Faster, Please!

Faster, Please!

⚡ America's electrostate inevitability

The move from carbon molecules to electrons is no longer ideological — it’s economic, industrial, and unavoidable. The only question is who builds it first

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James Pethokoukis
Jan 22, 2026
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My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in the USA and around the world:

For more than a century, American economic power has rested on the movement of hydrocarbon molecules — through oil wells, pipelines, refineries, and then finally burned for energy. Shell, a purveyor of petroleum to the world for generations, has sketched a future that shows how this hydrocarbon foundation is inevitably giving way.

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