Adam Cappelen
Public Policy Reflection Paper
12-5-03
National Energy Plan
¡§The balance between energy consumption and the environment have always seemed at odds with one another. Is it possible that the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge could be opened to oil exploration without adverse effects to the environment? I believe it can.¡¨
Q.) What type of National Energy Policy do we have here?
A.) Years of misguided federal and state environmental policies have raised the cost of production, failed to improve our nation's aging infrastructure, and dangerously increased America's dependence on unreliable foreign sources. The result: rising consumer utility bills, rapidly increasing gasoline prices, and rolling blackouts and brownouts.
A fundamental imbalance between supply and demand defines our nation¡¦s energy crisis if energy production increases at the same rate as during the last decade our projected energy needs will far outstrip expected levels of......
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