With a result imminent in the United States, Interfax looks at how issues over oil and gas drilling and renewable energy have featured prominently in the race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Before his campaign for re-election even got underway, oil and gas drilling took centre stage in Obama’s presidency with BP’s Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in June 2010. Here, Obama (third from left) passes a gas rig while taking a ferry in Alabama, where he visited the area affected by the spill.
Drill, baby, drill