America went from being a net energy importer to a net energy exporter. Today, US energy sources are more diversified and abundant than ever before.

Ever since the Revolution in France split politics into left and right, the two polarities have been cast as those ‘in favour of change’ and those ‘against change’. The picture of conservative politics found in this discourse has typically favoured the left, which portrays conservatism as an undynamic preservation of the existing order.