Maggie's Farm

Our plentiful energy future is not just a dream. It will be a reality if we can get the Busybody Brigade out of our hair. We have enough "proven reserves" of natural gas and petroleum to make us completely energy independent within a fairly short period of time. The Wall Street Journal had a special section a few months ago on our extensive deposits of shale gas and oil throughout most of the states in our Union. We have several large shale fields in Texas, and there is a huge field which we share with Canada [Marcellus and Bakken, IIRC]. China is already trying to buy into our American deposits. "Proven reserves" by the way, means that the deposits have already be explored and evaluated, so it is just a matter of production now. And the oil and gas industry has been refining and perfecting their recovery techniques before the Liberals even discovered that we had them. Now that they know there is such a thing as fracking [fracturing] they're trying to make it illegal. Hard to do when the technique is simply injecting water into the shale layers to spread them apart enough to release the oil and gas.
This has the Obama Administration's knickers in a twist, because they want to fill our energy needs with expensive energy from the MidEast, [plus algae] so they can get our costs so high that they can then nationalize our oil companies. With nationalized energy needs and Obamacare, they will then own a huge segment of our economy and can boss us around and cosy up to the crazy MidEast countries, and dominate the personal lives of all the US citizens living under their yoke.
Not a pretty picture of our future, is it?

Marianne