Gov. Doug Burgum criticized President Joe Biden’s energy policies, claiming they benefit China and destabilize the grid, driving up costs and making the environment less clean.
Burgum highlighted Biden’s focus on electric vehicles (EVs) and the administration’s subsidies, which he believes are ultimately aiding China and increasing American dependence on the country.
Burgum said, “With Joe Biden, it starts with a simple thing: He’s surrounded by people who have convinced him that somehow, someway that if we convert all transportation fuels in America from liquid fuels to electric vehicles (EVS), if we go all EVs that somehow we’re going to save the planet, save the world, save the environment.”
“That’s the foundation, and that foundation is the false premise. It’s a false premise because… we fought for four or five decades to get out from underneath OPEC and dependence on foreign energy. Under President Trump, we finally, on a net basis, got to energy independence, but then we have a shot at getting the energy dominance, but we got to energy independence,” he continued.
He accused the Biden Administration of “pushing all of this, the green new fantasy, with what’s literally almost a trillion dollars of all that money that flowed out with the subsidies — subsidizing cars, subsidizing electric batteries, subsidizing 500,000 charging stations.”
“Eighty-five percent of the rare earth minerals are controlled by China; we’d just be trading our dependence on OPEC for decades to a future where we’re completely dependent on China,” explained Burgum.
“And guess what: If you care about the environment, China turns out [to be the] world’s largest polluter, world’s largest emitter of CO2 by a huge margin. And if you get a battery from China, it’s manufactured in the manufacturing plant powered by coal, not coal like we do in North Dakota, where we can decarbonize the coal and produce base-load energy that’s sustainable in North Dakota with modern technology. I’m talking like 1980s-technology; plants that are opening up one a week in China. They have over 240 coal plants permitted, they could open up more in the next couple of years than we have actually operating in the U.S.,” he continued.
He also mentioned the impact on the environment and the negative effects on various sectors, such as transportation, agriculture, and energy costs.
“So whether it’s transportation fuels or base-load electricity, they’re destabilizing the grid, they’re raising the costs, they’re making the planet less clean because if you would care about the planet, you’d want to have every drop of energy produced in the United States because we do it cleaner, safer and smarter better than anybody here,” declared Burgum.
“China is importing a record amount of oil and gas every day, ten million barrels of oil a day. They’re the largest importer in the world. We’ve turned Russia and Iran and Venezuela into China’s discount gas station,” revealed Burgum.
He warned that, “Joe Biden dropped our Strategic Petroleum Reserve in half when we didn’t have a strategic issue.”
“He had a midterm election problem, so he turned it into the Political Petroleum Reserve and drained it for political purposes, but not for strategic like World War III purposes,” he joked.
“The sum was it’s almost like the energy policy was written by China, written by our adversaries because it benefits them,” continued the governor.
“It hurts American manufacturers, it hurts American consumers. It hurts anybody who’s got to drive their car to go to work every day,” said Burgum.
“It hurts shippers and truckers because it’s raised the price of fuel. It hurts farmers because of the cost of what they have to put in their tanks. And if you’re a lobsterman in New Hampshire, the price of diesel went through the roof, and I talked to folks out there who were ready to close their operations after four generations of being lobstermen and fishermen just because of the price of diesel. In New England, we’ve got some of the highest-cost energy in the nation, and there’s no reason for that… They blocked pipelines. We could be running clean natural gas from Pennsylvania into New England, where in New Hampshire, 41% of the people burn dirty heating oil,” lamented Burgum.
Burgum expressed his support for former President Trump’s approach to energy and hinted at his potential involvement in a second Trump administration.
“I know President Trump’s gonna get it turned around going the other way, and it will make the world safer. It’ll make our economy stronger, and it’s going to make the environment cleaner,” predicted Burgum.
“All of that is going to be accomplished under President Trump,” he concluded.
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