Doug Burgum

So we need the Biden plan of energy transition was actually energy subtraction.

It wasn't addition.

It wasn't transition.

It was subtraction.

They were shutting down baseload and then replacing it with intermittent, unreliable, foreign sourced energy.

forms of energy that required us to build out all kinds of additional infrastructure on top of the infrastructure we already had.

That's what drove up prices.

And now we're facing this AI arms race with China.

We need more power.

We need energy addition.

The way to have energy addition is to stop getting rid of the stuff that already works.

And of course, that includes our fossil fuel baseload.

In the PGM market, 70% of the power was coming from...

from hydrocarbons during those storms.

I mean, America and the world is dependent on it and is gonna be in the long future.

Innovation is what we need to help solve any concerns that people might have about future climate change.

Well, it's easy, because we're not picking winners and losers.

We're picking reliable, affordable, nationally secure sources that can provide what Americans need, what we need for low prices for consumers, what we need for industry, and what we need for AI.

What we're not subsidizing any longer

is intermittent weather dependent foreign sourced which in the case of offshore wind hits all three of those but it's also the highest cost it's not affordable and it's also opposed by our marine fisheries i was meeting with a group of of third and fourth generation fishermen in new england last friday it's blowing up their business these are the farmers of the sea that put food on our table you meet with the marine mammal groups the save the whale groups they're opposed to offshore