US EditionIran War Highlights Risks of Trump’s Crusade Against Wind, Solar
Trump’s fossil fuel priority blocked clean energy expansion, leaving U.S. vulnerable to supply shocks as gas prices near $4 per gallon, experts say.
- On Wednesday, crude oil prices topped $100 a barrel and the national average gasoline reached about $3.84 per gallon as Iran's attacks effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz, a key global oil route.
- Trump shifted policy last year to prioritize oil and other fossil fuels, reversing Biden-era climate measures and fast-tracking permits and tax breaks for drilling while blocking dozens of clean-energy projects.
- Peter Gleick, climate scientist and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, warned "The biggest short-term losers of the war will be U.S. consumers of oil and gas, as energy prices rise." Tyson Slocum, energy director at Public Citizen, added fossil fuels "have their own supply risks."
- At Dover Air Force Base on Wednesday, Matha "Jeannie" Sasnett, commander of Air Force Mortuary Affairs, attended the casualty return for six crew members killed in a refueling-plane crash in Iraq. Trump called the conflict a "very small price to pay."
- President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats approved nearly $375 billion to boost clean energy, yet Trump promised to cut energy bills while presiding over spikes in electric costs as fossil-fuel reliance persists.
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Iran war highlights risks of Trump’s crusade against wind, solar
When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he launched a crusade to shift the country away from renewable energy, drastically undoing the climate-friendly policies of his Democratic predecessor to focus instead on oil and other fossil fuels as the answer to his goal of American energy dominance.But the war in Iran is underscoring the risks of that approach.
Why experts say the Iran war underscores risks of Trump's all-in focus on oil
As crude oil prices rise above $100 a barrel and gasoline prices surge toward $4 a gallon, Trump's strategy of blocking clean energy such as wind and solar power has left Americans with fewer alternative energy sources and thus more vulnerable to supply shocks caused by the war, experts say.
Time is not on Trump’s side as he risks presidency 'crashing to earth'
The war with Iran is eroding President Donald Trump's ability to "defy political gravity," according to a new analysis from the Economist, but he will only become more dangerous as his second term is brought "crashing to earth."In a piece published Thursday, The Economist outlined how Trump's "ill-judged, heedless war against Iran" was a situation "precisely engineered to intercept the trajectory of his presidency," presenting a major impediment…
"The biggest short-term losers of the war will be American consumers of gasoline and gas, as energy prices rise," said Peter Gleik, a climatologist and co-founder of the Pacific Institute, a non-profit organization on global sustainability.
When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he launched a crusade to move the United States away from renewable energy, drastically reversing the climate-friendly policies of his Democratic predecessor to focus instead on oil and other fossil fuels in response to his goal of achieving U.S. energy dominance.
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