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Podcast: The WallBuilders Show
Episode: Why Chasing Net Zero Raises Costs And Keeps People Poor
Description: Power you can count on changes everything—health, safety, jobs, and whether a storm becomes a headline or a hardship. We sit down with energy expert and former Texas legislator Jason Isaac to unpack why so many grids feel fragile despite record spending, and how policy signals have steered capital into intermittent capacity that often fails when demand spikes. From Texas’ post‑Uri reality to Europe’s price shocks, we connect real‑world outcomes to the engineering underneath the buzzwords.Jason walks us through how subsidies per megawatt‑hour shape the buildout of wind, solar, and batteries, and why inst...