Trump looks to tackle energy policy in major speech

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | Gabby Morrongiello

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And while the billionaire has been reluctant to discuss the U.S. relationship with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), he's previously expressed an openness to halting oil purchases from Saudi Arabia and other Mideast allies if they don't deploy their own ground troops to fight Islamic State militants.

But Trump's recent correspondence with North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer suggests he's finally gearing up to offer detailed insights about his energy policy agenda.

Cramer recently delivered a four-page memo to the Trump campaign containing what he believes is an "all of the above, America-first energy message" that the billionaire should make his own.

As previously reported by the Washington Examiner, the North Dakota congressman is urging Trump to denounce the Obama administration's expanded regulatory activity, which Republicans claim strangles economic growth and is inimical to investment and job creation, and reject the fossil fuel divestment effort, while urging the increase of coal, oil and natural gas production.

Cramer has also urged Trump to consider developing a commission with the sole purpose of defending America's shale producers against OPEC's "market manipulation," an idea that was recently embraced by former U.S. National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair.

"In a worldwide oil market, we are still at the mercy of fluctuations in Chinese economic growth or Saudi production decisions," Blair said at an energy security conference last week. "These are countries with governments that reject our values and very often wish us ill. And yet we still guarantee the security of places like the Middle East."

"This is Donald Trump's chance to lay out his vision for how America can be the dominant world energy producer," Kathleen Hartnett, director of the Texas Public Policy Institute's Armstrong Center for Energy & The Environment, said of Trump's upcoming speech.

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[Utmost Certainty]

But guys, Trump said he might reconsider not temp-banning Muslims, so how can he be trusted on anything at all?!?! /melodrama

[dowcaet]

Trump is laying out policy proposals on foreign policy and energy issues. Hillary’s too busy fighting off another Clinton scandal plus dealing with Bernie and his whacked out lefty brigades to do anything else. Trump is going to control the narrative of this campaign and he’s going to define who Hillary is long before she can do the same to him. White working class voters are going to be like a giant tsunami that wipes out the Democrats and Trump is solidifying his support among them.

[Ancesthntr]

I like the “all of the above” approach. If we just get fracking and coal mining going again, you will have employed hundreds of thousands of people in high-wage jobs. The lowering of the cost of energy resulting from that will boost the economy like a giant tax cut.

Fracking 2.0 is around the corner - it is a technology that depends on computer technology, and American innovation is about to bring the cost of extracting a barrel of oil down to somewhere between $5 and $20. http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/01/technological-progress-in-big-data.html This will revolutionize the oil business, and a bunch of world politics, as well.