The Return of the Energy Weapon

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Unlike the production of fossil fuels, which depends on the good fortune of geology, manufacturing capacity can be ramped up in most places. For those reasons, on energy security grounds alone, the United States should reconsider its current retreat from policies that seek to modernize and expand the electric grid and to develop more domestic clean energy generation and manufacturing.

To be truly energy secure, particularly at a time of rapidly rising demand, the United States should invest not just in its own oil and gas sector but also in solar and wind power, batteries, electric vehicles, critical minerals, nuclear fuels, and other energy technologies, while in parallel diversifying energy supply chains. Given that oil is still priced in a volatile global market, reducing the country’s exposure to energy shocks and more overt weaponization means not just producing more but, even more important, using less.

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