This past Tuesday, Trump made good on the promises he made during the election to boost jobs in the energy field for blue collar, white, working men. He signed an executive order with a goal of taking restraints off businesses and boosting the coal industry. At the EPA, Trump said a new era in the energy industry was dawning. However, Trump is ignoring a new and important change in the energy industry: renewable resources have skyrocketed recently, after the Obama administration incentivized the new renewable resource industry. According the bureau of Labor Statistics, there are four times as many jobs in the solar industry than there are coal. The coal industry has been in steady decline in comparison to solar, because of technological advances that allow solar energy to be produced more cheaply. However, jobs aren't being replaced by solar industries in the coal industries - just energy jobs in general just haven't been growing.
I think this article was very informative and unbiased. It explained what was wrong with Obama's plan in the past few years, and it explained what was wrong with Mr. Trump's energy plan currently. It didn't take a side on anything, however it didn't really help that much because it didn't offer a solution either. But, it did have a fair point. Offering to revive energy jobs is simply just a publicity thing - energy jobs are on the decline and it's an old fashioned point of view to consistently work in one industry as 'tradition'. Adaptation and flexibility is necessary to surviving in an economy like ours today. This can be synthesized to the factory workers during the Industrial Revolution.
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/28/521805360/what-trump-misses-about-energy-jobs-in-america
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