The Saluda GOP gives Trump an A+ on this issue
America is the world’s number-one oil producer and the world’s number-one natural gas producer. We now make more oil than Saudi Arabia, more oil than Russia, and more oil and gas combined than those two countries put together.
In 2025 the United States set new production records again. That did not happen by accident, and it certainly did not happen because Washington chased a Green New Deal.
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The shale boom started with American workers and American technology. What a president can do is either get out of the way or put new walls in front of it. The Green New Deal approach was the obstacle: slow-walk federal leases, pause LNG exports, pile rules on power plants, and steer billions toward wind and solar while treating oil, gas, and coal like problems to phase out.
President Trump moved the country in the opposite direction. In his first term he cut permitting delays and helped lock in America’s rise to the top oil spot in 2018. In his second term he declared an energy emergency, opened more federal land, ended the LNG pause, rolled back power-plant climate rules, and stripped the Green New Deal subsidies that tilted the market against reliable American fuels.
That is the policy difference.
Private companies still drill most of the wells. Geology still matters. But dominance is not just barrels in the ground. It is whether the government treats American energy as a strength or a sin. Trump treated it as a strength. The Green New Deal crowd treated it as something to replace.
Result: record oil, record gas, record LNG exports, and America selling energy instead of begging for it. That is why Trump deserves much of the credit for turning “energy dominance” from a speech line into the actual scoreboard.
