For a long time, I have been writing about American natural gas. This fuel is abundant, domestic and inexpensive. It is cleaner than coal or oil based fuels. The USA has enough to meet all of its energy needs for something like a century or more. In short, natural gas is the wave of the future for America. There inevitably will be natural gas cars, natural gas trucks, more natural gas electricity generation and, indeed, natural gas everything else.
The abundance of American natural gas is the direct result of the extraction of gas from shale formations around the country. The biggest of these formations is the Marcellus Shale which lies under Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia together with minor parts of other states. The Marcellus is pushing the economic performance of Pennsylvania in ways that the rest of the country can only hope for. (At the same time, New York which has banned drilling, is in the midst of yet another budget crisis.)
The Washington Times published a lengthy and informative article about the effect of the Marcellus on Western Pennsylvania. You can reach it by clicking on the title to this post. It is well worth reading.
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