According to Gallup, Donald Trump enjoys 93% approval among Republicans but just 1% among Democrats—a 92-point gulf that underscores how divided our country has become. In such an environment, bipartisan consensus is rare. And yet last week in Washington, D.C., at Abundance 2025, leaders from across the spectrum gathered to rally around a set of ideals that conservatives have been championing for years, characterized by a single common thread: abundance.

Abundance is deceptively simple. But in today’s energy debate, it’s a radical departure from the leftwing politics of scarcity that have too often dominated our policymaking. Scarcity tells us to cut, reduce, and constrain. Abundance says: build more. Build so that everyone has more housing, more infrastructure, more energy. And right now, we need far more energy.

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