[StAntKnee]

Roll back regulations
Make energy like mad.
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Sounds glib at first but your observation is spot-on. The politician who could make this happen would have a marvelous platform. Moving US into the manufacturing lead would then make it impossible for those green energy loonies to ever cut back a stable energy program.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The politician who could make this happen would have a marvelous platform.

The politician who could make this happen doesn't exist. Reagan couldn't make it happen. Neither could Trump. The Bushes, of course, didn't bother to try. It will take years of rolling back leftist indoctrination in the public schools and mass media to convince a substantial number of Americans that suffocating regulation of all things great and small isn't vital.

[Rockingham]

Cheap energy from abundant natural gas would provide a major competitive advantage for the US, especially in industries that are energy intensive.