The Last Optimist: The Question of the Decade

Could America Produce a LOT More Oil & Gas?

When he recently said America “should pump more oil and gas,” JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon joined a rising chorus of similar calls, including from Elon Musk. And Dimon added that doing so “should be treated almost as a matter of war at this point, nothing short of that.” The context is obvious. But the big question is not whether America should but whether it could radically increase production.

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The roaring 2020s are upon us and the Manhattan Institute’s senior fellow Mark P. Mills is here to make sense of it. In a brand-new new podcast, The Last Optimist, Mills applies his knowledge as an author, businessman, and physicist to explore issues of the day and host insightful conversations with leading thinkers and innovators.