[hinckley buzzard]

Fracking has done great things for Ohio. So has Gov Kasich. Former bad joke Cleveland is on the way--old downtown office buildings are being restored and converted to upscale residential as fast as the developers can raise the money, and they all have waiting lists as soon as they open a rental office. Actual downtown population has grown by thousands in the last few years.

[RayChuang88]

In fact, it's getting to the point that a lot of supposedly abandoned parts of Cleveland may starting filling in with new housing, if not a lot of restored old housing.

Indeed, we'll see even more natural gas being produced because of two factors: natural gas burns far more cleanly than gasoline or diesel fuel (emission controls on natural gas-fired power plants are vastly less expensive to implement) and they can now make gasoline and diesel fuel from natural gas at very competitive prices and in a form that is far less harmful to the environment because there are very little of the impurities from natural gas-derived gasoline and diesel fuel that cause a lot of the pollution problems you get with crude oil-derived motor fuels. Why do you think China signed that US$400 billion, 30-year deal to import natural gas from Russia? That will allow China to phase out most of their highly-polluting coal-fired power plants, which will tremendously help clear up the air in their cities.