The Iran War Once Again Shows Why the Green Energy Movement is an Existential Threat to America’s Strength
President Trump’s takes have aged well. In 2020, the 47th leader to occupy the White House said Biden would be a Trojan horse for the far left, his statement couldn’t have been truer. The President’s prediction that mail-in voting would be a disaster and that the senile Biden administration wanted to destroy the fossil fuel industry are also just two more examples of when Trump was proven to be correct as well. One of the largest accomplishments achieved by Trump and his Republican allies in the President’s first term was making the US energy independent.
The so-called green energy movement, which has now effectively been destroyed in the US by Trump and the Republican Party, would not only have severely hurt a US economy that depends on this industry for jobs and growth, but this radical policy push also had the additional potential to severely undermine the country’s national security as well. Indeed, both the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the war with Iran show how critically important and valuable the fossil fuel industry is within the United States. While nearly 40 percent of China’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, and Japan has almost 90 percent of the country’s oil passing through this key waterway, America receives almost no oil from the Middle East, and the US is not directly impacted by the closing of this trade channel as well.
Even though obviously the US is impacted by higher oil prices, the American economy has also historically done better when energy prices are elevated, but not so high as to impact middle-class and low-income spending. This is why the two major wars the world has seen in the last 5 years show how absurd and nonsensical the green energy movement is. While Europe is begging Zelensky to turn on Russian energy supplies to the continent, and Japan’s prime minister is desperate to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, America’s position of energy independence puts this country in a position of power and leverage right now. While obviously, Trump does not want oil prices to skyrocket, the fact that the US does not depend at all on Middle Eastern oil is another reason why the President can conduct foreign policy without the kind of external constraints that nations that need energy from this region face.
Despite the fact that Biden cut deals on policy initiatives such as the Willow Project that increased oil production, the senile former President would likely have taken significant further actions to hurt the fossil fuel industry in his second term to appease the increasingly radical left-wing faction that controls the Democratic Party. The same mindset of the extremists whose ideology has effectively destroyed the European energy and hurt Europe’s slow-growth economy significantly would have likely eventually destroyed the fossil fuel industry in America if not for Trump winning in both 2016 and 2024. There is no hyperbole in saying that the President’s critically important two Presidential victories likely saved the fossil fuel industry.
Today, the EU remains one of the slowest-growing economic regions in the world, while the US economy remains the envy of the world. That fact persists in no small measure because of the strong and robust fossil fuel industry that only exists because of President Trump and the Republican Party. While Europe is on its knees begging for Russian oil and Asia is at the behest of Iran and Middle Eastern Oil, the US’s foreign policy and economic interests are beholden to no one. The Republican Party was right about the importance of the fossil fuel industry and the idea of energy independence. This current conflict is another reminder of that fact.
