Resolution on Developing a Balanced and Cost-Effective National Energy Policy
National Policy Committee on Energy, Natural Resources & Agriculture
Resolution on Developing a Balanced and Cost-Effective National Energy Policy
(Ratified September 2009)
WHEREAS, the national energy policy should promote and provide incentives for the development and optimal use of all energy resources and new facility infrastructure which assures that various domestic energy are continually developed, maintained and stored to prevent supply emergencies; and
WHEREAS, a national energy policy should ensure affordable priced energy and increase energy production of all sources, encourage energy efficiency and investment in advanced technologies; and
WHEREAS, this NFWL Policy Committee submits that short and long-term strategies that provide adequate energy supplies with efficient utilization and optimum cost effectiveness, allowing markets to work, must be developed; and
WHEREAS, a comprehensive strategy is needed to increase U. S. and global energy security, encourage clean development around the world, recycle nuclear fuel using new proliferation-resistant technologies to recover more energy and reduce waste, and improve the environment; and
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) is the federal agency that has primary responsibility for carrying out the directives of the President and the Congress relative to enabling and enhancing the energy security of the nation; and
WHEREAS, the DOE Laboratories, other Federal Laboratories as well as research Universities, are a key national research, development and demonstration resource wherein the federal government has invested significant tax dollars to establish such unique and globally important assets all of which demand continued, or even expanded, use to assure maximum return on tax dollar investment; now
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that NFWL's National Policy Committee on Energy, Natural Resource & Agriculture encourages the Administration and the Congress to develop a balanced portfolio of energy choices, implement and maintain an expansive, cost-effective, environmentally-sensitive national energy policy and commit and sustain the funding necessary to allow continued performance of this and other multi-program energy and national security enhancing work so critical to the long-term well-being of these United States; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that NFWL forward a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, and to the members of the House and Senate Appropriations and Finance Committees.