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Nicholas Begich: “If they raise the cost of those resources, if they diminish…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 08:26

Right. Because they think somehow that's, that that resource will be there no matter what policy they have. Well, that's just not true. If they raise the cost of those resources, if they diminish our ability to develop those resources, we're not going to have them. The one thing that we have in America that other nations do not have economically, we have the us dollar. We have the world's reserve currency. (08:26–08:34)

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Asserts that increasing costs and reducing development of resources will lead to scarcity.

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