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How America Can Achieve Environmental Goals Without Sacrificing Independence | Facts Matter

Facts Matter

The Epoch Times

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Join us as Roman Balmakov sits down with Carla Sands, the former ambassador to Denmark and the current vice chair of America First’s Center for Energy & Environment, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for an insightful discussion on the future of America’s energy and environment. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1

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0:00.0

And Carla, thank you so much for joining us.

0:13.6

It's my pleasure, Roman.

0:14.8

So let's start with, I think, a topic that

0:18.4

comes up over and over again in the American political context,

0:22.2

which is this false binary

0:24.1

between the environment and American energy,

0:26.8

conventional energy, outside of, let's say,

0:28.4

the green energy sources.

0:29.8

There seems to be this oppositional character to it either pro environment or you're pro American

0:36.1

energy and it seems like at least in the public arena there's no common ground there.

0:41.9

Can you square that circle?

0:43.4

Yes and we need to be able to tell that story to people so that they understand that

0:48.1

American energy is clean and it's abundant. We're never going to run out of American energy. We have under our feet

0:54.8

in the ground more energy than Saudi Arabia and Russia so we have enough to power

0:59.4

our country for hundreds of years and to power our friends like the Europeans that were just

1:04.4

recently buying a lot of Russian energy. How can we do it? We do it because we're

1:09.2

highly regulated. We harvest cleanly, we move the energy cleanly and we know that the

1:15.9

hydrocarbons or some people call them fossil fuels have been the industrial

1:21.1

engine that give us this incredible life where we can turn a switch,

1:24.7

flip a switch and turn on the light, have air conditioning in the hot months and heat in the

1:29.6

cold months.

1:31.2

Our industrialized lives, the luxuries that we enjoy that were unknown 150 years

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