Jim's comments BEFORE the interview:     As you know, we here at Mad Money are on a crusade... a jihad... to reverse the worst domestic policy blunder we've made in this country since Andrew Jackson did away with the 2nd bank of the United States in the 1830s...

I'm talking about the horrendous biofuels mandate that's caused 30% of our corn crop to be turned into a mere 3% of our gasoline, in the form of ethanol, a corrosive fuel that no one wants, especially not in their cars. 

The ethanol mandate has jacked up the price of chicken, pork and beef, as the price of feed for these animals has skyrocketed.  Ethanol's costing you a lot of money, and it ain't doing much for the environment.

Ethanol is not the solution.  On this show, we have come out in favor of wind energy, of solar power, of nukes, of natural gas...  anything but ethanol.  And that's why every Cramerican should love Rick Perry.  Rick Perry is the republican Governor of Texas who defied orthodoxy and asked the EPA to reduce federal ethanol requirements.  Of course, the EPA smacked him down immediately...  but his state is leading the nation when it comes to building new wind farms and solar power installations, spending billions to build up the grid infrastructure first, because that's the main bottleneck to using wind and solar...  the power lines aren't hooked up to the panels and turbines. 

For all of these reasons... a personal hero of mine... I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Governor Rick Perry to the show...  Governor Perry, welcome to Mad Money...