At the time Michelle said this, fracking was in its infancy. What she was referring to was probably the following measures:
1-Open ANWR for drilling.
2-Authorize drilling and exploration leases on other public lands.
3-Open both coasts to offshore drilling.
4-Defund, or at least defang EPA.
5-Approve Keystone pipeline.
6-Allow infrastructure for exporting LNG to be built.
Of course, all of these have been prohibited by the current adminstration. If the next president can preside over getting these things done, then, along with hydraulic fracturing, we would have cheap energy for years to come.
I’d like to see the ban on directional drilling under the great lakes lifted. Canada does it and there are several gas wells working that were in place before the ban was enacted.
Hydraulic fracturing started in the 1940s. The ‘recent’ change was horizontal steerable drilling. Combined with the hydraulic fracturing made great advances.