President-Elect Trump’s Climate/Energy Policy: 100-Day Action Plan a Good Start

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 7, 2024 No Comments

Ed. Note: This post was originally posted on January 19, 2017, with Donald Trump on deck to take the Presidency.

“Good news indeed! Energy cuts are easy cuts compared to the hard budget choices that lie ahead in the transition from statism and stagnation to a vibrant, coordinated, expanding entrepreneurial economy.”

Rome is not burning, but Joe Romm at Climate Progress is. “Will Trump go down in history as the man who pulled the plug on a livable climate?” he writes, with the subtitle, “The fate of humanity is in the hands of a denier who pledged to kill domestic and global climate action and all clean energy research.”

Really, Joe?

But Romm goes on to (usefully) report:

The Australian journalist Graham Readfearn notes that while you can’t find Trump’s original “100 day action plan” for energy and climate on the campaign website anymore, “it was archived by Wayback Machine”.

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Trump for President: AEA Endorsement

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 31, 2024 No Comments

“If given a second term, I have no doubt you will pursue and achieve numerous additional victories for the American people, including reducing the size and influence of the federal government in our daily lives, maintaining our status as the number one energy producer in the world, reducing the involvement of the federal government in energy markets, and preserving our ability to choose the types of cars and trucks that best suit our needs. In other words, your energy agenda will return those decisions to consumers, families, and businesses.” – Tom Pyle, American Energy Alliance (below)

The American Energy Alliance is the advocacy arm of the Institute for Energy Research, a principled educational nonprofit in favor of voluntary transactions between consenting adults, which means a free market in energy anchored on private property rights and the rule of law.…

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The Party For Socialism and Liberation (another Left choice for the U.S. election)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 24, 2024 3 Comments

“The climate catastrophe demonstrates the disastrous self-interest of the capitalist class. To avoid excessive warming, as well as the many severe environmental threats produced by capitalism, it is necessary to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy.” (PSL, below)

Previous posts at MasterResource have examined the energy platforms of the Democrat Party, Green Party, and Cornel West for President. On the free-market side, summaries have been provided for the GOP Platform, American Petroleum Institute, and Heritage Foundation/Agenda 25, and America First Policy Institute (AFPI, a think tank in the Trump fold). Today’s post turns again to the interventionist/socialist view of energy and climate.

The Party For Socialism and Liberation (PSL). “For the planet to live capitalism must end,” states the website banner. The “About” section reads:

The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.

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Democratic Platform 2024: Energy and Climate

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 10, 2024 1 Comment

“To tackle the climate crisis, lower energy costs, and secure energy independence….” (General Preamble)

Kamala “climate light” Harris, as a campaigner, will not say that climate change is an “existential crisis” (much less yell it as the alarmists want). Harris rebuffs the notion that she would ban hydraulic fractionation with natural gas, reversing her previous pronouncements. She also states that electric cars (EVs) will not be mandated for drivers, backing away from a Biden Administration goal. Finally, Harris speaks little about the Green New Deal in general.

She is trying to get elected in the face of energy exceptionalism, which is the opposite of the Green New Deal. But her vagueness allows the major themes of ’24 Democratic Party Platform to be controlling.

The energy/climate narrative in the 91-page document does not include energy in Chapter Three: Lowering Costs.…

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America First, Energy First (AFPI on energy)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 24, 2024 No Comments Continue Reading

The Department of Interior (Project 2025)

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Energy & Environmental Review: August 5, 2024

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AEA: Kamala Harris on Energy

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 26, 2024 3 Comments Continue Reading

Exit the UN Climate Treaty–Again!

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Climate Policy vs. Social Justice (‘Bloomberg Green’ decries rollbacks)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 21, 2024 1 Comment Continue Reading