Harrop: Only U.S. foes could craft so damaging an energy policy [View all]

By Froma Harrop / Creators.com

President Donald Trump’s energy policy is utterly screwed up; if you assume America’s interests, and not pleasing his fossil fuel friends, is the objective.

This came to the fore when trade adviser Peter Navarro hollered at India for buying Russian oil. Navarro called the purchases “opportunistic and deeply corrosive” of efforts to isolate Russia and curb Vladimir Putin’s war machine. Oh, is Trump isolating Putin? Could have fooled us.

Navarro is right that Russia’s oil wealth is funding Putin’s savage attacks on Ukraine. If so, then wouldn’t it be in our interests to speed the move away from fossil fuels? That’s the path Western Europe took shortly after the Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine.

On the contrary, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is now demanding that projects “related to wind and solar energy facilities” go through new layers of political review. In other words, slow or kill them.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/harrop-only-u-s-foes-could-craft-so-damaging-an-energy-policy/

Peter Navarro is an ass kissing idiot.