{"id":596,"date":"2018-02-22T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euromenaenergy.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2018-02-22T21:10:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:10:59","slug":"u-s-energy-policy-will-drive-jobs-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Energy Policy Will Drive Jobs, Clean Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rather than preaching about clean energy, this administration will\u00a0act\u00a0on it.<\/p>\n

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The President and I agree on a fundamental tenet:\u00a0rather than preaching about clean energy, this administration will\u00a0act\u00a0on it.<\/p>\n

We are confident we can unleash our domestic energy sector, drive economic and job growth, and protect the environment at the same time. We know this not because of theory, but because of cold, hard facts. The data is evident in what I witnessed while serving as the governor of Texas.<\/p>\n

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During my 14 years as governor, Texas grew by 6.8 million people \u2026 more than the population of all but 13 states. We also added 2 million new jobs during that time. In fact, from December 2007 to December 2014, Texas added 1.4 million jobs while the rest of the country\u00a0lost\u00a0400,000.<\/p>\n

Texas leads the United States\u2019 energy revolution, producing more than 3 million barrels of oil and more than 20 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily.<\/p>\n

But Texas is also the country\u2019s largest (and currently No. 6 in the world) producer of wind energy. Texas has two of the largest wind farms in the Western Hemisphere, and during my time as governor we invested $7 billion in transmission facilities to distribute that new, clean energy.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Texas power plants reduced their output of carbon by 17 percent, sulfur dioxide by 56 percent, and nitrous oxide by 66 percent.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot of people, a lot of new jobs and wealth, and a lot of new energy. And we accomplished this at the same time we addressed challenges to our environment.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania is also determining its own future, taking a leadership role in America\u2019s energy revolution. The development of Marcellus and Utica Shale has created thousands of jobs, billions of dollars in new investment, and is having a global impact.<\/p>\n

This happened in Texas and Pennsylvania because of smart strategies and bipartisan leadership. It can happen across America if we roll up our sleeves and focus on American jobs and American families, as the President indicated Thursday.<\/p>\n

Texas and Pennsylvania didn\u2019t become leaders in domestic energy production because they waited for any other state, or any other country, to lead the way.<\/p>\n

The same holds true for the United States of America. This country has been and must continue to be a leader in energy technology, development, and delivery. This leadership will not occur if we disqualify sources of energy as we did through the Paris agreement, but only if we unleash America\u2019s know how and ingenuity to unlock our natural resources.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need to rely on other countries to show us the way to energy jobs or to a cleaner environment.<\/p>\n

Under the President\u2019s leadership, the United States will serve as an example to the rest of the world on how to achieve economic, energy, and environmental goals simultaneously.<\/p>\n

And in the process, he will allow us to determine our own future, and that future will indeed be brighter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As United States Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry leads an agency tasked with maintaining a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent and reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation, overseeing the United States\u2019 energy supply, carrying out the environmental clean-up from the Cold War nuclear mission, and the 17 National Laboratories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RICK PERRY Rather than preaching about clean energy, this administration will\u00a0act\u00a0on it. The President and I agree on a fundamental tenet:\u00a0rather than preaching about clean energy, this administration will\u00a0act\u00a0on it. We are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}