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Today’s high prices of energy would be much worse if there were an energy “crisis,” Rep. John Peterson told the National Association of Manufacturers, and knowing that is a good reason for policymakers to take action now to achieve U.S. energy security.

“We need to open up the outer continental shelf [to oil and gas exploration]; we need to do coal to liquids, coal to gas; we need to open up more of Alaska,” the Pennsylvania Republican, who will not seek re-election this year, said in the latest episode of NAM’s “American Business” vodcast. “You know, we need to do a lot of things because the energy crunch — we have these high numbers without a real crisis in the world.”