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Biden regulatory policies sought to eliminate US oil and gas
“The regulatory regime was such that it wasn't about regulating oil and gas. It was about eliminating oil and gas from America.”
Germany spent $500B on renewables, yielding less power at triple cost
“So Germany spent a half a trillion dollars, five hundred billion dollars on the quote, air quotes, transition to green energy. They were transitioning to wind and solar. Half a trillion, five hundred billion dollars. They today produce 20% less electricity, an…”
Oil and gas is the largest funder of US coastal restoration
“The largest funder of coastal restoration in this country is the oil and gas industry you know, here in the Gulf.”
Burgum: $1T to $1.5T in capital is delayed by federal permitting
“There could be a trillion to a trillion and a half dollars stuck in this two to four year federal government permitting thing.”
Burgum: Co-locating AI factories with stranded gas bypasses permitting hurdles
“And for people that are spending money on site selection, I'll tell you one thing, you want to build it faster, go to where the stranded gas is, Build your power plant there. Build the AI factory next to it. You don't have to permit a transmission line. You do…”
Natural gas power will meet most near-term US grid growth
“But in between now, 20, 25 and 20 30 a lot of it's going to come back to LNG because that the fastest thing we can get online for more electricity generation is LNG power plants.”
Vending machines have killed more Americans than nuclear power
“We've had no, no deaths from anything related to nuclear power in our country. Yeah, in the instance inception, but the best I can find on the federal safety statistics is there's about 37 people that have died from getting angry at vending machines, and then …”
Interior Department asset base dwarfs Saudi Aramco
“If Interior was a standalone company, it would have the largest balance sheet in the world by so far. I mean, it's You know, Saudi Aramco wouldn't even come close.”
US public lands hold an estimated $8 trillion in coal
“And in, in one estimate this week is we think just on a, just on public land alone, there may be eight trillion dollars of coal resources.”
Arizona Resolution Copper mine permitting took over 29 years
“One of the resolution copper, we're just in the process now of issuing them a permit. It's taken about three months here in the Trump administration. They started this process over 29 years ago.”
LNG is the second highest US export by dollar value
“Now, LNG is the number two dollar export on the all-time list for the country. It's the second most highest dollar value we export.”
US has achieved net energy independence
“We went from being like, oh, we're gonna run out of oil and gas to today we're energy, energy independent on a net basis, and we're on our path towards becoming energy dominant.”
North Dakota engaged in 30 lawsuits against the Biden administration
“When I left office last December, just December as governor, I was involved in 30 lawsuits against the Biden administration.”
Top five US tech firms brought $300B capex to CERAWeek
“The five biggest tech companies in America Showed up at that conference with three hundred billion dollars of capex.”
National Energy Dominance Council acts as concierge for infrastructure permits
“We're like a small tiger team, and think of it more like a governor's economic development super, super team. President Trump is asking us to find things that are critical to the infrastructure where they're running into roadblocks and then help them. I would …”
China has cornered the global market for critical mineral refining
“China has got the corner on the refining, not just mine to refine.”
Private sector software could eliminate 20% of federal administrative work
“We asked them to do mind numbing and soul sucking work for like 20% of their time. Because we haven't given them the basic tools that everybody in the private sector's had. And so it's not like that anybody's bad, a bad people, but you could get rid of 20% of …”
Arizona and California agriculture relies entirely on the Bureau of Reclamation
“We wouldn't have agriculture in Arizona or California without that.”
US loses more timber to wildfires annually than it harvests
“We burn more bored feet of lumber in this country every year right now than we are harvesting.”
Small offshore oil company paid $1.2B to US Treasury
“The little company that I just met with this morning out on the platform on the Gulf of America, in its inception, this is a company with 450 people. They have sent 1.2 billion dollars to the U.S. Treasury over the life of their company.”
Interior lacks revenue target due to unquantified resource inventory
“We don't have a target yet because we don't even know what the base unused resource is.”
Department of the Interior relies on 1980s mainframe technology
“At least in the Department of Interior, and we are further behind. I mean, we're gonna, you know, this is a, the land of, you know, decommissioning mainframes, and then we could just, you know, take them straight to the Smithsonian to the 19 eighties exhibit.”
Burgum: China added 94 gigawatts of coal power last year
“They added 94 gigawatts of coal last year”
Sabine Pass is America's largest LNG export facility
“And what we, you and I had a chance to see today is the largest LNG export facility in America, the second largest in the world.”
North Dakota became the second-largest US oil producer
“We had climbed to being the number two oil producer in the country”
Bureau of Reclamation is the second largest US hydroelectric producer
“Interior has the bureau of reclamation, which is the second largest hydroelectric producer in the country”
Offshore drilling provides roughly 16% of US oil supply
“Today, earlier today, I had a chance to get on my first offshore platform and see the innovation and entrepreneurship there that's again, now providing about 16% of the oil for the America.”
Up to 800 million people globally lack electricity access
“We could have as many as eight hundred million people on the planet you know, shy of a billion that don't have access to electricity”
Tech industry historically used under 1% of US electricity
“Having spent 30 years in tech, we never used more than one percent of the nation's electrical production.”
At least 10 venture startups are pursuing new nuclear designs
“Today you can talk to a venture funded startups. And there's at least 10 that are out there today that are chasing new designs.”
Interior Department generated $22 billion in revenue last year
“Ok, last year, Interior brought in twenty two billion.”