The US energy position is the strongest in the world, and most diversified. The US is the world's #2 solar energy producer / market behind Germany (who cares who makes the cells? that's a low value commodity business racing to the bottom), and the US is among the top four majors when it comes to solar in most every respect (with Japan, China, Germany); the US has a vast supply of coal; the US is soon to become the world's largest oil producer; the US is the world's largest nuclear energy producer; the US is the world's #2 wind energy producer (18% of all global wind energy, with about 22% of global GDP, not bad).
The US is also a leader in solar technology, including the world's fiscally strongest stand-alone solar company, First Solar. SunPower and First Solar are also among the five largest in sales.
The US is arguably still the leader in nuclear technology, certainly among the top three. It's very likely that over the coming decades the US will deploy increasing amounts of new nuclear reactors.
Oil production is still climbing, not declining, despite the drop in oil prices. That will continue until almost all foreign oil is pushed out of the US market. Oil prices will also not stay low permanently, and meanwhile fracking / shale technology will only get cheaper and more efficient. The US is sitting on a 100 year boom in oil production, $50 oil is not going to even remotely stop that. Consider the recently boosted Spraberry/Wolfcamp oil field, now considered to be the world's second largest oil field at 75 billion barrels (behind Ghawar) - and it has hardly been touched. Not to mention the vast reserves off the coast of the US, which haven't been updated in ~40 years, and are likely many times larger than anticipated. The US position when it comes to oil, is even better than presently estimated.
Now consider how most of Europe and China are heavily dependent on outside sources of energy (oil, coal, natural gas). Europe is at Russia's mercy when it comes to energy, not a good place to be. Japan also struggles with energy independence, for now due to the plant shutdowns their nuclear energy supply is a mere 1.7% of their energy, and they don't even make the list when it comes to wind energy.
Europe (especially Poland) has lots of shale oil and gas. They just don't have the regulation to get it out. (Because of geology the technology needed is also a bit different than in the US, so needs some investment.)
The US is also a leader in solar technology, including the world's fiscally strongest stand-alone solar company, First Solar. SunPower and First Solar are also among the five largest in sales.
The US is arguably still the leader in nuclear technology, certainly among the top three. It's very likely that over the coming decades the US will deploy increasing amounts of new nuclear reactors.
Oil production is still climbing, not declining, despite the drop in oil prices. That will continue until almost all foreign oil is pushed out of the US market. Oil prices will also not stay low permanently, and meanwhile fracking / shale technology will only get cheaper and more efficient. The US is sitting on a 100 year boom in oil production, $50 oil is not going to even remotely stop that. Consider the recently boosted Spraberry/Wolfcamp oil field, now considered to be the world's second largest oil field at 75 billion barrels (behind Ghawar) - and it has hardly been touched. Not to mention the vast reserves off the coast of the US, which haven't been updated in ~40 years, and are likely many times larger than anticipated. The US position when it comes to oil, is even better than presently estimated.
Now consider how most of Europe and China are heavily dependent on outside sources of energy (oil, coal, natural gas). Europe is at Russia's mercy when it comes to energy, not a good place to be. Japan also struggles with energy independence, for now due to the plant shutdowns their nuclear energy supply is a mere 1.7% of their energy, and they don't even make the list when it comes to wind energy.