Fracking-Led Energy Boom is Turning U.S. into ‘Saudi America’
From the McClatchy Washington, D.C., Bureau:
“The International Energy Agency predicts the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s top oil producer by the year 2015. America already has become the largest producer of natural gas. …
“Questions remain about how quickly the U.S. fields will decline and whether the boom can last. The production surge is owed in large part to use of a controversial drilling process known as fracking – hydraulic fracturing …”
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