We MUST Ensure that our Energy is ~~RUN and Protected by US!~~ Under control of ENEMY Countries!
-National Security Republicans!
this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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Gotta protect the oil and coal companies who continue to write me those checks. -- the orange Cheeto
I mean, he’s right to panic about the growth of cheap renewable energy as a threat to national security. The shrinking global demand for oil being sold in US dollars will decimate the ability of the US to impose economic sanctions on countries it doesn’t like. That will directly lead to less national security.
The problem is that while he can frustrate domestic demand to build this stuff, he can’t stop it globally, and building clean energy will continue exponentially. The oil decline is unstoppable, so the primary result of these actions will be to make the US further behind the energy future and economically disadvantaged on top of the petrodollar decline.
Ironically, starting a war with Iran seems to be quickening the global pace of EV sales and renewable energy adoption.
Yeah, but he did that so he could look cool in front of his crush, Netanyahu.
Trump loves it when multiple people ~~pay~~ bribe him for the same action.
The shrinking global demand for oil being sold in US dollars will decimate the ability of the US to impose economic sanctions on countries it doesn’t like. That will directly lead to less national security.
Isn't messing with other countries what leads to more threats to the US, aka less security?
The greatest threat to national security doesn’t come from the outside, it’s the people inside that aren’t onboard with the regime’s plans. The idea of threats from abroad results in the erosion of liberty at home under the guise of homeland security. We’re the ones they’re securing their homeland from.
It’s a very complicated picture in the details and you’re not wrong. I’m just pointing out that while invoking “national security” as a reason to deny windmills (that he openly hates even when not indebted to Big Oil’s $1B political contributions) sounds ludicrous at first, there is undoubtedly some twisted logic to the claim.
Fuck this guy, he is singlehandedly trying to stop energy independence in the U.S.
Oh wait, that's not what this is about. The orange bafoon is mad he can't control the global supply of oil anymore if renewable energy is the dominant energy source.
He got half a billion dollars from the oil industry. It was a good investment for them. Sure, it fucked over farmers, truckers and working class people but rich people got to get a lot richer and that's the most important thing.
Trump's recipe is to weaken the US globally. Meanwhile every other country in the world is building renewables as quickly as possible. The petro dollar is fucked, trump is a pedophile and a fucking idiot. We're losing a race we could easily dominate because half of the US to too fucking dumb to tie their shoes.
He's not an idiot, his family is making bank. When everything's fucked they can just leave.
Absolutely evil, but they are meeting their objectives. It's the true American way: "I got mine, fuck you"
If you read "national security" as a reason anywhere, you can read that as "bullshit". True for any administration.
They probably threw "think for the children" in for good measure
Russian national security.
I mean with oil so cheap whats the point of renewals. /s
good luck USA if they start having a Coal/Gas crisis.
If?
When!