Issue Position: A Balanced, Comprehensive Energy Plan to Break Our Dependence on Foreign Oil

Issue Position

Our energy crisis has been a major drain on our economy. Last summer, families struggled to fill up their gas tanks, with prices at almost $4 per gallon at the pump. Although gas prices have declined dramatically since them, we still need a comprehensive, long-term Energy Policy that's makes the U.S. "energy-independent" within ten years. We need to ramp up our production and utilization of renewable energy sources, increase conservation including recycling, bring online more, new nuclear power plants, and authorize environmentally-safe drilling for oil and gas in the Alaskan wilderness.

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