Hes got this going for him in including being a great street poet. Lets not get stuck in these stereotypes or images of each other. We are all human beings and are looking for a short period of time for a diverse world. But love each other. Teaching with conscience is a book that timeout this year. The man impossible, radical manifesto comes out in september and we mentioned the spring 2017 title. Have a book coming out with you cant fire that was and 20 other myths about teachers. There are a series of books that are myths and thats another attempt to change the frame of the discussion. The idea that theres always things said about bad teachers, you cant fight the bad ones, there aimlessly sucking on the teeth of society. All those things. Im in a go through all those arguments and try to make a little handbook for fighting backs longtime education professor and author bill ayres has been our guest on tv. Thank you this is book tv on cspan2. Heres a prime time lineup. Starting shortly, even more and kathleen argue for fossil fuels. On after words natalia holt is on book tv to talk about rise of the rocket girls, the women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars. At 9 00 p. M. Book tv and to of the cna interview with mark green. Mr. Green discusses his book price infinite future on the progressive rise. Then attend, a tour of the largest africanAmerican History and literature collection and midwest. First up, a look at possible fuels fossil fuels. Good afternoon and welcome to the heritage foundation. Of course we welcome those who join us online and those on the tv at a future occasion. We asked everyone in house to be courteous and check that your mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we begin. For those on minor in the future you can send us your questions and comments at any time simply emailing speaker at heritage. Org. We will post the program on our homepage for easy access. Introducing our program and hosting our guest is mrs. Dunlap. She is the distinguished fellow at the heritage foundation. She served as chairman of the conservative action project, advocates for american conservative conservation ethic and advances energy and National Resources policy in general. She also serves on numerous, as a board member for numerous organizations and associations. Prior to this she was heritage Vice President for external relations, prior to joining us she served in the cabinet of governor george allen as secretary of natural resources. She also held significant rolls in the Reagan Administration as Deputy Assistant for the president ial personnel she also served as Senior Special assistant in particular to todays program as deputy undersecretary as well as the system for secretary, fish wildlife and parks. Join me in welcoming my alley. Im. You much john and is just a pleasure to see all of you here today. This is an exciting day. Its always exciting with good friends and great people turn out great books. Without once a day that we are going to be introducing to you. Its my pleasure to introduce both of our coauthors for today and im going to introduce them both and then ask them to come to the podium to make their remarks will have plenty of time for questions. Our first coauthor is Kathleen White. She is a distinguished fellow and resident and director of the Armstrong Center for energy and the environment at the policy foundation. Prior to going with this foundation she served a sixyear term as chairman and commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for with regulatory jurisdiction over air quality, Water Quality and water right, storage and disposal of waste, she has an annual budget of over 600 million regional offices making it the Largest Agency in the world after the u. S. Environmental protection agency. It is our goal and not too distant future to make it the first largest in the world. Prior to the appointment in 2001 she served as then governor george bushs appointee to the Texas Water Development board where she sat until appointed to the ceq. She also served on the Texas Economic Development commission and the environmental flow study commission. She recently completed her term as an officer and director of the Lower Colorado river authority. She now sits on the and vittorio of the journal of regulatory science for the texas Emission ReductionAdvisory Board in the texas water foundation. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including national review, business daily, Washington Examiner and other major texas newspapers. She is also a contributor to the heritage study she was recently testified before the u. S. Senate, environment and public works committee. Perhaps most importantly to me, she is a dear friend of long standing, we met when we were children in washington d. C. Fighting for liberty. She continued to be a great warrior for liberty. Our other author is mr. Steven moore. Everybody knows the more. He is a Television Star who weve seen a lot of television and on the radio we like to listen to him. He formally wrote on the economy of policy for the wall street journal and he is now a distinguished visiting hello for the project for Economic Growth. The heritage foundation. He was a member of the Journal Editorial Board and he returns to heritage in 2004, about 25 years after the first served here, that was actually 2014. He also founded and served as president of the club for growth which raises money for political candidates who favor freemarket and economic policies. He also founded the free in a price fun before joining the