United States doesn’t have to get oil elsewhere

According to the U.S. Geologic Survey, we have tens of billions of barrels of American oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean-burning natural gas ready to be tapped. We have hundreds of years of energy from coal and nuclear resources. And, we have a virtually endless supply from renewable resources.

Because our national security is most threatened by our foreign oil dependency, oil and gas development must be our first priority.

New, 21st-century technologies allow us to tap into billions of barrels of American oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by drilling on just 2,000 acres out of the total 19 million acres. It is less than one-tenth the size of the National Audubon Society’s Paul J. Rainey Wildlife Refuge, which has reaped natural gas for more than 50 years.

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