the study that they're funding to say that it's dire. And 68 percent of the people who took money from the people who want to show how dire it is showed how dire it was. Two-thirds of them.

But of the people who did not take money from NGOs they had a very clear incentive structure. Only 22 percent of them said that the hurricanes are getting worse because of climate change. 22 percent versus 68. And so the 22 percent were people who just got government or academic research that was maybe a little more neutral. It's like here's your money, come tell us what happened. Whereas the NGOs are really directly political I think in most cases.

So there you go. Your studies match the desires of the people who funded them and they didn't disclose that they had that conflict. So that would be a conflict if your funding came from an NGO and the NGO definitely wanted a certain answer because you know they did. And apparently the NGO grants were four times as large as the normal academic study. Now even in the academic world people are going to be pressed to say climate change is real. And even if you're funded just by the government not through an NGO you're still going to feel like you need to come up with something that agrees with the government. So climate science? Not really science.

Remember they say trust the science. If you knew that the source of the funding completely changed the outcomes, the source of the funding not the science, the source of the funding, if you know that and there's such a big difference, 22 percent compared to 68, that's not really science is it?

All right. Here's what I like to say about climate change. Where do you find out about the climate models? Now some of you who followed me already know what I mean about that but I'm fascinated by the category of communication which is something that can't be communicated. For example you know the story about the little boy who cried wolf. He warned that a wolf was coming when there wasn't so many times that when a real wolf was coming and he said there's a wolf coming everybody said ah that's that little kid who cries wolf all the time so they ignored him. So that was a case where the boy who cried wolf could not communicate a real thing because people weren't ready for it.

Now that's also true if you get your information from your enemy you don't believe it. There's a whole bunch of categories of things that can't be communicated. Here's another one. If physics came up with some great new thing but the physicist wanted to explain it to me, do you think they could do it? Not really. It'd be stuff like well then the muon went to the quantum phase into the