Trump uses energy speech to outline general election pitch

Washington Post ^ | May 26, 2016 | Jill Colvin and Matthew Daly | AP

[Innovative]

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump unveiled an “America first” energy plan he said would unleash unfettered production of oil, coal, natural gas and other energy sources to push the United States toward energy independence.

But the speech, delivered at the annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota, went far beyond energy, as Trump laid out, in his most detail to date, a populist general election pitch against likely rival Hillary Clinton.

“She’s declared war on the American worker,” Trump said of Clinton, reading from prepared remarks in a stadium packed with thousands.

[Innovative]

Great. Hillary and the Democrats should be afraid, very afraid. Trump is willing to call a spade a spade and tell the truth about what another Dem president would do to the country and the people in it, unlike some of his predecessor R pres. nominees, who were "too polite" to tell people the full truth. I remember McCain making statements like "we have nothing to fear of an Obama presidency" -- total insanity.

[Aria]

Wish I could read this without paying for it.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Why would we want to exploit all of our fossil fuel assets at a time when there is a glut on the market and we would get a low price?

Shouldn't we hold back and wait until the price rises?

Oh. I forgot. America is a Third World Country.

We are now mostly concerned with selling price-sensitive commodities at whatever price we can get whenever we can get it.

I can't wait until global warming takes effect. Then we can start growing cocoa, coffee beans, and bananas.

What a roller coaster that will be.

[21twelve]

“Shouldn’t we hold back and wait until the price rises?”

Mr. Trump can make any claims he wants. And hopefully as President he can push them through. (Changing previous EO’s that made oil lands off limits should be easy).

But - the market will ultimately decide. I don’t think we have to worry about getting rid of all our oil on the cheap.

I wonder how it would come off if someone declared areas with known oil reserves off limits; not as a wildlife preserve, but as an oil preserve? “And when the Saudi’s and the Russians and all the other hell-holes of the world are out - we will still have billions of barrels of oil.”

[Company Man]

Searching Youtube for "Trump", sorting by date to bring the most recent vids to the top, I see a Bismark speech dated 5-26-2016 within the first twenty or so results. Looks like this is the one: https://youtu.be/nq7FuNnCrUQ

[SteveinSATX]

*Trump uses energy speech to outline general election pitch*

you can just hear the disdain dripping from this wapo headline...too funny

[grania]

Go to Right Side Broadcasting Network on your computer. (RSBN) All of Trump's speeches are streamed live there. They're saved so you can listen to and watch them after the fact.

This speech is EXCELLENT.

[goldstategop]

Its almost Reaganesque and has a personal touch to it that you rarely see from politicians.

I liked it for standing up for our country, for its hard working people and terminating policies that harm them.

Trump is the American populist version of Greece’s Alex Tsipras. Despite their different ideologies, the same thing fuels their insurgent candidacies.

Anger at the establishment, fears over the loss of national sovereignty and a desire to change things for the better.

All over Europe, establishment parties of the left and right are losing ground. The same thing is now happening here. Populism is here to stay.

[grania]

It's almost Reaganesque

I'd go farther. In Reagan's time, the solutions didn't seem as impossible. A majority of the population had memory of the promise of the US, and the direction we should be heading in. Reagan provided the promise of bringing things back in that direction.

This Trump speech went far beyond that. He has to provide a context to people who don't have much if any experience with those values and accomplishments the US has lost over the past few decades. Trump had to provide a vision, inspire other to follow it, and exhibit leadership. He did all that. I'd say that speech is a classic, one of only a handful of that caliber, compared to any historically remembered speech.

There had to be a speech writer involved. I'm wondering who it is. It does seem that Trump is getting a lot of talent on the team he's building, and it's people who share his agenda.

[lilypad]

Anyone know this Ham fellow he referred to several times?

[bray]

You forgot your sarcasm tag.
We have an unlimited amount of oil and coal if we allow the companies to drill and frack. Cheap energy leads to lower costs to combat cheap labor.

Pray America wakes

[Vigilanteman]

Did you try the link? I had no problem reading it. Most of it is your typical Trump hating claptrap disguised as news.

[nodakkid]

Harold Hamm from Oklahoma.Rags to riches story in oil.one of the earliest developers of the horizontal drilling concept.Accumulated early on the most “leased” mineral acres to develope in ND. Gave the commencement address at University of ND a year or two ago.Been a top notch oilman in ND. Was worth according Wall Street Journal 16 to 17 billion dollars when his wife sued him for divorce at the height of the oil boom. She ended up with $900 million. Not sure of the appeals process end result.

[Hyman Roth]

Yeah but Trump doesn’t give specifics/s. Where has Lying Ted been lately btw?

[bert]

He was on the cover of Forbes describing his quest from near nothingness to great success as an oil man

An American success story