Full Title: US Election Note: Energy Policy after 2012
Author(s): Josh Freed and Ryan Fitzpatrick
Publisher(s): Chatham House
Publication Date: October 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
The growth in domestic shale oil and gas production seems inevitable. But the broader future of US energy faces much more uncertainty. There are enormous differences in how the two candidates would approach regulation of energy production and generation, climate change and America’s competition in the global clean energy race. Polling shows that these issues will have little impact on the decisions voters make. But they will have enormous implications for the price and source of the energy Americans consume, the success of America’s energy industries and the fate of international efforts to stem climate change.