we were number one by far over saudi arabia and russia. number one by far. i had the pipelines going. amazingly, i ended the russian pipeline. i got along well with russia. i got along well with putin. they weren t happy with trump. i can tell you that. biden opened up this big mess of pipeline over europe. you heard it a thousand times. we are energy independent, no longer. i was so proud of that. first time really in history, they say 75 years. but i don t about believe we were ever energy independent. we were doing so much. it was $1.87 a gallon. if you look at the numbers. now, yesterday they had in a certain section of california
we were number one by far over saudi arabia and russia. number one by far. i had the pipelines going. amazingly, i ended the russian pipeline. i got along well with russia. i got along well with putin. they weren t happy with trump. i can tell you that. biden opened up this big mess of pipeline over europe. you heard it a thousand times. we are energy independent, no longer. i was so proud of that. first time really in history, they say 75 years. but i don t about believe we were ever energy independent. we were doing so much. it was $1.87 a gallon. if you look at the numbers. now, yesterday they had in a certain section of california
we were number one by far over saudi arabia and russia. number one by far. i had the pipelines going. amazingly, i ended the russian pipeline. i got along well with russia. i got along well with putin. they weren t happy with trump. i can tell you that. biden opened up this big mess of pipeline over europe. you heard it a thousand times. we are energy independent, no longer. i was so proud of that. first time really in history, they say 75 years. but i don t about believe we were ever energy independent. we were doing so much. it was $1.87 a gallon. if you look at the numbers. now, yesterday they had in a certain section of california
and then inflation has kicked in. it remember this, with energy going up like that, you know, you have a product and you need trucks to deliver it, you need energy. with energy being doubled and tripled, what was just a few months ago when we were there, $1.87 per gallon, now it s over $5 per gallon. that s a lot more than 50%. when energy goes up like that, sean, everything s affected in terms of inflation. it has a huge inflationary impact on this country. i was here when jimmy carter when jimmy carter went out and did what he was doing. a lot of it was similar but on a much smaller scale, we had inflation. and it was almost ruining for our country. with it almost ruined our country. this is much more severe. what they are doing is changing the social fabric of our country. it s not even believable.
and then inflation has kicked in. it remember this, with energy going up like that, you know, you have a product and you needs trucks to deliver it, you need energy. with energy being doubled and tripled, what was just a few months ago when we were there, $1.87 per gallon, now it s over $5 per gallon. that s a lot more than 50%. when energy goes up like that, sean, everything s affected in terms of inflation. it has a huge inflationary impact on this country. i was here when jimmy carter when jimmy carter went out and did what he was doing. a lot of it was similar, but on a much smaller scale, we had inflation. and it was almost ruining for our country. it almost ruined our country.. this is much more severe. what they are doing is changing the social fabric of our country. it s not even believable. bernie sanders can t believe it. bernie sanders goes around