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Trump’s Inflation Fix Centers on Energy Emergency That Doesn’t Exist | Economists and analysts aren’t convinced that an expansion of oil and gas production will lower consumer prices. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago

It's not meant to benefit consumers, it's meant to enrich fossil-fuel companies even more.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Especially when you consider they are forcing through a huge expansion of exports which will unequivocally make domestic prices higher.

Guess what: they never gave a single shit about prices.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Or they never cared about putting downward pressure on prices

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a false premise. Actual expansion of oil and gas production does lower those commodity prices, but policies/events so far raise them.

  • Maximizing strategic oil reserve holdings
  • LNG export infrastructure, especially if he can extort international customers to buy/divert from US consumption.
  • KSA vowing to invest $600B in US is a bribe to keep oil prices high. That enables funding their investment. KSA investments in past have been in non-oil industries.
  • Banning wind and EV adoption means more FF use/demand.
  • AI datacenters in US only, or massive funding for US ones, is more FF use.
  • unlikely but forced extra sanctions on Russian energy
  • possible regulation removal on capturing or even flaring NG from oil deposits would be aweful.

The false premise is that letting O&G pollute everything, doesn't make it "smart" for them to overproduce, and if they do drill more, than KSA/opec can ramp up production to take more share before they come online. Producing just enough extra to keep up with demand and $70+/barrel pricing is likely.

EVs globally are eating into oil demand. China has also converted many trucks/heavy vehicles to LNG. NG and coal demand in Europe down over 10% in 2024. Peace in Ukraine would be the most significant drop in oil/diesel use foreseeable.