04-14-26

Episode 2790 - In this wide-ranging and practically urgent episode, Ted and Austin Broer connect fuel market manipulation, pharmaceutical dangers, digital childhood destruction, and foreign policy corruption into a picture that touches every American family’s daily life. The episode opens with a focused breakdown of ethanol’s real cost to consumers, covering the EPA’s emergency E15 approval, the corporate subsidy structure benefiting major institutional investors, the vehicle damage caused to older engines and two-stroke equipment, and the trajectory toward E20 blends that will accelerate these problems further. Ted and Austin connect this to broader oil price manipulation dynamics, explaining how petrochemical byproducts enable price gouging when crude exceeds $100 per barrel and how shipping cost increases downstream are already hitting businesses and consumers.