US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to create a National Energy Dominance Council, the White House press service reported.
„We have more energy resources than any other country and now we are releasing them“, Trump said, according to the document.
„We need to unleash that potential“, said US Interior Secretary Douglas Burgum. „We need to open it from the American Gulf /bd. renamed by Trump Mexican/ to Alaska“, he said.
On January 21, Trump announced that the United States administration would take measures to increase hydrocarbon production in the country and would abandon the development of wind energy. He added that the US is said to have “more oil and gas than any country in the world“ and called wind power “the most expensive form of energy there is“.
Speaking via video link at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23, Trump said the United States must double its energy production to meet its needs.