# Why idiotic drill baby drill doesn’t work (Part 2 of 2)
Date: 2026-07-29
Previous Part: https://disrael.github.io/blogs/raw/why-idiotic-drill-baby-drill-doesn-t-work.part1.md

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**Drain the swamp strategy** — Wu sent out nationwide edicts appealing to grassroots scholars to enroll in government services to break the stranglehold that the older-generation noble class had. Trump fired or disabled any part of the government capable of enforcing regulations like those that could apply to big oil.

Put another way drill baby drill isn’t a reform; it’s been the status quo since at least 1859 and as a policy it will just get you more of the same.