wall street journal. Over the years he has served as the senior economist at the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and as a senior economics fellow at the Cato Institute where he published dozens of studies on fiscal policy. He was also a consultant to the National Economic commission in 1987 and Research Director for president reagans commission on privatization. He is a Fox News Contributor as well as writing regularly for national review, forbes, Investment Business daily, business daily, the Washington Times and the Orange County register. He has a master of arts in economics from george mason university. He has offered numerous books including whos the fairest of them all and its Getting Better all the time, still an open door and an inquiry into the causes of the wealth estate. Today he releases a book that he has coauthored about fueling freedom and exposing the mad war on energy. Lets open to our coding entrance podium Kathleen White and steven moore. [applause] thank you becky. That was a kind introduction and think you for all the years that you have been a mentor to me. I also want to thank a very patient man and he is the editor of our book and he is seated in the back his skill was extraordinary, to see how he transformed and helped me by my voice was excellent but his patients is to be a homework. The book many of you in this room know much about these issues. The book is for a general audience that i find unaware of the magnitude of the issues we have going on. I call them forces, not issues because we have to forces going on, is occurring at the very same time in history and both are unprecedented. One is the shale revolution. Its called other things but some people call it the Unconventional Oil and gas revolution. I think many remain unaware of the magnitude of it and given the persistence plunging crisis that began in 2014, a, a kind of got off the radar other than the dreary reports of how many people are unemployed. The opportunity that the shale revolution offers and the kind of revolution and the dynamic of the revolution is unprecedented. In much of the book tries to reveal that. Just an example, if the the revolution was not just another economic boom, it was on the basis of technological innovation access to what they all called the mother load of all hydrocarbons. They knew they were there when they were entering drilling in conventional vertical that allows them to drill only 10 . That is what is assessable. Whatever the price of oil is commands was now acceptable. It was not the result of government plans or programs or subsidy. It was not the result will companies. This was risk taking energy that operate in competitive market. Enormous risks and enormous gain. We dont have a minister of oil in this country but for the first time in history we have a market generated. It remains uncertain but the opportunities that that provides is amazing. I wont go on, the book goes on in detail. Living in texas where the technology was first developed and utilized in the state was able to cut costs of hydraulic fracturing and increasing outputs, but its still going on. I think were unaware of the opportunity that allows us. That is occurring. That is occurring at the same time that a very powerful global crowd is determined to eliminate fossil fuels and natural gas as fast as possible. Theyve done a tragically good case with coal. When as our government eliminated, and i would say eliminated but almost killed an entire industry . I am taking, having been dealing with Environmental Issues that again, those that make decisions, policymakers and those who get the public attention in the media are abysmally unaware of the magnitude of Climate Policies. A lot of talk in the last couple years about the greatest civilizational threat to date which are pretty lofty terms of how our president what it is drastically talk about manmade problem. We are a fossil fuels civilization. We use perhaps 200 more energy that flows through our lives and all kinds of goods and services that people did in 1800s. Some changes that occurred, lifespan is three times longer. Average income per capita, depending on how you measure it is ten or 20 or 30 times higher. The population of the world is now about 7 billion instead of 1 million. Things literally have gotten better in those indeed are at risk. Something that some people call the greek fact of history and that we kind of forget in this economic time in which we live is the unprecedented scale of modern Economic Growth. Our book submits that energy didnt cost that. Fossil fuels, when they were first applied, coal was the first resource to be so widely used and converted and it seems like countless numbers, but never before had a middleclass, and enduring middleclass emerge. The productivity made possible by fossil fueled energies just changed the whole dynamics. Productivity increases much of the price of goods fell. Those who made the goods could afford them but most importantly a middleclass simultaneously was the emergence of liberal democracies, i hope this group knows i dont mean less meaning, that combination of property rights, of the inalienable rights of our declaration of independence attributes to each human being, the far more competitive markets that emerged before, that value of fossil fuel to change the world. A couple examples that i think its worthy of reminding of how far weve come. In early 1900s, the workweek was 72 hours a week and you didnt come home to a meal ready in your house. You just were trying to provide basic needs. We