No matter what the kleptocrats in Washington say to the public, they will keep the machine running so long as it benefits themselves.
For some obscure reason people don’t seem to realize that most countries in the world have immense reserves of shale gas. Including most European countries.
The great advantage of shale gas is not that it will make the US energy self-sufficient, though that is double plus good, but that it will make perhaps most countries in the world energy-independent, greatly reducing the importance, though not perhaps the income, of our enemies with all the non-shale oil.