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Because of vast energy reserves and the advanced technologies and expertise to safely develop them, the United States' energy future looks promising and secure. America continues to lead the world in oil and natural gas production, which is critically important for a future in which both are projected to remain the leading fuels supporting our economy and modern way of living. Energy security, in increasing measure, is in our hands … if.

If we make the right energy policy choices, and if we select leaders who will advance those policies. If we safely harness America's energy wealth, if we foster the private investment and innovation that launched the ongoing energy revolution if we do all these things, there's no reason the United States can't benefit from secure energy far into the future.

In this election year we should identify visionary leaders on energy issues those who see and grasp the historic opportunity provided by surging domestic oil and gas production and also the actions needed to keep that production going. In that sense, energy can be a 2016 vote-decider. API President and CEO Jack Gerard at Politico's Energy and the Election event at the Republican Convention in Cleveland:

Over the past five, six or seven years the United States has really now become the … superpower of energy in the world, bar none. It's really an exceptional opportunity for us, while at the same time our carbon emissions have now been reduced to a 20-year low. … So it's fascinating what's taking place today, driven primarily by free-market conditions, by technologies that have been developed by our industry. … We expect that energy will be an important issue in this election as it has been many times in the past, and … the future of our nation's energy policy will dictate if we're able to maintain that role or that momentum, if you will, as the world's energy superpower.â€

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