American consumers’ growing energy appetite means greater demands on our nation’s energy infrastructure, including pipelines, railroads, highways, waterways and ports. A robust infrastructure system that is safe, efficient and properly maintained can help lower the costs of supplying oil and gas and its products for consumers, by reducing congestion, maximizing efficiency and preventing accidents.

The country’s energy infrastructure system was originally built to move oil and gas from the coasts, where it was delivered by ship, to the refining centers and populations inland.

Today, the U.S. energy renaissance is driven by the enormous amount of energy resources found in inland formations, including the Eagle Ford and Barnett in Texas, the Woodford in Oklahoma, the Bakken in North Dakota, and Marcellus under the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Maryland and West Virginia. To reach America’s full energy potential, we need to maintain our existing infrastru