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Oct. 9, 2025 - Epoch Times
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Gulf of America Has 28 Trillion in Oil And Gas Offshore Resources: Sec. Burgum
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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.
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