WASHINGTON, D.C. , May 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ask most Americans where the next breakthrough in energy relief will come from, and you’ll likely hear the same tired answers: OPEC deals, tax rebates, fuel economy tweaks.
But former CIA advisor Jim Rickards says the real answer was never in plain view — because it was buried. Legally, politically, and physically.
“It’s been there the whole time,” Rickards says. “Mapped. Measured. Ignored.”
He’s talking about what could be a $150 trillion U.S. strategic asset — one that Rickards believes is now at the center of Trump’s quietly unfolding plan to bring gas prices back to levels we haven’t seen since the ’90s.
THE LEGAL DOMINO THAT STARTED IT ALL
In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron Doctrine — a long-standing precedent that let federal agencies broadly interpret the laws they enforced.
To most, it was a footnote in legal news.
To Rickards, it was the start of …