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Emma18
Att USA blev "energioberoende" är inte Trumps förtjänst. Om du kollar på
detta diagram över USAs import/export av petroleum-produkter så är det tydligt att denna minskning av importen som ledde till energioberoendet påbörjades redan 2006. Det är dock egentligen varken Obamas eller Trumps förtjänst utan beror på fracking-boomen som möjliggjordes av tekniska framsteg snarare än politiska beslut.
När pandemin började så minskade efterfrågan kraftigt och oljeproduktionen minskade då kraftigt. Nu när efterfrågan ökat igen så har man inte haft tid att skala upp produktionen igen vilket har lett till ökad import och högre priser. Återigen så har presidenterna haft ganska liten påverkan på detta.
Naturligtvis har du fel. Trumps energipolitik gav frukt för att han genomförde en rad
nya policys inte för att det tekniska kunnandet helt plötsligt blommade ut
Lika mycket som som den tillbakagång som vi ser nu med Biden har med
hans nya policys att göra inte plötslig inkompetens hos energiindustrin.
"One of the president's major successes is in the area of energy policy. Along with energy secretary Rick Perry, the president is overseeing the recovery of the American energy sector from the low point it hit under the Obama administration.
By a combination of executive orders totally restrictiong drilling on federal lands and EPA assaults on fracking and coal-mining, including a total ban on mountaintop-mining, Obama prosecuted a "war" not just on coal, but on fossil fuels generally.
With the passage of a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act allowing oil exploration in ANWR, the president has another success. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge contains vast reserves of recoverable oil currently estimated at 10.4 billion barrels. Development has been blocked by misguided and ill informed opposition from environmental groups. Now, with great care for the environment, oil companies will have the opportunity to produce vast amounts of energy while drilling only 3% of ANWR.
It is not just ANWR.
By removing unnecessary restrictions on fracking and by opening other federal lands to drilling, President Trump is promoting energy independence rather than standing in its way. He has opened federal lands for drilling, including land in two national monuments in southern Utah. Vast federal lands in the Western U.S. offer other opportunities.
In April, the president signed an executive order reversing Obama's ban on new offshore drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic. Current estimates show that almost 90 billion barrels of oil and 327 trillion cubic feet of natural gas lie under the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf. Those estimates have a way of being revised upward, especially for regions such as these that have not been explored with modern technology due to past restrictions. Offshore drilling has the potential to produce ten times the number of jobs and government revenue projected for ANWR. At the high end, that would be 1,300,000 high paying jobs and $4.4 trillion in state and federal revenue.
The president's accomplishments in the field of energy policy are not limited to fossil fuels. His Energy Department recently committed $100 million to promoting Transformative Energy Projects intended to spur early-stage innovators. The department continues to promote alternative energy sources and energy conservation, important contributors to energy independence. Energy conservation in particular can go a long way toward making America energy-independent.
With the opening of new lands to fracking and conventional drilling and the restoration of mining in the Appalachian region, the energy sector has gone from moribund to robust practically overnight. One of the president's first actions was the elimination of the Steam Protection Rule, which imposed crippling burdens of regulation on the industry. As a result, production has begun to increase.
The president's accomplishments are many, but energy stands out. America is now the world's premiere producer of fossil fuels. In just one year, we have gone from a dismal future, in which the government planned to shut down fossil fuels almost entirely by mid-century, to a nation on the cusp of total energy independence. "Make America Great Again" was not just a clever campaign slogan; it is a reality in the field of energy production, as in so many other areas under President Trump."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/12/trumps_energy_success.html