Gov. Doug Burgum (R-North Dakota) told SiriusXM. Breitbart News Saturday He said he believes President Joe Biden's energy policies are greatly benefiting China, but that they are “destabilizing the grid,” raising costs, and “tainting the planet.”
Burgum, a former 2024 presidential candidate who endorsed Trump on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, was joined on the show by host and Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle, who said, “I don't know Joe on energy. I asked him to elaborate on “the biggest mistake Biden made.” policy. “
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Mr. Burgum, who focused on energy as a central theme of his campaign, sought to tap into the Strategic Oil Reserve in response to Mr. Biden's electric vehicle (EV) policy and rising gasoline prices in 2022, the year of the midterm elections. He pointed to the Biden administration's move to do so, and one of the following sanctions: “failed'' or “relaxed,'' benefiting foreign adversaries and allowing China to stockpile its own stockpiles.
“For Joe Biden, it starts with something simple. People around him believe that if we convert all transportation fuels in the United States from liquid fuels to electric vehicles (EVS), if we somehow make them all EVs, There are people who convinced him that this is going to happen. We're going to save the planet, we're going to save the world, we're going to save the environment,” Burgum said. announced On Monday, he said he would not seek a third term as governor. “That's the basis, and that basis is a false premise. It's a false premise, because…we've been fighting for 40 or 50 years to get out of the OPEC umbrella and out of dependence on foreign energy. Under President Trump, we finally achieved energy independence on a net basis, although we may later gain energy dominance.”
Today, we announced that we will not seek a third term as governor.
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He drew a sharp contrast with Biden, saying his administration has spent “literally almost a trillion dollars of the money that was leaked in subsidies, including auto subsidies, battery subsidies, $500,000 in subsidies. “All of this is pushing forward a Green New Fantasy.” “Charging stations,” he said, stressing that the policy benefits China and promotes U.S. dependence on its adversaries. Additionally, Burgum, who President Trump said he would like to include as part of a potential second administration, stressed that Biden's vision actually has a net negative impact on the environment.
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“Eighty-five percent of rare earth minerals are controlled by China. It just changes decades of dependence on OPEC into a future of complete dependence on China,” Burgum said. “And guess what? If you care about the environment, China turns out.” [to be the] It is the world's biggest polluter and by far the world's biggest emitter of CO2. And when we get batteries from China, they're made in coal-fired manufacturing plants, not coal, like in North Dakota. There, we can decarbonize coal and use the latest technology to produce sustainable baseload energy in North Dakota. I'm talking about his 1980s technology kind of thing. In China he factories are opened one by one a week. They have authorized more than 240 coal-fired power plants, and there could be more coal-fired power plants coming online in the next few years than are actually operating in the United States. ”
“So whether it's transportation fuel or baseload electricity, they're destabilizing the grid, driving up costs, and polluting the planet. Because if you care about the planet, all “We're producing less energy in the United States because we're producing it cleaner, safer, smarter than anyone else here,” he said. emphasized.
A bulldozer pushes coal onto a conveyor belt at the Jiangyou Power Plant in Jiangyou City, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China, January 28, 2022. (Liu Zhongjun/China News Service via Getty Images)
He also noted that North Dakota oil companies are “utilizing carbon sequestration and enhanced oil recovery” to produce “carbon-negative barrels of oil.”
“They're more environmentally friendly than Patagonia,” he added. “If you want clean liquid fuel, you're part of Team USA. If you want an EV, you're part of Team China.”
Burkum pointed to the “easing” of sanctions against Iran and Venezuela and the “failure of sanctions against Russia,” before saying that Biden “empowers foreign dictators and adversaries and sells low-cost energy to China.” “There is,” he claimed.
“China imports record amounts of oil and gas every day, 10 million barrels per day. They are the world's largest importers. “We turned it into a stand,” he said.
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And while China is raking in oil and gas, Burgum stressed, “Joe Biden cut the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in half when there was no strategic problem.”
“He had a problem with the midterm elections, so he turned it into a political oil reserve and depleted it for political purposes, but not for strategic purposes like World War III.” he quipped.
“Energy policy, in short, was written by China, and it's like an enemy country writing it because it benefits them,” Burkum suggested.
President Joe Biden speaks at General Motors' Factory Zero electric vehicle assembly plant on November 17, 2021 in Detroit, Michigan. (Nick Antaya/Getty Images)
“It hurts American manufacturers, it hurts American consumers. It hurts people who have to drive to work every day,” he continued. “It's hurting shippers and truckers because fuel prices have gone up. It's hurting farmers because it costs more to put it in the tank. And if you're a lobsterman in New Hampshire, the price of diesel is going up. The sky was through the roof. I talked to people who were preparing to go out of business after four generations of being lobstermen and fishermen just because of the price of diesel. In New England, energy is the most expensive in the country. It's being delivered, but there's no reason for it… They blocked the pipeline. They could have clean natural gas coming from Pennsylvania to New England, but in New Hampshire, 41% of the people are using dirty heating oil. is burning.”
Burgum said the entire energy policy was “very wrong on every front.”
“I know President Trump will turn things around and make the world safer. It will strengthen our economy and make our environment cleaner,” Burgum predicted. “All of that will be accomplished under President Trump.”
The governor also mentioned rumors among some of Trump's circles that he could be the 45th president's running mate, or a cabinet minister in the second Trump administration.
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