Tobin Harshaw, Columnist

This Labor Day Is Suffering From an Energy Crisis

America’s long weekend may be low-energy, but the plug prices are high.

August 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s letters editor.

Plugs are the new pumps. — Plugs are the new pumps.
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