Posted on 01/01/2025 3:43:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Coming with the new year is a new president with a very different vision on energy than President Joe Biden, who campaigned on a promise to “end fossil fuel.”
President-elect Donald Trump is dismissive of the immediate “climate crisis” narrative that drove much of Biden’s energy policies. He promises to establish American “energy dominance” and focus policy on bringing down the cost of energy.
While Trump can overturn Biden’s industry-punishing executive orders and create a friendlier regulatory environment for the oil, gas, coal and mining industries, experts say there are economic and technical limits to what the outcomes of his policies will be. Looking ahead to 2025 and beyond, here’s what we might expect for energy and industry in the second Trump administration.
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During a speech at the Economic Club of New York luncheon in September, Trump said he would end the Biden-Harris administration’s “anti-energy crusade and implement a policy of energy abundance, energy independence, and even energy dominance.” This would include, he said, getting the price of gasoline down below $2 per gallon, which would decrease the cost of all goods and services.
“We have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country, including Russia and Saudi Arabia [and] will be using it. My plan will cut energy prices in half or more than that within 12 months of taking office. It will be an economic revival of our country like no one has ever seen before,” Trump said before his campaign proved successful in the November election.
Trump has shown a commitment to these energy pathways by nominating North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for Interior Secretary, who led the third highest oil-producing state in the U.S. Trump also nominated Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright for Energy Secretary...
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‘Bout time. Now get these changes through Congress so a future president can’t undo them, again.
“Ending fossil fuel” sounds fine to me, as long as we have something to replace it with without compromising the economy. We don’t. The “green new deal” is basically a plan to hobble and starve America, while making China the leading superpower.
Trumps change in policies will help, but the States have jurisdiction on generating resource requirements. If a liberal state government mandates no coal and 100% green energy, then that’s what the utilities in that state have to do.
The end of “fossil” fuels is the end of food.
That’s the idea.
Independence and prosperity.
It’s not hard.
The Green New Deal is moot n its goals until China has regime change.
Climate Change is a cult to raise taxes and regs.
Government by the people, for the people. What a concept!
We are standing on an ocean of cheap fossil fuels which is what Communists fear.
If states can ban gasoline powered cars and lawnmowers, gas ovens and water heaters in the name of “environmental protection”, then surely the federal government/Congress can ban bird- and whale-killing wind turbines, giant ecosystem-destroying solar farms and dangerously combustible electric vehicles on the same basis. Sauce for the goose and all that...
By unleashing mining does that mean that people in Western NC are permanently gone from their homes aftwr what some was an intentional flood to get rid of those people once and for all?
Baadaa bing!
And the DNC whores will say it was all thanks to Biden’s pro energy policies finally kicking in.
Let it be so.
Some info.
The world of oil is chock full of definition tweaking to get results desired. One such item is crude vs crude&condensate and then there is All Liquids.
There is a parameter called API, which is the American Petroleum Institute, but more relevant it is a number the describes specific gravity/density/viscosity of oil.
The lower the number, the more viscous the oil. And it used to be numbers above 35 were called condensate rather than crude because it was so low in density. Well, then shale oil arrived, with a high constituent yield of gasoline and not so high for diesel and kerosene(jet fuel). Next thing you know, API 40 and 45 liquid was filling the US storage in Cushing and quietly the definition of crude raised to 45.
This enabled quotes of barrels/day of what used to be something not oil . . . to be oil.
Regardless of all this, and without dwelling on competing graphs, the US has been pumping big numbers of oil for over 100 years. How long did we think it was going to last?
And to keep the idea rational, whoever was going to say “it’s being created every day!” go find some empty wells that were shut down and buy them. For nearly nothing. Then when they refill you’ll be hugely rich.
Ever notice nobody does this?
“Trumps change in policies will help, but the States have jurisdiction on generating resource requirements. If a liberal state government mandates no coal and 100% green energy, then that’s what the utilities in that state have to do.”
Fine, let the states compete - some using abundant, inexpensive energy and others rationing scarce expensive energy. Let the voters decide which is preferred.
Drill, baby! Drill! Warm, globe! Warm! Melt, ice caps! Melt! Hire idle poor to build dykes, pay them a living wage, and cut the welfare rolls as a result. Rising water levels means more fish, creating jobs in the fishing industry, and more protein in everyone’s diet. It’s all win/win/win/win/win!
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