{"id":364116,"date":"2025-01-31T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364116"},"modified":"2025-01-31T08:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:36:17","slug":"why-trump-needed-to-declare-a-national-energy-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=364116","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Needed to Declare a National Energy Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brian Morgenstern<\/a> Sam Lyman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine. The October 7 terrorist attack in Israel. Sky-high inflation. The crushing price of groceries and other consumer goods. Pain at the pump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One throughline connects some of the greatest failures of the Biden presidency: bad energy policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To right the wrongs of his predecessor, President Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of declaring a national energy emergency on his first day in office. In his inauguration speech, Trump vowed to \u201cbring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again right to the top, and export American energy all over the world.\u201d In contrast to the national malaise of the Biden years, Trump\u2019s ambitious energy agenda promises a new morning in America. His commitment to \u201cenergy dominance\u201d will subdue our enemies, tame the tiger of inflation, and usher in a new era of tech supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To understand why Trump declared a national energy emergency, it is first critical to understand where Biden failed on this issue. Consider the human toll of Biden\u2019s energy policy in three arenas: Ukraine, Israel, and Mainstreet America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin\u2019s war on Ukraine was boosted by Biden\u2019s own war on U.S. oil producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first year of his presidency, Biden kneecapped domestic LNG production by blocking<\/a> new oil and gas leases on federal lands, canceling<\/a> the Keystone XL Pipeline, and imposing<\/a> impossible standards on domestic fossil fuel producers. As a result, U.S. crude oil production remained woefully behind<\/a> pre-pandemic levels for the first year of Biden\u2019s presidency\u2014to the tune of approximately one million fewer barrels of oil per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheering on Biden\u2019s restrictions just as much as the environmental lobby was Russian President Vladimir Putin. As the U.S. retreated from global oil markets, Russia advanced, increasing its production<\/a> by nearly nine hundred thousand barrels a day in 2021. Putin\u2019s ability to eat into the U.S. market share in the energy sector put Russia on strong economic footing in the leadup to its invasion of Ukraine.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the invasion, the high price of oil fueled Russia\u2019s war machine, kept its economy alive, and shored up its currency in the most critical years of the Ukraine conflict. Biden could have undermined Russia\u2019s military campaign and decreased global oil prices simply by removing his restrictions on U.S. producers, allowing them to drill to their full capacity. But he refused and exacerbated the problem in 2024 by pausing<\/a> new LNG exports to European allies. Thousands of innocent Ukrainians suffered as a result of Biden\u2019s energy policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, Biden\u2019s war on U.S. oil producers not only strengthened Russia\u2014it also empowered Iran and endangered Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Russia, Iran was able to capture a significant portion of the global oil market share that would have otherwise gone to the U.S. were it not for Biden\u2019s harmful regulations. And like Russia, Iran was able to leverage this oil revenue to launch its own war. Using Hamas as its proxy, the Iranian regime engineered the October 7 terrorist attack against Israel, sparking one of the bloodiest conflicts in the region\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Europe to the Middle East, Biden\u2019s disastrous energy policies made the world a more dangerous place. They also made it more expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mainstreet America was just another casualty in Biden\u2019s war on oil. Everyday citizens foot the bill for this war in the form of high inflation, which reached a peak of over 9% in 2022 and caused the dollar to lose over 22%<\/a> of its purchasing power in only four years. Exacerbating the highest inflation our country has seen in a generation were rising energy prices that resulted from the Biden administration\u2019s attempts to curb fossil fuel production in favor of renewable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing the damage wrought by his predecessor\u2019s energy policies\u2014both here at home and abroad\u2014Trump had no choice but to declare a national energy emergency. Thankfully, the new president understands what the former never did: Energy is the base layer of all matter, life, and human activity. Or, as Einstein put it, E = mc2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the fundamental currency of the universe, countries rise and fall on their ability to maximize energy production. And any attempt to manipulate the supply-and-demand dynamics that govern its use leads to distortions\u2014not only in global markets but in monetary systems and international politics as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump intuits this. Which is why \u201cDrill, baby, drill!\u201d\u2014beyond being a catchy slogan\u2014is a promising, first-principles approach to getting our country back on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The logic is simple: Biden\u2019s policies hurt energy providers here at home while enriching our enemies abroad. These policies drove up the price of energy and inflation in our country, making all Americans poorer. And they made electricity harder to acquire than ever before just when critical emerging industries in tech and transportation needed it most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why, as part of his national energy emergency, President Trump must revoke Biden-era energy regulations. Every last one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The economy of the future\u2014including Bitcoin and AI data centers, electric vehicles, commercial space exploration, and quantum computing\u2014will require far more energy than we are producing today. According to research<\/a> from S&P Global, electricity demand from U.S. data centers alone is expected to more than double over the next decade, increasing from 185 TWh to 440 TWh. Failing to meet this demand would give China the edge in the race for artificial intelligence, putting both our economy and our national security at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the challenges facing our nation, securing energy dominance is the only option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the U.S. is to succeed in weakening its enemies, wrangling inflation, spurring GDP growth, and onshoring manufacturing, then it needs to use its God-given energy assets. This includes nuclear, hydro, solar, and yes, fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost no clean energy project would succeed without the manufacturing and infrastructure that fossil fuels make possible. Case in point: Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policymakers in the Lonestar State recognized long ago that oil and natural gas were critical companions in scaling up renewable energy. So in contrast to California, Texas lawmakers opted to encourage fossil fuel production, rather than restrict it. This decision<\/a> has resulted in more\u2014not less\u2014renewable energy<\/a> generation overall and the cleanest energy mix<\/a> in the country. Our country\u2019s leaders should embrace this all-of-the-above approach to energy production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the last four years under Biden, the federal government\u2019s foot has been on the brake pad of energy generation. Trump must move it to the accelerator\u2014because cheap and abundant power is the key to a safer world, lower inflation, better tech, and a stronger economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Morgenstern is head of public policy for Riot Platforms and served as White House deputy communications director and deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury during the first Trump administration.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Lyman is director of public policy for Riot Platforms and served as chief speechwriter to United States Senator Orrin Hatch.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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