Trump’s energy policies are paying off

In his State of the Union address last month, President Trump rightly lauded what his administration has done to unleash American energy dominance and restore a vision of abundance, one that can meet growing energy demand without spiking costs. 

But Democrats have been working overtime to turn the President’s positive message on its head.  A recent Politico poll claimed voters trust Democrats more to cut energy costs. If that sentiment reflects what voters actually believe, it says less about their lived experience than about years of Democratic gaslighting on energy policy. 

ABC News recently promoted the progressive narrative about rising energy prices by echoing talking points from a memo crafted by Climate Power — a dark-money outfit known for aggressive partisan advocacy, not dispassionate policy analysis.

Both ignore the real progress that consumers are seeing under Trump’s pro-energy policies, while ignoring that electricity rates vary dramatically across the country, and that the states with the highest prices are overwhelmingly under Democratic control.

A December report from the Institute for Energy Research laid this out in black and white. Electricity and grid policy is largely determined at the state level. States decide what mix of generation they use, and some of them impose extreme renewable mandates through so-called “renewable portfolio standards.” They also make decisions that directly harm energy supply, as then-Attorney General Maura Healey of Massachusetts did when she argued successfully against the Northeast Energy Direct project and another pipeline.

The results speak for themselves. According to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, each of the five most expensive states for electricity — Massachusetts is number three........

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