Energy Tomorrow Blog
Growing U.S. Energy Self-Sufficiency
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Mark Green
Posted April 6, 2015
Statistics in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Monthly Energy Review for March show U.S. domestic energy production meeting about 89 percent of the country’s total energy demand. That’s up from 84 percent in 2013 and 2012 and reflects a key result of the domestic energy revolution: growing U.S. self-sufficiency.
EIA data shows U.S. energy production as a percentage of total demand. Total energy production (fossil fuels, nuclear electric power and renewables – again, as a percentage of total U.S. energy demand -- was about 69 percent in 2005, and it grew to about 89 percent last year. The share of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal) accounted for approximately 55 percent in 2005, growing to about 70 percent last year.
Virginia: Yes to Offshore Drilling, More Energy
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Mark Green
Posted October 15, 2013
Virginia is among Mid-Atlantic states under federal consideration for offshore seismic surveying for oil and natural gas. Policymakers should be mindful of a new poll showing that a wide majority of Virginians – 67 percent – favor offshore drilling, as well as increased production of domestic oil and natural gas overall.
VIDEO: ‘What Is To Be Done? Let The Private Sector Do It.’
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Mark Green
Posted January 22, 2013
More video interviews from the recent State of American Energy event in Washington, D.C. In this clip Devon’s Richard Sawaya and Paula Jackson, interim president and CEO of the American Association of Blacks in Energy, talk about energy development under pro-growth policies as a dynamic economic engine
Needed: ‘Political Wisdom’ to Manage America’s Energy Wealth
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Mark Green
Posted January 16, 2013
America’s oil and natural gas industry is bullish on America, having delivered a direct stimulus to the U.S. economy in 2011 worth more than $545 billion in capital spending, wages and dividends, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. That’s $1.5 billion a day in economic lift from developing oil and natural gas. And industry is ready to do more.
Oil and Natural Gas Impact: 9.6 Million Jobs, $1.1 Trillion Added to GDP
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Mark Green
Posted January 16, 2013
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study reveals some important numbers about the U.S. oil and natural gas industry, in terms of employment, labor income and value added in 2011:
- Industry supported 9.6 million jobs.
- More than $580 billion was paid in labor income, and industry’s estimated total addition to U.S. GDP was $1.1 trillion, accounting for 7.3 percent of the national total.
- Industry invested about $292 billion in capital expenditures and paid out $28.7 billion in dividends to the real owners of America’s oil and natural gas companies – including dividends paid to retirement plans.
Put American Energy to Work for Americans
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Mark Green
Posted January 11, 2013
U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue in his annual State of American Business address, rightly identifying American-made energy as a critical to broad economic recovery and to solving the nation’s fiscal problems:
“Today, 23 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed, or have stopped looking for work. A record 47 million people are poor enough to be on food stamps. Median family income has dropped to 1995 levels—so we’re going backward. … From top to bottom we need more success in America. We need to nurture success, empower it, reward it, and celebrate it. … Proceeding swiftly and responsibly to develop more American energy can help us immeasurably with our fiscal problems, but it can also do so much more for our country.”
Lease Auction: There’s More Where That Came From
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Mark Green
Posted December 3, 2012
Energy and Employment Gain
Mark Green
Posted November 29, 2012
MIT: The Facts On Fracking Methane Emissions
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Mark Green
Posted November 28, 2012
Turning Aside the ‘Regulatory Flood’
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Mark Green
Posted November 26, 2012