"Frosty the Snowman" apparently endorses and responded to President Trump’s issuance of sweeping executive orders reversing Democrat climate alarm-driven anti-fossil energy policies immediately upon taking office.
The very next day Houston recorded 4 inches of snowfall, the most witnessed here since February 1960.
Simultaneously, 10 inches of snow set a New Orleans record since 1895, with 7.5 inches in Mobile, Alabama and 6.5 inches in Pensacola, Florida setting all-time records.
As the returning president declared during his Monday inauguration speech, "America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth . . . and we are going to use it."
Trumpian edicts are sending deep freeze warnings to pandering U.N. member countries that use climate blame tactics for American wealth redistribution, to global oil rich competitors and adversaries with free passes to ignore restrictions, and to domestic rent seeking green energy industries who will see their subsidy gravy trains turn rancid.
Paris Climate Panic Withdrawal Pains
Declaring a "national energy emergency" to reverse many of the Biden-era environmental regulations, the president has outlined a life raft of changes that will reverse U.S. climate regulations and boost oil and gas production.
Central among these, we can safely bet that Trump’s "Drill, Baby Drill" priorities will give elite participants at the World Economic Forum’s gabfest in Davos, Switzerland that began last Tuesday plenty to talk about, most particularly renewing his vow to withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 Paris climate agreement for the second time.
Referring to the Paris agreement as a "rip-off" during a speech at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., the withdrawal plan echoes his 2017 statement that he had been elected to "represent the people of Pittsburgh and not Paris."
Trump said he expects the orders to help reduce consumer energy prices and improve U.S. national security, by expanding domestic supplies and also bolstering allies.
Fulfilling Rapidly Increasing Energy Needs
President Trump promised inaugural audiences, "We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world. . . We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it."
Huge amounts of that liquid gold must be made available just to meet huge electricity demands of new U.S. data center developments which are projected to double or even triple in the next three years, consuming as much as 12% of the country's power to fuel artificial intelligence and other technologies.
Trump underscored this need in announcing a joint venture artificial intelligence partnership involving OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank to spur U.S. technology leadership, most particularly in a race against China.
The new entity named "Stargate" will begin building massive data centers along with electricity generation to support them in Texas with an initial investment of $100 billion, and potentials for five times that amount.
Releasing America’s Abundant Fossil Energy Advantage
President Trump pledges to reduce consumer energy prices and improve U.S. national security, by expanding domestic supplies and bolstering allies.
In doing so he is committed to restoring U.S. energy independence achieved during his first term which includes expanding and expediting permits for drilling and pipeline projects, easing environmental restrictions on power plants, and speeding up construction of new ones.
Accordingly, one of his first executive orders repealed former President Joe Biden’s last-ditch efforts to block oil drilling in the Arctic and along large areas off the U.S. coasts just ahead of Trump’s return to the Oval Office.
Trump also negated a 2023 Biden memo that barred oil drilling in some 16 million acres in the Arctic.
In addition, Trump promises to boost global markets and revenues through exports of U.S. crude oil and liquid natural gas, while refilling the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve depleted by the Biden administration to the lowest level in 40 years to drop gasoline pump prices ahead of elections.
Thawing Biden’s LNG Freeze
Another important Trump executive order resumed processing of permit applications for new liquified natural gas (LNG) projects paused by the Biden White House early last year after the U.S. had set a record in 2023 as the world's largest exporter of the product.
According to the Department of Energy, U.S. LNG exports are expected to double by the end of the decade.
Revoking Costly EV Mandate Madness and Windy Fantasies
Capping costly government overreach premised on climate craziness, President Trump has revoked a 2021 executive order issued by his predecessor essentially mandating that half of all new vehicles sold in the United States by 2030 are electric, while also freezing $5 billion previously authorized for charging stations.
Trump’s order states that his administration should consider "the elimination of unfair subsidies and other ill-conceived government-imposed market distortions that favor EVs over other technologies" which clearly include wind projects.
Commenting that "We're not going to do the wind thing. Big, ugly windmills. They ruin your neighborhood," his executive action suspends offshore wind leasing from all areas of the outer continental shelf pending an environmental and economic review.
Big hurrahs are warranted for Donald Trump and Frosty Snowman who are finally bringing cool gusts of sanity to such overheated climate and energy boondoggles.
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture and the graduate space architecture program. His latest of 12 books is "Architectures Beyond Boxes and Boundaries: My Life By Design" (2022). Read Larry Bell's Reports — More Here.
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