Veterans meet with Congress on US energy policy and national security

October 3, 2015

Examiner.com

Vets4Energy, a non-partisan nationwide organization of volunteer veterans, met with members of Congress regarding the importance of enacting a comprehensive energy policy that will strengthen our national security.

“We need policies that will ensure that America maintains its position as a global energy leader, and further transition our nation from importing energy from unstable and unfriendly nations,” state Vets4Energy National Liaison Rear Admiral Don Loren, USN (Ret.).

The group of 27 veterans from 25 states, many with recent combat experience in the Middle East, understands first-hand the importance of energy to our national security. Captain James McCormick, USA (Ret.), an Iraq war veteran and recipient of three Purple Hearts as a bronze and a silver star, serves as the Vets4Energy Program Director. He acknowledges that men and women in the military have laid their lives on the line in areas of the world rich with energy reserves for far too long, and that our leaders must ensure that no more lives are lost.

“We have a unique opportunity in America with the right policies to become energy self-sufficient so that people like me and my son are not called to duty partly because of foreign energy, he remarked. McCormick speaks all over the country to veteran and civilian groups about energy and its relationship to national security, and has found supporters of his message at every venue.

Vets4Energy favors an “all-of—the-above approach” to energy generation, including renewable and non-renewable forms. However, the group also recognizes that America – and the world – will depend on oil and natural gas for decades. Fortunately for the United States, recent advances in energy recovery technology have positioned us to become one of the largest energy producing nations in the world...

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