By Tom HaugheyWhen Donald Trump was president, he encouraged oil drilling, exploration, and the production of domestic oil pipelines. As a result, the United States became the highest volume petroleum producer in the world. Among other things, we began building the infrastructure which would allow us to ship natural gas to Europe to replace the politically regulatedgastheywerereceivingfromRussia.Thatwasimportant because Russia was known for extorting higher prices in the dead of winter and because dependency on Russia made it extremely difficult to respond forcefully to Russian adventurism (such as the invasion of Georgia). For that same reason, Trump also prevented the opening ...