As the electricity prices over the US rise, partly thanks to stubborn efforts of Blue-State officials to dump fossil fuels, those climate-dentured voices will be drowned out by those of struggling consumers.
During the two decades from January 1985 to January 2005, electricity prices in the US rose by only 19%; In the next 20 years to January of this year, electricity prices exploded by more than 90%. This year the price per kilowatt hour has increased another 6%.
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In California, the trends are even worse, because residents of Golden State almost double pay the average costs in American people who live in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts pay much higher prices in the same way than the national average. Why the inequality? Because Democrat Runned States have deliberately shifted to expensive and unreliable renewable energy.
The generating station of Sherburne County is depicted in Becker, Minnesota. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
In New York, as governor, Andrew Cuomo Fracking forbade and forbade new pipelines to put much needed and cheaper natural gas into his state. New Jersey and other blue states promote comparable measures, while renewable energy sources such as offshore wind and solar energy are embraced that are intermittent and therefore need back -up, usually supplied by natural gas. This is not efficient and it is expensive.
In contrast to the BIDEN administration, the Trump -white house understands that will expand the demand for energy in the coming years, in particular thanks to AI and other new technologies, at a pace that will really require a “above” approach. That means not only increased oil and natural gas production, investments in solar energy and other renewable energy sources, but also more dependence on nuclear energy and – yes – for coal.
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President Barack Obama, Biden and other climatewarriors have waged war against coal for years, which today accounts for 15% of electricity production, compared to half of 2000. In 2016, the then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, claimed that her beautiful energy policy with the former First Dame of the First Dame was First-Dame, was a bone of the need for the need for the need for the need for the need for the need for the need for working lady was of the former First Dame. At the time there were around 70,000 miners in the US; Nowadays that has shrunk to 40,000.
President Donald Trump acknowledges that one of the largest assets in the United States, which improves our ability to compete in the next generation technology, is our abundant cheap energy and especially coal. The Energy Information Administration of the government wrote last year: “In the United States, coal sources are larger than remaining natural gas and oil sources.” Moreover, it reported that “from January 1, 2024, an estimated reserve base (DRB) contains 469 billion short tonnes of coal.”
The production of 2024 was just more than 500 million short tonnes, or less than half of the quantity produced in 2008. Roughly we can double the current coal output and produce hundreds of years at that level. That is not an asset that a government should ignore.
The Chinese would certainly not have such a reserve waste. While the US and Europe sacrifice with the use of cheap coal in favor of higher renewable energy sources in their search to reduce CO2 emissions, the Chinese build up coal-fired power plants as quickly as possible, the consequences for the environment.
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While China opens coal -fired power stations, the US has dropped ours. The White House will change that. The government is planning to do that spend $ 625 million, Including $ 350 million to modernize coal -fired power stations, $ 175 million for coal projects that focus on rural communities and around $ 100 million to make existing plants cleaner and more efficient. In general, the goal is to run more plants, including dozens that were planned to close.
This is not the first step of Trump’s White House to expand the role of coal in our energy system. In the spring, the president signed an executive order that instructed the head of the National Energy Dominance Council to designate coal as a “mineral”; The aim was to ‘streamline the permit’, a little more leasing and ultimately more production in general, and, in particular, in federal countries. The president also demanded that agencies reduce “barriers” to coal extraction and “withdraw the policy of the agency that wants to move the nation of coal production”.
Smoke and steam are rising from a coal processing factory in Hejin in the province of Shanxi in the center of China on November 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Olivia Zhang, File)
Wright told Bartiromo that, “We are going to export more of that coal, we are going to use it for American industry, especially because we make re -industrial, and it will continue to deliver 15% -16% of our electricity and enable us to re -industry and win the AI ​​race.”
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The Trump government is not only focused on coal. It also insists on higher oil and natural gax production, causing Biden’s slow rolling of drilling permits and leasing. Oil production has risen by around 3% this year, but that is just the beginning.
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In August, the Ministry of the Interior presented a new oil and gas offshore leasing plan with 30 auctions in the Gulf of America until 2040 and six auctions in Alaska’s Cook inlet until 2032. That is a far-off call of the Biden Administration plan, which had only planned a total of three oil and gas sale- the minimum of the inflation function. Biden rented less federal hectares for oil and gas than every president since the Second World War.
While China opens coal -fired power stations, the US has dropped ours. The White House will change that.
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Nuclear also gets a boost from Trump’s White House. In May, Trump initiated a ‘nuclear-renaissance’, which commissioned the nuclear regulatory committee to streamline the approval process for new reactors, including setting a new 18-month deadline for license decisions. The goal? Increase the American nuclear energy capacity from around 100 gigawatts to 400 gigawatts by 2050.
This “all the above” energy consumption program – which use the enormous energy sources of this country – is perhaps the greatest legacy of President Trump. We need energy to compete … and to make America great again.
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