Being rational about our industrial policy and really having a large consensus around the benefits of abundance versus the cost of scarcity, we're going to change directions. The nice thing is, four years ago, before COVID five years, Americans knew what it was like to thrive broadly [before COVID]. Then we had Covid. We handled that probably a little bigger hammer than we needed. And then coming out of COVID we chose scarcity policies. We chose to not drill, optimize our domestic energy. (22:18–22:26)
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