Trump believes that America’s massive oil and gas reserves will make it the world’s largest industrial power. Oil production has already reached record numbers in the 2020s.
14:15•Updated 14:22
47th President of the United States Donald Trump vowed yesterday in his inauguration speech to end the green transition. The actions from green to undress began on the same day that Trump was able to write his first presidential initiatives.
1. The United States out of the Paris Agreement
First, Trump withdrew the United States on the Paris Climate Agreement. Trump also withdrew from the agreement in his first term in 2017, but Pres Joe Biden brought the United States back under the agreement for the first time in 2021.
The Paris Climate Agreement agreed in 2015 has been signed by almost every independent country in the world. In addition to the United States, only Iran, Libya and Yemen will remain outside the agreement in the coming four-year period.
The parties to the Paris Agreement have committed to curbing global warming so that the rise in the global average temperature does not exceed 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial times. The critical threshold was breached for the first time last year.
2. In an “energy emergency” boost to fossil fuel production
In his inauguration speech, Trump envisioned that the United States will once again become the world’s largest industrial power, as it stands on top of huge oil and gas resources.
– Drill, baby, drill, Trump declared.
On his inauguration day, Trump signed the national initiatives energy emergency and about releasing energy.
According to Trump, US energy production is insufficient and the short-sighted policy of the previous government has led to higher consumer prices of energy. In his initiatives, Trump encourages new fossil energy projects.
During the Biden administration, the administration tried to curb the use and production of fossil fuels. However, the war in Ukraine increased the world market prices of oil and gas, also increasing US fossil fuel production to record readings.
Despite the efforts, the United States has been the world’s largest producer of crude oil since last year since 2018. And production growth will at least not be curbed in the next four years.
3. Full utilization of Alaska’s natural resources
After taking office, Trump signed initiatives aimed at promoting oil and gas production in Alaska and in US coastal waters.
According to the initiative, the United States intends to fully exploit Alaska’s vast lands and resources, such as energy, minerals and timber. Trump aims to increase the use of these natural resources, for example by speeding up the permitting process for energy and natural resource projects.
With the initiative, Trump orders the cancellation of several conservation measures in Alaska put in place by the Biden administration.
4. An end to the electrification of traffic
Trump’s plan is to save the US auto industry and ensure that Americans “can choose which car to drive”.
In practice, this happens by dismantling the incentives set by the Biden administration for the electrification of traffic and dismantling the emission standards set for the car industry.
At the beginning the abolition of subsidies favoring electric cars and “distorting the market” is proposed for consideration, as subsidies make driving with a combustion engine unreasonably expensive for individuals, companies and the state.
In addition to cars, the initiative wants to give Americans the freedom to choose, for example, between household appliances, regardless of their environmental friendliness.
5. Permit processing of wind turbines was suspended
In the name of an “energy emergency”, the permit bureaucracy for the construction of power plants, power lines and oil pipelines will be eased, but wind turbines Trump don’t want to seebecause they “disgrace the US national landscape”, and are an expensive form of energy production.
The president suspends the processing of permits for wind turbines and the leasing of state marine areas to power plants. Signing in the initiative Trump justifies the freezing of wind power projects by, for example, securing fishing.
Leasing of sea areas for oil drilling projects, for example, will continue.