r/energy
284k members
r/energy is a subreddit with 284k members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses energy, oil, solar, trump, and electricity.
Popular Themes in r/energy
#1
News
: "US Emergency Oil Reserve Approaching All-Time Low Despite Trump Promise. At the current pace the SPR is days away from reaching levels last seen in 1983—when it was in the initial “fill-up” stage. If levels falls below 300 million barrels it will create problems with “the integrity of the oil"."
47 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Trump’s War Is Punishing the Poor, Starting at the Gas Pump. By mid-May, higher prices for just two energy products — gasoline and diesel fuel — added nearly $40 billion in costs to American consumers. Energy costs have been walloping the working class. And things could get a lot worse this summer."
6 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "£12,000 solar-panel grants for thousands of UK homes confirmed. £15bn has been earmarked for grants and loans to install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries to help lower bills."
3 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "Trump has only one real option to slash gas prices. Inflation is racing back to life, real wages are shrinking and voters are blaming Trump for $4.50 gas. A new outbreak of fighting could drive energy prices even higher. Trump really only has one lever left: Get the Strait of Hormux reopened."
2 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Scientists build near-invisible solar cells thinner than human hair"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/energy
#1
Energy
: "Blue States Sue Trump Administration Over Offshore Wind Deal. “This administration cooked up a sham deal to pay a foreign Energy company hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to abandon offshore wind and invest in oil and gas instead.” The extraordinary deal violates 2 federal laws."
159 posts
#2
Oil
: "Blue States Sue Trump Administration Over Offshore Wind Deal. “This administration cooked up a sham deal to pay a foreign energy company hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to abandon offshore wind and invest in Oil and gas instead.” The extraordinary deal violates 2 federal laws."
52 posts
#3
Solar
: "Musk abandoned his own 'Solar electric economy' to burn gas for an AI chatbot no one uses. Musk spent years saying that Solar power was the obvious answer. Now, he’s burning millions of tons of fossil fuels to power data centers. 62 unpermitted gas turbines and plans for $2.8 billion more."
39 posts
#4
Trump
: "Trump Admin Renames Iran’s $300 Billion Reparations Demand an ‘Investment Fund’ to Avoid a Political Firestorm at Home. The man who spent a decade calling Obama a traitor for sending Iran $400 million is now floating a fund four hundred times that size, just with a friendlier name on it."
31 posts
#5
Electricity
: "Solar Power Is So Big in Europe That Electricity Is Being Wasted"
30 posts
#6
Iran
: "Trump Cites Inaccurate Data to Downplay Economic Toll of Iran War. He has lied repeatedly about soaring gas prices, rising inflation and the American economy’s need for the Strait of Hormuz. Here’s a fact check."
28 posts
#7
Renewable
: "Renewable energy is overtaking traditional power projects across Africa, industry leaders say"
27 posts
#8
Gas
: "Trump says he'll move to suspend federal Gasoline tax. He can't do it on his own. Congress would have to approve the move. The tax provides more than $23 billion per year for federal highway and public transit programs. “Instead of suspending the tax, we should suspend the war.”"
27 posts
#9
Climate
: "Should you switch to a heat pump? A Climate-by-Climate guide for U.S. homeowners"
21 posts
#10
Power
: "How 24/7 Renewables Are Ending Fossil Fuel Reliability. Modern economies, critics argued, cannot run on intermittent Power. But that assumption is breaking down faster than expected. “No one can talk anymore about whether renewables are economically viable or reliable.”"
20 posts
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Last updated: June 5, 2026