We are in a new era of authoritarian aggression. The brutal dictators Putin, Xi, and this guy Maduro, they are on the march. But the one thing they fear almost more than anything is American energy power. Read the reporting. Xi is scared to death, the dictator of Beijing, scared to death of American energy power. So is Putin, by the way.
By the way, Willow, at max production, will produce about 200,000 barrels a day.
Every single official in this administration who deals with national security, for 2 years--for 2 years--has said yes. Not one has said no.
My question is this. This administration came in; they wanted to limit the production of American energy. I fully disagree with that approach, but what happened?
Well, the predictable result happened. If you limit supply, prices go up. So prices on energy have gone up on working families for the last 2 years like this. We all know it. Inflation like this.
So what have they been doing? They have been going overseas begging other countries to produce more oil and then poured it into America. Now, why on Earth would you do that when you can do it here?
So we are now importing over 100,000 barrels a day from Venezuela. Can you believe that? That is a fact. Venezuela pollutes--in its processes to produce oil, it is a production and greenhouse gas emission process that is 18 times--with an ``x'' times--more polluting than in America and certainly way more polluting--probably 30 times more than the great State of Alaska's Willow Project.
So if you really care about the environment, why did you just lift sanctions on one of the dirtiest producers in the world? They have a horrible human rights record, a horrible worker rights record, a well-known U.S. adversary, and we are already importing 100,000 barrels a day from them--just started. And we don't want to produce in Alaska, with the highest standards in the world on the environment and workers?
The Native people of Alaska want this. Listen to them. Don't listen to the ecoterrorists down in the lower 48, coastal elites who don't know anything about Alaska and are trying to tell the Native people how to live their lives--insulting, by the way. Don't listen to the ecoterrorists. Listen to the great union members like Terry O'Sullivan, all of whose members support and help enhance the national security of America with strong energy policy in the great State of Alaska.
I hope the Biden administration does the right thing.
We will see. Big stuff for America. Giant stuff for Alaska. I hope they do the right thing for our country, for our workers, for the Native people, for our national security.
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