Global Demand for Energy Could Soon Outpace Supply, Threatening Our Economy and American Jobs
American economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of affordable, abundant, and clean energy supplies. If we continue to restrict domestic production and refuse to build new energy infrastructure, jobs will be shipped overseas and America will be less competitive.
Energy demand in the United States could grow by as much as one-third between now and 2030; it’s growing even faster around the globe.
Environmental issues—including global climate change—must be answered with commonsense solutions that harness technologies, promote economic growth, and achieve environmental benefits.
The U.S. Chamber Supports Policies That Increase Energy Supplies, Improve Energy Efficiency, and Protect the Environment
The U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy believes that America has a historic opportunity to marshal its unrivaled talent, capabilities, and resources to develop energy solutions that will keep our nation secure, our economy growing, and our environment clean.
The Energy Institute is urging the next president and Congress to work together and with states and U.S. businesses to: - Increase and diversify energy supplies from both traditional and renewable sources - Promote energy efficiency across all sectors - Modernize and protect energy infrastructure, including electricity grids and pipelines - Reduce overly burdensome regulations that discourage investment and imperil our competitiveness - Address critical shortages of qualified energy professionals with innovative policies
The Chamber believes that climate change should be addressed as part of an overall energy strategy that balances a number of issues, including sustaining a healthy economy and harnessing: - Efficiency: We must encourage stronger action by energy consumers and producers to use fuel and power more efficiently by improving building designs and appliance standards and by improving our electricity and transportation infrastructure. - Technology: Government and businesses should promote investment in and use of new technologies that expand alternative energy and use traditional sources more cleanly. - Global Action: The United States should exert strong, inclusive global leadership to conclude a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol that emphasizes technology, efficiency, and flexibility and includes ALL greenhouse gas emitters.
Any measure imposing greenhouse gas reductions must be carefully synchronized with the reasonably projected commercial availability of the technologies needed to achieve such reductions. Government should not mandate what technology cannot yet deliver.
The U.S. Chamber Advocates a Sound, Comprehensive Energy Policy
The mission of the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy is to unify policymakers, regulators, business leaders, and the American public behind a commonsense energy strategy that will help keep America safe, strong, prosperous, and clean. Through policy development, education, consensus building, and advocacy, the Institute is building support for meaningful action at the local, state, national, and international levels.
The U.S. Chamber is part of the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth, a broad-based coalition that seeks to build a national consensus for a comprehensive U.S. energy strategy, balancing supply and demand without compromising environmental safeguards.
Chamber Assets Dedicated to Energy
Environment, Technology, and Regulatory Affairs Division
The Environment, Technology, and Regulatory Affairs Division of the U.S. Chamber provides background research in developing Chamber policy in the environment, food and agriculture, technology, legal affairs, natural resources, regulatory affairs, and energy issues arenas.
The Institute for 21st Century Energy, in affiliation with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was created to lead the necessary effort to educate the public on America's energy needs and help create forward-looking policies to increase and diversify the nation's supply of fuel and power from all sources.
Laws and policies that restrict access to America’s abundant energy drive up the price of fuel and electricity. Sign this petition to help lower prices and reduce our dependence on foreign energy.
An Economic Assessment of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Bill
