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🗓️ 18 July 2024
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The platform says that under a second President Trump term, the U.S. will lift restrictions on oil production, but doesn't mention that U.S. oil production hit an all-time high in 2023 under the Biden Administration. The 16-page document also doesn’t mention climate change, nor does it acknowledge that renewable energy is a fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry.
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0:00.0 | Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing Bonus Story of the Week. |
0:04.0 | Today on Forbes, RNC Platform |
0:07.5 | prioritizes fossil fuels while ignoring carbon-fueled climate crisis. |
0:12.0 | Ahead of the Republican Party's National... carbon-fueled climate crisis. |
0:13.0 | Ahead of the Republican Party's National Convention that kicked off Monday in Milwaukee, |
0:18.0 | the GOP released its official platform of key priorities for a second potential Trump administration. |
0:23.4 | As with any such political document, it's long on platitudes and slogans, |
0:28.2 | but very short on detail. |
0:29.8 | But there's at least one clear takeaway in the document. |
0:34.0 | It prioritizes increasing energy from fossil fuels |
0:37.0 | while ignoring the carbon-fueled climate crisis |
0:40.0 | that's triggered record-setting heat waves |
0:42.0 | and earlier and more intense hurricanes. |
0:45.0 | The 16-page document doesn't mention the environment or climate change and has no specific |
0:49.9 | references to solar, wind, geothermal, or hydropower, |
0:54.0 | though nuclear energy gets a shout out. |
0:56.5 | And there are multiple references to energy that's |
0:58.6 | mined, dug, and pumped. |
1:01.4 | The document said, quote, |
1:03.0 | under President Trump, the U.S. became the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world, |
1:08.0 | and we will soon be again by lifting restrictions on American energy production and terminating the Socialist Green New Deal. |
1:15.2 | Republicans will unleash energy production from all sources, including nuclear, |
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