At a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday, former President Trump spoke about his plans to expand domestic oil and natural gas production if re-elected.
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00:00To bring down the prices of all goods,
00:02we will end the Biden-Harris war on American energy,
00:05and we will drill, baby, drill.
00:08We're going to start that day one.
00:11Under the Trump administration, we had energy independence,
00:14and soon we will have energy dominant.
00:17We will be more dominant than any country by far,
00:21and we were just four years ago.
00:23We started off at number four.
00:26We got to number three, and then we had to beat Russia.
00:29We beat them, then we had to beat Saudi Arabia.
00:31We beat them, and we were like a rocket ship,
00:33and then we had this idiotic result.
00:36But we will be, and again, we have more.
00:39You know, ANWR in Alaska,
00:40it's probably the biggest find anywhere in the world,
00:43the size of Saudi Arabia.
00:44Some people say, who knows what it is, but it's massive.
00:47Ronald Reagan tried to get it, couldn't get it,
00:50and that was easier in those days, environmentally.
00:52They stop it with the environment.
00:53You know, the environment is very important to me,
00:56and environmental is very important,
00:57but, you know, you can't use it to destroy a country.
01:00And they stopped it.
01:03They stopped it for years based on the environment.
01:06I got it approved. It was totally done.
01:07This is after, since Ronald Reagan,
01:09who worked so hard to get ANWR,
01:11he wanted to be able to drill in Alaska.
01:14Think of it as the size of Saudi Arabia, approximately.
01:17Bigger than Texas, bigger than everything.
01:20We would have had something that nobody else even comes close to.
01:23And on the first week in office,
01:26his Department of the Interior person,
01:30who was just put in Department of Interior, she signed,
01:34she outlawed it.
01:35She said, we're not going to use it.
01:36Stopped all work.
01:37They were ready to start drilling.
01:38It took them a while to get ready.
01:40They're ready to start drilling.
01:42The money would have been incredible.
01:43The prices were very high.
01:45We're the only country that stops drilling
01:47when the prices are at an all-time high.
01:50And we stopped drilling, but we'll get that back,
01:52and I'll get it back very fast.
01:53But ANWR, they caught it.
01:55Unbelievable.