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President-elect Trump distills his energy policy in just three words: "Drill baby, drill."

Last week, the incoming president outlined the executive actions he would take on Day One to reignite American energy production. Foremost among them is replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and greenlighting natural gas export permits.

But in addition to boosting natural gas, Trump wants to usher in a nuclear renaissance by building new nuclear energy power plants across the country. His all-of-the above approach to power generation stands in stark contrast to Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose "climate-friendly" policies in California have gouged citizens and created one of the most unreliable grids in the United States.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President-elect Trump (Getty Images)

The president-elect and the California governor embody polar opposite mindsets when it comes to power production: Trump represents a mindset of energy abundance while Newsom represents a mindset of energy scarcity.

TRUMP’S ENERGY AGENDA CAN MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN

One mindset leads to prosperity; the other to ruin. For the United States to remain atop the global economy, Washington must embrace the abundance mindset and resist the "Californication" of American energy policy at all costs.

The energy abundance mindset embraced by Trump equates energy usage with human flourishing. It recognizes that energy has always been the key to civilizational progress, scientific advancement and economic growth—from the time man first learned to wield fire to his........

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