Tucker Carlson

And that's harder and harder to keep in mind when our day-to-day realities are determined by things that are not real, electrical impulses, ones and zeros, the digital world.

But the digital world has limits.

And those limits arrive at, say, lunchtime when you're hungry.

You can't eat Instagram.

You have to eat food.

And that's produced by people grown in the ground, watered with water.

So physical reality intrudes and Trump, because he is in the best way, at his best, a primitive person, understands the primitive reality.

which is we need these things.

So if you look at the world that way, what are the rich countries?

What are the rich hemispheres?

Well, again, Asia has, relatively speaking, very little energy.

A lot of highly productive countries, starting with Japan and China, are totally dependent on other countries for resources.

And of course, if you paid any attention to what happened in the last century, you know, Imperial Japan became Imperial because it didn't have enough resources.

And that's why it went into China and that's why it invaded a bunch of its neighbors.

And that's how we wound up in a war with it.

So this question doesn't go away.

And if you look at the world through that lens, you see that we're in a pretty good spot because the United States, as the president never tires of saying, has deep resources, land, water, and lots of energy.

Now on the specific question of oil, it's a little bit more complicated than you have heard.

The US does actually import quite a bit of oil.

What we have is a massive abundance of natural gas.