Seriously, there have been so many articles I’m afraid I cannot point to one. However, you can Google, energy self-sufficiency USA. To get a real understanding of the situation, you might want to spend some time investigating the oilfield shale oil activity in: the Bakken, of North Dakota; the Eagleford of Texas; the Niobrara of the eastern Rocky Mts; the Marcellus of Pennsylvania. To my personal knowledge, I believe horizontal drilling has begun to give new life to oilfields in Kern County, California. Then there were two recent offshore oil bonanzas in the Gulf by Shell and BP. The two states that appear to be gaining jobs rather than losing them are North Dakota and Texas where drilling is moving at a fast pace. Usings an economic indicator of just how fast things are progressing you can check the daily market price for natural gas. At its current price it is quite cheap, and that alone demonstrates that the United States can be within five years an exporter of liquified natural gas. Generally speaking, most Americans are ignoraant of the situation because the Obama Admininstration is so set against petroleum developments. However, progress is occuring on privately held land and in states the Feds cannot control. Saludos.
Much thanks for your in-depth reply. I’ll follow up on your leads.
We all need to get better educated on this subject. I think that it will be energy production in all of it’s non-green forms that will start our long recovery from the Obama recession and I believe that the politicians are going to need some pushing to help make that happen. They will have to get out of the way - something that does not come naturally to the control freaks who are runnining our country into the ground.