Talk of American energy independence isn’t new.  Even if we use as a marker President Richard Nixon’s November 1973 “Project Independence” pronouncement, in which he described his plan to wean the US off foreign oil (particularly from Middle Eastern suppliers), it’s safe to say that d

Just when you thought that North American energy independence was a pipe dream, or that oil, money, and power were the natural inheritance of certain foreign oil-rich producers, US shale oil arrived four years ago to transform the global energy picture – and possibly the mathematics o