Doug Burgum
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32 recordings
11 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5 Jun
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When I left office last December 15th, just December 15th of 2024, as governor, I was involved in 30 lawsuits against the Biden administration. Many of them, including against the agency, the bureaus that I'm now leading, because the regulatory regime was such that it wasn't about regulating oil and gas. It was about eliminating oil and gas from America.
And if there was some sort of false god around climate ideology that was being chased, it was like, oh, if we stop... The supply coming from the U.S. were going to somehow save the planet. But there was no reduction of demand. The demand was just being filled by, you know, Iran, Venezuela, Russia. And they were funding wars against us.
So, I mean, I thought it was the closest thing to insanity that I'd ever seen. And so when we dropped out very quickly, I was the first of any of the other candidates to endorse President Trump and then spent last year campaigning for him.
Well, I love what I'm doing and I love the role because, of course, as a Western person,
western governor uh we have all the things that interior has as governor of north dakota which is a jam-packed fun job uh you've got your chairman of the land board and just being governor well then you know dealing with land and minerals and all the leasing and all the issues with the energy industry you're also the head of the water commission uh interior has the bureau of reclamation which is the second largest hydroelectric producer in the country and manages
You know, the miracle of irrigation that Theodore Roosevelt came up with. We wouldn't have agriculture in Arizona or California without that. And then Bureau of Indian Affairs is part of Interior. And that's something I had a lot of experience with and all the challenges that we face in terms of health care and education on the tribal areas. So across the whole realm of Interior,
And everything that I had in North Dakota is part of my job today, except one thing. And that's offshore oil production because North Dakota, as you would know, is the center of North America. So if you're afraid of sharks, you should move to North Dakota because it literally is the furthest place in North America from any ocean. So we had no offshore.
But today, earlier today, I had a chance to get on my first offshore platform and and see the innovation and entrepreneurship there that's, again, now providing about 16% of the oil for America.
Well, I think you're spot on. I mean, human flourishing depends on everyone. And I think if you're talking about access for everyone, you just take a look. I mean, we could have as many as 800 million people on the planet, shy of a billion, that don't have access to electricity. And they need more energy. Now with AI coming, the demand for power is going to go up.
The demand for advanced manufacturing. So we're not in any kind of energy transition. We're in an area where we need energy addition. And if we want human flourishing, if we want to reach our planet's fullest potential, and if we want to take care of our environment, which we can do all these things at the same time. Even that requires energy.
I mean, if you're worried about water sources, well, desalination, which we can do, requires a lot of energy. Transportation of goods requires energy. So whether it's the clothes on your back, the food on your table, the transportation drive, there's an energy component to all of that. And electrifying stuff doesn't change. It just changes the source of it. We still need to create the electricity.
So I feel like that if anybody is concerned about the environment, they should want to have, It... every ounce of a liquid fuel and every electron produced in the United States. Because if you compare us to any other country, we produce it cleaner, safer, smarter, and healthier than anyone else.
And I learned in North Dakota over those eight years as governor, where we were always on the top of the list of cleanest water, cleanest air, best soil health, all of these things that we were able to achieve. And we were going up the charts in terms of energy production. These things go hand in hand. It's not either or, it's a plus when you can do both.
to produce it cleaner more safely and with a lower footprint and and build economic prosperity for us as exporters yes absolutely i mean so the the net formula that you've just described is the more energy that's produced in the united states the better it is for the globe and the better it is for american prosperity and i would say it's not just for the globe environmentally it's also for for peace it's not just prosperity at home but literally the two
The two proxy wars that we've been involved in with Russia after Russia invaded Ukraine and after, you know, Iran funding 24 different terror groups, they were funding those wars against us with their oil and gas sales. And so if we can replace their customers with U.S. sources, they have less revenue. They have less funding literally to fund terrorism. So it is prosperity at home, peace abroad.
It's nothing short of that.
Well, if you were to ask me what's the thing that keeps me awake at night, this is the issue. And it's so thrilling and refreshing that you understand the scale, the magnitude, and the importance of the AI arms race, which is really driven by access to electricity. And China last year... brought on 94 and a half gigawatts of coal powered electricity. One gigawatt is Denver.
So they brought on 94 Denver's just last year. That's more than all we have today for all of California and all of New York is less than 94. So they added a New York and a California worth of electricity last year, just from coal. They're still getting 60% of their baseload from coal and people, people may, they stop listening when they hear the word coal, but coal is,
From an electricity standpoint, thermal coal is fantastic base load. It has all the characteristics to allow you to maintain amperage and voltage to keep a system going. And I think we just saw in Spain, they were celebrating on April 12th of this past month that they'd shut down their last coal plant.
And then a week after that, they were celebrating the fact that they had their first day of 100% renewables on their system. And then the next week, they were a global news story because people were trapped in subways. All airline flights canceled. Hospitals were panicking with a lack of power because they had a rolling blackout and grid failure because it justifies physics.
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