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ah, ah, your comes thanksgiving, but not all of us will populate a gauzy norman rockwell scene. food insecurity was mounting b for supply chain issues and recent inflation. we're feeling inflation at the gas station too. and there's a tough winter ahead. i'm holland cook in washington eating and heating are in the big picture here on our t america. ah . the last couple years have given us all a crash course in supply and demand and nothing rebs up that roller coaster like that cost of energy. what to expect? let's ask an energy expert. the ceo of baba trading todd baba horwitz. bob a thanks for your time. and 1st things 1st, because everything is now

a political argument. there's pain at the pomp and the president's detractors are trying to pin that on him as though presidents have a switch on the oval office desk. what are the factors that contribute to the price of a gallon, a gas i on and thanks for having me and, well, there's the, there's the, the drilling and there's, there's shipping and there's the pipeline for shutting down. and, and since we actually gave up control of gasoline and we are no longer a net exporter nori producer, we are at the mercy of opec and saudi arabia. and i'm sure they're gonna cut us a break. so between the supply chain issues and the lack of, of transportation to get the oil where it needs to be that raises the price is automatically, before you talk about the refinery issues and the other things that go there. so there's why you have higher oil prices and why they're not going to come down even

though we've seen the price of w t i crack recently where we don't trade or use wi for ours anymore. we now use brent, which it comes out of the south south nor see. now you mentioned a your pipeline as i understood it, that was gonna bring oil from canada down to the golf and out for export. would that have helped us at the pump? of course, it would help as of the bomb listen how and there's, there's one very simple remedy to all this. if they would go back to shale producing and fracking and allow the country to work properly. we would not have this massive inflation. we would not have the mask that we have, but this is more political and created almost intentional if you can believe that. but you have it going on everywhere and wait and do you see your heating bills when they start? because we're just now approaching the winter season. we have heard in the past when gas prices were up,

a request from 11 democratic senators and states that get cold in the winter to the president. we asked that you consider all the tools available at your disposal to lower u. s. gasoline prices. this includes a release from the strategic petroleum reserve and a ban on crude oil exports. a baba to this layman's strategic sounds like spare tire, a for emergency use, you know, break, the glass is tapping into this at this time. a good idea. bad idea. it's a horrible idea on let's look at it this way. remember, we don't have a supply to refill the strategic pipeline. we're gonna have to pay regular retail cost through opec. if we release it, it gives opec even more power over the cost of, of gasoline. and over the cost of oil, and therein lies the problem. there is one solution, and that is to allow the fractures and the producers to go back to work. you want

to cut down supply, you want to get the green environment, no problem, but you can't shut it down all at one time because you can see what's happened. we've got a 100 percent increase in one year. in the price of oil. we've got massive inflation and crude oil and fossil fuel goes into everything that we do in this country, including making those healthy bottles of water. they take fuel to make you cannot exist at the way we're running because we are out of money. we're out of plans and we've got a federal reserve that has no clue and continues to print money so all you have is higher prices at the pump. higher prices, you're going to pay for heating higher prices everywhere with no relief in sight. he had a nerve a minute ago, i'm reading that the winter months account for some 50 to 80 percent of residential fuel consumption. depending on where in the usa you live. so for many and my fellow knowing lenders bubba what is your forecast for the home heating oil season ahead?

you might have to choose between eating and staying warm. i think this is going to be a very, very rough winter. you already know what's going on in the u. k. and in germany, they have no natural gas because, you know, russia holds that the soul, the soul energy there because we won't ship it anymore. so what you got is you're going to have high, high heating bills, and if we get very cold winter, it's going to be very ugly. and i and i, i'm sorry to say that many middle class americans are going to suffer and have to make decisions on how hot or how warm they want their homes to be worse as eating food. because this is the situation that we're being put into for absolutely no reason because we've got a political agenda versus actually taking care of the american people. well being on t v. i'm always trying to lose a few pounds, but i've stacked up some firewood adjustment case, todd baba, horwitz baba trading. thank you for stepping into the big picture. if you're

