http://www.freep.com/article/20111225/NEWS07/112250429/Shale-gas-puts-some-energy-independence-within-reach-for-U-SShale gas puts some energy independence within reach for U.S.TOWANDA, Pa. -- Ever since Richard Nixon's 1973 promise to attain energy independence, successive U.S. presidents all have pledged the same goal -- even as foreign supplies composed a larger and larger share of the U.S. energy mix.
Now, almost 40 years later, a measure of independence is within reach. But as this booming town in northeastern Pennsylvania shows, the quest for independence involves both opportunities and trade-offs.
It may surprise many, but in less than a decade, the U.S. could pass its 1970s peak as an oil and natural gas producer. If that happens -- and many analysts think it's possible -- the U.S. would edge past Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's top energy producer it sounds great, but at what cost? fracking fucks up the water and this will eventually make areas unstable..and how is this renewable? isnt that the goal here?
I don't get this need of yours to destroy the earth and rape every last resource there is, while making the area inhabitable.. just exactly where do you think we are going to get fresh water when fracking poisons all the watte around the Marcellus Shale? where do you plan on living after the grounds have been pillaged to the point where everything has been pushed to extinction and it's a barren wasteland ?
funny, you would be Commander Taylor's son Nathan.. only you're not selling the world away for spite and anger.. you're doing it for an ideology..
