January 22, Washington: “We will drill, baby, drill,” President Trump said in his inaugural address on Monday. “We have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have – the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it. We’re going to use it.”
Donald Trump has promised to cut Americans’ energy costs in half within a year and he claimed removing all restraints on drilling for “liquid gold” will achieve this, even though the US is already producing oil a ND gas than any other country in history.
Climate treaties, wind energy, and electric vehicles are not part of this vision, with Trump signing orders to ditch or stymie them. Scientists say the world must urgently move away from fossil fuels to avoid the ever-worsening impacts of the climate crisis, as evidenced by last year being the hottest ever recorded and Los Angeles suffering ruinous wildfires.
It was a good day, though, for the fossil fuel executives who poured tens of millions of dollars into Trump’s election campaign. Some celebrated a few blocks away from the inauguration in Washington at a party where they sipped champagne and nibbled on pastries with Trump’s face on them.
The priorities of Trump’s first term are now explicit. “These performative acts show the pervasive influence that the fossil fuel industry will have in the United States over the next four years,” former vice president.
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