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The price of a kilowatt hour of electricity is not determined by the cheapest power plant operating when you buy it, but by the most expensive. You buy the marginal kilowatt. And solar+wind continues to be a relatively small fraction of the US energy market. The DoE did a report when Biden took office in 2021 and the progressive wave was in full swing:

https://www.energy.gov/fecm/articles/economic-and-national-s...

>Eliminating [fracking]... a ripple effect of severe consequences to the Nation's economy, environment, and geopolitical standing.

Making energy cheaper and the dollar stronger helps all businesses which depend on energy or imports, particularly manufacturing, and US manufacturing output currently exceeds the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined. And all over the thread you'll find people arguing over nominal GDP versus PPP, but what's not in doubt is that the balance of nominal GDP versus PPP is related to the strength of the dollar. Imports are vital to US industry — we thrive on buying less processed inputs from cheaper countries and producing high-value outputs. All of this is affected by the US oil and gas industry.



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