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Trump RNC Speech: Energy Excerpts

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 3, 2020

“[Joe] Biden has promised to abolish the production of American oil, coal, shale and natural gas, laying waste to the economies of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico….”

A full transcript of President Trump’s August 28, 2020, acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, nearly 6,000 words, is available here. His energy-related excerpts follow:

Days after taking office, we shocked the Washington establishment and withdrew from the last administration’s job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership. I then immediately approved the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, ended the unfair and very costly Paris climate accord and secured, for the first time, American energy independence.

Biden has promised to abolish the production of American oil, coal, shale and natural gas, laying waste to the economies of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico — destroying those states, absolutely destroying those states, and others.

Millions of jobs will be lost, and energy prices will soar. These same policies led to crippling power outages in California just last week. Everybody saw that. Tremendous power outage. Nobody’s seen anything like it, but we saw it last week in California. How can Joe Biden claim to be an ally of the light when his own party can’t even keep the lights on?

Joe Biden’s campaign has even published a 110-page policy platform. You can’t get away from this. Co-authored with far-left senator crazy Bernie Sanders. The Biden-Bernie manifesto calls for suspending all removals of illegal aliens, implementing nationwide catch and release, providing illegal aliens with free taxpayer-funded lawyers. Everybody gets a lawyer. Come over to our country — everybody has a lawyer. We have a lawyer for you. That’s is all we need is more lawyers.

And for those of you that still drive a car, look how low your gasoline bill is. You haven’t seen that in a long time.

At the Democrat convention, you barely heard a word about their agenda. But that is not because they don’t have one. It is because their agenda is the most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee.

Joe Biden may claim he is an ally of the light, but when it comes to his agenda, Biden wants to keep us completely in the dark. He doesn’t have a clue. He has pledged a $4 trillion tax hike on almost all American families, which would totally collapse our rapidly improving economy, and once again record stock markets that we have right now will also collapse. That means your 401(k)s. That means all of the stocks that you have.

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For other Trump energy-related speeches and events, including the endorsement of the President by the American Energy Alliance (AEA), see here.

2 Comments


  1. kakatoa  

    Third Quarter CA residential sector costs, price per kWh, are going to jump up as climate credits were pulled forward to reduce the burden of high energy costs on consumers that were required to stay at home due to COVID-19 policies.

    I’d wager a buck or two that the incremental effect of AB 32, and Covid-19, policy choices made in CA will widen the 3rd quarter price differential between CA and TX. 15 years of kWh price data ending with second quarter 2020 info can be found here-

    https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/7?agg=0,1&geo=000000000204&endsec=e&linechart=ELEC.PRICE.TX-RES.Q~ELEC.PRICE.TX-IND.Q~ELEC.PRICE.TX-COM.Q~ELEC.PRICE.CA-RES.Q~ELEC.PRICE.CA-COM.Q~ELEC.PRICE.CA-IND.Q&columnchart=ELEC.PRICE.TX-RES.Q&map=ELEC.PRICE.TX-RES.Q&freq=Q&start=200602&end=202002&chartindexed=1&ctype=linechart&ltype=pin&rtype=s&pin=&maptype=0&rse=0

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