Stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from renewable energy and efficiency initiatives is part of a broader move to undo efforts to wean the United States off fossil fuels.
Stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from renewable energy and efficiency initiatives is part of a broader move to undo efforts to wean the United States off fossil fuels.
There is still dependence on imports because the “oil liquids” that extract in the US are different from the oil that they want locally. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54199
There’s also dependence on the petro-dollar. This one is more complicated, but if the world demand for oil drops, it’s going to make USD less valuable.