Doug Burgum

an issue relative to the environment.

And what's left the attack on coal as a baseload power has been largely around CO2 emissions.

And with the reversal of the endangerment finding that says that this was massive overreach by the Obama EPA, that we are going to go back to a thing where we can have consumer choice, that's lower prices.

And of course, with the big storms we had in the Northeast last week, I mean,

Check back on Secretary Wright's press conference last Friday, but we would have had millions and millions of people in this country without power if coal hadn't stepped up.

Coal was the hero of keeping the lights and the heat on in America.

And all of the money that has been spent in the northeastern part of this country on renewables, there was times during those storms where we had less than 2% of the power coming from wind and solar.

There was more coming from burning wood and trash than there was coming from wind and solar.

And coal in some parts of the country was providing 25 percent of the electricity.

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.