The AP, which occasionally will perform acts of journalism when they’re not busy dead-naming the Gulf of America, has a story up about two of the Trump administration’s Cabinet secretaries making a trip to Venture Global’s liquified natural gas terminal in Port Sulphur to talk up LNG exports…

The planned expansion of a massive liquified natural gas facility in southeast Louisiana is a beacon for a U.S. energy policy that doubles down on oil and gas exports under President Donald Trump, two members of his Cabinet told a crowd of cheering workers Thursday.

“The prior administration had a full-on attack against U.S. energy,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told workers at petrochemical firm Venture Global’s liquified natural gas facility in Port Sulphur. Venture Global plans an $18 billion expansion in the area for exporting LNG to Europe and Asia. “President Trump is fighting for you every day and he’s fighting because he believes that we have U.S. energy dominance.”

Burgum stood alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The two head a new National Energy Dominance Council focused on spurring U.S. oil and gas production and reversing checks on fossil fuels adopted during President Joe Biden’s administration.

Wright, a fossil fuel executive who has been a vocal critic against efforts to fight climate change, told the assembled workers he planned to advance Trump’s agenda to “unleash American energy, unleash American business and unleash the American spirit.”

The pair pooh-poohed former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s warning that “unfettered exports” of liquified natural gas could drive up domestic wholesale prices and increase planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions — a statement reflecting the findings of a Department of Energy report released in December. Granholm served under Biden.

“We can absolutely do both — we can sell energy to our friends and allies, we can lower the cost at home,” Burgum told reporters.

The Biden LNG export ban was the single dumbest policy made in those four years, and it turns out to have been perhaps the linchpin of what’s likely going to become the most substantial of the many scandals we’ve just started to uncover.

Our readers will remember House Speaker Mike Johnson’s interview with Bari Weiss over the holidays when Johnson told the story of his rare one-on-one encounter with Biden. Johnson brought up the LNG ban and asked the president why he’d sign such a stupid and counterproductive order, particularly given that taking U.S. natural gas off the international market was helping the Russians by forcing Europe to buy from Vladimir Putin and at a higher price given the crimp in supply. Biden denied he’d signed any such order, and it wasn’t long before Johnson realized that he had no idea what he’d signed.

Which led Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to demand that the Department of Justice open an investigation into whether Biden was even competent to serve as president…

https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1897388657557885403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1897388657557885403%7Ctwgr%5E7fe440bec79898e47efa74b036097a2c016aef3e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fnick-arama%2F2025%2F03%2F07%2Fandrew-bailey-demands-doj-investigation-of-bidens-condition-plus-the-question-of-the-autopen-n2186381

And then it turned out to be even worse than Johnson thought, because now it comes out that Biden never signed anything…

WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY

We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency.

All used the same autopen signature except for the the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the… https://t.co/CC3oJUkNr4 pic.twitter.com/mtNrZsALDu

— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) March 6, 2025

So now we’ve got a hospice-patient president who’s being controlled by faceless bureaucrat handlers, and that’s a flagrant violation of the Constitution and a host of federal laws, and the upshot of this is very likely that everything the Biden administration did is consequently illegal – if your president is non compos mentis and someone else controls the autopen, and that someone is making policy the elected president doesn’t even know about and can’t understand, then pretty much everything that administration does has to be null and void in anything remotely legitimate as a representative democracy governed according to the rule of law.

Which would seem like a digression from the subject at hand, but not really – the LNG industry has been greatly hamstrung, and in fact, as the AP article notes, Venture Global’s stock has taken a beating because of the Biden LNG ban’s effect on their sales. The fact that Team Trump is committed to firing up American natural gas exports likely turns that company’s fortunes around along with a lot of others in that space.

Which is awfully good for Louisiana’s economy, by the way, because turbocharging LNG exports means not only that the LNG export terminals in southeastern Louisiana and in the Lake Charles area will be doing a brisk business but that Louisiana’s supply of natural gas, and most notably the Haynesville Shale in the northwestern part of the state, will light up like the Tokyo skyline now that we’re making a commitment to LNG export infrastructure. Supplying the world with natural gas means the landowners in the Haynesville Shale are going to get rich, and the folks working that patch, laying in new gas wells and pipelines and other infrastructure, are going to do very well also.

The AP piece devolves into a bunch of worry-wart idiocy about Venture Global’s environmental record, noting a number of safety violations dating back a couple of years, and the activists screeching about “greenhouse gas emissions.” That isn’t worth reading or commenting on. What matters is that the days of faceless communists embedded in an illegitimate presidential administration hamstringing what should be one of the most profitable industries we have appear to be over.

And we’re here for it.