
Trump, to the surprise of nobody with an IQ over 80, is a moron. The fact is that petroleum is a finite resource, and our ability to come up with increasingly expensive ways to find and extract it does not change the fact that we will, within 50 years, run out of exploitable petroleum deposits. We can either subsidize sustainable energy research and development AND IMPLEMENTATION with our current energy grid RIGHT NOW, or we can suffer “cheap energy” withdrawal pains with the rest of the world when petroleum gets too expensive to use. Think oil can’t hit $700/bbl? When the entire world needs oil, but only Iran and Russia have it, what do you think America will pay for oil? I would prefer to develop sustainable energy solutions NOW and not have to find out how much America will pay for oil, so that by then we won’t need it.