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Trump Is Most Consequential Energy President In US History
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Just eight months into his second presidency, a strong case can be made that President Donald Trump must now be considered the most consequential energy president in U.S. history. A convergence of major recent international events helps prove the case.
New Lloyd’s of London CEO Patrick Tiernan moved this week to scrap the net-zero policies invoked by his predecessor, an obvious concession to the sea change in energy and climate policy direction underway in the second presidency of Trump.
Lloyd’s previous CEO, John Neal, put in place policies requiring that participants in the Lloyd’s insurance market quit insuring energy projects that don’t conform to the net-zero goals laid out by the 2016 Paris Climate Accords by the year 2030. Neal further pledged to transform the entire Lloyd’s insurance market into a pure net-zero business model by 2050.
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“It is important that Lloyd’s remains apolitical,” Tiernan said of the company’s change in direction. “The 2050 targets are government targets. We operate in multiple jurisdictions under different governments with different targets. We have to operate under the policies and the laws of where we operate.”
Obviously, the policies and laws in the United States, the market in which so many Lloyd’s insurers maintain major interests, have undergone a seismic shift since Mr. Trump took office in January, a shift that seems destined to continue for at least the next 40 months, and possibly for years longer. Trump’s policy turnabout has had major impacts on the U.S. energy picture starting almost from his first day in office, and now the impacts are being felt internationally.
This move by Lloyd’s is far from the only recent signal that major changes are underway. Another bit of proof came from British major oil company Shell, which announced on Wednesday it will abandon its planned biofuels project in Rotterdam after a commercial and technical evaluation deemed it no longer competitive in a rapidly shifting marketplace. The facility was already under construction and would have become the largest biofuels plant on earth if completed.
Shell and its fellow UK-based major, BP, have both responded to the shifting direction of the net-zero globalist ambition by dramatically scaling back their renewables investments and reallocating capital back to their core oil and gas businesses in an effort to become more competitive with U.S. majors ExxonMobil and Chevron. It’s a race in which BP especially has fallen far behind and is now struggling to regain lost ground.
The Trump revolution has also had a big impact on wind developers that are majority owned by other governments, like Denmark’s Orsted and Norway’s Equinor. Equinor was forced in July to take a write down of almost $1 billion related to its U.S. offshore wind ventures in the face of the Trump administration’s multi-pronged assault on that sector, one of former President Joe Biden’s biggest energy-related ambitions.
Orsted, meanwhile, having failed to attract investors to assume big pieces of its own U.S. offshore projects, is now pursuing a $9.4 billion rights issue that constitutes roughly 70% of the company’s full current market value. Orsted’s U.S. struggles also complicate Equinor’s business planning since the Norwegian company owns 10% of its Danish competitor. Fortunately for Orsted, Equinor recently pledged to plow another $1 billion into the rights issue to maintain its ownership percentage; otherwise, Equinor would have seen its position significantly diluted.
Trump’s policy turnabout is also having major impacts on the international banking sector. In late August, the UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance announced it was pausing operations amid a flood of high profile members rushing to abandon the cause, leading to speculation that it will soon collapse entirely.
It wasn’t hard to see all these dramatic changes and many others coming once it became obvious the United States was changing its policy direction. America’s out-sized economy and consumer market have always given it out-sized influence on global events. That influence only becomes magnified when the Oval Office is held by a President with Donald Trump’s keen understanding of the power of leverage and the willingness to deploy it.
It all adds up to make President Trump without any question at all the most consequential energy policy president in U.S. history, both at home and abroad.
David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.
Stuart Kaplan on “Jesse Watters Primetime” discussing Kirks assassination [Screenshot/Fox News/”Jesse Watters Primetime”]
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By Hailey Gomez
Former FBI special agent Stuart Kaplan said Wednesday on “Jesse Watters Primetime” that the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk may have been a “professional hit.”
The 31-year-old TPUSA founder had been speaking with students at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, when he was shot and killed. While discussing a potential suspect the FBI had interrogated but later released, Fox’s Jesse Watters asked Kaplan for his reaction to the attack.
