The nation cannot continue forward without an abundant and reliable source of energy. Between our two political parties competing for leadership of the nation, there’s only one who could be considered serious about maintaining, securing and growing our supply of energy and that’s the Republicans.

That right there should be 75% of your basis for selecting who you support.

energy production is market driven

new recourses are hampered by gov regulations

It's not so much market that has screwed us. It's government policy. When Trump was president we were, for the first time I know of, energy independent. I'm not engaging in your semantics, E,

 It's not semantics, you are just wrong.  I showed the information you were looking at to over 100 people and not one human besides you could see a section where the US was energy independent as you defined it.  

 The problem is "Energy Independence" is almost exclusively measured in oil or gas.  This in itself is a bad strategy, and ignores in most cases that energy is a traded commodity globally.  

 Strategic Oil reserves are a bad measure if Trump is taken into account since they went down during his term no matter how much he lies about it.  695 million barrels when Trump began, 635 when he left.  Congress is partially at fault as they blocked the funding to ramp it up his last year, but as it stands Trump did not by measurable volume increase the SPR.  Biden was even worse for sure being the largest depleting factor ever.

 Webstermark is correct that energy should be a large component of one's election decisions.  Society goes nuts without electricity for a while.  The problem however is the using of simple metrics like "Green energy" or "Strategic Oil reserves" as a way to decide, when in most cases the politician is just lying about their contributions.

Energy independence under Trump is a giant lie, period.  Just look at actual data from valid sources.

You also have to consider chemistry too.  Light sweet crude vs sour crude.  The biggest importer to the US is Canada.  Yes Canada and not Saudi Arabia or the Middle East.  So it’s not like we are dependent on Middle East oil if that’s what bothers you.

We also have to look at what fracking is doing.  You don’t have to be a tree hugging climate change environmentalist to see its impact.  Recent earthquakes in the fracking region of Texas.  Much larger earthquakes than the area used to experience.

I do support using natural gas to produce electricity.  It’s relatively clean and efficient.

Neither party really influences anything in the energy market.  That would be a fairy tale about the tail wagging the dog.  

Neither party really influences anything in the energy market.  That would be a fairy tale about the tail wagging the dog.


 Exactly.  The claims are used to get votes, that's it.  

 When a human says Trump didn't increase the Oil reserves, then uses basic addition/subtraction math from kindergarten, Pro-Trump will whine and complain, but don't have evidence that any of that actually impacts US energy independence.

 When a human says Biden massively reduced Oil reserves, then uses basic addition/subtraction math from kindergarten, Pro-Biden will whine and complain, but don't have evidence that any of that actually impacts US energy independence.

 It's almost like Energy Policy as a whole is more important that what guy did what with one aspect of the global energy market.

 But no, lets just base everything on the Oil Reserves.
 

Neither party really influences anything in the energy market.  That would be a fairy tale about the tail wagging the dog.  


While it’s true we often incorrectly blame a particular party for influencing prices, they absolutely make a difference on energy, a huge difference. Unquestionably the Democrats position and enacted policy related to climate change greatly affects the energy markers.

I wasn’t saying you specifically, I was just saying in general it’s common practice to blame the other team when things go bad.

While it’s true we often incorrectly blame a particular party for influencing prices, they absolutely make a difference on energy, a huge difference. Unquestionably the Democrats position and enacted policy related to climate change greatly affects the energy markers.


 I guess my assessment is more along the lines of an entire energy market and not isolated aspect of just the US market.  Too many people want to look exclusively at oil when it's impact gets lower every year.  Lithium policy is a huge deal and pretty much the only time I hear anyone bring it up is when they are complaining about electric vehicles.