“But, that would betray the green agenda and anti-hydrocarbon foundation of Obama and European leaders....so citizens will suffer.”
Britain is sitting on at least 100 years of natural gas reserves right in its backyard.
The country has an insane programme to cut back on carbon emissions by using expensive subsidized alternative energy schemes like solar and wind farms. The scheme is driving up energy costs to levels that the ordinary Brit can no longer afford.
In addition, a goodly number of Britons are so brainwashed by the eco-fascist propaganda machine that they believe that fraking causes earthquakes, polluted water and probably hemorhoids, too.
BTW, the European continent is sitting on 150 years of coal reserves.
Here’s more data from BBC:
I’ll paraphrase since I don’t know if we can post from BBC.
Cuadrilla has discovered an estimated 200 trillion cubic feet of gas in its Bowland Shale play. That brings the total to 400-500 trillion cubic feet, about a 160-year gas reserve.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-22748915
I thought we had an excess of it. Was I wrong?