John Thune: “The United States is rapidly heading toward an energy crisis…”

“It imposed regulations that heaped new burdens and costs on conventional energy producers, and it implemented an electric vehicle mandate that would have put an enormous new strain on our already wobbly electric grid. Mr. President, The United States is rapidly heading toward an energy crisis where we simply don't have the supply to meet the demand. As the Washington Post noted last March, and I quote, vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity hungry data centers and …” (01:14–01:22)

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