The Prez mentioned the infrastructure program and how it will provide millions of well paying jobs, but nothing was mentioned about the promised energy independence program that would have created well paying jobs in the states that depend on an oil and gas industry that has been depressed for the past two years. Can it be assumed that the energy independence program has fallen by the wayside like the other EI programs proposed in past years?
Trump didn’t specifically use the words, “energy indpependence,” but he was quite emphatic about moving forward with pipeline projects and putting coal miners back to work. If not a specific declaration of energy independence, it was certainly momentum in that direction.