Once Trump takes office and puts his ideas into practice, it may be difficult for the United States to achieve 100% clean energy and net zero emissions by 2050.
On September 10th local time, the two major presidential candidates, Trump and Harris, staged a war of words in a televised debate.
In this presidential election debate, Trump accused that if Harris was elected, “fossil fuels will die”, and then he made a shocking statement: I am a big fan of solar energy.
One moment he restricts the development of clean energy, and the next he says he is a big fan of solar energy. Trump’s language and logic are always puzzling.
So where does he stand?
In fact, he is a real traditional energy supporter. During his tenure, he did a lot to achieve “energy independence” and promote the development of traditional energy.
In June 2017, Trump announced his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, which involved more than 190 countries. Then, in October 2017, the Trump administration changed the Obama administration’s policy of restricting traditional energy and vigorously developing new energy industries. Orientation, deliberately repealed the Obama administration’s “Clean Power Plan”, lifted restrictions on energy development in some restricted areas such as the New Gulf of Mexico, and gave the green light to traditional energy production such as oil and coal. Thanks to this adjustment in energy policy, the United States’ traditional petrochemical energy production capacity has achieved significant growth, and domestic energy prices have dropped significantly, thereby reducing the production costs of the manufacturing industry.
During Trump’s first term, the United States became one of the world’s largest oil producers and successfully achieved the major goal of energy exports exceeding imports in 2019.
While developing traditional energy, Trump also denounced green and clean energy, and even claimed that the global climate change issue was a “hoax.”
During his tenure, Trump introduced “Section 201” and “Section 301” and imposed sky-high tariffs on Chinese photovoltaic products imported into the United States. In order to contain and suppress Chinese photovoltaics, he did not hesitate to sacrifice the United States’ own energy transformation process. This approach makes people question, is he really a super fan of solar energy?
Will Trump stand on the opposite side of developing the solar industry?
During this election, Trump repeatedly emphasized expanding oil and natural gas extraction and rolling back clean energy policies. He even threatened to repeal the “Inflation Reduction Act” of the clean energy industry, recover unspent funds, and promised to declare a national energy emergency after being elected to increase U.S. oil and natural gas production and “achieve a substantial increase in domestic energy supply.” .
At the same time, Trump still does not intend to be merciful to China and plans to continue wielding the tariff stick. This year, he has repeatedly threatened that if he is elected president, he will immediately impose new tariffs of up to 60% to 100% on Chinese goods. , Chinese photovoltaic products cannot escape this disaster.
Once Trump comes to power and puts his ideas into practice, the United States’ vision of achieving 100% clean energy goals and net-zero emissions by 2050 may be difficult to achieve.
