Understand first that Jeb, like all of the Bushes, are in the pocket of the KSA. They had no interest in anything more than token pursuit of energy self-sufficiency.
The EPA’s reign of economic terror would have rampaged unchecked under a third Bush regime. It never would have happened anyway since his role was to be the Washington Generals to Hillary Clinton.
Jeb took a big money job recently as a lobbyist for a DC based firm. He will need to deliver federal pork in that role. This is what it is all about.