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Doug Burgum: “People in North Dakota started heating their homes with…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Published | Video Starts at 29:07

And the opec, you know, embargo, all that stuff was going on, and the price of oil doubled, and people couldn't afford to heat their homes. A lot of people were using heating oil, which petroleum product. So then People in North Dakota started heating their homes with wood. that was taking off across the country. And when people start heating with wood, then you end up with chimney fires. And so I sort of saw an opportunity in that energy crisis to do that. (29:07–29:11)

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Asserts that due to the energy crisis, North Dakotans began using wood for home heating.

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