The United States is at an historic turning point for the country and its energy policies. The political campaigns are over and the real work must now begin.

API has assembled this primer in order to encourage a constructive public policy debate that leads to a new fact-based comprehensive energy policy. Now more than ever – in this time of financial crisis -- our nation needs to move away from the energy politics that have failed so badly over the past decades and get to work putting our nation’s own resources to work for American consumers.

View the full primer to learn more about energy and public policy.

Topics covered in this primer include:

• Future U.S. Energy Demand
• OCS Resources
• Access to Domestic Sources
• Idle Leases
• Taxes Paid by Oil Verses Manufacturing Companies
• What Consumers Are Paying
• Earnings by Industry
• Who Owns the Oil Companies?
• Policy Framework
• Carbon Mitigation
• CO2 Fuel Emissions
• Policy Recommendations