It's time to speak up for safe offshore development

Energy makes just about everything that touches our lives on a daily basis. That includes the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, the shampoo we use, the medication we consume and the carpet we walk on.

This is especially the case with the food we eat, said Cathy Novinger, executive director of the Palmetto Agribusiness Council, in South Carolina. “When you look at the basic components of producing food, they require energy, and quite frankly, a lot of it,” she said. “It has got to be affordable, and it has got to be available.”