About OCPA

Oklahoma’s largest single industry is made up of the workers and investors who extract natural resources from underground and turn these into usable forms of energy. These Oklahomans have not only transformed our state, but have changed the world by their combination of hard work, innovation, and tenacity. Many of America’s adversaries are weaker today because the federal government finally set them free to export their products around the world. That policy change offers a reminder: freedom is what allows ordinary people to make our state and nation prosperous and strong.

Oklahoma’s energy entrepreneurs should be free to innovate and to compete in the marketplace. The primary role of government when it comes to business is to secure property rights and enforce contracts. Just like other workers, those in the energy sector should be free from political micromanagement or politicians picking winners and losers. It is wrong when politicians single out a business or an industry either for special favors like subsidies or bureaucratic harassment through regulations or the courts.