U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines joined Dagen McDowell and Brian Brenberg on Fox Business’ The Bottom Line to discuss how President Trump’s bold leadership will end the radical left’s green agenda.
Watch the full interview HERE.
Daines on the need to unleash made-in-America energy:
Well look, this AI race is really an energy race against China. That’s what it is. The constraint to build out the AI capabilities we will need to stay in the league globally comes down to energy, and we’re talking about baseload reliable power. Look, we’re gonna need 50 percent more energy conservatively than we’re using today just in the next 25 years. What Schumer is saying there is really a green hallucination. When you look at where does energy come from today in terms of electricity, 60 percent is coming from natural gas and coal, 20 percent from nuclear. Renewables are less than 20 percent, and that includes hydro, which is a great source of baseload power. But remember, the wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t always shine. Wind today is less than 10 percent, solar is about 3 percent. You can’t build out the AI future for this country on renewables. It’s an intermittent source of power. We need every source of power right now, and renewables are a good source, but it will not lead us to where we need to go. And that’s why I’m so proud of President Trump’s bold leadership in terms of unleashing American energy, all sources.
Daines on President Trump’s pro-energy cabinet nominees:
Step back. Look what Europe did, where they cut off their baseload power. They shut down coal plants, shut down nuclear plants, they got themselves in a big problem after Putin invaded Ukraine because they had a shortage of energy. We can’t let that happen in the United States. Thank God for President Trump’s bold leadership, for the new Secretary of Energy… Chris Wright, Secretary of Interior, Doug Burgum. These are sensible, very smart leaders trained at MIT, engineering degrees. They understand the science. They will do the right thing, not be captivated by this radical green ideology. Again, I’m so thankful for what President Trump is doing and not listening to this nonsense that’s coming from Europe.
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