{"id":22666,"date":"2017-02-04T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22666"},"modified":"2017-02-04T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T19:22:21","slug":"alternative-geologies-trumps-america-first-energy-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22666","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Geologies: Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First Energy Plan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/anoutsidechance.com\/2017\/02\/01\/alternative-geologies-trumps-america-first-energy-plan\/\">Alternative Geologies: Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First Energy Plan\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<header class=\"post-image\">\n<div class=\"fimg-wrapper fimg-cl\">\n<div class=\"featured-image\">\n<div class=\"fimg-inner\">\n<div class=\"backstretch\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.resilience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trump-issues-executive-order.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"backstretch\"><i>Donald Trump\u2019s official Energy Plan envisions cheap fossil fuel, profitable fossil fuel and abundant fossil fuel. The evidence shows that from now on, only two of those three goals can be met \u2013 briefly \u2013 at any one time.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"post-content\">While many of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201calternative facts\u201d have been roundly and rightly ridiculed, the myths in the America First Energy Plan are still widely accepted and promoted by mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>The dream of a great America which is energy independent, an America in which oil companies make money and pay taxes, and an America in which gas is still cheap, is fondly nurtured by the major business media and by many politicians of both parties.<\/p>\n<p>The America First Energy Plan expresses this dream clearly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Trump Administration is committed to energy policies that lower costs for hardworking Americans and maximize the use of American resources, freeing us from dependence on foreign oil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And further:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sound energy policy begins with the recognition that we have vast untapped domestic energy reserves right here in America. The Trump Administration will embrace the shale oil and gas revolution to bring jobs and prosperity to millions of Americans. \u2026 We will use the revenues from energy production to rebuild our roads, schools, bridges and public infrastructure. Less expensive energy will be a big boost to American agriculture, as well.<br \/>\n\u2013 www.whitehouse.gov\/america-first-energy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This dream harkens back to a time when fossil fuel energy was indeed plentiful and cheap, when profitable oil companies did pay taxes to fund public infrastructure, and the US was energy independent \u2013 that is, when Donald Trump was still a boy who had not yet managed a single company into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>To add to the \u201cflashback to the \u201950s\u201d mood, Trump\u2019s plan doesn\u2019t mention renewable energy, solar power, and wind turbines \u2013 it\u2019s all fossil fuel all the way.<\/p>\n<p>Nostalgia for energy independence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative Geologies: Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First Energy Plan\u201d Donald Trump\u2019s official Energy Plan envisions cheap fossil fuel, profitable fossil fuel and abundant fossil fuel. The evidence shows that from now on, only two of those three goals can be met \u2013 briefly \u2013 at any one time. While many of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201calternative facts\u201d have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14764,11879,11876,7844,2460,328,331,4548,588],"class_list":["post-22666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-america-first","tag-an-outside-chance","tag-bart-hawkins-kreps","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy-policy","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-fracking","tag-geology","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22667,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22666\/revisions\/22667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}