America has unbelievable energy potential waiting to be unlocked.
Grand Forks Herald (6/29/24) column: "North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has remained atop former President Donald Trump's short list for potential vice-presidential running mates for months. It's fair to say that it won't be a surprise if he's the guy. I can't help but think how great it would be for North Dakota. Here are just a few examples: Burgum would be a tireless advocate for our agriculture and energy industries, two sectors of our economy that have been victims of the Biden administration's extremist climate agenda....And allow me to float an idea that could literally eliminate our immoral national debt of $35 trillion. According to the Institute for Energy Research the U.S. government 'owns an enormously large mineral estate' (oil, natural gas, and coal resources) that has an estimated total worth to the economy of over $150 trillion. These resources could be leased under the right government policies to earn the state and national government royalties, rents and bonus payments that CBO conservatively estimates could total almost $150 billion over 10 years for the oil and gas leases alone...Let that sink in. So much of our federal lands, assets owned by we the people, are off-limits to energy production. Imagine if we deployed the same horizontal drilling technology pioneered in the Bakken all across federal lands."
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