US Presidency
2017

For over 40 years, America was vulnerable to foreign regimes that used energy as an economic weapon. Americans ' quality of life was diminished by the idea that energy resources were too scarce to support our people. We always thought that, and actually at the time it was right to think. We didn't think we had this tremendous wealth under our feet. Many of us remember the long gas lines and the constant claims that the world was running out of oil and natural gas. Americans were told that our nation could only solve this energy crisis by imposing draconian restrictions on energy production. But we now know that was all a big, beautiful myth. It was fake. Don't we love that term, fake ? What we've learned about fake over the last little while, fake news, CNN. Fake. ( Laughter and Applause. ) Whoops, their camera just went off. Okay, you can come back. I won't say, I promise I won't say anything more about you. I see that red light go off, I say, whoa.