Good day all. Last week, President Trump called for American “Dominance” in the energy sector. This is a major shift in United States policies going back decades.
The idea that America should dominate the energy sector has essentially been blocked by the globalist elites on both sides of the aisle. The Progressive Democrats are by far the worst, with attempts to flat out shut down energy production in the United States. Then a funny thing happened. Donald Trump won the election and promptly moved to “Make America Great Again.” This includes making the United States not only self sufficient in energy, but a net exporter, something we haven’t been in decades. Here are the details from Bloomberg:
Donald Trump will tout surging U.S. exports of oil and natural gas during a week of events aimed at highlighting the country’s growing energy dominance.
The president also plans to emphasize that after decades of relying on foreign energy supplies, the U.S. is on the brink of becoming a net exporter of oil, gas, coal and other energy resources.
With “Energy Week,” Trump is returning to familiar territory — and to the coal, oil, and gas industries on which he’s already lavished attention. Trump’s first major policy speech on the campaign trail, delivered in the oil drilling hotbed of North Dakota in 2016, focused on his plans for unleashing domestic energy production. The issue has also been a major focus during Trump’s first five months in office, as he set in motion the reversal of an array of Obama-era policies that discourage both the production and consumption of fossil fuels.
Obama and his thugs in the EPA and the Energy Department decided that they would decide who would produce energy. That did not include Coal, and under Obama coal production all but collapsed. One of Felonia von Pantsuit’s promises was to put every single person who worked in the coal industry on to the unemployment lines. (And they still wonder how she lost states the Progressive Democrats usually win?)
Trump came in with his new people and began sweeping out the trash in these agencies and putting in place rules that encourage traditional energy sources. The Trump administration isn’t opposed to the so called “Green Energy” systems, they’re just opposed to having the taxpayers being forced to subsidize wind mills and solar farms. For instance, President Trump as talked about looking into putting solar panels on the Trump Wall along the border with Mexico. Oh that sound you heard? It was the heads of Moonbats detonating at the conundrum. Solar power, YAY! Trump Wall, BOO! Solar panels on the Trump Wall?
Trump is set to deliver a speech at the Energy Department on Thursday focused almost entirely on energy exports — describing how the foreign sale of U.S. natural gas, oil and coal helps strengthen the country’s influence globally, bolster international alliances, and help stabilize global markets.
It most assuredly does. Instead of dollars flowing to greed OPEC oil sheikhs, who then use it to fund Islamic terrorism, Money is flowing into the United States, taxes are being collected and the trade imbalance is now tilting in our favor.
“The fact that we’re no longer in the age of energy scarcity — that we’re in the age of energy abundance — positions the United States in a totally different place,” said Dave Banks, a special assistant to the president for international energy. “This gives access to affordable, reliable energy in the United States, and gives the U.S. a major competitive advantage.”
Trump is set to talk about opportunities for growth, including in sales of coal to Europe and Asia. A recent increase in the production of metallurgical coal used in steel manufacturing has helped East Coast terminals ship more of the resource overseas.
We are sitting on centuries worth of coal. Technology is constantly improving to clean up coal and make it more efficient. Other countries are behind us generally in both energy production and coal fuel technology. We can now sell both. Obama and his band of merry morons? They wanted to kill the entire industry.
And the president is expected to describe openings for other energy exports, including U.S. technology that harnesses power from the wind and sun, and a new generation of advanced and modular nuclear reactors. Some nuclear power advocates have argued that the U.S. government process of licensing advanced reactor designs is so lengthy that it discourages investment.
No kidding. It takes decades to get final approval and in that time, the technology changes. Guess what happens then? The nuclear industry has to start the approval process all over again. This is why we have reactors that were designed 50 years ago. The newest technology can’t get approval thanks to the Moonbats and Morons.
The Trump administration has begun reversing a slew of regulations and policies that have limited energy development or made it more expensive, such as by ending a moratorium blocking new coal leases on federal land, and overturning a rule governing coal mining pollution in streams.
The president has ordered agencies to remove regulatory barriers to producing domestic energy resources, kicking off a broad government-wide review. Even as that analysis continues, the Interior Department has begun repeals or revisions of Obama-era mandates governing hydraulic fracturing and discouraging methane leaks from oil wells. A White House office is also vetting a proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration rule forcing states to slash greenhouse gas emissions from electricity production. And the Trump administration is considering more auctions of oil and gas leases in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.
As I mentioned earlier, this is a reversal of decades of mindless governmental stupidity, going back the second worst president in American History, Jimmy Carter.
Trump’s theme of “energy dominance” marks an evolution. For years, the catch phrase of choice has been “energy independence,” as politicians and industry officials sought to highlight how a new era of abundance was helping the U.S. wean itself from foreign sources of oil and natural gas.
That was in turn a dramatic change from the 1970s, when former President Jimmy Carter turned down the White House thermostats and used a televised address in February 1977 to urge consumers to conserve energy amid a permanent “shortage.” After that, federal energy policy became rooted in the view that oil and gas were in short supply.
Ahh yes, the infamous “Sweater address.” Thanks to that bit of utter stupidity, the term “Peak Oil” came into vogue. What that meant was that all the known oil in North America had been located, as well as in the rest of the world, and that was it. Once it was gone, there would be no more. There’s just been one small problem with that belief. It was a load of horseshit.
Thanks to modern technology, the United States has found its self sitting on an ocean of oil reserves. Not just the “Proven” reserves, but potential reserves that were once though to be impossible to get. We now have more known reserves of oil that are known to exist in the Middle East. A lot more.
“Trump is reorienting our national rhetoric toward ‘dominance,’” said Kevin Book, analyst with ClearView Energy Partners LLC. “Captives crave independence; competitors strive to dominate. It’s a shift from getting by to getting ahead.”
Now, we’re going to do to OPEC what they’ve done to us for decades. Screw them over and bury them. It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
Thatisall
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