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Energy Dominance
The most important plans of Republicans, especially Trump, in the field of energy
are to focus on US development in the production of shale oil and gas from existing
resources, the reduction of the country’s dependence on OPEC members’ oil
resources, and energy independence policy and environmental issues. Energy boom
has multiple effects on the domestic and foreign position of the US in the international
foreign-policy-and-euro-caspian-energy-security-the-time-is-now-to-build-thetrans-caspian-pipeline/ 2018). As indicated in the report released by the Atlantic
Council, the shale gas boom began to radically shift and redraw the global energy
market, changed the outlook for the US energy security and its neighbors, altered
geopolitics, made the Western Hemisphere—US, Mexico, Canada, and Brazil—the
new center of gravity for oil and gas production, turned the future of oil debate on
its head, helped the US reduce emission by displacing coal as a source of electricity
generation, strengthened the US economy by means of cheap gas prices, and finally
potentially repositioned the United States vis-à-vis the Middle East and Asia. The
report indicated that “shale holds promise to substantially enhance US global economic competitiveness and US foreign policy leverage globally” (https://www.
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/us-foreign-policy-and-euro-caspianenergy-security-the-time-is-now-to-build-the-trans-caspian-pipeline/ 2018).
The presidents of the United States in recent decades have always sought independence and energy independence in this country. But now Donald Trump has
introduced a different and more ambitious goal: to dominate the global energy market. In late June at US Energy Week, Donald Trump announced in a speech the
beginning of a golden age in US energy that would be accompanied by increased
exports of natural gas, coal, and oil. An examination of the new American strategy
shows that “energy domination” is not much different from “energy independence”
(www.lowimpact.org 2020). In his speech on this new strategy, Trump announced
an increase in energy exports to Asian and Eastern European markets, which began
under the administration of Barack Obama. Explaining the new energy doctrine, US
Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry said, “An energy-dominated America is dependent
on its American meaning. This means that the United States will be a safe country
free from geopolitical turmoil from other countries that use energy as an economic
weapon. An energy-dominated America will export to all markets around the world
and increase our global leadership and influence. will give.” “Because the design
and capacity of US refineries to use light oil produced from shale reserves have not
been designed and configured, the country is exporting oil” (http://www.taadolnewspaper.ir 2020). “Energy development here has always supported and balanced
environmental objectives, economic needs, and foreign policy and national security
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