Video: The Petroleum Issue 

America's energy future is one of the top issues on the minds of Florida voters during the upcoming primary as the nation looks for leadership to resolve the deficit crisis and help get our economy back on track.  According to a recent poll of 600 Florida voters, nearly 80% favor more development of U.S. oil and natural gas resources.  Similar numbers believe more development would provide major benefits to the nation, including more U.S. jobs.
 
The U.S. is the world's largest producer of natural gas and the third largest producer of oil.  Increasing our oil and natural gas development, could create over a million new jobs and $127 billion in government revenue in less than ten years. 
 
John Felmy is Chief Economist of API.  His areas of emphasis are the economic, statistical and policy analysis of the Institute.  This includes managing the production of the Institute's weekly and monthly petroleum statistics.  He has thirty years of experience in energy, economic and environmental analysis.  John is a member of several professional associations including the American Economics Association, the National Association for Business Economics and the International Association for Energy Economics. 

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