Also, Trump knows business and he is quickly learning politics. He knows that America cannot compete with other countries on labor costs. Actually, he was elected on the promise to keep or restore good paying American jobs. But where America can compete is on energy. We have the capability to be an energy superpower, independent of other nations. We’ve had that capability all along but our politicians were bribed by foreign interests to avoid such a policy.
That, along with lifting the most oppressive and absurd environmental regulations, are the two key components to American economic recovery and Trump is pursuing both with a single-minded determination.
Oil and gas is much more than just energy, it’s also raw materials.
Natural gas is becoming the low cost feedstock of choice for the US petrochemical industry.
The combination of low energy costs and low raw materials costs achieved by exploiting America’s oil, gas and coal reserves combined with American high tech and high skill labor force go a long way to level the playing field and make America competitive against low skill, low cost of labor producers