all know what it is now. Its a 40 hour week. Thats amazing. The u. S. Has long been known for having the highest standard of living. What does that mean . In 1875, the average family in the world spent 74 of its income for existence needs. In 1995, they spent 13 . Those are precious achievements. We have indicators, but we have a flagging middleclass, reduced income, we did not have good signals about the continued growth of a robust middleclass. Climate policy, i feel, when the media talks about something other than candidate personality or the most recent insole, we really need to lift up the really major issues, the major policy decisions that the next president and the next congress will make. Theres no mention to the candidates who all have the written policies that you can find on the website. When Economic Growth is talked about, i think theres always a missing factor which often has to do with what kind of Energy Availability will we have. Renewables have been assigned a job they cannot complete. All Climate Policies assume we can fairly well replace all fossil fuels with Current Technology to bring renewable energy. The book goes into this in great detail. Theres a section that lists the number of headlines from the european headlines about the false hope in the fatal blunder and how electricity became a ledger luxury good. They are now three times higher than they are in the United States. The Economic Impact study only all the really big variables. What it would cost to replace the Global Energy infrastructure from extraction to production to delivery or distribution, highly regarded number crunchers say maybe eight or 10 trillion just to install enough renewable so the map said you could possibly replace significant shares of fossil fuels and thats also in the trillions. The Global Economy would take on, this is what our country would take on when we have such a need of more vibrant Economic Growth. There is so much opportunity. I will close by saying being an environmental regulator, i would like to call myself a reagan republican from a very early age, my parents gave me no choice, but its also a very missing ingredient in our policies. Its not about the genuine protection of our environment. The propaganda that comes out is unbelievable its deserve to be relied upon some basic investment of health risks. They are so far out of the way. We have learned in the last 20 or 30 years and weve had dramatic reduction of what i called genuine pollutants those listed in the Clean Air Act that can genuinely impact human health. Weve had faults of 60, 70, 80 . The aggregate omissions that come out of our tailpipes is 90 less than it was in 19. Im old enough to know you could always see the exhaust coming out of your tailpipe. Even concentrated cities like that you dont see it. We have learned how to operate and produce with great environment olson to be. We have been prosperous enough to store the extra cost. Environmental and hands that should go on, but dioxide is not a clue. Its a gas of life. We are educating whole generations that think that carbon is among the worst weapons of mass destruction were in trouble because our bones of blood are made out of carbon. That i think is also an important insight. It a very dark side to policy. You need to look no further than the words of global and National Leaders that its as if we are reformulating this really pessimistic, people use antihumanity people who believe that the enemy of humanity and rather than people with faith and the creativity of the human mind and what the dynamic freedom. You dont find Breakthrough Innovations in highly authoritarian countries. So i think this is, in in all way, a moral issue. Millions of the world what ill just be. We cant imagine what it would be like to live electricity. Any hope for Economic Growth and Health Education of those that still lack access to electricity, they dont need to. They need energyefficient Energy Sources that are controlled by incredibly effective technology. So two forces, its an odd collision. Our candidates, if you like to go to their website and read their Energy Policy, they offer dramatic alternatives. Its a pleasure to be here. And i think becky and tom, thank you steve and we really hope we can get this book out to many, many people who still have an open mind and are unaware of the magnitude of the risk we are taking on with Climate Policy and the magnitude of the opportunities that it gives to the United States largest producer of oil, natural gas and coal. Thank you,. I am going to sit because i have some slides i want to show to you. Becky, thank you very much for the nice introduction. I. I see a lot of friends here, many of the scholar here at heritage. Thank you for coming. Let me just start by saying kathleen really was the inspiration for this book. She had written a paper on the moral case for fossil fuels. As soon as i saw that, i said this is really a of the argument. We always make the economic argument and sometimes the strategic argument that this idea that using fossil fuels is a moral thing to do not end a moral thing to do. Let me give you some examples of what im talking about. Let me, we open the book that happened to me personally which was about four or five years ago, almost exactly four or five years to the day that we had a huge storm in virginia. It was a summer storm that had massive winds and knock down thousands of trees in the area and we had huge Power Outages that lasted for three or four days before they could restore the power. I tell the story about how my sons