The recent actions of the newest President of the United States have provoked and incited fear and worry throughout the lives of American citizens for a multitude of reasons. An important affair that has the potential of being changed, amended or removed in its entirety is the policies imposed in the “Paris agreement”. The Paris agreement is a legally binding global climate action plan designed to reduce global warming throughout the world by adopting affirmative actions to reduce emissions and build a worldwide resilience to global warming. President Trump in effect has proposed an all out lift these regulations in his plan to promote energy from coal and oil energy in the United States. The article titled “Donald Trump’s Energy Plan: …show more content…
Denmark’s quick call to action allowed them to become the first energy independent country. Unlike the United States Denmark attacked their dependency problems in stages, first with the oil embargo by instituting regulations to reduce oil consumption. The plan included reducing consumption of oil and to focused on investing in renewable energy. The inspiration for innovation is what drives Denmark's renewable energy mandates in the sense that the government incentives to save energy. While congress is said to pressure both producers and consumers to create a successful energy policies. (Kaplan, 2010) America's environment and renewable energy programs can adopt some ideas from Denmark's policies and possibly achieve what Donald Trump visualizes for America with him as president. A quote taken from the text also suggests this theory of the revitalization of public energy. “The United States is in dire need of national revitalization; a strong legislative focus on energy—similar to that of Denmark—may help the United States reclaim its role as a world leader, revitalize the country’s economy and morale, further technological development, while also improving the environment.” This quote is in a sense bragging about …show more content…
Petroleum Security and Energy Independence enlightens us on how the country's petroleum security and energy independence has been a topic of much discussion on the account that oil prices are dropping in the United State. The article almost directly correlates with the inferred data from the article in the New York times. The data found suggests that a majority of Americans are unable or unwilling to adopt change into their lives. Therefore the only real way to get Americans to take action and change is through government programs or by means of legal sanctions. In the conclusion of the article author Jonathan Chanis concludes that petroleum independence is unobtainable on the account that the rest of the petroleum dominant countries such as Saudi Arabia are already sceptical on their investments on production capacity. (Chanis, 2012) Considering the fact that the global petroleum market depends on the worldwide market there would be an imbalance in the price per barrel of oil. On the upside the information from the study concludes by the American Foreign Policy Interests doesn't necessarily correlate with the promises given by Donald Trump in his 2016 speech covered by the New York Times. On the account that America although is improving in converting to more efficient forms of transportation petroleum is still dominant form of propellant. The study does however conclude Donald Trump’s promises of better drilling