EXCLUSIVE: California Globe Interview With President Donald Trump, Part 4

The California Globe had the opportunity to meet with Former United States President Donald Trump recently in Los Angeles in a one-on-one interview, while he was in the state on business. We discussed the state of the State of California. As expected, President Trump had plenty to say about the politics of our unique state.

This is Part 4 of the series; Here is Part 3; Part 2; and Part 1.

“Water, wildfires, energy, crime, homelessness, education, labor unions, infrastructure… this is just a short list of California’s critical issues,” the Globe told President Donald Trump in our recent meeting.

The Globe asked President Trump, “With all of the serious issues going on in California – all of Gavin Newsom’s policies – water, the defunding of forest and wildfire management, energy shortages, banning oil and gas production and going all electric in the state by 2030…”

“All electric?” the President said. “It will cost you so much, and it’s so polluting.”

“The pollutants are massive to produce the electricity,” he added. “Far more than fuel efficient cars.”

We discussed California’s scheme to cut oil and gas production by replacing it with wind and solar, supposedly renewable energy, despite oil and gas being a huge industry in the state.

“The problem is when you cut off the oil and gas, when you make batteries, as an example, it is so massive in terms of pollutants,” President Trump said. “It’s incredible.”

“These people don’t know what they are doing.”

We discussed the high cost to build a house in California with all of the state mandates – solar panel roofs, fire sprinklers, and mandatory “affordable” housing regulations, including creating higher-density neighborhoods by replacing single family homes with duplexes and fourplexes – and how the state Legislature and governor cannot legislate the state’s way out of the high cost of housing. It’s the local and state government regulations increasing the cost of building homes.

President Trump said solar is a good idea, “but the worst is wind. Wind is the most expensive energy,” he said.

“You take one cent of natural gas, per the same equivalent, wind is 54 cents. Wind is 54 times as expensive,” Trump said.

“We throw the natural gas away – we give it away for nothing. But we are sitting on liquid gold,” he added. “That’s what caused the inflation – that’s what started it. And now it’s going to be hard to bring it down.”

President Trump warned that just opening up natural gas exploration and pipelines again won’t singly fix inflation. “And you’re not going to solve it immediately,” he added. “It’s getting further and further away.”

President Joe Biden suspended oil and gas permits on federal lands and waters and canceled the Keystone XL oil pipeline project his first day in office, ending a project that was expected to employ more than 11,000 Americans last year, Fox News reported.

During the Trump presidency we had energy independence by the time he left office, gas was $1.87 per gallon, and inflation was only 1.7%.

Today, gas is up 125% — the national average for a gallon of gas is…