Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson.

Thanks for joining us for the 10 Blocks podcast featuring urban policy and cultural commentary with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests.

What does Donald Trump's election as president mean for everything from fracking to pipeline

construction, from climate change to the price of gas? I'm City Journal Associate Editor

Matthew Hennessy. Welcome to the Ten Blocks podcast. With us to answer these

questions and more is Manhattan Institute's senior fellow Robert Bryce. Robert is an expert on all

things related to the energy economy. He's a snazzy writer and he's an all-around good guy. His

books include power hungry, the myth of green energy and the real fuels of the future,

and his most recent issue,

smaller, faster, lighter, denser, cheaper, how innovation keeps proving the catastrophists wrong.

Robert, thank you for joining me on the 10 Blocks podcast.

Thanks for being, I'm glad to be with you, Matthew.

Now, sometimes when a president is elected, you can look back and you can point to a specific

thing that he said during the campaign that, in retrospect, turned out to be decisive.

Was there anything in your view, in your field of expertise, energy, that you can point to now

and say that might have had something to do with getting

Trump elected.

Well, that's a good question. I think overall, what he has said on the stump was clearly

that he wants to unshackle the hydrocarbon business in America. He wants to relax regulation when it comes to coal

mining and coal consumption, and the same with oil and gas. And when you look more recently at

some of the headlines, it's also clear that he's been fighting the wind business for some time.

And so when he met with the leader from the U.K., he in fact talked about that.

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