planning a trip to see the sites here in washington, and you'll be visiting stately memorials to thomas jefferson, f d r, and martin luther king junior, or if you'll be strolling along the tidal basin during cherry blossom time. pack your galoshes. when we hear sea level rising, we think south beach miami, but in scenic bar harbor and wells beach, maine, hundreds of millions and property value is at risk. no sooner does the california wildfire season died down than flooding and mud slides begin. in rhode island where i live, 3 tornadoes touch down last weekend. the last time we had a tornado was 1950. the climate change future is now. can we stem the damage? let's asked brian teen founder and president of smart power, a washington based non profitable, non profit renewable energy, energy efficiency,

outreach and marketing company. brian, i guess that's the point, isn't it thickly, hey, up president biden's, a infrastructure bill includes billions and billions of dollars to fight climate change. how is that gonna be spent? well, it's in, in a lot of exciting ways and, and i would just say kind of, if we're going to talk about fracking by the way, we're just doing that to summers. and that's the definition of insanity to just keep doing the exact same thing that we've been doing in just slowly and slowly boil the earth as now with this about, you know, what we're seeing by the way, with, with oil prices right now, is not simply a fracking issue, we just are coming out of our pandemic. quite frankly. i think me, we, we need a toilet paper, strategic toilet paper reserve the way things are going. so like there's a lot of supply chain issues, not just an oil, is just going to point that out. as we talk about the availability of climate change on the money and climate change. it's unbelievable,

and it's unbelievably exciting. i mean, what we're looking at is $65000000000.00. that's the president signed. let me just last week. the within that bill is $65000000000.00 on clean energy and clean and smart grid work, which is incredibly exciting. in then we're looking at $77500000000.00 to put it up as electric charging stations across country coast to coast. think of that so that now we really are, by the way, going to an economy that isn't using petroleum, that cars, every single car manufacturer in the country is put into it has a, an electric vehicle on the road in now the united states is actually going to have an entire chain of electric vehicle charging stations across country. it's unbelievable what we're going to be doing not to mention cleaning up dirty water, not to mention cleaning up oil wells that just are now drained and we just can't get oil out of them. we have to clean those up to about the electric cars or amazon and other companies are switching their fleets over school buses. the federal motor pool are going electric. ford is rolling out that electric f $150.00 pick up and

the mustang. they're talking about 600000 electric cars by 2023. so the good news is that is less exhaust into the sky. but brian electric cars need to charge up and that electricity has to come from somewhere. how meaningful will driving electric, reduce the old school energy pollution and hopes to replace. yeah, the story there just keeps getting better and better what we're seeing now. and folks in california by this, by the way, no, this great, no, the so well, what we're seeing now is the onset of a solar plus batteries. and that is really kind of that's, that's the story we need. so we're seeing large scale solar batteries that are actually really working. just 2 weeks ago, southern california edison, the, one of the largest utilities in the country, commissions. the, the building of 2 gigawatts, 2.4 gigawatts of solar batteries. that is going to be built by the way,

by next august, that will be working by next august to gigawatts, by the way, is the equivalent of 2 coal coal fired power plant to cyclone to one nuclear power plant in it will be in place by next august which i've ever been done with a nuclear power plant or 2 coal hard bar plans in it will actually be in place. it will be working. it will be powering southern california. you. we're not going to see brown outs. we're going to see cars being plugged in, in charged by the sun, in the batteries as charging. it's unbelievable. and only because i am, by the way, because southern cal edison is doing it, you're going to start seeing other utilities during i start seeing arizona. there ain't gonna start seeing all these major utilities doing huge batteries that collect the sod, solar power from the sun, and then charge our cars and charge our way of life. can you foresee a time when solar collectors on the roof of a car could power the car? well actually, you know, di toyota has one target actually does it in, you know, the listen over celebratory. it actually has a solar panel on,

on one of their prefer prius versions. it doesn't do a lot and it did hires some of the, some of the air conditioning in the car. but it is a piece. and actually, it's an important piece because cars use a lot of energy and increasingly they're going to use a lot more. so, you know, let's think about it. think about everything that we use. you know, a tara truck out of, out of israel actually has a battery, plus a hydrogen fuel cell in the truck. and so you have battery and then should you actually go to long on the battery. the fuel cell can take over and is an unbelievable product. and by the way, they're trying to come to the u. s. and so it's really pretty cool. you have so much ingenuity happening. you look what happened, you know, a cop 26, and you have the united states, you have india and then your china on the side all talking to each other and saying look, we're going to do this. and then the real key here for this whole thing is going to be ingenuity in technology, and it's happening. so we don't have to talk about kind of just, oh, the old ways. this is how we've done it. we have, you know, heating oil and we have coal. we actually have new ways of doing this and it's

