{"id":21006,"date":"2014-07-02T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T22:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21006"},"modified":"2014-07-02T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T22:22:44","slug":"an-energy-policy-that-creates-jobs-and-prestige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21006\/an-energy-policy-that-creates-jobs-and-prestige\/","title":{"rendered":"An Energy Policy that Creates Jobs and Prestige"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBy boosting our energy production, the U.S. could restore its diminishing influence in the world without expending blood and treasure \u2013 in fact, we would reap major economic benefits,\u201d writes Rep. Devin Nunes<\/a> (R-CA).<\/p>\n

Nunes is an up-and-coming member of the House Ways and Means Committee and is known for thinking big<\/a> on how to use tax reform as a means to reestablish American leadership in the global economy.<\/p>\n

Rationalizing our energy policy would go a long way too.<\/p>\n

Thanks to improvements in technology large, untapped domestic oil and natural gas reservoirs are now reachable. States like North Dakota, Texas and Oklahoma are moving to capitalize, while huge potential awaits enterprising politicians and businesses in California and Colorado.<\/p>\n

The benefits are many. More energy production means more jobs in extracting, refining and shipping. For example, an entry-level rig worker in North Dakota averages about $66,000 a year<\/a>, while the average oil industry job in the state was $112,462 as of 2012. That also means more jobs for people serving workers flush with disposal income.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a national security angle. With Iraq\u2019s oil fields under siege by Islamic militants, Venezuela constantly swayed by demagogic collectivists and Russia threatening to cut off natural gas shipments, it\u2019s time for the United States to take the steps necessary to ensure greater energy independence.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Nunes wants President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as implement other measures to put the nation in a game-changing position. Of course, that isn\u2019t happening unless Obama adopts Bill Clinton\u2019s triangulation strategy.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n

Still, Nunes makes a compelling case for using national energy policy as a way to improve both our domestic economy and global prestige.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an angle that economically recessed, war-weary Americans might soon embrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBy boosting our energy production, the U.S. could restore its diminishing influence in the world without expending blood and treasure \u2013 in fact, we would reap major economic benefits,\u201d writes Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA). Nunes is an up-and-coming member of the House Ways and Means Committee and is known for thinking big on how to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4545,19,195,274,27,3422,1216,1447,141,105],"class_list":["post-21006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-devin-nunes","tag-economy","tag-energy","tag-iraq","tag-jobs","tag-north-dakota","tag-oil","tag-reform","tag-russia","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21006"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21015,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21006\/revisions\/21015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}