CLAY: I want to play you this clip, because Democrats feel like they have a pulse on the American public. And their idea for what you should do to deal with the price of oil is to go buy an electric car. This is a Marie Antoinette moment writ large for the Democrat Party. I want you to listen to multiple Democratic Party officials say the way to deal with the price of gas increasing over $4 gallon, is just go buy an electric car.
CLAY: All right. So, Buck, I just checked. The price of oil — this is a positive — down to around $101, $102. It got up to around $130. In theory the hope would be that the price of oil that you are paying at gas stations might come back. Now, obviously the price of old is adjusting on a day-to-day basis and people have to buy it at different times, but the hope is it’s not gonna continue to skyrocket higher based on where we are right now.
But how tone-deaf is it to argue that people who are already struggling for the price of gas at over $4 a gallon, to suggest that the solution for those people is to go buy a $50,000 electric vehicle? It’s next-level awful in terms of an argument to actually make and, to me, is representative of Democrats not really understanding, by and large, what so-called real Americans are dealing with and what real economic issues are out there.
BUCK: I can’t even keep up with the price of gas in California. I think I saw on social media a photo of it at like $7 a gallon —
CLAY: Oh, yeah, it’s over $7 a gallon in some places.
BUCK: This is getting… You know, it’s amazing is that Donald Trump said with Biden, you could have $7-a-gallon gas and, oh, the fact-checkers! He said that in 2019, everybody.
CLAY: Yes.
BUCK: Oh, the fact-checkers are coming, oh, it will never happen.
CLAY: Never happen, impossible.
BUCK: Another thing that Trump was right about and they were wrong about also with electric cars, where does athletic actually come from? I think that’s always a fascinating part of this conversation. It’s not coming from the windmill that all the Tesla owners have in their backyard, as fancy as their homes in Malibu, Nantucket, and the Upper East Side may be.
The truth is that it comes overwhelming from fossil fuel energy. So it’s coal, right, coal electric plants. It should be nuclear, but they don’t like nuclear ’cause it scares them even though nuclear is actually quite safe. If they were serious about emissions, Clay, there would be a full-on embrace of nuclear power in this country. If they really wanted to do something that was not insane, right? Not Green New Deal, let’s rebuild every house so that it’s carbon neutral or whatever it was, let’s capture the cow farts ’cause the methane is so destructive.
CLAY: True. Yes.
BUCK: That was a real thing.
CLAY: I know. I know.
They get to live in a 15,000-square-foot house — actually, four or five of them and fly private everywhere — while they’re passing out to the peasants the crumbs from the CO2 table. “Oh, you guys have to all take bicycles.” I think this is fantastic for the country to actually see in real time that Democrats people are suffering, gas is more expensive, everything is more expensive, and they’re essentially saying, “Make do with less, peasants,” this is great messaging for them going into the midterms; I hope they stay with it, “or get a Tesla or an electric scooter,” Clay, because —
CLAY: Well, you are the electric scooter man.
BUCK: With gas where it is, it all of a sudden makes a lot of economic sense too be scooterooing all over the New York City.
CLAY: What sound do you make? Does your scooter have a bell? Do you have the scooter right here? I just want the people to hear it.
BUCK: (bing) I don’t know if they can hear that one.
CLAY: Hold it up right to the mic. (bing) Listen to this.
BUCK: Let me tell you…
CLAY: That is not… If you can hear that, first of all, that is not a… I don’t know if you can adjust the tone of your scooter to make it more masculine perhaps, also louder.
BUCK: No. You remember when they had…? I think it was actually — I should check on this — Congressman Darrell Issa, ’cause he made his fortune with the car alarm. I think was called the Viper car alarm.
CLAY: Oh, I remember that.
BUCK: He was involved in that.
CLAY: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
BUCK: There was a voice of like, “Step away from the vehicle!”
CLAY: Yeah.
BUCK: I think that was his voice. I actually need something like that on the electric scooter that’s like, “Out of my way, peasant! I’m limiting my CO2 emission,” because you press the little bell which I will tell you I avoid. I think I’d rather have a wipeout than press the little bell out on the street.
CLAY: My theory for you is you need, like, the Dukes of Hazzard. You know, when you honk the horn in the Dukes of Hazzard and it would play I think it was Dixie, right? Like, I would love to see the reaction rolling down the scooter, ’cause it’s kind of a juxtaposition. You wouldn’t expect a man on a scooter to be playing the Dukes of Hazzard theme song when he’s coming past you. Now, that is an incongruous pairing.
BUCK: You see a city, when you’re on one of these little electric… You see a city in a way — and I mean literally see it in a way that you won’t otherwise ’cause you cover a lot of ground on the street. And the disorder, the chaos, and the filth of New York, which is worse than it’s been in a very long time. When you’re rolling around on your scooter. The other things people have — they’re everywhere now in the city because it’s so much easier to get the get around. I forget what it’s called. It’s like a ball or like a wheel that you stand on. People are flying around those all the time.
CLAY: Oh, yeah, I’ve seen those things. Yeah, yeah.
BUCK: It’s like an electric unicycle almost. Those are all over now. E-bikes are wherever too, and I always wanna be like, I thought you have a bike or you have something that’s electric but apparently the e-bike boosts your — you know, your pedaling so that you’re going faster than you actual are. Anyway this is what’s going on in the city.
CLAY: Do scooter guys or girls nod at each other like people in Jeeps when they pass each other in the street?
BUCK: Oh yeah, Clay.
CLAY: Do you nod towards others? Do you have an affinity group of scooters?
BUCK: We’re kind of like the Hell’s Angels of the clean energy movement. We see each other —
CLAY: Do you think you’re the only person on a scooter in New York City who voted for Trump?
BUCK: (pause) That’s a very good question. I think there’s a distinct possibly that is true.
CLAY: Like, “Scooters for Donald Trump” would be a small interest group.
BUCK: Very few. There are scooters everywhere —
CLAY: Yes.
CLAY: Yeah. You’re kind of undercover. By the way, I did see a great meme. We were talking about the price of gas. Did you see the screenshot from the movie I Am Legend, Will Smith where he’s like the last person who survived in the country?
BUCK: Yeah, it’s a good popcorn movie. I’ve seen it.
CLAY: It’s not bad at all. The price of gas on the gas stations in apocalyptic America is lower than the price of gas is right now. Have you not seen that meme? There’s a screenshot from the movie, and California is like $2 a gallon more expensive than the price of gas right before the apocalypse has taken over the country.
BUCK: And one of the reasons I think it’s important we point out what the messaging is from the White House on this is that we can all see what’s happening, and it’s going to get worse, and they could be doing things to make it better, but they won’t because they think the planet’s going to melt because of CO2 emissions.
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