Former President Donald Trump said over the weekend that if he wins the presidential election this fall that he will unleash America’s energy production.
Trump made the remarks during a pre-taped interview that aired Sunday on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo.
“We’re going to get energy way down. Drill, baby, drill,” he said. “We have more energy — we have more liquid gold, as I call it, under our feet than Saudi Arabia, than Russia, than anybody. We’re going to be energy-dominant, we’re going to make a fortune, we’re going to supply it all over Europe, all over the world. We’re going to be double and triple what they’re doing. We’re going to have tremendous energy, and we’re going to lower our prices of energy.”
“Do you know people in New England — they pay some of the highest prices in the world because we don’t have a pipeline, because New York won’t let a pipeline go through a very poor section of New York,” he continued.
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He added that he wanted to bring back tariffs because he believes that they will protect the U.S. auto industry.
“Those people in Michigan that love me and that I love, and they’re going to give us a victory because their auto industry won’t exist in two years, if she [Harris] gets elected — China is going to make, and other countries are going to make, all the cars. They’re building some of the biggest auto plants,” he said. “By the way, when you add it all up, including the taxes and everything else, we’re going to create jobs like you’ve never created before. If you look at auto manufacturing, it’s down 64% from its high number of jobs and everything else. But we used to be the world manufacturer, and every year it gets eaten away, and a big factor is Mexico. Mexico stole 32% of our auto manufacturing. We’re going to say, ‘You want to do that? We’re putting tariffs on your cars coming in.'”
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