Oil

==Background==
===Alaskan oil could mean hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans.===
Alaskan oil could mean lower oil prices. It could mean more freedom for every working American family. But the Democrats say No. The threat to the environment in Alaska by drilling for oil is non-existent. The threat to Americans by not drilling is huge. Alaskan oil would provide consumers with the equivalent of 20 years of imports from Saudi Arabia.
Drilling in new places in North America only delays the inevitable. Oil, and even gas and coal, are finite resources. Renewable sources such as wind and solar can provide a fraction of our energy needs, even if exploited and capacity increases.
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* Planks from Mark Rauterkus about oil.
===Nuclear power plants can fill the demands to supply our own electricit needs.===
A viable medium-term solution is nuclear. 
Nuclear power plants are being sold and built in China by workers and engineers who live in in our region. Much of these efforts were an outgrowth of the former Westinghouse. 
We must also work to make nuclear energy safer, while exploring alternative fuels.
America can begin to recognize that the future of energy lies in thermonuclear fusion, advanced fission reactors, exoatmospheric solar power, and hydrogen. America and in turn our region can move the R&D efforts of those technologies to the front burner.
===Creating energy for alternative fuel for cars with hydrogen cell technology is more pressing.===
By converting nuclear power to emerging hydrogen cell technology, we can gain a huge amount of energy independence.
==Links==
* Price gouging with oil companies