Posted on 03/13/2011 5:43:56 AM PDT by LikeLight
Imagine a place with more jobs than local people can fill. Imagine a place where small businesses are thriving. Imagine a place investing millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements.
Imagine a place pumping billions of dollars directly to residents. Imagine a place where, since 2007, through the depths of the Great Recession, taxable income is up by over 5 percent and sales tax revenue is up by over 10 percent.
Hard to imagine?
Now imagine a nation with clean abundant energy. A nation where people can efficiently and comfortably run their homes, schools and hospitals for generations to come. A nation where employers can grow jobs in productive enterprises relying on safe and steady energy supplies. A nation where individuals can travel the roads and highways cheaply and independently. A nation where economic prosperity isn't held hostage to the whim of tyrants and dictators in faraway kingdoms. Hard to imagine?
The place is real, and the nation can be real, too.
The place experiencing such astounding economic growth is the region of Pennsylvania sitting astride the vast geologic formation known as the Marcellus Shale. And in those once-depressed counties where clean natural gas trapped in the deep shale rock is now being reached for energy consumers through high-technology horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, residents are enjoying a dramatic rebirth of jobs, business growth, and income.
And, as a result, the Pennsylvania state treasury and the municipal governments in those regions are already receiving significant boosts in tax revenue, sharing in the positive fiscal impact of the expanding private-sector profits, wages, and royalties of taxpaying citizens through the normal workings of existing tax laws.
As the increasing flow of Pennsylvania's clean natural gas energy resources enters regional and national distribution networks, producers and consumers alike will continue to benefit.
For example,
(Excerpt) Read more at cumberlink.com ...
The whole secret to getting out of the mess we’re in is domestic energy independence...and abadoning globalism
Agree wholeheartedly.
Of course the Council On Foreign Relations (Clintons, Rockefellers, Albright, McCain, etc.) do not see it that way. It threatens their position, kind of like public unions.
I mean specifically the Shale Gas revolution. Yes she is spot on on domestic sources. It maybe me that is getting wonky about this niche. Yes all the possibilities a candidate won't do it to get intrapped, but again the likes of Gov Snyder of MI did it via his website as a candidate to tell what he would do in a 70 page paper. Maybe it is time for national candidates to try that.
Palin talks about everytime she comes to PA!
As much as I follow her, I had not heard that specifically.
Do you have a link to a transcript?
Sierra Club propaganda has, unfortunately, worked very well in PA. In WV the Sierra Club are doing their damnedest but a lack of a dominant MSM (read: environmentalist shills) is hurting their anti-Marcellus cause. Of course, WV is already very amenable to energy production via the coal industry and ‘gas fever’ is well ahead of greenie fearmongering in the public opinion stakes.
If I’m not mistaken, there is a refying process which can produce a liquid gas which does not require that it be stored under pressure, voila, how will the greenies stop this if gas is 8-10 a gal.
Tangent to that is the advent of Liquid Gas Direct Injection
2 firms, one AU, one in the Netherlands making the Injector, one in Germany that already is doing the entire conversions to VW autos with Direct Injection. Note the system is still under pressure and requires Gaseous types of tankage.
By going from a liquid to a gas via the injector they do not have to have all the other hardware to do the conversion before the Injector.
They are also taking advantage of the change of state and the cooling will allow greater turbocharging or compression ratios. Smaller engines, more zip, lower emissions with a slight drop in fuel economy when it used to be bigger with gaseous fuels.
In some regards the Eco-Weenies and the EPA have cooked their own goose here. For years they have pushed the big 3 and others to get more efficient, ok they adopted Direct Injection, Now they can supplant the Gasoline One for a Liquid Gas - Direct Injector. Game Changer, and IMHO they ain't going to be able to stop it if this builds up steam.
For those who don’t know, there is a home filling device available to use with a natural gas Honda Civic. Fill up overnight at home and avoid the gas station. Natural gas, a regulated utility, is cheaper than gasoline upon which we are ridiculously dependent, much to the joy of our enemies.
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/extras/green-garage/honda-civic-gx-ngv/
I suspect that once the "highway taxes" are added to the nat. gas, that it probably isn't much cheaper. Still well worth developing the infrastructure, though, as nat. gas looks like the true "fuel of the future".
Hydrogen is actually the fuel of the future. I spoke with a guy at the Washington, DC auto show recently about his company’s fuel cell generator. $8,000 investment to power your home and vehicle on hydrogen. Solar panels providing the energy to create the hydrogen. I don’t know when it will be widespread, but it is the future.
In the Penn. area is a company that has the technology to easily convert coal/shale to any form of hydrocarbon [at less work for use in refineries] on a commercial scale. Either insitu (downhole as for shale or coal gas production) or in LARGE containment vessels (as for coal extracted or surfaced-mined).
Global Resources has gone through all needed engineering trials to have their technology ready to go as soon as illegal Obama-etal is removed from the WH/America.
It has built specific-designed microwave devices per the application which uses less energy to do the work than typically steam or high pressure fracing.
If Cramer is long something...go short.
If it takes solar panels to make the hydrogen, that sure leaves W.Mi out in the cold.
We seem to be rationed to one or two days a week, if we’re lucky.
Well, I agree that it will be the "ultimate" final fuel (unless someone makes a gigantic advance in battery or similar storage tech), but natural gas is the prime candidate for the immediate and middle-term future.
I agree. We should be exploiting that resource now as fast as we can.
I’ve argued for a long time that a “Marshall Plan” for US energy production would go a long way towards restoring both economic well being and increasing our standard of living.
Cheap plentiful energy is the life blood of a modern economy.
We transfer a huge amount of our wealth to foreign powers that use that wealth against us at even greater cost to us.
Until that changes, not much else will.
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