Other key elements of the Romney plan include proposals to:
- Conduct a comprehensive survey of the nation’s untapped resources;
- Open up drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific Outer Continental shelves, Alaskan coast and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge;
- Step back from pursuing federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing, a technique used in shale gas production;
- Allow the Renewable Fuels Standard, which includes a mandate for ethanol, to remain intact.