“You know, Jesse, I think this assassination, different than the assassinated attempt [against President Donald Trump] back in Butler, Pennsylvania, was a very well-planned, very well-orchestrated plot that was put in motion days before. This individual had a plan of escape to elude detection of being out up on a rooftop and also being able to evade and elude law enforcement after that shot was taken,” Kaplan said.
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“When you take a look at what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, [Thomas Matthew] Crooks came onto the venue, he left the venue, he came back, he was questioned. I mean, it was really an amateur scenario,” Kaplan added. “This assassination of Charlie Kirk, to me, is indicative of a professional hit, and I’m not so sure that we are going to quickly be able to apprehend this individual without some luck, hopefully.”
Kirk had regularly gone on college campuses to debate students on their political stances, with thousands in the Utah crowd eager to see the TPUSA founder. About 20 minutes after Kirk had been debating with a student, a shot rang out, hitting Kirk and ultimately killing him.
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A university spokesperson told the Daily Caller that the shot came from a building about 200 yards away. Following the attack, FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X that a subject was captured and being interrogated, but the subject was later released.
Watters went on to ask Kaplan what he meant by “professional hit,” asking if he believes anybody with “any sort of basic training” could have carried out the attack.
“Well, when you take a look at the video and you take a look at the venue and the spectators and how close they are to Charlie Kirk, and then you have that kind of umbrella over him, that kind of tent, you have to know that this shooter had to be perched in a position with respect to being able to lay his sights perfectly, basically a headshot,” Kaplan said. “The shot that was taken was taken to immediately incapacitate Charlie Kirk. So this was not some amateur who just got up on a rooftop because it was what I consider spontaneous combustion. He got up this morning and decided he was going to do something crazy.”
“This seems the earmark of a professional that got up onto this rooftop well in advance of the venue being occupied by the spectators. He was clearly undetected,” Kaplan said. “There was no indication that anybody saw him up on this rooftop. Obviously, after that one single shot was taken, he was able to basically very quietly and systematically elude any further detection and escape. There’s been no indication that there’s a vehicle identified or any mode of how he actually escaped the venue. So to me, this is someone who had some experience, some level of sophistication to have mapped out exactly how this was going to go down.”
In Patel’s most recent post on X as of Wednesday evening, the FBI director said the “subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement.” Patel added that the FBI’s investigation will continue and that it will further “release information in interest of transparency.”
Kirk is survived by his wife Erika and their two young children.
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President Donald Trump delivered a somber address Wednesday night following the assassination of Turning Point Founder Charlie Kirk.
Kirk, 31, died after being shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University. Trump opened his national address with a message of grief and fury, mourning the assassination of Kirk and praising him as a fearless patriot who championed free speech and American ideals.
“To my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah. Charlie inspired millions, and, tonight, all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror,” Trump said. “Charlie was a patriot who devoted his life to the cause of open debate and the country that he loved so much, the United States of America. He fought for liberty, democracy, justice, and the American people.”
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Trump offered prayers for Kirk’s family, urging the nation to pray for them during what he called a “terrible hour of heartache and pain.”
“Our prayers are with his wife, Erika, the two young, beloved children, and his entire family who he loved more than anything in the world. We ask God to watch over them in this terrible hour of heartache and pain,” Trump said. “This is a dark moment for America. Charlie Kirk traveled the nation, joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good faith debate. His mission was to bring young people into the political process, which he did better than anybody ever, to share his love of country and to spread the simple words of common sense.”
“He championed his ideas with courage, logic, humor, and grace. It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible,” Trump said. “For years, those on the American left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”
Trump vowed swift justice for those behind Kirk’s assassination and other acts of political violence.
“My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country,” Trump said. “From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others.”
An unidentified gunman shot and killed Kirk while speaking to students in a campus courtyard, with authorities saying the shot came from an elevated position roughly 200 yards away. Officials believe the gunman fired from a rooftop and described the suspect only as wearing dark clothing.
Surveillance footage captured a figure near the scene, but investigators said the video was too grainy to make a positive identification. Authorities are still working to determine the shooter’s identity and motive.
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