'Drill, Baby, Drill': Crowd Explodes Into Cheers As Trump Promises To End Biden's 'War' On US Energy

5 months ago

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.

'Drill, Baby, Drill': Crowd Explodes Into Cheers As Trump Promises To End Biden's 'War' On US Energy

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