Energy
Hard working Alabama families paid sky rocketing prices at the pump last year. While prices have gone down some, they will never be low enough until we are an energy independent nation.
While stabilizing and lowering the cost of energy is a long term challenge, it is critical in the short term that Congress provides real solutions for encouraging the use of alternative, home-grown fuels like cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel to help reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy for the future.
Congress should pursue every option to help expand our use of domestic sources of energy, including expanded drilling into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and the expansion of nuclear power.
Alabama is poised to be a national leader in the development of alternative energy technology given its wealth of natural resources, prominence of the agriculture and timber industries, and cutting-edge research at our universities like Auburn (www.auburn.edu) and Tuskegee (www.tuskegee.edu).
Soon Congress is expected to consider Cap and Trade legislation that would address climate-change that would limit the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Under this system, plants and other manufacturers that produce carbon dioxide as a byproduct of their operations, including major employers in East Alabama, would be required to buy emissions allowances from the Federal government.
I am strongly concerned by imposing a cap-and-trade system on our economy, prices of all goods and services would increase even higher hurting our competitiveness and unfairly burdening working families.
- Rogers: Cap and Trade Bill Would Hurt East Alabama Families, Businesses (6/26/2009)
- Alabama House Delegation Letter on Energy Legislation (5/19/2009)
- Rogers: Dem Energy Bill "Not Serious" (9/16/2008)
- Rogers Energy Bill Would Lift ANWR Drilling Ban, Fund Alternative Fuels (7/31/2008)
- Rogers: Offshore Drilling Bill Could Help U.S. Energy Independence (12/8/2006)
- Rogers: Oil Companies Should Pay Royalties on Leases (3/3/2006)
- Rogers Urges Energy Department to Release Oil Reserves for Rita (9/23/2005)
- Rogers: China Oil Deal CouldThreaten U.S. Security (7/1/2005)
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