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Donald Trump and Keir Starmer Discuss Humanitarian Aid, Trade Deals, and Energy at Turnberry, Scotland

Published | Video Starts at 57:59

But if you look in another direction, you see windmills. When we go to Aberdeen, you'll see some of the ugliest windmills you've ever seen. They're the height of a 50 story building and You can take a thousand times more energy out of a hole in the ground. This big. This big. It's called oil and gas. And you have it there, the North Sea, this big that nobody would even see. You can take a thousand times more power because the wind is intermittent. It doesn't work. (57:59–58:07)

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Asserts that oil and gas are significantly more energy-efficient than wind energy.

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