They're a relatively stable and risk-free source of money for a certain kind of politician.

The energy part is incidental.

They are also organic, all-natural, and fat-free! And renewable on geological timescales.

The US has their own oil fields.

If they can burn down the EU in that ongoing crisis, they don't care.

That's likely the strategy the administration is running.

This will not be a learned more robustly in the US until one or both of the only two (edit: major) gas turbine manufacturers in the world (GE Vernova, Siemens Energy) suffer a tail risk event causing their failure. Backlog for new gas turbines is ~7 years, as of this comment. Continued production capacity is a function of how fragile those two companies are.

The White House’s Bet on Fossil Fuels Is Already Losing - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-28/white-... | https://archive.today/vpvch - October 28th, 2025

Gas-Turbine Crunch Threatens Demand Bonanza in Asia - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-10-07/gas-tu... | https://archive.today/z4Ixw - October 7th, 2025

AI-Driven Demand for Gas Turbines Risks a New Energy Crunch - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-gas-turb... | https://archive.today/b8bhn - October 1st, 2025

(think in systems)

And clean. Really, really clean. Just look at coal. A no-brainer. Go for it.

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The US (with Canada and Mexico) is self-sufficient with fossil fuel energy.