happening as we speak. we're living through this entire evolution. it's unbelievably exciting. i am glad you mentioned that about the car batteries because people think electric car problem solved, but electricity doesn't just come out of a hole on the wall. we're speaking with brian and keen president of washington based non profit, smart power dot org. brian, your group has been working with yale and, and why you on a series of studies called the solar energy evolution. and you've mentioned battery technology in cars. i got about 30 seconds, not 31, but for people watching and listening to this as a podcast. what can you tell us about how solar can changed their homes, energy expense with batteries? it's unbelievable that actually solar plus storage is we call it, is available now for you to buy your own. and are we have programs we have that we are solar in the city program that we do? we have a solar eyes at work program that we do where we go to your place of business. and

by the way, we know today so many people by the way, are still working in their home office. yeah. and we work with your companies to actually help you, solar eyes, your home office, and the company's love. it is an a, an opportunity for the company to an effect. help you get another. another benefit for the working for the company normal not so upon us. brian can smart power dot org. thanks again for stepping in to the big picture. coming up when better than with thanksgiving looming to ask why so many americans are not well fed? this is the big picture on our t america. ah ah, technologist fits perfectly well into the future, but we can't change our way of thinking now way that we can

visualize how we will things and how we will feel and how our needs will be in 50 years. so our own, do our own technological develop, things always further on than our ability to feed ah

ah oh i does your household have quote access at all times to enough food for an at the health of life for all household members. if so, you meet the u. s. department of agriculture definition of food insecure. if not, you are among nearly 14000000 american households who were food insecure during 2020 and while much of life change during 2020, that number was constant from the 2019. we remember as normal and many hard hit are

those we count on for our security r t contributor ashley banks reports thousands of active duty military members and service at home and abroad are struggling to have their basic needs met. unfortunately, they often find themselves for some period of time, either by choice or by circumstance, living off of a single income. it's just very difficult to make that happen. it really depends on the time, and i've only been in for 5 years. so the longer you stay and obviously the more you get paid, so when you're, when you're just start now, it's a lot tougher. roughly 160000 of them are facing food and securities and are finding it hard to provide food for their families. like we have family that was able to how we definitely want to like stay in our car of united feeding america and organization geared toward coordinating work with food banks across the nation . so the food insecurity is an issue in america,

and the military as not exempt according to active as military members have been dealing with this issue for years. however, it has worse than during the covert pandemic, another underlying issue as an agriculture department rule. stopping families in need from being able to access the government assistance program called snap, which provide food stamps for low income families. at this time, congress is aiming to fine avenues to combat the food insecurity. issue. recently, sen duckworth sponsor bill called a basic needs allowance, which would allocate funds to military families across the nation who are in desperate need of food and other household items. reporting in washington ashley banks. and for all of us now comes inflation and supply chain issues. can we cope with dr. sarah doing a professor at the university of wealth humber. sarah, welcome. my dad was also an educator. he was an elementary school principal. and back in the 1950s when i was just a kid,

he told me that his school lunch program was the only substantial meal of the day for some of those students back to the future. everything is now a political argument, but it's not school lunch, lifeline worth funding. you know, many said that when you look at the quality of life, life begins in childhood and you know, it can impact trajectory of one's life. and so i think there's no doubt that when it comes to school based nutritional programs for children, i think it sets the tone for their lives. so i think it's absolutely crucial that this idea of food security begins with children in terms of their, their quality of life and their ability to be successful in school. what is no doubt? what is the most common misconception overall about food insecurity?

