Doug Burgum

And of course, but what's happened over the last 30 years, you go back to the Clinton era, which is,

Hey, we're going to save this spot at all, so we're not going to cut a tree.

Oh, we're worried about the impact of beef, and so we're going to stop grazing.

Oh, mining, that's dirty.

We should stop doing it.

When the U.S.

is doing it cleaner, better, safer, smarter than anywhere, and when we got out of the mining business, who got into it?

China, controlling all those critical and rare earth minerals, tearing up the Congo, Indonesia, child labor.

no environmental controls.

If people care about the environment, they should want the U.S.

to produce every electron, every drop of liquid fuels, and everything that you mine.

I mean, the cell phone that all of your listeners have has got 65 different critical minerals in a single cell phone.

We should be doing that here, not just for national security, but for job creation, because we do it cleaner, smarter, and safer.

All of that can happen.

Most of those resources or most of the land that we own is in the West.

That's where most of these rich resource minerals are.

And again, so from the West all the way up through Alaska, a big opportunity.

And think of it as America's untapped Southern wealth fund.

I mean, this is an asset that could be generating benefits for every American.

And I should just throw this in.