to use for the heavy duty. a battery won t move an 18-wheeler, you don t even have a discussion on that point. so use the natural gas. where we have 4,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in america. that is huge. we re the largest of all nations on natural gas reserves. we re bigger than russia, we re bigger than iran. we have the most natural gas of anybody. and we ve got to use it, it s cleaner, cheaper, abundant and it s ours. we ve got to get started. governor richardson, you talk about this political will. where does it come from? where do we get it? we all talk about it when oil is above $100 a barrel. where do we make the long-term and financial commitmentses to change over the way we generate energy in this country. because it s expensive. well, as a nation, we seem to only act when there s a major crisis. and i believe we ve had another one in fukushima.
where we have 4,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in america, that is huge. we re the largest of all nations on natural gas reserves. we re bigger than russia, bigger than iran. we have the most natural gas of anybody. and we ve got to use it. it s cleaner, it s cheaper, it s abundant, and it s ours. we ve just got to get started. governor richardson, you talk about this political will. where does it come from? where do we get it? we all talk about it when oil is above $100 a barrel, but where do we actually make the long-term and financial commitments to change over the way we generate energy in this country? because it s expensive. well, as a nation, we seem to only act when there s a major crisis, and i believe we ve had another one in fukushima. so i think this is the time when all of our mixes in energy, fossil fuels, renewable, clean coal, and the advocates in the regions for these areas need to
it s 2030. how much dependence on oil from the middle east? according to what the leadership wants. larry: what do you think? i think we ve got to go to our own resources. and we have resources to go to. larry: nothing from there then? i ll take out the opec first. the oil from canada and mexico is fine with me. but north america is okay. but i just as soon get rid of the rest of it. larry: natural gas is still your big thing, right? you have 4,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the united states. and it s 30% cleaner than oil. it s cheaper. it sells for 25% of the cost of oil larry: is it seems logical. it sure does. you d look like an idiot if we don t do it. larry: china has passed the united states as the world s biggest energy consumer. we re still we predicted that.
it s 2030. how much dependence on oil from the middle east? according to what the leadership wants. larry: what do you think? i think we ve got to go to our own resources. and we have resources to go to. larry: nothing from there then? i ll take out the opec first. the oil from canada and mexico is fine with me. but north america is okay. but i just as soon get rid of the rest of it. larry: natural gas is still your big thing, right? you have 4,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the united states. and it s 30% cleaner than oil. it s cheaper. it sells for 25% of the cost of oil larry: is it seems logical. it sure does. you d look like an idiot if we don t do it. larry: china has passed the united states as the world s biggest energy consumer.
questions. we ve got oil. there s no question. can we do we have enough oil? we import 13 million barrels of oil a day. 5 million comes from opec. and i consider that to be oil from the enemy. because we re paying for both sides of the war. by buying that 5 million barrels. that is what i d like to get loose from. but if you remember, president obama said when he, in the nomination speech, he said in ten years we will not import any oil from the mideast. well, he s two years now, he s gone into his period and i ve seen no plan for how we re going to get off that. so how do we do it? we get on our own resources is what you do. which are what? natural gas will be a big part of it. but we have other resources, too. and but remember, when he speaks of wind and solar, that does not replace opec oil. so talk about natural gas, the reserves there. you obviously know a lot about that, right? oh, yes. 4,000 trillion. that s equivalent of 700 billion