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If Interior was a standalone company, it would have the largest balance sheet in the world. | |
Uh it would also have among the largest balance sheet would have the worst returns in the world because we've restricted access to it. | |
We, you know, we've tried to shut down the timber industry. | |
We're trying to do not we, but the Biden administration, Biden administration putting the clamps on timber production, on grazing, on mineral production on these public lands. | |
When Theodore Roosevelt put away these hundreds of millions of acres, he specifically said that this was for the benefit and the enjoyment of the American public. | |
Yes, for recreation, but also the benefit to access all of these minerals. | |
So codifying that balance sheet has been something that we're working on across government. | |
But just the just the Gulf of Gulf of America offshore, 28 trillion, 28 trillion in oil and gas uh resources that are there. | |
Uh coal resources, uh close to 10 trillion dollars of coal resources on public lands. | |
And again, some of this stuff like the coal Biden administration was basically not leasing any coal. | |
They're saying we're gonna just wipe 10 trillion off the U.S. balance sheet. | |
They'd shut down uh millions and millions of acres of for for any kind of offshore activity in the Gulf of America. |