The Emerging Crisis
Oil and Natural Gas Drilling - Positives
- Unconventional gas plays (such as the Barnett Shale) opening up vast new resources
- Strategic natural resource - reduces dependence on overseas hydrocarbons
- Nationwide push for cleaner energy generation using Natural Gas
- Exploration and production industry - provides jobs and tax revenues for the local, state and Federal governments
Natural gas is cleaner, cheaper, abundant, and ours. Burning gas, used primarily to heat homes and make electricity, emits 23 percent less carbon dioxide than burning oil. Gas is the country's second- largest domestic energy resource, after coal. - T. Boone Pickens
