That is actually not it at all. Drill baby Drill is from Sarah Palin in 2008 when she was running for President. Its not a throw back, its a push to become the leading exporter of Natural gas, Petroleum and Crude oil. If you have gold under your feet why do you need to borrow from other countries.
At the end of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit on 14 February, the two countries issued a joint statement that “reaffirmed” the US would be “a leading supplier of crude oil and petroleum products and liquified natural gas to India”.
A few days after Trump’s inauguration, South Korea, the world’s third largest liquified natural gas importer, has hinted its intention to buy more American oil and gas aimed at reducing a trade surplus with the US and improving energy security, international media have reported from Seoul.
Officials with Japan’s largest power generator, JERA, have told Reuters they too want to increase purchases of liquified natural gas from the US to diversify supply, as it currently imports half of it from the Asia-Pacific region."
so a “political soundbite” to play on “populist rhetoric and nostalgia to the “good old days” when the US was the world’s biggest oil producer in the 50s and 60s” then? not realizing, of course, that horizontal drilling became fairly mainstream in the year or 2 following that campaign, and we now produce, on average, 3 million barrels / day more than our next closest competitor, and largely set the marginal price of crude around the world. and yet the ev transition marches on. even you chose to bite the bullet and bury yourself tens of thousands negative in a tesla.
Horizontal drilling and fracking are the reason we are the largest producer. I believe the prior admin tried to ban both of those…which means a slogan of drill baby drill would be a return to Horizontal and Fracking. Which also works in the soft oil sand in Canada. ie:Keystone pipeline. No 50-60’s mentioned at all
When Joe Biden was elected President of the United States, it seemed that America was ready to leave oil and gas behind to embark on a green transition ahead of itsgoalof reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. Among his pledges to enact sweeping new climate legislation and end the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, Bidenannounced a fracking banon federal land. Little did he know that an unforeseen invasion of Ukraine would spark a global energy crisis. As the world faces oil and gas shortages and western governments scramble for alternative suppliers, the White House is taking a big step back on the fracking ban.
