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USAEE is a 501(c)(6) corporation and neither takes
any position on any political issue nor endorses any
candidates, parties, or public policy proposals. USAEE
officers, staff, and members may not represent that
any policy position is supported by the USAEE nor claim
to represent the USAEE in advocating any political objective.
However, issues involving energy policy inherently involve
questions of energy economics. Economic analysis of
energy topics provides critical input to energy policy
decisions. USAEE encourages its members to consider
and explore the policy implications of their work as
a means of maximizing the value of their work. USAEE
is therefore pleased to offer its members a neutral
and wholly non-partisan forum in its conferences and
web-sites for its members to analyze such policy implications
and to engage in dialogue about them, including advocacy
by members of certain policies or positions, provided
that such members do so with full respect of USAEE's
need to maintain its own strict political neutrality.
Any policy endorsed or advocated in any USAEE conference,
document, publication, or web-site posting should therefore
be understood to be the position of its individual author
or authors, and not that of the USAEE nor its members
as a group. Authors are requested to include in an speech
or writing advocating a policy position a statement
that it represents the author's own views and not necessarily
those of the USAEE or any other members. Any member
who willfully violates the USAEE's political neutrality
may be censured or removed from membership.
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