“Drill Baby Drill” and Low Gas Prices Are Quietly Proving the Skeptics Wrong

The Trump Administration’s Bold Move in Alaska

Last week the Trump administration made a move that will echo across the energy world for decades to come: opening up 82 percent of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve for drilling. Insiders are signaling that this is a clear sign the green dreamers and globalists will spend the entire 2nd Trump Presidency on the outside looking in.

Washington politicians had become content, since Bush I, to treat Alaska like a museum exhibit and a political football. They locked up land that was never meant to be untouchable wilderness, but rather a reserve set aside for this very purpose: fueling the nation. Doug Burgam was quoted as saying:

“Congress was clear: the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska was set aside to support America’s energy security through responsible development…

We’re restoring the balance and putting our energy future back on track.”

By opening up Alaskan oil production  from layers of red tape and opening the door to real development, Trump, Burgum and their team are putting American workers back at the center of America’s energy focus. Oil rigs are now certain to go up and  new jobs will be the result.

On the consumer side, drivers continue to see prices at the pump remain stable, if not lower, through months that historically see increases due to demand.

Typically, families on road trips, vacation flights, and extra shipping volume usually create the perfect storm of higher costs. But not this year. Industry analysts have already called this the cheapest summer at the pump since before Biden took office. And while OPEC production and soft demand are part of the equation, it’s Trump’s steady hand on U.S. energy that ensures Americans aren’t vulnerable to foreign shocks or manufactured scarcity.

Of course, critics are already lining up. Environmental groups are once again screaming about polar bears and caribou migration corridors, giving their dwindling audience the illusion of a false choice between thriving wildlife and stable energy production. The same groups never complain when oil is purchased from hostile nations that operate with a small fraction of the environmental regulations still present in the U.S. Their true fear that Trump’s energy strategy just may work and the sky will not fall in the process. In fact, what the early returns show is more prosperity and increased supply of domestic produced oil and gas.

And prosperity is exactly what Americans are feeling heading into Labor Day.

It’s important to note that Alaska isn’t just another oil patch. It’s one of the most resource-rich regions on Earth, holding enough reserves to keep American production booming for decades. By opening it up now, the Trump Administration is executing a strategy that goes beyond today’s headlines, but is intended to create long term energy security. And so far they’re getting their way, while the mainstream press and Trump’s political rivals are focusing on other fights, mainly immigration.

With the cover of major distractions on other fronts, as important as they may be, the administration has been able to sideline, perhaps permanently, the short-sighted, ideologically driven policies we endured under Biden, where the only strategy was to kneecap domestic production and go hat in hand to OPEC.

Trump, Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright have made the clear choice that drilling in Alaska is the future and relying on Iran, Saudi Princes and even the communists in South America will be past tense for a generation or two if they execute domestic energy production so effectively that the next administration will be unable to abandon it without destroying their political futures in the process.

The critics will keep howling, but the truth is undeniable. Alaska drilling means American strength. And that’s why we’re winning.