House Votes to Open ANWR, Create Jobs and Reduce Dependence on Foreign Oil
The Energy Policy of 2005 (HR6) passed the house today 249 to 183. Included in the bipartisan bill is a provision to open a portion of the Coastal Plain of ANWR to responsible energy development. This is the fifth time in four years that the US House of Representatives has passed comprehensive energy legislation aimed at making the United States more energy self-sufficient.
The bill spends capital at home to produce energy, create jobs, and lessen our dependence on foreign sources of oil. By focusing on domestic production and using American ingenuity to foster responsible oil development as well as alternative energies, the Energy Policy Act creates nearly 1 million jobs. ANWR development alone will create more than 736,000 jobs.