Trump on Tapping Oil Reserves: ‘I’m Not Going to Lose that Wealth, I’m Not Going to Lose It on Dreams’

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TRUMP: “I feel the United States has tremendous wealth. The wealth is under its feet. I’ve made that wealth come alive. We will soon be one of the — we will soon be exporting — we’re actually doing it now, exporting, but we are now the number one energy producer in the world and soon it will be by far, with a couple of pipelines that have not been able to get approved for many, many years, it will have a huge impact. I was able to get ANWR in Alaska, could be the largest site in the world for oil and gas. I was able to get ANWR approved. Ronald Reagan wasn’t able to do it, nobody was able to do it. They’ve been trying to do it since before Ronald Reagan. I got it approved. We're the number one energy producer in the world, soon it will be by far the number one. It’s tremendous wealth and LNG is being sought after all over Europe and we have more of it than everybody else. And I’m not going to lose that wealth. I’m not going to lose it on dreams, on windmills, which frankly aren’t working too well. I’m not going to lose it. So, Josh, in a nutshell, I want the cleanest water on art. I want the cleanest air on Earth. That’s what we’re doing. And I’m an environmentalist. A lot of people don’t understand. I’ve done more environmental impact statements probably than anybody — I guess I can say definitely because I’ve done many, many, many of them, more than anybody that's ever been president or vice president or anything even close to president. And I think I know more about the environment than most people. I want clean air, I want clean water, I want a wealthy country, I want a spectacular country with jobs, with pensions, with so many things. And that’s what we’re getting.”