The Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources is responsible for issues of mineral resources on public land, geothermal resources, mining interests and most of the U.S. Geological survey. Republicans on the Subcommittee are committed to the environmentally responsible development of America’s vast energy and mineral resources which will expand our domestic energy supply, create thousands of new high-paying American jobs and generate revenue for federal and state treasuries ($23.4 billion in FY-2008). Republicans support the American Energy Act – an all-of-the-above energy plan that allows for the responsible development of American energy resources including wind, solar, hydro, nuclear power, vast oil shale and shale gas, and the onshore and offshore conventional oil & gas resources.

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• Republicans' All-of-the-Above Energy Plan
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Did You Know?

• Opening up the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for drilling would generate 1.2 million jobs annually across the country, $8 trillion in economic output to the GDP, $2.2 trillion in total tax receipts and $70 billion in additional wages each year.
• U.S. Energy and mineral resources generate the highest revenue values of any uses of America’s public lands from royalties, rents, bonuses, sales and fees.
• In 2008, the average weekly salary in the private sector for a non-supervisory position was $613.05 – but the average oil field worker salary was more than double that, $1,120.06.
• According to the Minerals Information Institute, each American consumed 42,719 pounds of minerals last year.
• Only four percent of America’s federal mineral estate is currently being leased for oil and natural gas production.
• Behind corporate and personal income taxes, revenues generated from oil and gas bonus bids, rents and royalty programs are the largest source of revenue to the U.S. government.