The Heritage Foundation lists five things that can be done very easily to lower energy prices and as a result help America’s families:
Instead of clamping down on domestic energy supplies, American energy policy should embrace these ideas:
- Expand offshore and onshore oil production into previously restricted areas, including Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where an estimated 10 billion barrels of oil–16 years of current imports from Saudi Arabia–lie beneath a few thousand acres that can be accessed with minimal environmental impact;
- Reduce the regulatory and legal delays that can slow and sometimes stop production;
- Allow further progress on oil shale; and
- Prevent costly new anti-energy regulations from being imposed in the name of addressing global warming.
In his piece, Ben Lieberman also lists the things that are currently being done by Congress and the White House to guarantee that we will all be paying much, much higher energy prices.
Go read them and prepare to get very, very angry.
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