We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.

I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.