page_title: Energy policy of the United States
section_title: Sources
hierarchical_section_title: Energy policy of the United States / Sources
caption_attribution_description: Offshore platform located in the Gulf of Mexico, port location Cd. Del Carmen.
context_page_description: The energy policy of the United States is determined by federal, state, and local entities in the United States, which address issues of energy production, distribution, and consumption, such as building codes and gas mileage standards. Energy policy may include legislation, international treaties, subsidies and incentives to investment, guidelines for energy conservation, taxation and other public policy techniques.
  Several mandates have been proposed over the years, such as gasoline will never exceed $1.00/gallon, and the United States will never again import as much oil as it did in 1977, but no comprehensive long-term energy policy has been proposed, although there has been concern over this failure. Three Energy Policy Acts have been passed, in 1992, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009 which include many provisions for conservation, such as the Energy Star program, and energy development, with grants and tax incentives for both renewable energy and non-renewable energy.
context_section_description: About 80% of all types of energy used in the United States is derived from fossil fuels. In 2019, the largest source of the country's energy came from petroleum (36.6%), followed by natural gas (32%), coal (11.4%), renewable sources (11.4%) and nuclear power (8.4%). Amory Lovins says that the sharp and steady cost reductions in solar power has been a "stunning market success". He says that solar, wind and cheap natural gas have significantly reduced the prospects of coal and nuclear power plants around the world. These costs have come down so far for solar photovoltaic electricity that CNBC pointed out that only 79 individuals could fund the U.S. transition to solar. John Rowe, chair of Exelon (the largest nuclear power producer in the US), has said that the nuclear renaissance is dead.
caption: An offshore oil platform
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