Energy and Resources
Today’s technology makes it possible to harness America’s natural resources without doing harm to the environment. We must not base America’s energy polices on fifty year old extraction and use technologies.Melissa supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, in the Outer Continental Shelf and the development of the vast oil shale reserves in America’s western states. Other sources of energy include natural gas in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale and the production of nuclear power. The Marcellus Shale is the largest known unconventional natural gas reserve in the world and nuclear power is a low-carbon form of energy production that has been proven to be safe, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly. These policy changes along with the promotion of natural gas as a transportation fuel would go a long way towards lowering energy prices and achieving the goal of energy independence.
Melissa opposes cap-and-trade legislation and raising gas taxes that will make energy more expensive, cost Americans jobs, and make us more dependent on cheaper foreign energy sources.