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Doug Burgum: “With Venezuela, their oil was designed to go to our Gulf…”

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 22:45

I mean, they, at one time, California was producing 25% of the world's oil. And now they produce 1/12 of what we do in North Dakota. And you know, by strangling through regulation, that industry. But With Venezuela, their oil was designed to go to our Gulf coast refineries right here on the Gulf of America. And so that means American jobs, lower prices of fuel, all those things. So getting that relationship back and forth. I was down there 10 days ago. Yeah. How was that? (22:45–22:53)

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Asserts that Venezuelan oil is intended for U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.

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