An industry underpinning millions of jobs and large slice of America’s GDP, the future of oil and energy are pivotal issues on the domestic and international agenda. At the recent gathering of the futures industry in Boca Raton, Florida, former U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler and Mike Sommers, CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, sat down to discuss a wide range of topics related to production, refinement, and consumption, and the sector’s vital impact on the U.S. economy, now and in the future.