Issue Position: Energy and Gas Prices

Issue Position

America's energy security depends on a balanced, comprehensive energy policy. We must increase production of America's vast energy resources, improve conservation, and invest in the energy technologies of the future, like solar power, biofuels, and ultra-efficient vehicles.

Louisiana is the largest crude oil producing state in the United States and ranks second in natural gas production. As a member of the House of Energy and Commerce Committee, Bill is advancing Louisiana's energy agenda, which is critical to growing Louisiana's economy and creating jobs.

On the Energy and Commerce Committee, Bill is working to bring down prices at the pump and promote energy independence thereby improving our national security.

In addition to responsibly utilizing Louisiana's energy resources, he supports lifting the ban on offshore energy production, recovering oil shale in the Western United States, opening part of the Alaskan frontier to energy exploration, and increasing domestic refinery capacity to improve America's long-term energy security. Energy independence is essential to America's long term growth and security.

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