Executive Orders for Trump and Private Industry

This was from May 2023.

I have been reading the OilPrice website just to keep up with what the other side of the room was thinking, Not that I would get all the detail. However, you can surmise what is taking place after a brief read. I do not believe industry finds Trump and his staff to be so impressive as to write Executive Orders. It is risky; however, industry has taken on the task. Just dumb it up a little bit and it will take on the appearance of a Trump document. Yep, a lot of trust in Trump’s staff .

The Oil Industry Is Preparing Executive Orders for Trump, OilPrice.com

Oil industry executives and lawyers are drawing up executive orders to be presented to Donald Trump if he wins another term in the White House, Politico has reported, citing some of those involved but without mentioning names.

According to the report, the industry is worried that “the Trump campaign will be able to focus on energy issues as Election Day draws closer” and that Trump himself may be too distracted to focus on energy.

The executive orders being drafted focus on lowering drilling costs, supporting more natural gas exports, and increasing the number of offshore leases on offer.

“You’ll see a lot of Biden regulations that have come out in the past six months checked one way or another,” Stephen Brown, director of energy consulting company RBJ Strategies, told Politico in an interview. “It’s going to be like shooting fish in the barrel — there’s just so much to go after.”

According to Frank Maisano from government relations company Bracewell, “Other than what Donald Trump says off the cuff, I don’t think they’re taking much advice on energy strategy.”

“He’s going to complain about gas prices, he’s going to complain about [natural gas], but only in the general sense because the details are complex,” Maisano also told Politico.

There seems to be a worry among industry executives that Trump’s team lacks experts in energy matters, the Politico report said, which is another reason that they have reportedly taken things into their own hands.

“Supportive industries are going to have to prop up a second Trump administration with expertise,” one unnamed lawyer involved in the preparations told Politico. “We’re going to have to write exactly what we want, actually spoon feeding the administration. There is 27-page drafts moving around Washington.”

JIC you make think this is not true?

Politico’s piece on the same topic. ‘

A little bold and gross’: Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign, POLITICO

The U.S. oil industry is drawing up ready-to-sign executive orders for Donald Trump aimed at pushing natural gas exports, cutting drilling costs and increasing offshore oil leases in case he wins a second term, according to energy executives with direct knowledge of the work.

The effort stems from the industry’s skepticism that the Trump campaign will be able to focus on energy issues as Election Day draws closer — and worries that the former president is too distracted to prepare a quick reversal of the Biden administration’s green policies. Oil executives also worry that a second Trump administration won’t attract staff skillful enough to roll back President Joe Biden’s regulations (that is rich in content) or craft new ones favoring the industry, these people added.

Six energy industry lawyers and lobbyists interviewed by POLITICO described the effort to craft executive orders and other policy paperwork that they see as more effective than anything a second Trump administration could devise on its own. Those include a quick reversal of Biden’s pause on new natural gas export permits and preparations for wider and cheaper access to federal lands and waters for drilling.

The initiative is just one example of the efforts underway from multiple advocacy groups with strong policy agendas — including abortion-rights opponents — to fill in the gaps for Trump’s potential return to the White House. The presumptive Republican nominee has been a vocal supporter of the oil and gas industry, but the companies often chafed at the effects of his policies as president, including his trade wars and the legal challenges that thwarted some of his pro-fossil-fuel actions.

Trump, who is spending many of his days facing trial in a Manhattan courtroom, has had little time to delve into policy issues with industry officials. In his absence, oil industry officials said they’re not sure who speaks for him on the issues they want to address. And while generally unhappy with Biden’s attempts to rein in their industry, some have expressed nervousness about what policies Trump might pursue.

Abbreviated. Good for a laugh when business decides the voter’s selection is not good enough.