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Here are 11 examples from the article of how the energy boom is creating jobs and spreading prosperity throughout the U.S. economy:

What happened? Free enterprise and capital markets happened. Fracking and innovation allowed new natural gas deposits to be found in our country which brought forth huge reserves of US energy and drove down costs even while usage soared.

While Obama delays the American oil pipeline and drilling for domestic oil the threats from Iran are expected to drive up the price of gasoline and oil. Thank an environmentalist wacko and Obama for $5 gas.

“Last week the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission convened a conference on the wave of Environmental Protection Agency rules that are designed to force dozens of coal-fired power plants to shut down…despite warnings from expert after expert, including some of its own, the FERC Commissioners refuse to do anything about this looming threat to electric reliability.”

The White House and Democrats are clueless about reinvigorating the economy. But they have proven they know how to kill jobs, prosperity and hope. Their energy policies are especially destructive.

The White House and Democrats are clueless about reinvigorating the economy. But they have proven they know how to kill jobs, prosperity and hope. Their energy policies are especially destructive.

America is less competitive in the world, energy prices are skyrocketing, and the economy is suffering. IER Board Member, Steven Hayward, exposes how US energy policies have restricted access to America’s vast energy resources. The United States must open federal lands to exploration and end the regulatory blockade that keeps shale oil and gas out of our reach. To read the North American Energy Inventory that Dr. Hayward’s video is based on, go to: www.energyforamerica.org/inventory. Before his election Obama promised […]

America is less competitive in the world, energy prices are skyrocketing, and the economy is suffering. IER Board Member, Steven Hayward, exposes how US energy policies have restricted access to America’s vast energy resources.

America does not have to act like an energy-poor nation. We import half our oil because of the political decisions we make, not because we lack abundant oil resources.

America faces real monsters: government regulations that stifle energy production, increase energy prices, kill jobs, squeeze family and business incomes, and threaten living standards and productivity.