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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American power, politics and prejudices.

The election is over, but the Americano never stops, and there will be a lot to talk about

with the second Trump administration. And so we'll bring you more and more Americano,

because judging from the feedback, that's what you guys want.

So please keep listening.

Today we're going to be talking about energy, American energy, under a second Trump administration.

I'm delighted to be joined by Robert Bryce, who has been on this show a few times, has a substack on energy that I recommend everybody check out or subscribe to.

It's a central reading if you have any interest or inclination to know about this stuff.

But Robert, since we haven't had you on for a while, I haven't had any of your thoughts about the election itself and rather a lot

has gone on in American politics. Give me your take from where you are. I like how you put that

rather a lot. Yes. Rather a lot. That's a good British understatement. Look, we're now almost a month

after the election and I think it's still, to me, as someone who's watched politics and, you know, we're now almost a month after the election, and I think it's still, to me,

as someone who's watched politics and, you know, presidential politics and as well since I was,

you know, a teenager, and now I'm an old man, the results are just incredible that Trump would

win all seven of the swing states and decisively. But as we talked before, we started recording, there were a lot

of surprising results when you look at the, you know, the more granular data, you know, drilling down

into, you know, individual counties in different regions and also voting blocks. And the only area

where Harris and the Democrats made any inroads was among college educated women and

every other segment of the population. Trump increased the vote over what he had four years ago.

But I live in Texas. I'm from Oklahoma. I don't brag on Texas. But Texas is an important state,

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