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US oil industry doesn’t see profit in Trump’s ‘pro-petroleum’ moves

  • Written by Skip York, Nonresident Fellow in Energy and Global Oil, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
imageExpanding offshore drilling is one of President Donald Trump's key policy goals for his second term.Mario Tama/Getty Images

As the Trump administration makes announcementafterannouncement about its efforts to promote the U.S. fossil fuel industry, the industry isn’t exactly jumping at new opportunities.

Some high-profile oil and gas industry le...

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