We want to see more there. The electricity sector is different. Very heavy government regulation, very difficult to get a permit, very slow and very bureaucratic. So not surprisingly, We've had skyrocketing American energy production, but not skyrocketing American electricity production. In fact, if an industry took a lot of electricity, it went overseas, it went somewhere else. We just made it hard to build big things in our country, particularly to build electricity generating assets. (17:20–17:27)
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