We want more: Exploring and developing our domestic and friendly foreign sources is the key priority.

Our country’s economy and national security future hinge upon our ability to maintain and develop afford energy sources.  Without our own reliable and consistent source of energy, we remain reliable on others to power our homes, businesses, farms, and cars.

Our energy resources are vast, yet much remains undeveloped and underutilized due to Washington restrictions and political controls.  Whether it is their continued attacks on coal and all fossil fuels, their prohibitions on drilling offshore or on federal lands, the President’s single-handed decision to stop the importation of Canadian oil through the proposed Keystone pipeline, bureaucrats (particularly at the EPA) and liberal politicians simply oppose energy development and the tens and thousands of jobs that come with it.

Instead, I support an “all-of-the-above” strategy for energy.  This includes exploration and private development of fossil fuels and viable, cost-effective alternative forms of energy such as wind, biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel, and nuclear energy.  Washington should not be restricting the fuel choices of Americans, so I have co-sponsored legislation to end all special interest energy subsidies.