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Donald Trump: “The United Kingdom produces just one third of the total…”

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He's solving the problem. He's going to do a great job. But what they did before he got there, I guess that's why he got there. And electricity prices are 64% higher. The United Kingdom produces just one third of the total energy from all sources that it did in 1999. Think of that one third. And they're sitting on top of the North Sea, one of the greatest reserves anywhere in the world. But they don't use it. (17:01–17:08)

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Asserts that the UK now produces only one third of the energy it did in 1999.

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