Trump's Historic Energy Speech

[Note: This piece is also published at the Daily Caller]

As a person who spent 40 years doing policy and government affairs work in the oil and gas industry, I’ve always paid close attention to what presidential nominees of both parties have to say – or not say – about energy in their acceptance speeches. The vast majority of the time, it’s been much more about what they didn’t say.

Many such speeches since I first started paying attention to such things in 1980 (Reagan and Carter) said literally nothing at all on the topic. Most other nominees limited energy-related talk to a sentence or two.

In most election years, energy and its costs are just not a top-of-mind topic for most Americans. But that has all changed now in the wake of the Biden administration’s heavy focus on inflation-causing green subsidies and the rising public awareness of the central role mushrooming energy costs play in prices for groceries and every other aspect of their lives.