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Increased American offshore energy development would add billions in federal, state and local tax revenues.

Here’s how the oil and natural gas industry is already contributing to the American economy:  

• Supports more than $1 trillion in annual contributions to the U.S. economy, or 7.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP);
• Invested $1.66 trillion in U.S. capital projects in the last decade;
• Paid $95.6 billion in 2008 income taxes alone;
• Paid more than $178 billion to the  government in rent, royalty and bonus payments from 1982 through 2009;
• Provides the U.S. Treasury, on average, with well over $95 million each day.

Furthermore, it is estimated that increased access to U.S. oil and natural gas resources currently off-limits — much of which lie offshore — could generate an additional $36 billion in government revenue by 2015 and nearly $803 billion by 2030 (Source:  Wood Mackenzie: U.S. Supply Forecast & Potential Jobs & Economic Impacts).

If revenue sharing is permitted in some coastal states, these states could begin accruing benefits soon after a lease sale for the development area is held.  For example, states participating in revenue sharing in the Gulf of Mexico, as authorized by Congress, received more than $27 million in the first three years of the program.  This would be a major benefit during these difficult economic times to fund critical services for the taxpayers of these coastal regions.

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