By Institute for Energy Research ——Bio and Archives--July 11, 2009
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“While the outdated presidential ban on clean, safe domestic offshore energy production may no longer be intact, more action is needed from Washington before the American people can access the energy offshore that’s rightfully theirs. The president has stated time and again that energy security is a chief concern of his administration. Well, this one-year anniversary of the lifting of the offshore ban should serve as a stark reminder to the American people, and to the president and Congress, that energy security will not – and cannot – be achieved without allowing America to produce its vast amounts of energy resources we have right here at home, especially along our outer continental shelf.”NOTE: Click HERE to view this letter.
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