Posted on July 6, 2026 by Jeremy Harrell
This op-ed was originally published by Daily Caller on July 5, 2026. Click here to read the entire piece.
It took energy to power America’s first 250 years, and it will take energy to power the next 250 years. To meet growing global energy demand, and fulfill President Donald Trump’s American energy dominance goals, America needs its next energy revolution.
America’s success is rooted in its ability to innovate – and that same spirit is shaping the next era of energy leadership. Right now, American entrepreneurs and engineers are developing breakthroughs in LNG, nuclear energy and leveraging more than a century of oil and gas expertise to deploy geothermal energy. Other next-generation technologies are also moving forward to define the future of affordable, reliable and clean energy. (RELATED: America’s Energy Dominance: The Fruit Of Freedom On Our 250th)
Here’s the roadmap: innovate fast, build here, sell globally.
In 1912, LNG arrived on the scene when the first LNG plant was built in West Virginia. Almost a century later, advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing sparked the “Shale Revolution” in 2008, unlocking vast domestic natural gas reserves, making the U.S. the world’s top producer, and laying the foundation for its modern LNG export industry. In 2022, the U.S. became the largest LNG exporter in the world.
Today, the LNG industry supports 495,000 well-paying American jobs. Here’s another way to look at it: since 2016, the U.S. has supplied enough LNG to power the energy use of about 400 million people globally. A stunning number over 100 years in the making.
Can you imagine the U.S. without the shale revolution? The loss of wealth, jobs, and security for our country would be staggering – not to mention the opportunity to reduce global emissions by replacing higher-emitting foreign fuels with U.S. LNG, which is among the lowest-carbon, natural gas options on Earth.
Building on success and lessons from the past, it’s time for America to set its sights on future horizons as electricity demand will surge by 50% over the next two decades in the U.S. alone. Just as the LNG revolution drove America’s energy security during the first quarter of the 21st century, new sources of power generation will need to be commercialized at scale to drive American jobs and energy dominance through the rest of the century.
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