“I will be the American energy president,” Donald Trump vowed Thursday in Michigan, promising to cut energy costs in half.
The “again” was understood, since Trump had made America energy-independent in his first term, before the Harris-Biden crowd took over and sent costs soaring.
He’ll “slash red tape,” ramp up approvals of new power plants, spur nuclear energy, and roll back Democrats’ fossil-fuel restrictions.
Hear, hear! It’s the all-of-the-above strategy that led the nation to become in Trump’s first term.
And it would once again yield huge gains not just for America, but the entire Free World.
As former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt made clear on a campaign press call, such plans are vital to future prosperity.
“Between soaring demand and retiring coal, we are facing a great [energy] capacity shortfall of at least 30% by 2032,” Bernhardt warned — arguing that Team Harris-Walz can’t make up the difference thanks to “their net zero vision.”
Democrats are too obsessed with reducing carbon emissions, and so block not only new gas- and oil-drilling, but also new pipelines, refineries, fossil-fuel power plants (and cars and stoves and heating) and so on.
Under Trump’s plan, Bernhardt predicted, “every manufacturing plant, every data center, every semiconductor facility and assembly line will want to be built in America — because America will be the place where the cost of energy is lower than anywhere else on Earth.”
Those lower costs will help rein in inflation in America as well: After all, energy — electricity for manufacturing or oil for transportation — accounts for a hefty share of the cost of nearly every product.
And energy prices have shot up under Harris-Biden: Gasoline, by 45%, for instance, and commercially used natural gas, as of May, by 43%.
Kamala Harris has explicitly opposed fracking (though campaign aides anonymously say she doesn’t anymore) and wants to force every American to switch to electric vehicles.
Trump, by contrast, would scrap Harris-Biden rules, lift the bans, help existing plants and boost nuclear power, particularly from “small modular reactors,” a new technology with great promise
He’d also push back against EV mandates and pull out of the Paris Climate Accords (again).
All of which would do much to shore up the nation’s supplies, stabilize the power grid and enable exports to aid allies in Europe now dependent on Russian energy.
The fact is, Making America Great Again means restoring its energy might.
That won’t happen in a Harris presidency.
It’ll take a Trump victory in November to make the nation “powerful” once again.