i think that only certain people are immune you know, the segment earlier by miss banks clearly shows that the average person would never think that someone who served in the military would not be able to access food. and so i think that really speaks to the growing issue. i see the statistics coming up here in the united states. and really this is a phenomenon you would think worldwide with food supply chains. and as well as in, in canada as well, where i am, where we've seen a 47 percent increase compared to last year in people using food banks in this nation. so i think the misconception is clearly deteriorate, deteriorating with, with this crisis, no doubt. it can happen to anyone to issues or act in everyday life and almost every way inflation and supply chain snap foods. this has got to make things

tougher for the food insecure. how so professor yeah, there is no tell. i think we can start with the food supply chain, you know, the food supply chain is perhaps the world's largest and most interconnected market . there's no doubt in climate change seems to be the theme of the program today and it, it's also really a dominating discussion in terms of the food supply chain. so for example, you have in the nation of canada, canada wants to impose a carbon tax on farmers. but this of course will means that they will become less competitive and as a result, canada will likely have to import more food from abroad. meanwhile, canadians want you know, local food and in america you have, of course, vide and dividing administration, continuing to support the paris climate agreement. and some issues are arising there as well. i mean, san said that the deal would punish america's energy producers with very high heavy

regulations, while other countries will get generous timelines. so there's, there's really ongoing issues related to the supply chain. there's, there's no doubt about that. during the pandemic shut down, we got accustomed to ordering online for home delivery and amazon and walmart and others were already morphing into supermarkets. has this delivery model helped to mitigate the problem of so called food deserts, where many americans are geographically inconvenient to proper shopping options? yes, hall and you know, food deserts are a major problem in the, in the united states. you know it, 1st of all the food desert exists. one residents have very limited access to grocery stores or a vehicle. so they have to walk. they have to bike or use public transportation to food shop. and many people say that the way to deal with the impact of higher food

prices really involves more cooking. and so of course, no doubt food delivery options have emerge during the pandemic to help. but those food delivery options have led to what michael, poland called the skilling. so really it's people develop a lack of skill when it comes to food work. you know, for example, we see the video here when you go to the grocery store, your developing skills, physical skills by walking around the grocery store shopping vegetables, mental skills, you know, you have to make sure that you've bought it, of food and just the right ingredients for the week, so there's mental skills and then of course there's emotional skills, deciding how to negotiate different food preferences, allergies, nutritional needs. so the argument with delivery options is that sometimes the result can be that people end up losing skills if they're only, you know, totally dependent on home delivery. but what the delivery does cure is these

neighborhoods where food is defined as within walking distance to mcdonalds. and throughout the shut down we've been looking for silver linings and i think you just pointed to one we all got used to eating at home or more. and i think however clumsy the 1st couple efforts are it's skill we need to recover and we're talking food insecurity with the dr. sarah, do any ilan mosque managers to attract attention one way or another almost every day. lately. he's talked about shelling out about 6. lillian, by selling his tesla stock and he pledges that to help feed the food in secure. and he's challenging his fellow billionaires who are joy, writing and space to pitch in. sarah, i've read that your dissertation was about food security and the role of the non profit sector and advocating for a national food policy where you are there in canada can for profit characters like

must help move the needle or are they just p r show offs i think it's really important not to shut people out of you know, the policy making process and advocacy coalition. so i think, you know, he shouldn't be shut out of out of the conversation because i think you could definitely contribute to, you know, dealing with the issue of food security. the question i think would be to what extent is a lot mosque and others not just him, but others in the corporate world making connections with the, with the nonprofit world. so really, i think we need more collaboration, really between the 2 to address this issue. i've only got about 30 seconds more, but what else can someone watching or listening to this as a podcast do to help the food insecure? yeah, i think it would be to to look for

a local based food and really try to be innovative and creative. i think one thing this pandemic has taught us is we need creativity and innovation really in every field, including the way that we are selves, access food, dr. sarah, duty and canada. thank you for stepping into the big picture and please come again and thank you for watching the big picture. we're going to be back same time next week. if you're watching real time, if you don't, you can set your d v r to direct tv channel 3 to one. we're on the dish dish and channel 280. our alive fi. there's youtube dot com slash r t. america and my work is archived in youtube dot com slash the big picture r t. and i am just part of a vast cast. you will find where you'll find all our shows live and on demand on the free, portable tv app and the app store on google play, and that portable dot tv. i'm holland cook in washington at holland cook on twitter . where if you follow me,

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