Krystal and Saagar DEBATE Solutions to Gas Prices | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

Krystal and Saagar go back and forth on the different solutions to the gas price issue that can be implemented to combat high costs for Americans at the pump

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[cr]

As an engineer, it’s pretty frustrating listening to green climate “supporters” talking about what needs to happen as if they understand the tech behind it at all. It’s not subway where you can say, I’d like some wind, some solar and only a sprinkle of nuclear but hold the fossil fuels.

[TheSentryRob]

You know Saagar disagrees when he says "Yeah"

[tonylikesphysics]

It’s hard to convey how much I appreciate these arguments. Thanks again.

[tiger_would]

I have an idea. Let’s double the supply of dollars then gaslight the people by blaming big oil when monetary inflation kicks in. Price controls are the answer🥴

[Ardo]

I like how Krystal's arguement is based on the idea that we just haven't nationalized things enough even though Sagar points out and Krystal admits that the points of failure right now are poorly constructed government policies that lack "strategic vision"

[joe.oneill]

We need to get our politicians out of Corporate America's pocket. That is the only way Congress would ever consider limiting gas & oil exports.

[pedallknife]

Thanks for this discourse guys.

I agree with Saagar, feelings don’t render much importance to me anymore. We need plan of actions on a cost/benefit risk/reward basis.

[Max_bulk]

Saagar is the goat lol brings facts Krystal : yeeeaaa but I feel this way

[thedelapo]

Crystal is never willing to look at the faults of our own ideas and moderate them She only moralizes and does what about ism

[garywood]

Nuclear would be a better candidate for nationalizing, given that it has massive startup costs that most private companies wouldn't want to gamble on.

[chet]

Nice to see Sagar still has a spine strong enough to push Kristal back sometimes.

[SFreije]

Saagar is putting forth an actual argument while Krystal is bound by feelings of liberal guilt.

[seldomseensmith]

I really wish krystal would at least try to research subjects she's going to talk about - by 'electrification' I guessing she means electric cars, trucks etc. She has NO idea how damaging to the planet the mining for lithium and the other raw minerals essential for those batteries really is. Throw in how toxic it is to refine those minerals and you'll find out that the idea that electric cars being 'eco friendly' is a fallacy.

[KenShew]

Importing oil from Saudi, Iran, Venezuela and Russia is not helping the climate. Neither does using the strategic oil reserve. Policies that restrict oil production just hurts Americans.

[robbarker]

Thank you for finally letting us see some of this for free. Saagar typically just eats bad takes in silence in everything we used to get.

[rebecabonilla]

I understand Krystal's argument, valid. However, if her bank account matched the 37.2 million people that live in poverty in the US her point of view would be different. Of course if your well off it's easy to make that argument. Not that it isn't valid opinion.

[brettgeist]

I love listening to you both simply because you show us how to politely, sanely, and assertively listen to each other.

[jonothandoeser]

The thing is that we are not there yet technologically to go all electric. If we replaced every gas powered car with an electric car in America overnight, the result would be a massive blackout followed by severe electricity rationing the next day. WE DON'T HAVE THE JUICE to run a nation of electric cars, at this point. That is not to say that this will never happen, but we need to react to reality not ideology. We are already firmly on the road towards electric cars, and when they become cheaper and equivalent to gasoline automobiles, people will buy them WHEN THEY BECOME LOGICAL TO BUY.

Most of us now use mobile phones as our primary telephones. But that didn't happen because the government connived to dramatically raise the prices and rates of landline phones and then heavily subsidized mobile phones. It happened because everybody wanted to buy the original iPhone because it was desirable, cool, and seemed worth the money. *The government needs to stop trying to force consumers to buy what it thinks is right* and simply allow technological innovation and desire for profit to achieve their goal on a more realistic timeframe. Causing pain at the pump today is not helping anything!

[TheSentryRob]

At 4:35 Krystal uses China as an example of someone who is doing it better than the U.S. 🤦🏻

[DM-syhg]

KRYSTAL: "Sure people are drowning under Biden and his high gas prices and energy cost...BUT...my FEELINGS..." Ugh...