The American Petroleum Institute broadened its fifth annual State of American Energy report as it included solar, nuclear, hydropower, wind, coal, geothermal, biomass, and energy efficiency as well as oil and gas. The Solar Energy Industries Association, American Wind Energy Association, Biomass Power Association, and other nonoil and gas groups were represented. “We felt that an industry-wide report this year was necessary to underscore the reality that our nation will thrive if we adopt a true all-of-the-above energy strategy,” API Pres. Jack N. Gerard explained. The US is the world’s leading natural gas producer and petroleum refiner, and is expected to become its top crude oil producer “as early as this year, though some project we are already there,” Gerard said at a Jan. 6 luncheon where the 2015 report was released. “America’s emergence as a global energy leader has fundamentally reordered the world’s […]