Tom Steyer
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Oil in West Texas is under $60 a barrel.
The United States produces 13 and a half million barrels a day, which is a combination of Saudi Arabia and Russia combined.
Our lifting costs for oil is over $60 a barrel.
So when he talks about this is our big chance to build an economy, actually the Saudis at listing cost is probably 12 bucks.
We're the high cost producer in a commodity that's challenged, that is not the future of the United States.
When we look around the world about what the 21st century looks like, it doesn't look one bit like a 1950s gas guzzling station wagon.
It looks an awful lot like really inexpensive, really fantastic software enables electric vehicles.
That's where the world is going.
That's where the competition is.
And as he lives in this delusional world of returning to the 1950s, the United States and California
have to lead the way in terms of what's changing, in terms of leading that change, because that's what produces great jobs.
That's what produces the kind of companies that come here to grow and explode here and drive our economy forward.
So as governor of California, it's not just enough to say where he's wrong.
We have to start talking about where we're right.
We have to be showing that in fact, he is an out of touch and delusional old man.
Well, before I go into Donald Trump specifically, let me say what the Chinese call Donald Trump.
They call him the nation builder and the nation they're referring to is their own.
They view him as the weakest possible opponent, the person who is letting them move to the front of the pack in the world.
And
Look, what we've seen with Donald Trump is exactly what you see with every bully in the world.