CLEAN ENERGY R&D AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE
America powered the 20th century on fossil fuels — but we don’t get to replay that era. The dinosaurs are gone, the oil they left behind is finite, and pretending we can wait until the last minute is a national security risk, not an energy strategy.
🗣 As Kendal puts it:
“We don’t have any more dinosaurs to make more oil — and if we wait until the last minute, we’re up shit creek without a paddle or a boat.”
Let’s lead the transition while it’s still a choice, not an emergency scramble.
THE PROBLEM
We still rely on century-old fuel systems vulnerable to price shocks, supply wars, and natural disaster failures.
Fossil extraction towns rise and collapse in boom-bust cycles — leaving unemployment and poisoned land behind.
Climate disasters cost the U.S. over $170 billion annually, yet resilience and R&D funding is a fraction of that.
Other countries are already exporting renewable tech, batteries, electric grid systems, and selling them back to us.
If we don’t modernize now, we’ll buy our future from someone else.
OUR PLAN FOR A FUTURE PROOF ENERGY SYSTEM
We invest now, when it creates jobs — not later, when we’re paying for disaster recovery:
Massive Public Investment in Energy R&D — Batteries, carbon capture, grid storage, geothermal, next-gen solar, and resilient microgrids.
Regional Energy Innovation Hubs — Turn old coal/oil towns into clean-tech manufacturing zones, reusing workforce and infrastructure.
American Battery + Grid Manufacturing — Stop outsourcing critical energy tech to foreign supply chains.
Climate Resilience Defense Fund — Upgrade water systems, cooling centers, wildfire barriers, and flood management as national defense infrastructure.
Green Job Training Stipends — Pay workers to transition into installation, maintenance, and local clean-power projects.
Protect Land and Workers in Transition Zones — Guarantee cleanup, retraining, and no community left behind incentives.
WHY IT MATTERS
This isn’t about politics or perfection — it’s about survival and independence. A nation that relies on unstable fossil markets and broken grids isn’t strong. A nation that builds its own resilient, clean energy systems is unbreakable.
“We powered the past by digging up dead things. We power the future by building living systems.”