Higher Energy Costs Don’t Reduce Dependence

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Higher Energy Costs Don’t Reduce Dependence

By: Audrey Hudson 2/15/2013 06:15 AM

The solution to energy dependence is not using less energy, increasing its price or limiting one’s choices to heat homes or power transportation, says Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Nor will it be achieved through new government regulations, mandates or higher taxes.

“We have found ourselves in a bit of a rut, policy-wise,” Murkowski said. “A choice between sweeping mandates, unprecedented spending, burdensome regulations—or all of those all at once—is not much of a choice at all.”