Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan Stumps for "All of the Above" Energy Policy

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

August 22, 2012 | 1:13 PM

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Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan speaks at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pa.

Vice Presidential hopeful Paul Ryan seemed to echo an Obama refrain during his stop in the Philadelphia suburb of West Chester on Tuesday. Speaking to several thousand supporters at the American Helicopter Museum in Chester County, Ryan said he’s in favor of an “all of the above” energy strategy.

“We have energy in this country, let’s use the energy in this country,” said Ryan. “All of it, coal, shale, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables, all of the above that creates jobs. That’s one idea that gets people off the unemployment line and in to good paying jobs, like working on the Keystone Pipeline.”

“All of the Above” is the tagline for Obama’s energy policy. Energy, however, was not the main topic of discussion during Ryan’s campaign stops. He focused on jobs, medicare and small business.