What will a Trump or Harris administration mean for energy policy? Trump has promised to reverse course and reassert a fossil fuel-centric posture. Harris has promised to build upon Biden’s clean energy industrial policy legacy. What comes next will have enormous implications for the world.

What will a Trump or Harris administration mean for climate and energy policy?



by mafco

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  2. Electing Trump will lead to worse climate change outcomes, while lining the pockets of the ultra rich.

  3. I mean, Trump is promising to increase production of oil, but it’s not clear why companies would over-produce and flood the market.

  4. Ignoring green energy is at our own risk as these are jobs that employ USA workers that can’t be outsourced for installing, servicing and repairing solar systems, wind turbines, geothermal plants and much more. We need to produce more solar here in the states and lead the green sector or we will be losing out to manufacturing from china and overseas. We are also at the highest oil and ng output which although great for these oil companies profits it doesn’t lower prices for Americans as oil and natural gas is traded on the world market.
    https://www.power-technology.com/news/report-claims-that-republican-states-benefitting-most-from-ira/

  5. Trump’s promise to fire/remake the federal workforce will delay permit approval even for projects his donors support.

  6. How would he “reassert a fossil fuel centric posture?” We are producing more oil and gas now than ever before, all while developing other energy infrastructure through the Inflation Reduction Act and the Biden Infrastructure Bill.

    No matter who wins… we are still going to be producing oil and gas as the market dictates. The president does not have much to do with that.

    If Trump is elected, I wouldn’t expect the same level of effort to develop other energy infrastructure the way the Biden admin has.

    If you are for energy (all), Harris is the candidate. IMHO

  8. I’m simply glad we’re past the economic tipping point that neither of them will be able to prevent further progress.

    I believe Harris will encourage progress, and Trump will slow progress, but regardless of either, the market has spoken and will continue to speak.

    The full electrification of the world is well underway.

  10. Unlikely. Well simply get left behind. There’s no putting renewables back in a box now that they’re cheaper . 

  11. Trump will only do what is good for Trump and his wallet. Musk is pushing solar and electric so Trump will back him up with tax credits, etc. Musk will spend billions promoting Trump in return. The Trump spawn are already setting up deals for Trump in the old Soviet Balkan countries in anticipation of a win. The US already pumps and ships more oil than ever before so Trump can’t really expand it.

  12. It will have no implications if we do nothing, except save taxpayer money. Stop thinking that you can fix mother nature, when the USA makes up only 4% of earth. China and the other countries still burn trash and have coal generated electricity. We are not making at dent.

  14. We currently produce more oil than ever before and production has only increased. Energy production of ALL kinds has skyrocketed in recent years

  15. I expect that Harris will most likely continue Biden’s policy that has resulted in ambitious record breaking amounts of drilling, or she’ll at least work to maintain a very robust rate.

    As for the old man, he talks a big game about everything. However while he was in office his energy industry whims lead to the closing of 300 rigs, multiple companies closing their doors and hundreds of thousands of oil employees laid off or fired

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