Trump smashed the global energy system — now we all pay

When energy expert Michael Webber was a boy, his mom chunked a Houston Oilers mug at his head. She missed. It smashed against the wall and then made him clean up the mess. That's basically what Trump has done to global energy markets, Webber writes in an op-ed for the Houston Chronicle. Here's a key quote:

One time when I was a kid, my mother threw a Houston Oilers mug at me and my brother. She missed. The mug hit the wall above us and shattered into hundreds of pieces. Instead of apologizing, she screamed at us to pick up the mess she had made.

That traumatic childhood memory popped into my mind as I was thinking about what President Donald Trump is doing to the global energy system. He smashed it and now is demanding that the rest of the world clean up his mess.

Both Trump and my mother explained their actions with a “look what you made me do” tone.