Guest essay by Eric Worrall
President Trump has promised Americans a new era of jobs, energy independence and American Energy Dominance – unlocking, exploiting and exporting American fossil fuel energy around the world.
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We’re here today to usher in a new American energy policy — one that unlocks million and millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in wealth. For over 40 years, America was vulnerable to foreign regimes that used energy as an economic weapon. Americans’ quality of life was diminished by the idea that energy resources were too scarce to support our people. We always thought that, and actually at the time it was right to think. We didn’t think we had this tremendous wealth under our feet. Many of us remember the long gas lines and the constant claims that the world was running out of oil and natural gas.
Americans were told that our nation could only solve this energy crisis by imposing draconian restrictions on energy production. But we now know that was all a big, beautiful myth. It was fake. Don’t we love that term, “fake”? What we’ve learned about fake over the last little while — fake news, CNN. Fake. (Laughter and Applause.) Whoops, their camera just went off. (Laughter.) Okay, you can come back. I won’t say — I promise I won’t say anything more about you. I see that red light go off, I say, whoa. The truth is that we have near-limitless supplies of energy in our country. Powered by new innovation and technology, we are now on the cusp of a true energy revolution.
Our country is blessed with extraordinary energy abundance, which we didn’t know of, even five years ago and certainly ten years ago. We have nearly 100 years’ worth of natural gas and more than 250 years’ worth of clean, beautiful coal. We are a top producer of petroleum and the number-one producer of natural gas. We have so much more than we ever thought possible. We are really in the driving seat. And you know what? We don’t want to let other countries take away our sovereignty and tell us what to do and how to do it. That’s not going to happen. (Applause.) With these incredible resources, my administration will seek not only American energy independence that we’ve been looking for so long, but American energy dominance.
And we’re going to be an exporter — exporter. (Applause.) We will be dominant. We will export American energy all over the world, all around the globe. These energy exports will create countless jobs for our people, and provide true energy security to our friends, partners, and allies all across the globe.
But this full potential can only be realized when government promotes energy development — that’s this guy right here, and he’ll do it better than anybody — instead of obstructing it like the Democrats. They obstruct it. But we get through it. We cannot have obstruction. We have to get out and do our job better and faster than anybody in the world, certainly when it comes to one of our great assets — energy. This vast energy wealth does not belong to the government. It belongs to the people of the United States of America. (Applause.) Yet, for the past eight years, the federal government imposed massive job-killing barriers to American energy development.
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The rest of the speech is well worth reading or viewing, it mentions how President Trump’s cancellation of the Paris Agreement fits with this policy.
The following is a video of the full event;
In my opinion, this one speech and the policy initiatives it represents likely marks the end of the climate movement.
Who will ever want to go back to the misery of skyrocketing energy prices, stagnant economic growth and a moribund jobs market, and endless fake scare stories about the non-existent climate crisis, after having a taste of this kind of prosperity and hope?
How long will voters in other Western countries tolerate wallowing in the misery of politically imposed energy poverty, in the face of a constant stream of good news from the United States?
Greens will continue to rave and scream that the climate apocalypse is upon us. But the more extreme their claims, the quicker the demise of their remaining shreds of credibility, as even their friends come to see their empty bluster for what it is.
“We have near limitless supplies of energy”
Boy that’s the last thing these Progressive elites want to hear. Hasn’t easy access to energy been characterized as tantamount to ‘giving a child a gun’?
Control freaks cannot stand the idea of all us plebians living free comfortable lives independent of their dictates.
Here in Oregon, you can go to jail for ‘stealing’ rain water, and can be fined $50,000 or more for cutting down a tree in your own yard.
And don’t even bring up the idea of washing your car in your driveway.
You can’t wash your car in your driveway?
All them toxic chemicals spill into the river. Circle of life, man.
It’s not the entire state… yet.
If they can’t get us on car washing, they’ll use “obesity.” Crank the numbers low enough and we’re ALL guilty of that.
I don’t take nutritional advice from anyone who looks like they are dying from cancer or just crawled out of a death camp. Same goes for following the dictates over energy, agriculture and industry from idiots who decry them while they benefit from and use same.
A known source of natural gas is methane clathrate which exists mostly at the bottom of the ocean. It is estimated that those reserves are about twice the reserves of continental natural gas.
The usual explanation for fossil fuels on Earth is organic, that is, the fossil fuels are the product of plants. However …
There is the possibility of huge quantities of undiscovered methane on Earth from inorganic sources.
Behaving as though fossil fuels are in short supply is just short sighted.
Yes, it’s these carbon demons which had me alarmed owing to the usual doomsday tipping-point scenario propaganda before I woke up and started looking for myself. For me it would be the ultimate and fittingly ignominious end of alarmism if we started mining methane clathrates.
