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US Election note: Energy policy after 2012 / Josh Freed and Ryan Fitzpatrick. Chatham House, October 2012, 8 p.http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/Research/Americas/1012usen_energy.pdfSummary points (© Chatham House) :• Thanks to continued partisan gridlock, major congressional action on energy is unlikely after the 2012 elections. However, this could change if there is a deal to address the budget deficit or if one party makes significant gains in seats.• Domestic oil and natural gas production will continue to grow under either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.• A second Obama administration would be likely to seek to accelerate the commercialization and deployment of clean energy through a mix of tax incentives, encouraging private financing, and regulation of conventional and climate pollutants.• A Romney administration would be likely to focus on increasing domestic conventional energy production by reducing environmental regulation, particularly on coal-burning power plants, and opening more public land to oil and natural gas development. Excluding basic research, government incentives for clean energy would be likely to be eliminated.