New Report: How to Create a Half-Million Jobs in the Swing States

With less than two weeks to go until election day, energy production has emerged as a key issue in the presidential campaign for both President Obama and Governor Romney.

The Manhattan Institute just released the latest in its Issues 2012 series of policy briefs, Oil, Gas and Coal Can Prime the Jobs Pump: Which States Will Benefit?Authored by MI senior fellow Mark Mills and MI research associate Yevgeniy Feyman, the report finds that unleashing our hydrocarbon abundance will create a half-million jobs in the swing states.

"…Obama’s energy policy rests on moral superiority. In Wednesday’s debate, Romney should make the case that green energy is neither moral nor superior, but merely condemns America to slower economic growth with only smugness to show for it."

Diana Furchtgott-Roth in today’s Washington Examiner.

Obama’s Energy Budget: Misplaced Subsidies, Overlooked Benefits

“Rather than embrace what’s happening in shale gas and shale oil, the Obama administration continues to vilify the very industry that’s helping spur economic growth. America doesn’t need more slogans about “clean” energy. It needs more cheap, abundant, reliable energy.” - Robert Bryce, senior fellow, Manhattan Institute

(Source: manhattan-institute.org)