Commie Bob,
The hydrocarbons on earth have the same source as those throughout
the cosmos……They are abiotic. To reach any other conclusion defies logic.
http://annesastronomynews.com/the-horsehead-nebula-is-a-cosmic-petroleum-refinery/
Every planet outside our solar system which has had its atmosphere analyzed is
positive for hydrocarbons.
The usual explanation of the development of coal is: peat, lignite, bituminous, anthracite. It’s a no-brainer that peat comes from plants. link
This is a good chance to undo the path Jimmy Carter started the US on. Undo the scarcity enforced by government policy, and reverse the policies on nuclear energy.
The problem is that Trump is deliberately vague, so determining just what he intends to do is calculatedly difficult.
Bingo – And whiles he’s at how ’bout all that federal land?
Exactly why does the government have it or need it?
Steve, that was akin to asking ……. Why does the US government still have a Bureau of Indian Affairs?
The Trust assets of native American Indians being closely managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the BIA amounts to several BILLION DOLLARS.
Yes indeed! The corruption of BIA and DeptInterior is astronomical and totally unaccounted for. Good catch!
This is how European politicians use and abuse global warming, (nee climate change).
This video is based upon the very successful BBC comedy series ‘Yes Minister’, which ended ten years ago or so. This was a pilot episode for a new series, but because it took the Micky out of climate change, it was axed. Typical BBC – no sense of humour, when it comes to climate (or lslam).
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thank you, ralfellis, loved it – the only criticism I can make is that the BBC interviewer should have been complicit, not sceptical.
I have two thoughts on this one. He says 100 years worth of gas, 250 years worth of coal. Sounds like a lot, but IF those numbers are correct, we can’t afford to export these commodities. We need to keep them “in house” until they can be replaced for what they are used. We should not consider exporting a diminishing, and non renewing product.
Second thought was about this statement – “This vast energy wealth does not belong to the government. It belongs to the people of the United States of America.”
Isn’t that fundamentally what Saddam Hussein and Gadhafi claimed? Isn’t that what the democratically elected government in Iran claimed prior to being overthrown for the Shah? Or Chavez in Venezuela? And remember that prior to “interventions,” the first two nations had rising standards of living, far above their neighbors.
Just a thought.
I think he meant we have private property rights, unlike any of those places. In addition, in many places, including Europe, the resources are the patrimony of the State, not individual landowners. One argument for the shale revolution is that it happened precisely because of private property rights, and ability of landowners (in most cases) to deal with assign those rights to oil companies (mostly independent) in return for royalties. Maybe not a perfect system, but better than any other, from the point of view of increasing production.
Typical liberal response. In fact, a large part of the wealth does indeed belong to the people who own land. The people will prosper from the development of their land if they choose to do so. The use of our resources makes complete sense. The amount of resources remaining is understated by Trump. I would have a good chance of finding a few more billion barrels myself if I took the time to do the work. The U.S. has the resources and the time necessary to commercialize alternative energy sources over the next 50 to 100 years that will be needed. Alternative energy resources are nowhere near ready for prime time. With a socialist economy, they never would be ready, and we would all freeze in the dark. Get a grip!
That’s likely true in America, but it doesn’t have to be. Almost everywhere else in the world, mineral rights don’t go with the surface ownership. link
I can see why the Leftist Media in England, Europe and Australia suppressed this speech. It is embarrassing and doesn’t fit the Meme.
The more I see of President Trump, the more I like him.
“Who will ever want to go back to the misery of skyrocketing energy prices”
Unfortunately, for those of us who live in CA, the Democrats will continue to raise taxes on energy. We will not see a reduction in prices. Down go production costs, up go taxes.
Achieving this would also have another valuable effect: reducing dependence on, and income for, hostile oil-producing muslim states.
The real nightmare for the greens is not oil and gas, but a fully clean, cheap and reliable energy alternative that accomplishes all that green rhetoric demands. If an alternative is found, climate change will cease being a viable cover for their political agenda. One strong positive in Trump’s position is that added wealth and free enterprise will help drive technological change
‘Who will ever want to go back to the misery of skyrocketing energy prices, stagnant economic growth and a moribund jobs market, and endless fake scare stories about the non-existent climate crisis, after having a taste of this kind of prosperity and hope?’
Sadly, there are many who want this, but hopefully a majority of voters will not.
There is always some see-sawing in policy, but hopefully Trump’s changes will be politically difficult to wind back.
Spot on, the last thing greentards want is cheap, reliable and clean energy. That would strip them of their power over “the masses” and leave standing around exposed for the frauds they are.
Ha! The reason Trump got elected is because he is not a politician. The more the media trashes him the better I like him.
And the medidiots can not stop themselves from making DJT even more popular. For a long time people in America have been growing increasingly dis-enchanted with “news media” and that makes them angry, so they lash out and drive more Americans away. I love it.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/record-breaking-cold-weather-hits-australias-south-east/news-story/50906eac539b4fa9303ae95302b7f36b