Issue Position: On Energy

Issue Position

Issue Position: On Energy

Energy costs have risen to become a major part of our monthly budget. In homes across America, energy bills have replaced the luxury of a second family car or modest vacation with the family.

We as a nation should be leading the world in alternative energy solutions - and yet, we pay ransom for our own stagnation at the gasoline pump. We have all the resources necessary right here to become energy independent - yet we choose to live with the economics of foreign supply and institutional guilt of the environmental lobby.

Once again, there is a solution:

-Inspire and support our great industries to meet this challenge, through dedicated legislation and meaningful policy;
-Encourage new and re-engineered alternatives that will provide new, high technology jobs vital to economic recovery;
-Demonstrate global leadership by promoting the production of cleaner, more efficient energy in an environmentally sensitive way;
-Protect our most needy and at-risk populations from price gouging during hard times; and
-Send a message to countries who would monopolize the world's petroleum interests that they will no longer have sway over our foreign policy or economic vitality and independence.

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