5 Unexpected Benefits for America From the Natural Gas Boom By Tyler Crowe November 2, 2013 |Guess what, America? Natural gas is cheap and abundant. The ability to access shale gas through new extraction techniques has opened up reserves we didn't think possible, and proven reserves of gas are 60% higher than what they were a decade ago and growing by the day. This has also led to natural gas prices that have seen historical lows. When adjusted for inflation, today's gas prices are where they were in the 1990s.The most obvious result many of us think about when we...