My point was meant to be that the writer is basically calling Trump a liar and then using logic that an EPA job is the same as as a production job that produces energy to heat homes., etc. Faulty logic used to call him a liar. Even if the extreme where you would try to argue they are of similar value, a reasonable person could see the logic rather than to demonize him for
"Rhetoric" rather than "facts". A job that produces energy far outweighs one that does not. The regulator lives off of a percentage of the producer's efforts. Thereby, like a leech, sucking the lifeblood from its host, who eventually turns from healthy to unhealthy as more and more leeches pile on to the feeding trough.