Energizing Wisconsin
Reid Porter
Posted July 13, 2015
Our series highlighting the economic and jobs impact of energy in each of the 50 states continues today with Wisconsin. The energy impacts of the states individually combine to form energy’s national economic and jobs picture: 9.8 million jobs supported and $1.2 trillion in value added.
Information covered in this series can be found online here, arranged on an interactive map of the United States. State-specific information will be populated on this map as the series continues.
Click on the thumbnail to bring up a two-page snapshot of energy’s benefits to Wisconsin.
The top-line numbers: 103,300 jobs supported statewide, according to PwC; $7.9 billion added to the state economy; $4.6 contributed to the state’s labor income. All are significant drivers for the state’s economy.
Page 2 of the document highlights that, in Wisconsin, EPA proposed ozone regulations could cost the state’s economy more than $56 billion between 2017 and 2040 and place more than 50,000 jobs at risk, according to a study by NERA Economic Consulting.
Energy is critically important to Wisconsin, serving as a key engine for the state economy – expanding job opportunities and offering the hope of prosperity to individual Wisconsinites and their families.
The future benefits of energy for Wisconsin – and the rest of the country – largely depend on national decisions on the country’s energy path. A new Wood Mackenzie study contrasts the benefits that a set of pro-development policies could have on energy supplies, jobs, the economy and American households with the likely negative effects on energy of regulatory constrained policies. The key comparisons are found on the first page of the linked document.
American families and businesses rely on oil and natural gas every day, and it takes a strong and diverse supply chain to meet America’s needs. E very method of transportation that we use has an important role to play in the safe, reliable and efficient movement of oil and natural gas from the wellhead to consumers. Essential infrastructure improvements in just the oil and natural gas area could, over the next decade, attract as much as $1.15 trillion in new private capital investment, support 1.15 million new jobs, and add $120 billion on average per year to our nation’s GDP.
Energy is essential for all facets of our daily lives, from powering national, state and local economies to powering the family vehicle. Safe, responsible development of domestic oil and natural gas resources is linked to individual prosperity, energy security and basic liberties.
About The Author
Reid Porter is a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute. Before joining API, he worked as Account Supervisor at Edelman. Porter double majored in English Literature and the Spanish language at Middlebury College in Vermont. He enjoys traveling, cheering for the Green Bay Packers, soccer, rereading Hemingway novels and spending time with family.