U.S. Power Demand to Reach Record Highs, EIA Projects

Are Trump's policies securing energy dominance, or driving the U.S. toward disaster?

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U.S. Power Demand to Reach Record Highs, EIA Projects

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Above: Power lines in Pembroke Pines, Florida, on May 16, 2024. Image credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-government narrative

The rising levels of electricity consumption and production forecast by the EIA are a testament to the success of the Trump administration’s energy policies. These measures have made the U.S. more energy dominant than ever before, which has crowned America a world leader in oil and gas production while simultaneously driving consumer costs to new lows.

Chris Wright on X

Climate-concerned narrative

The Trump administration’s fixation on fossil fuels is slowly killing America. Not only is the policy economically misguided when clean energy investments reached over $2.4 trillion globally in 2024, but it is also lethal, with the measures promising to exacerbate the climate crisis and add to the over 50,000 Americans killed every year due to pollution.

Truthout The Hill

Climate-skeptic narrative

The U.S. must adopt a sensible approach to its energy policy. The first but crucial step would be to recognize the "climate change" con for what it is: bad science that misrepresents the facts. With that settled, the government should embrace fossil fuels as an integral part of America's energy mix and withdraw federal subsidies supporting less impactful renewables.

CO2 Coalition