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Doug Burgum: “Texas has 36 refineries and just announced a new one that's…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 08:09

Yeah. We have to get down to the state level because they're paying eight bucks in California. They're paying three and a half here in Texas. Texas has 36 refineries and just announced a new one that's opening. California has eight. They used to have 40. Now they have eight. Two more are closing, Chevron and Valero. And California imports refined fuels from, from the Middle East. California was importing 63% of their oil from foreign sources when this conflict began. (08:09–08:17)

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Asserts that Texas has 36 refineries and California has reduced from 40 to 8 refineries.

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