Economists and analysts aren’t convinced that an expansion of oil and gas production will lower consumer prices.

Misusing emergency powers will open the door to further such abuses by this president—or a future one, writes Elizabeth Goitein.

And even if there was, increasing fossil fuels is not the solution. President Donald Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of a wave of executive actions on his first day in office. The order cited high energy prices as a reason the country needed to boost oil and gas production.

Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border.

Together with a flurry of Day 1 executive orders, President Donald Trump’s first speech back in office signaled his plans to keep a key campaign promise: to “drill, baby, drill.” “We have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth,