2012 Democratic Party Platform: on Energy & Oil

Preserve ANWR but explore for oil responsibly elsewhere

We are saving consumers money on their energy bills--both at home and at the pump--but Republican energy policy is full of empty rhetoric and bad ideas that would make their Big Oil donors even richer at the expense of the middle class. Republicans would keep giving billions of taxpayer dollars a year to profitable oil companies and increase costs on consumers. Democrats will fight to cut tax subsidies for Big Oil while promoting job growth in the clean energy sector, so we can cut the deficit and increase jobs and growth in America.