HOUSTON — At the end of a chat about the economy that ranged from gloomy to chipper, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink tugged up his right sleeve to reveal a blue wristband.
“Did you see this?” he asked Daniel Yergin, the moderator of the CERAWeek by S&P Global energy conference.
“Make Energy Great Again,” Yergin read to applause from the room, capping Fink’s appearance last Monday as CERAWeek was getting underway.
Speakers throughout the week referred back to the slogan, a signifier of the rosy mood among many energy executives working under President Donald Trump’s energy abundance agenda. With the White House pushing natural gas exports and rising electricity demand driving up demand for power generation from all sources with no federal pressure to drive down emissions, the energy sector is facing a wide-open future.
