Posted on 05/07/2025 6:58:41 AM PDT by george76
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum warned on Fox Business Tuesday about America’s deepening energy shortfall and said that misguided climate policies could give China the upper hand in both the global energy race and artificial intelligence development.
House lawmakers voted 246-164, with support from 35 Democrats, to overturn a Biden-era EPA rule that lets California enforce a de facto national ban on gas-powered cars by 2035. During an appearance on “Kudlow,” Burgum said that U.S. energy shortfalls could allow China to outpace America in artificial intelligence and other power-hungry technologies.
“The real energy emergency that we have right now is that we don’t have enough energy in this country. We’re losing the AI arms race to China, and we’ve got to have more energy and more power right now in the country. And so that’s one of the things that we’re focused on right now,” Burgum told host Larry Kudlow.
Burgum blasted California’s aggressive emissions standards, which he said have effectively become national policy.
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“Let’s start with California, Larry. That would be a great idea, because there’s 14 other states that followed California. So basically we’re stuck right now. Automakers feel like they’ve got to build two kinds of cars in America, one for California standards and one for the rest of the country,” Burgum said. “Of course, we know that the California standards are based on a bunch of falsehoods around emissions, because if we want zero carbon fuels, it’s much cheaper.”
Burgum took particular aim at electric vehicle subsidies, calling them a boondoggle built on climate ideology. He also called electric vehicle subsidies economically reckless since the cost of avoiding a single ton of carbon dioxide exceeds $900
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“It’s 10 to 15 times cheaper to have zero carbon liquid fuels than it is to subsidize EVs. The EV subsidies, where the real bank was, the thing that was really breaking the bank, over $900 for an avoided tonus of CO2, and all of that built around climate ideology,” Burgum said.
Republican Pennsylvania Rep. John Joyce introduced a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to stop California’s zero-emission vehicle mandate, which several other states have adopted. If the Senate doesn’t act, the Environmental Protection Agency would face a lengthy rulemaking process to reverse the policy that will allow California’s stricter standards to remain in effect for years.
The states that have opted in to California’s auto rules include Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.
Hopefully Congress can pass some long term legislation to assist energy development. All the more reason we can’t delay the vote on the big beautiful bill.
More nuke plants now or America fails.
“The real energy emergency that we have right now is that we don’t have enough energy in this country. We’re losing the AI arms race to China, and we’ve got to have more energy and more power right now in the country.”
Utter BS.
The US produces and consumes more energy than any other country.
And we are winning the “AI arms race” by a mile.
More nuke plants now or America fails.
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Reopen shuttered coal plants now, today, until nuke plants are built out and come online in a few years ... or decades.
And we are winning the “AI arms race” by a mile.
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Perhaps. But China is winning the power race by 5 miles. New power plants come online every day in China. New power plants come online in the US once or twice a decade.
States' rights remains a "thing."
One observes that the same structure of attack is being used by Democrat judges to make national policies....
California Democrats, that super-majority, will shortly be pleading for financial help as their "system" teeters.
I was wrong.
China produces more than twice the electricity we do.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=which+country+produces+the+most+electricity
More nukes, less kooks.
More oil, less Al Gore.
We have pleanty of oil reserves, what we don’t have is enough refineries. The last refinery was built in the 70s.
I like Doug. He says it like it is.
This guy was governor of North Dakota, which is where fracking began in earnest about 2010.
It’s also where fracking has begun to fail. They drained all the oil from the richest plays.
North Dakota oil production — 1.5 million barrels/day 2019.
North Dakota oil production — 1.16 million bpd Feb 2025.
It has not returned to pre Covid highs. There are no new regulations that restrict them. It’s just the way oil works.
If you suspend new drilling for any reason (in this case Covid’s oil price smash), then the already existing wells continue their legacy decline rate. Oil wells start to die the first day they produce. That’s just physics. The oil is drained from near the bore and there is less of it to get up to the surface. You offset that with frantic new drilling. That’s how you get a field to increase. By rapid new drilling.
If you stop new drilling, those declines accumulate. Flow is less and less and less. The accumulated decline then must be overcome with new drilling, and of course, every new well also starts to decline. It’s very very hard to overcome a period of no new drilling. Its like running up a down escalator and stopping to tie your shoe. You lose a lot of progress upwards and then when you start running again, you just can’t make up what you lost.
We have even more Natural Gas. Especially in NY, PA, OH & WV close to large metro areas. Where we can build the plants right near the cities where the power is needed.
We just need the pipelines to get the Natural Gas to those cities instead of worrying about LNG to sell it to Europe.
Let them buy Russian gas.
Isn’t one of the actual stated responsibilities of the Federal Government is to regulate interstate commerce? How can a product/car that is legal in most States be illegal in other States when that product/car is in common us in all States?
I am very suspicious of Chinese Communist Party statistics.
I think they lie to promote China and all things China.
I clearly remember them telling us only 88K Chinese died from Covid even when they were nailing the doors and windows shut on massive apartment block buildings to keep millions of Chinese people from going out.
This is not to say that these energy numbers for China are made up, but...
US reserves estimate by USGS is under 20 Trillion cubic meters. It gets quoted in cubic feet, but best to quote in cubic meters because it must compare to the rest of the world.
But the world of reserves also includes “estimated undiscovered technically recoverable resources”. The word changes from reserves to resources. About the only thing to be sure of is that first word . . . Undiscovered . . . means the odds on that are rather a lot worse than on reserves.
The bad news — the US produces about 1 trillion cubic meters/year. The vast majority of that is consumed and some is shipped away. Regardless, yes, math is relentless — less than 20 yrs supply. Really start leaning on that Undiscovered word. And worse, coal continues to be replaced by nat gas in power generation. So that consumption number rises.
China did not use the WHO’s criteria for Covid death. They had their own.
They required a patient to completely lose the ability to get oxygen into the bloodstream from lungs. Total failure of respiratory function. If lung function eroded and it caused a heart attack — nope, not attributable to Covid. All sorts of other things happening on a respirator, but if there was still any lung function, they did not attribute. This had an enormous impact on their stats.
WHO’s criteria was that the attending physician had to judge the cause of death to be Covid. The heart attack while on a respirator would count. And other things. And no, nothing to do with hospital billing for gov’t money because the WHO standard was used in other countries that did not have any such extra money.
As for their energy stats, they consume 16 million barrels/day and produce only 4.5. The measured imports track from someone’s export so there is high confidence in the measurement (which can be as clever as measuring with a lens how deep a tanker in port was in the water).
bkmk
Disagree. They lie.
All the time.
Coal!
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