Arweave TX
Oh, fantastic. Yet another “national emergency” declared for something that isn’t actually an emergency at all, just an excuse to bulldoze every environmental safeguard, hand obscene amounts of power to corporations, and trample over any opposition with the urgency of a toddler throwing a tantrum.
Let’s break this disaster of an executive order down piece by piece.
According to this order, the U.S. is in an energy crisis so severe that we need to invoke emergency powers to “unleash” the full force of fossil fuel extraction. But let’s be honest—this isn’t about an actual emergency. There’s no gas shortage, no blackout apocalypse, no collapsing power grid. The only thing collapsing is the patience of anyone who understands basic energy economics and climate science.
What’s really happening here? A manufactured crisis designed to roll back regulations and funnel money into the pockets of oil, gas, and coal executives under the guise of “national security.”
This isn’t emergency action—it’s corporate welfare wrapped in a flag.
Ah, yes, the classic boogeyman of foreign energy dependency. This order whines about how “hostile foreign actors” have weaponized energy markets. But let’s take a reality check:
The U.S. is already one of the world’s top energy producers.
The so-called “hostile foreign actors” (read: OPEC) have been manipulating markets for decades, and suddenly it’s a crisis?
Renewable energy—which this order completely ignores—actually makes us less dependent on foreign oil and gas. But heaven forbid we acknowledge that.
This isn’t about reducing reliance on foreign energy. If it were, this order would focus on expanding renewables, improving grid infrastructure, and investing in sustainable domestic energy sources—not just handing public lands and resources over to oil companies with no oversight.
Let’s not pretend this order is just about increasing energy production. The real goal here is crystal clear: eliminating regulations and fast-tracking industry projects without environmental review or public input.
Emergency eminent domain powers? So we’re just taking land now?
Rolling back Clean Water Act protections? Who needs clean drinking water anyway, right?
Fast-tracking permits and gutting environmental impact studies? Nothing says “long-term energy security,” like paving over every national park for pipelines.
This order explicitly names the West Coast and Northeast as problematic, which shows what’s really going on here. It is an attack on states that have prioritized climate action, environmental protections, and clean energy policies. It is a federal middle finger to states that dared to reduce emissions and invest in the future instead of grovelling before Big Oil.
A true energy emergency response would include:
Expanding wind, solar, and nuclear power.
Modernizing the grid to handle new energy technologies.
Increasing domestic battery storage capacity.
Incentivizing energy efficiency and conservation.
But nope! This order is 100% laser-focused on fossil fuels, like a caveman seeing fire for the first time.
Instead of actually future-proofing America’s energy sector, this order tries to solve 21st-century energy challenges with a 19th-century mindset.
While this executive order is busy fast-tracking oil drilling and gutting clean air laws, the actual emergency—climate change—continues to spiral out of control. Wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, and rising sea levels? Nah, no urgency there. But profit margins for oil companies? Now that’s a crisis.
Climate change isn’t a future problem—it’s happening right now. And this order’s solution? Burn more fossil fuels, build more pipelines, and ignore every scientist, environmental expert, and economist screaming into the void.
This isn’t leadership. It’s a shameless power grab for corporations, disguised as an emergency order. It guts environmental laws, destroys climate progress, and prioritizes short-term profits over long-term energy security.
This executive order isn’t “declaring a national emergency”—it’s declaring war on common sense.
