I have written a few columns regarding the manifold benefits that tapping our nation's rich, onshore, and clean-burning reserves of shale gas can bring us. Nations such as Iran and Russia will feel the heat as natural gas flows from our own wells and the stranglehold those nations and other adversaries have over the world's natural gas supplies are loosened. Billions sent overseas will end; our balance of payments will improve; our dollar will strengthen; regions where these reservoirs exist will be revitalized; Americans will benefit as energy across the board becomes cheaper. Yet, liberals in Congress and Obama's EPA are undertaking steps to stop this revolution in its steps by conjuring up absurd and overstated concerns regarding the environmental risks of fracking: the technique pioneered and developed in America to liberate this gas from our shale.This Wall Street Journal article touches upon one of the reasons why: the clean energy cronies of the Democratic Party don't...(Read Full Post)