VIDEO: The Formula for Energy Growth

Another video interview from the State of American Energy event earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Here, Chevron’s Dan Fager talks about the pillars of sound, pro-growth energy policy – new access to U.S. oil and natural gas resources, common-sense regulation and tax policies that encourage new energy investment instead of discouraging it:

“What we shouldn’t do is impose punitive tax increases on the industry. If you want to target tax increases that will result in less investment and less jobs, that’s a negative that will result in fewer of those (energy) developments.”

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