The availability of energy in America has allowed citizens to use their security, freedom, and formation to advance the social goods of everyday life. Likewise, the future of the country will depend on the addition of large amounts of cheap energy, directed toward the right ends, to: lower the costs of family and individual life; build critical industries, including manufacturing, mineral processing, defense capabilities, and AI; and create the material prosperity needed to finance critical priorities ranging from servicing the national debt to basic research to social programs to conservation. Each of these ends is foundational to the national common good.

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