42 U.S.C. § 8201 — Findings and statement of purposes

(a) Findings. Congress found that (1) the United States had gotten through a period of energy shortage and had made real progress improving energy efficiency across the economy; (2) the federal government and other energy users and suppliers must keep taking steps to control how fast demand for energy grows and to use energy more efficiently; (3) continuing this effort would let the United States rely less on the world oil market and be less vulnerable to interruptions in foreign oil supplies, while being better able to meet future energy needs; and (4) every sector of the economy should keep significantly cutting demand for nonrenewable resources like oil and natural gas, by keeping up effective conservation measures for these and other energy sources. (b) Statement of purposes. This chapter's purposes are to regulate interstate commerce, reduce the growth in U.S. energy demand, and conserve nonrenewable energy resources — both those made in the U.S. and those made elsewhere — without holding back beneficial economic growth.