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In January 2021, when President Joseph R. Biden Jr. became president, the United States was still "energy independent" even though domestic crude oil production had declined to 10,900,000 barrels of crude oil per day from its 13,100,000 peak. As demand recovered from the pandemic, the United States lost its "energy independence" until it ...
The United States Department of Energy is tasked with developing technology for better and more efficient energy sources as well as energy education. Trump chose Rick Perry to head the department, who had called for eliminating it when he was running for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. [ 33 ]
In 2019, the United States became a net energy exporter for the first time since the 1950s. That means in terms of all forms of energy—oil, gas, coal, refined products and so on—the United ...
The Energy Information Administration, a federal office that tracks energy statistics, found that in 2019 — when Trump was president — the United States became a net exporter of overall energy ...
The only other alternative would be to initiate a "catastrophic recession," Rapidan Energy Group president Bob McNally told Bloomberg TV. "At $1.50 a gallon, US shale oil, i.e., energy dominance ...
On June 1, 2017, then-President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would cease participation in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, agreed to under the President Barack Obama administration. [41]
One irony is that fossil fuel firms have done better under Biden than they did under Trump. During Trump’s four years in office, the average profit margin of the energy sector was an awful -0.6% ...
In his first speech as President-elect, Trump vowed to "begin the urgent task of rebuilding" the United States of America. [ 15 ] [ 2 ] Trump presented an infrastructure plan to Congress in February 2018, with $200 billion in federal funding and projected it would result in $1.5 trillion of investments from the private sector. [ 16 ]