Energizing New Jersey
Wednesday August 10, 2016
The United States is the world's leading producer of oil and natural gas a fact that reflects energy production in so many of the individual states. At the same time, as an energy nation every single state is involved in the broad, economically beneficial energy supply chain. Over the next few weeks we'll take a look at the 50 states of energy, including their energy use profiles and specific energy issues in each state. Today we start with New Jersey.
Click on the thumbnail to bring up a two-page infographic for the Garden State.
New Jersey is a key refining state, home to three major refining facilities that make the state an important fuels distribution center on the East Coast. These refineries have benefited from the U.S. shale energy renaissance, which has provided an abundant supply of domestic crude oil for processing into a number of refined products Americans depend on every day.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, New Jersey uses more natural gas than any other fuel, followed by a number of the fuels produced by state refining facilities: gasoline, jet fuel and distillate fuel oil.
More broadly, America's energy future is staked to the policy path our country chooses. Page 2 of the infographic shows how pro-development policies will yield benefits more energy,...