Energy Freedom
The Fight For Energy Independence
  • Defend the rights of private property owners to explore, drill and extract natural gas and coal deposits.
  • Appoint a DCNR (Department of Conservation and Natural Resources) Secretary who understands the important balance of sensible conservation, private property rights and real job creation.
  • Speed up state agency approval time for permits.
  • Oppose EPA and DCNR mandates that place unreasonable restrictions on oil and gas producers and private property owners.
  • Veto and oppose every effort to impose a natural gas severance tax in the absence of major reductions in business taxes.
  • Veto and oppose any plan to subject the value of unrecovered gas to the property taxes.
  • Fight for the phase out and elimination of Pennsylvania’s anti-job Capital Stock & Franchise Tax and reductions in the State Corporate Net Income Tax.
  • Support expanded exploration and drilling on state lands.
The Sam Rohrer Agenda For Natural Resource Stewardship

Sam Rohrer believes it can happen right here, in the birthplace of American freedom and engine of the Industrial Revolution. Instead of maintaining an unchecked allegiance to OPEC and oil producing governments, Pennsylvania can declare independence!

With the recent discovery of Marcellus Shale, nearly 400 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas, Sam understands the real potential of Pennsylvania becoming a net energy exporter. With a nearly unrivaled supply of domestic energy availability, Marcellus Shale means more leverage and flexibility against overreaching federal policies, and greater wealth and freedom for Pennsylvania’s citizens. Like the trailblazing timber and coal industries of the 20th Century, Marcellus Shale is the first opportunity in decades, to create hundreds of thousands of new, Pennsylvania jobs.

But the promise of Marcellus is already under attack. Even as oil and gas producers chart the course for exploration, politicians in Harrisburg see an unprecedented new source for tax revenue - a bottomless well for new spending. Its potential can only be realized if politics gives way to commonsense leadership.

Join Sam Rohrer in defending the opportunities of this once in a generation opportunity for job creation and energy freedom!