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Doug Burgum: “Their electricity cost triple what it did before they went…”

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 14:18

And they have a, they're de. Industrializing. No one's opening up factories. They, they're shutting down factories and Their electricity cost triple what it did before they went on this journey. So that's climate fantasy. Trump administration, we're focused on energy reality, which is we need more electrons, affordable, reliable and secure. Okay, so what's political reality in terms of how you get to a compromise on permitting reforms? (14:18–14:22)

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Asserts that Germany's electricity costs tripled after implementing their Green New Deal.

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