39: Energy Development
Promote development of all forms of energy, enable consumer choice to keep energy costs low, and ensure that America remains
competitive in the global marketplace.
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Pulling the Plug on American Energy Independence: The Failure of the Current Administration -- The current Administration
has used taxpayer dollars to pick winners and losers in the energy sector while publicly threatening to bankrupt anyone who
builds a new coal-fired plant and has stopped the Keystone XL Pipeline. The current President has done nothing to disavow
the scare campaign against hydraulic fracturing. Furthermore, he has wasted billions of taxpayers’ dollars by subsidizing
favored companies like Solyndra, which generated bankruptcies rather than kilowatts. Since the current President took office
in 2009, consumers pay approximately twice as much for gas at the pump. Our common theme is to promote development of all
forms of energy, enable consumer choice to keep energy costs low, and ensure that America remains competitive in the global
marketplace. We will respect the States’ proven ability to regulate the use of hydraulic fracturing, continue development
of oil and gas resources in places like the Bakken formation and Marcellus Shale, and review the environmental laws that often
thwart new energy exploration and production. We salute the Republican Members of the House of Representatives for passing
the Domestic Energy and Jobs Act, a vital piece of pro-growth legislation now introduced by Republicans in the Senate.
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