Energy independence isn't ideology — it's leverage
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The Strait of Hormuz is mostly shut and oil is at $105 a barrel. The same people who called energy independence a fantasy, who killed pipelines, who told you the future was wind and solar and EVs — they have no answer right now. Mike's angle: not a told-you-so post, a math post. The US was producing more oil and gas than any country in history under Trump's first term. We had leverage. Then the other guys spent four years dismantling it. Now a conflict in the Middle East can send your gas bill to $4.52 overnight and there's nothing in the strategic reserve and the Energy Secretary is floating an 18-cent tax holiday. Button: energy independence isn't ideology. It's the difference between having options and having none.
America-first economics pillar, evergreen but sharpened by the current Iran/Hormuz news. Makes the structural argument Mike always makes — this isn't bad luck, it's a policy consequence. Hero_text for the longer build. Distinct from the gas-tax item above: that one is about the political response, this one is about the underlying policy failure. No story_id — evergreen framing, doesn't need to be pinned to one cluster.
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The Strait of Hormuz is mostly shut. Oil is at $105 a barrel. And the Energy Secretary's big solution is an 18-cent gas tax holiday. Eighteen cents. On a $4.52 gallon.
Here's the math they don't want to run on TV. Under Trump's first term, the United States was producing more oil and gas than any country in the history of the world. We were a net exporter. A conflict in the Middle East was a foreign policy problem, not a gas bill problem. We had options because we had output. Then four years of killing pipelines, freezing leases, and lecturing you about wind turbines. The strategic petroleum reserve got drained for a midterm election, not a war. And now a chokepoint ten thousand miles away sends your fuel costs through the roof and there is nothing left to release, nothing left to absorb the hit.
Energy independence was never about ideology. It was about this exact moment. The difference between having a lever to pull and sitting there watching the price ticker. We had the lever. They took it apart. That's the transaction. Take note.
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Oil at $105 and the answer is an 18-cent tax holiday. We built the leverage. They dismantled it. #energy #manufacturing #americafirst #maga
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