Vets4Energy to Meet with Senators to Discuss Energy Policies
July 6, 2013
Ozark Area Network (MO)
Paul Connors, a US Air Force veteran, is scheduled to meet with Missouri Senators Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt in Washington, DC on July 9-11 to urge swift action on energy policies that would enhance national security.
Connors is part of a larger group known as Vets4Energy, an organization bound by veterans across the country who come from a range of branches and ranks and have served in every U.S. war and engagement since Vietnam.
"To me, issues like the Keystone pipeline and unrealistic environmental regulations are common sense ways to avoid the energy security problems challenging our country,” Connors said. “Veterans are very well suited for this conversation as we have first-hand knowledge of what is at stake if we become too dependent on foreign oil."
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