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“Drill, Baby, Drill”: Will Donald Trump Still Get Too Much Oil in America?

Drill, baby, drill. » Trump’s campaign slogan was clear and his announcements during his inauguration reinforced our fears: the new president of the United States wants to intensify the exploitation of American underground fossil resources. But can Trump really implement this disastrous policy for the global climate? Are reserves sufficient?

During his inauguration, Donald Trump declared that the country was in a state of flux. National Energy Emergency “a decision aimed at” BoosterBooster » Exploitation and production of hydrocarbons in the area. We expected no less from the new president of the United States, who immediately announced that he was once again pulling the country out of the Paris climate accords and imposing restrictions on the development of renewable energies.

The amount of crude oil produced has already been breaking records for several years.

In his inaugural address, Trump highlighted the fact that the US There is something that no other nation will have, its greatest quantity The oilThe oil And of GazGaz From all countries of the world […] We will be a rich nation again and that is gold. liquidliquid under our feet that will help us. » A speech that goes against all the recommendations issued by climate experts.

In fact, the desire to unleash its exploitation HydrocarbonsHydrocarbons Despite the Biden administration’s desire to promote a carbon-free energy transition, the policy has been in place in recent years. The graphs are clear, the country’s crude oil production has indeed continued to rise in recent years. As of 2018, the United States has been the world’s largest producer, ahead of Russia and Saudi Arabia. The country has never produced as much crude oil as it does now and is breaking new records year after year. But can this mad dash last much longer? What about the state of hydrocarbon reserves in the US underground?

Actual reserves are very difficult to estimate, but they are very large.

It is important to recognize that estimating the total amount of hydrocarbons that are still usable is very complex. The data given is obtained from existing known and exploited reserves. However, the continued evolution of extraction techniques, but especially the identification of new reserves, particularly those called “unconventional”, have recently increased the amount of proven reserves. In 2022, available hydrocarbon resources are estimated to reach historical records.

Although one might expect that increasingly intensive exploitation would be associated with a decline in reserves, the exact opposite is occurring. And this is mainly due to the discovery of huge reserves of gas and oil. Thus, shale gas reserves in the United States were estimated at 23,304 billion cubic meters in 2007.3. In 2021, they increase to 393,779 billion meters.3. Revised estimate… 1,590%! For shale oil, the increase is even more spectacular. It has reached 2,005 percent in 2023 compared to 2007.

So of course, since hydrocarbons are not renewable energy, there will come a time when all these reserves will dry up. But at present it is difficult to predict when this will happen. In the Marcellus Basin of Pennsylvania alone, according to current estimates, gas wells may be exploited until 2075 or 2100!

Donald Trump will not hesitate to sacrifice national parks and biodiversity to satisfy his donors.

Many arguments invite Trump to fully open the floodgates without the least concern for the effects of such a policy on the climate. It does not seem that the new president wants to limit himself to the already exploited reserves. He plans to expand the exploitation of Alaska’s underground reserves and particularly the protected natural area of ​​the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The region is one of the last intact ecosystems in the United States, and the president’s speech raised fears that it could be destroyed. Threats thus hang over many U.S. natural parks and refuges. WildlifeWildlife And flora, because that’s about it. LandsLands Federal that the government can lease to exploit its hydrocarbon reserves, as described in this article. 20 minutes.

However, permitting drilling in these natural reserves will require more than a simple order. So we can only hope that the US Congress will stop this ridiculous and dangerous proposal. Legally, in order to affect the protected areas, the Trump administration would have to actually justify that there is an “emergency” to deregulate hydrocarbon production to the extent that the country’s current leadership states. I will not be clear.

Trump’s first day’s orders reveal all we need to know about his administration’s allegiancesGreenpeace Condemns Deputy Director of US Climate Program The Guardian. They reflect the preferences of his major donors, not the American people. Let’s remember that the oil and gas industry donated more than $75 million to Donald Trump’s campaign.

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