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Doug Burgum: “The policy of energy transition was always false because if…”

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

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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum speaks at CERAWeek in Houston — 3/25/2026

Published | Video Starts at 01:50

The, the energy dominant strategy in President Trump's approach towards unleashing power as opposed to trying to restrict it. The idea that we need energy addition as opposed to energy transition. The policy of energy transition was always false because if you're going to transition from reliable, secure and affordable 24-hour dispatchable power to something that is intermittent, weather dependent and highly taxpayer subsidized, it's not energy transition, it's energy subtraction. at a time when we've got a demand signal for more power, whether that's for, you know, liquid fuels for transportation, whether it's powering AI because you know, we're in … (01:50–02:29)

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Asserts that the energy transition policy is false and equates to energy subtraction.

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