Issue Position: Energy

Issue Position

Issue Position: Energy

High energy prices and our reliance upon foreign sources of oil and natural gas are both extremely urgent economic issues and ones that are quickly becoming matters of national security. Leaning heavily on foreign energy sources makes us susceptible to price increases and instability beyond our control. As long as we are unable to meet our own energy needs, we will be unable either to maintain a stable energy supply or to regulate prices.

There are clear steps that we can take to increase our energy independence, but the first step is convincing the Senate that we can no longer afford to stall regarding this issue. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 [H.R. 6] has been offered and passed by the House four times, and four times it has failed to make it past the Senate. This Act emphasizes the steps we need to take to increase energy conservation in the U.S. and creates an improved national energy policy. It allows us to explore previously inaccessible regions in search of domestic sources of energy and to develop existing locations of natural gas and oil production.

Creating a better energy policy will encourage investment in domestic sources like our Permian Basin region, which supplies a large percentage of the 19th District's energy resources.

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