That promise played upon the listener thinking the US had somehow suppressed oil production. In reality oil/gas production has gone wild, now with a large surplus over domestic consumption. There are huge numbers of rights that have been granted but not exercised because the world is so awash in oil that the price makes most non-conventional fields unprofitable.

There just isn't anything to really be done there.

“ That promise played upon the listener thinking the US had somehow … “

this is the summary of trumps entire campaign platform. i’m honestly not even sure he expressed a concrete policy on anything. he said he wants even more aggressive tariffs and will start deportation on day 1 (and was relatively nonchalant about some “legal” immigrants being caught up with “illegal” ones). cut dei.

there’s honestly no plan or policy, just a nebulous wish list that appeals to the base impulses of humanity.

the only real expectation that i have is that justices thomas and alito will retire early in his term to allow him to appoint new ones early enough to not allow democrats to stall like mcconnell did.

The same thing that happens when you subsidize EVs - we just use more. If you lower the cost of consumption, consumption goes up. If you lower the cost of alternative means of consumption, total consumption still goes up.

It goes up either way, you might as well have the source be here instead of from a foreign adversary.

Maybe the real solution would be to move to renewable energy sources instead of making fossil fuels cheaper.