The Truth about Oil Shale
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline continues to break records, crossing $4.10 over Independence Day weekend. Not only has the pain at the pump squeezed our family budgets and curbed some Fourth of July celebrations across the Commonwealth, it has also forced the Kentucky State Police to reduce patrols and caused our school districts to raise lunch prices and cut bus routes.
The United States possesses abundant domestic energy resources that hold tremendous potential to increase our energy supply, create jobs and possibly generate a third industrial revolution in our nation. Unfortunately, the Democratic Majority in Congress continues to avoid creating a comprehensive energy strategy that will increase our domestic energy supply so that we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil from unstable regions of the world.