America is in the midst of an energy revolution. For the first time ever, the dream of energy independence finally seems attainable. By 2015, the United States is projected to become the world’s top oil producer, surpassing both Russia and Saudi Arabia, to put the country on track to achieve total energy self-reliance by 2035.
In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama said, “We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years, and my administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy.” More recently, Faith Birol with the International Energy Agency called the drastic increase in US oil and gas production “the biggest change in the energy world since World War II” and noted that it had “implications for the whole world.”
