United States Energy Policy

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UNITED STATES ENERGY POLICY
The Energy Policy of the United States of America is a policy determined by federal, state and local governments of the United States. It is one that addresses all the issues of energy production, distribution and consumption such as building codes and gas mileage standards and also includes legislations, treaties, subsidies and incentives to investments and also guidelines to conservation, taxation and other public policy techniques.
The main elements included in the policy include energy independence as pertains to petroleum, natural gas coal and electricity, overall energy consumptions for the above forms of energy while also including biofuels,their available and dependable sources both in and outside the United
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Questions on energy production and consumption have recently acquired urgency with most issues directly pointing towards the nation’s federalism system as underlying friction causing factors continue mounting up on the way the factor of decision making has been divided. On federalism, a number of factors have raised the issues to prominence including energy specific influences involving depletion of low cost oils,energy extraction technology advances and the ever increasing advances on links between climate change and energy consumption and production