Reversing Four Years of Bad Energy Policy | Mike Sommers
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
4.6 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
American Petroleum Institute’s Mike Sommers returns to Hold These Truths to survey the past four years of the Biden-Harris Administration’s most devastating anti-fossil fuel energy policies and how the incoming Trump Administration might reverse them. They look at what the future of energy looks like for Texas and the rest of America. And they fact check the tv series Landman’s portrayal of the oil and gas industry.
Mike Sommers is the President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade association representing all aspects of America's oil and natural gas industry. Follow him on X at @mj_sommers.
How realistic is Taylor Sheridan’s Landman?
“100 million barrels of oil a day”
Biden’s latest offshore lease restrictions
American natural gas, a clear win for the environment.
“It’s better to get ahead of the regulators.”
The argument for exporting natural gas
Bitcoin mining in west Texas
The EPA’s twin tail pipe rules – Biden’s war on internal combustion engines
The real costs of electric vehicles
At what point do you have too much wind power?
The future of the Texas grid
First steps for Trump’s EPA
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| 0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident. |
| 0:02.1 | That all men are created. |
| 0:03.4 | As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. |
| 0:07.3 | Experts on what they're talking about. |
| 0:08.9 | This is the podcast for insights into the issues. |
| 0:11.6 | China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions. |
| 0:16.0 | Breaking it down into simple terms. |
| 0:17.9 | We hold. |
| 0:18.7 | We hold these truths. |
| 0:20.1 | We hold these truths. With Dan C these truths. We hold these truths. |
| 0:21.6 | With Dan Crenshaw. |
| 0:22.6 | The angle has landed. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome back to hold these truths. |
| 0:25.6 | Today we have with us, Mike Summers. |
| 0:27.6 | Mike, thanks for being with us. |
| 0:29.6 | Mike is the CEO of the American Petroleum Institute. |
| 0:32.6 | Also former chief of staff to former House Speaker, John Boehner. And I'd forgotten about that fact, so I was like, oh, man, we better hear some John Boehner |
| 0:40.7 | stories during this podcast. |
| 0:43.1 | But we're here to talk mostly about energy, and it's a timely topic given the remarkably |
| 0:51.3 | anti-fossil fuel energy policies put in place these last four years. |
| 0:56.4 | We'll talk about what some of the more devastating ones have been, how we might reverse them, |
| 1:01.2 | what the future of energy looks like, all of the above. |
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