Energy: Abundant, Affordable, Reliable, Resilient

摘要

When it comes to energy and environment, the American people face the same challenge we have always faced: how to balance our need for abundant, affordable, reliable, and resilient flows of energy with our desire to protect the environment, and intelligently husband our natural resources. Striking that balance, however, cannot be done in a situation where our leaders (and would-be leaders) are either ignorant of, or in denial of, the critical role that energy plays in human empowerment, opportunity, productivity, mobility, and competitiveness. We are, in fact, an energy civilization.