These are jobs building more fuel-efficient cars and trucks to make us energy independent.
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My plan has five basic parts: One, get us energy independent -- North America energy independent.
Hydroelectric power accounted for almost 60% of Panama's electricity generation in 2010, according to the US Energy Information System.
An earlier estimate from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) was even larger, at 36 trillion cubic meters.
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Because of this, US energy giant Chevron lost its shale gas exploration permit.
Many have hailed shale gas as the saviour of the US energy market.
Environmental concerns shaped his eventual decision, drawing criticism from those backing the pipeline and calling for greater US energy independence.
Extensive imports of alternative energy from CAFTA partners can help diversify US energy dependency away from Venezuela towards economic partners like Guatemala.
European Union countries accounted for 18 percent of Iranian crude oil sales in that period, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) also said.
And they provide us energy and they provide us innovation, and they start companies like Intel and Google -- and we want to encourage that.
Libyan oil exports to the US were resumed and in 2005, US energy companies invested in the country for the first time in more than two decades.
According to the US Energy Information Administration, the Chinese government has targeted to produce 8% to 12% of total natural gas production from shale gas by 2020.
Police in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have used batons to disperse protesters during a six-hour strike against a gas exploration deal with the US energy giant ConocoPhillips.
In the past 10 years natural gas fired generation has grown 61% while coal fired generation has shrunk by 17%, according to the US Energy Information Agency.
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The US Energy Information Administration reckons that, if China's demand for oil grows by a modest 3.3% a year, the country will be importing nearly 11m barrels per day by 2025.
Many people scoffed when first Citigroup and then the US Energy Information Administration issued reports last year projecting that the US could become completely independent of imports from outside of North America by 2020.
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It sits on the eighth largest crude oil deposits in the world and believe it or not, it even produced more oil than Saudi Arabia back in 2009, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
But if you look at data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) you get a much different picture, one in which Saudi Arabia currently produces about 1.2 million barrels a day more than Russia.
They might also be reading documents from the International Monetary Fund, the US Energy Department, the OECD (the richer country's economic club) or from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), with its Fossil Fuel Price Projections.
Less than two weeks after the summit ended, the official forecast from the US Energy Information Administration was that American emissions of carbon dioxide by the year 2010 would not have fallen - but in fact have risen by 33%.
In the long run, if the projections of the US Energy Information Administration are correct and gas fired generation continues to grow rapidly, then there is little question the market rules need to be modified to assure reliability and spur more pipeline capacity and flexibility.
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The chart on the right takes data from the US Energy Information Agency and plots total US inventories of crude plus all other categories of liquid hydrocarbons, and shows the change between the week ending on the x-axis date, and the inventories for the like week of 2010.
The renewable fuel standard (RFS) mandates that a portion of the fuel supply be composed of an alternative fuel, in this case advanced biofuels (similar to the RFS included in the US Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which gradually phases in biofuels over 15 years).
So what energy sector jobs do for us is provide us with energy!
So is the problem the profit seeking of those who supply us with energy?
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There are technologies that will give us the energy to power the world without wrecking the planet.
Invest in the industry that will lead us to energy independence and help keep our national defenses strong.
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