Plan for Energy for Americans
Today’s impossible prices for oil have finally forced America to ask the essential question: “Where’s the Plan?”
We’re in a situation where every business, every homeowner, every retiree, every local and state government, and every U.S. citizen is being forced to live under ‘crisis planning’ – which is a recipe for failure.
On a national level, stumbling from crisis to crisis — from Iraq to Katrina to the current energy crisis - is not a plan to govern.
To become an energy independent nation, the first step we must take is to develop a plan. We must develop this plan together, out in the open – not behind closed doors.
A successful energy plan must include these three elements:
- Drill for new oil in America, with any such oil obtained from within our territorial waters and national lands being sold to American citizens first. The Oil for America Act guarantees we do just that;
- Invest in every form of renewable energy, and provide tax incentives for wind, solar, geo-thermal, biomass, cellulosic and any other form of clean, home-grown energy;
- Prevent any price manipulation, or unfair practices in the world’s oil marketplace.
These three elements are the foundation for an independent energy future for America . Drill for new oil in America, Invest in renewable forms of energy, and Prevent energy price manipulation, everywhere in the world. And let’s make certain the more than 140 billion barrels of oil lying beneath our national boundaries and territorial waters are sold to Americans first.
(Congressman Steve Kagen represents Wisconsin’s 8th District)
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