Speeches at CPAC (2020s): on Energy & Oil
Donald Trump:
We've ended the war on American energy; we're independent
We've ended the war on American energy. American energy was under siege. The U.S. is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas in the entire world, by far.
Never again will our country be at the mercy of hostile foreign suppliers. America has declared energy independence. I declared it. We're energy independent. Big thing. It's a big deal. It's a big deal.
Source: Remarks by President Trump at the 2020 CPAC Conference
Feb 29, 2020
Donald Trump:
Could have made a deal on Paris Accord but didn't want to
Joe Biden put the United States back into the very unfair and very costly Paris Climate Accord without negotiating a better deal. They wanted us so badly back in. I'll tell you they wanted us. I could have made an unbelievable deal and gone back in, but
I didn't want to do that. Surrendering millions of jobs and trillions of dollars to all of these other countries, almost all of them that were in the deal. So they have favorable treatment, we don't have favorable treatment.
Source: Remarks by Pres. Trump at the 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 28, 2021
Donald Trump:
FactCheck: falsely blames windmills for Texas power outage
Trump said regarding the winter blackouts in Texas, "It's a disaster. The blackouts we saw in California last summer and all the time and the windmill calamity that we're witnessing in Texas. It's so sad when you look at it." Is it true that wind-
generated electricity was responsible for the Feb.-March blackouts that caused over 70 deaths from hypothermia and other causes, and left over 4 million Texas homes without power?FactCheck by Reuters: Wind generates 20% of total electricity in Texas,
where natural gas supplies 47%, coal supplies 20% and solar supplies 1%
FactCheck by OnTheIssues: The 2021 Texas power crisis was caused by sub-zero temperatures coupled with fossil fuel power plants that had never been winterized. It's true
that some wind turbines froze, but so did coal, gas, and oil generators, which account for 70% of power generation. The same problem occurred in 2011 (and is expected every ten years or so), but the state of Texas ignored the recommendations made then.
Source: Reuters/OnTheIssues FactCheck on 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 28, 2021
Josh Hawley:
Open up American energy production full throttle
Open up American energy production full throttle. I noticed that rednecks and roughnecks get a lot of bad press these days. Here's the truth. Rednecks and roughnecks are the backbone of the American economy. it is time to allow the strong American
worker to go out and start drilling for oil, to start exploring for natural gas, to start fracking again. Let them do what we do best. Show America, show the world the strength of this nation. put America back to work. open up American energy.
Source: Speech at the 2022 CPAC Conference in Orlando FL
Feb 24, 2022
Kristi Noem:
Restart Keystone XL pipeline; open drilling on Federal land
A strong American president who put their citizens first would take a few actions right away:- They'd restart and expedite the Keystone XL Pipeline immediately.
- They'd reopen federal lands to drilling and oil and natural gas
exploration and revoke the bans on oil and gas leases in the Outer Continental Shelf.
- They'd sign an executive order to cut regulations on domestic energy production and its transport to American and European markets.
Source: Speech at the 2022 CPAC Conference in Orlando FL
Feb 25, 2022
Mike Pompeo:
We won't make solar panels; Chinese panels will flood market
I see my predecessor's predecessor, green geek, John Kerry, right? He thinks these folks are all going to go make solar panels. You ask the good people of midland Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, or South Dakota, Pennsylvania. You think petroleum
engineers and rig hands are going to go out and make solar panels? No, and you can bet this too. Those cheap Chinese solar panels will start flooding into America like you have not seen. And this won't be good for the United States of America.
Paris Climate Accord was a job destroying joke. So we said look, we all want clean air, safe drinking water. But the Paris agreement was a fantasy for elite diplomats who just wanted to virtue signal.
And when President Biden re-entered this deal, I can tell you that Xi Jiaping was smiling every single minute. And the American workers lost.
Source: Remarks by Secretary Pompeo at the 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 26, 2021
Tudor Dixon:
Fact Check: Falsely claimed wind and solar power unreliable
[On power sources]: "Wind and solar, as great as they may be, they are not reliable," Dixon said. "You need that constant reliable source of coal and natural gas that has to be there. But that's not there if you have wind and solar, which is what we
saw in Texas."Facts First: This is incorrect. While all sources of power failed to some extent in Texas, the bulk of outages were due to fossil fuel sources going offline, in large part due to the lack of winterization in the state's energy
infrastructure.
[OTI background: In the February 2021 Texas power crisis, millions of homes were left without power for days, and hundreds of people died.
Damage estimates exceeded $20 billion, caused by a lack of preparedness for extreme cold and lack of sharing the power grid with neighboring states.]
Source: CNN.com Fact-Check on 2021 CPAC Conference
Feb 27, 2021
Donald Trump:
Oil and gasoline and natural gas is cheaper, more powerful
They want windmills all over the place that ruin our fields and kill our birds and are very unreliable and are the most expensive energy ever developed. We want oil and gasoline and natural gas because it is cheaper, better and much more powerful.
Under my leadership we will regain energy independence that we had three years ago. We were on our way to massive energy dominance.
Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland
Mar 4, 2023
Eric Schmitt:
Joe Biden has declared war on American energy
Joe Biden has declared war on American energy. Truck drivers are struggling to make ends meet with the rising price of diesel, farmers and ranchers are at risk of being denied loans because they have too many diesel vehicles.
Massive corporations are pushing policies on us, and on our kids. Some of those same companies are holding your retirement savings hostage by incorporating ESG into their investments. It is a virtual signal that appeases climate alarmists.
Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland
Mar 2, 2023
Nikki Haley:
Socialist Democrats want to ban gas powered cars, gas stoves
The Socialist Democrats don't just want to spend their money, they want to take our freedom. They think they have a right to order us around from light bulbs we use to the words we speak and now they want to ban gas powered cars and gas stoves.
When it comes to destroying our freedom, the Socialist Democrats will never stop. It's time for the American people to stop them.
Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland
Mar 2, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy:
Climate religion: it's about power, control, punishment
Ramaswamy said, "What is really going on is that the climate religion has about as much to do with the climate as the Spanish Inquisition had to do with Christ, which is to say nothing at all.
It is about power, dominion, control, punishment and apologising for what we have achieved in this country and the modern West as we know it."
Source: Speech at the 2023 CPAC Conference in Maryland
Mar 5, 2023
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