Back to episode — Episode 3060 CWSA 01/02/26
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cheaper energy to the local community? And I'd never really thought of it that way, but if they have enough regulatory relief, it seems to me that something has changed in regulations because why is it suddenly so easy for these big companies to build their own power plants? I feel like building a power plant would be the hardest thing you could ever get approved, but suddenly there are lots of th…
← Previous segment →many people would have enough to just rebuild a new house? That seems like it would limit you. And then of course there are endangered plants. So apparently getting around the fact that there are endangered plants is slowing down permits. But as somebody asked in the comments where I saw this, how did the endangered plants do during the fire? Isn't a fire worse than building? Yeah. So we'll keep an eye on this, but it does seem to me that if there's no way to get fire insurance, it's going to be a long slow haul. Maybe they can clean it up so the fire risk is actually lower there than it is in other places.
Fentanyl. Oh, here's another. I'm seeing in the comments somebody saying that the fentanyl overdoses have gone way down since Trump got in office. I have some questions about that. I don't doubt it's true. But I didn't think you could reduce the supply of fentanyl coming across the border enough to make a difference just because it's so small. It's not like bales of marijuana. You could put it in your pocket enough to kill a city
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. So how do you stop that? So even though he stopped shipments from Venezuela, some people say that wasn't fentanyl anyway, but he did stop traffic coming in from Mexico. And I can't believe that the smugglers can't figure out how to just throw a bag of fentanyl over the fence. So they must be doing something right. But we'll give him credit for that. And I don't think another president could have…
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