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Doug Burgum: “The parts of our country that pursued that over rotated…”

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

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Interior Secretary Burgum on Iran, Venezuela, and Trump's energy endgame

Published | Video Starts at 12:16

We're going to transition from this reliable, affordable, secure to this intermittent taxpayer subsidy that's less reliable, subsidized. We're going to switch to that. Well, then when we did that, that was the energy transition, that was energy subtraction. The parts of our country that pursued that over rotated towards renewables have less electric production today than they did a decade ago. And that's why their prices are high. It's not because of some of the electric prices in the states that had more, more energy, more electrons produced. (12:16–12:25)

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Asserts that areas focusing on renewables have reduced electric production compared to a decade ago.

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