3 Unstoppable Energy Stocks on Washington's Short List as Trump Rewrites U.S. Oil and Gas Strategy
Written by Neha Chamaria for The Motley Fool -> President Donald Trump is overhauling the U.S. energy sector. From oil drilling to natural gas turbines, some companies are turning policy shifts into profit engines. These stocks are among the top bets to play America's energy b
President Donald Trump is overhauling the U.S. energy sector.
From oil drilling to natural gas turbines, some companies are turning policy shifts into profit engines.
These stocks are among the top bets to play America's energy boom.
Washington is rewriting the U.S. oil and gas strategy under President Donald Trump's leadership, making sweeping moves to slash permit timelines, lift moratoriums, revive drilling, reopen acreage, and fast-track liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and exports.
Not all companies stand to benefit, though, and only a few stocks are directly aligned with Washington's energy agenda. Here are three of them worth considering.
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Trump's revived "drill, baby, drill" agenda is an aggressive push to expand domestic oil and gas production. ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) sits at the very center of the policy shift toward fossil fuels and is arguably more leveraged than any peer to Washington's pro-oil strategy.
Why? ExxonMobil is the largest oil and gas producer in the U.S. It more than doubled its Permian Basin production after acquiring Pioneer Natural Resources for $60 billion in 2024. That's more than 1.4 million net acres of drilling inventory, with an estimated 16 billion barrels of oil equivalent resource.
