Donald Trump Knows Less About Energy Than Sarah Palin Does. Let That Sink In

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Donald Trump Knows Less About Energy Than Sarah Palin Does. Let That Sink In


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Donald Trump did another Serious Policy Speech Thursday, which is different from a regular Donald Trump speech because his completely batshit idiocy is read off a teleprompter, interspersed with off-the cuff Trumpisms about how terrible our problems are and how smart his solutions will be. At an oil industry conference in Bismarck, North Dakota, Trump laid out “his” energy policy, which, much like “his” foreign policy speech a while back, was a random collection of Republican talking points in outline form, plus a bunch of dumb lies. And at one point, random praise of the National Rifle Association, because of course an important part of his energy strategy is preventing Hillary Clinton from repealing the Second Amendment.

The big takeaway from the speech is that America needs to be burning a whole lot more fossil fuels, because even though oil and coal prices are dropping due to good old market pressures, Donald Trump is sure those industries are actually being regulated to death by Barack Obama. As Vox rather enjoyed pointing out:

The United States is currently the largest producer of petroleum and natural gas in the world, thanks in part to the massive fracking boom that’s been taking place around the country since the 2000s:

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But to hear Trump tell it, we’re barely producing anything at all. He wants more — much more. On his first day in office, Trump said, “American energy dominance will be declared a strategic, economic, and foreign policy goal of the United States,” he said. “It’s about time!” To boost production, Trump would do away with the EPA and rescind every regulation that keeps us from drilling all the wells — even though, as everyone from the New York Times to Timmy Johnson’s (Age 10) N-er-G Newsletter points out that the biggest problem the American oil industry faces at the moment is a worldwide supply glut and price crash, thanks to all the fracking in the USA and the Saudis pumping more oil.

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