U.S. Energy Independence

For years I have come across reports on the vast reserves of oil and natural gas available to us, should we decide to get it.  Now comes the United Nations with a report that predicts North America could be an exporter of reasonably cheap energy in the next decade or so.

Energy independence is apparently within our grasp. The problem, for some, is that independence, at least in the foreseeable future, will not come from wind, solar or biomass. Will environmentalists, warming fundamentalists and democrats be successful in their efforts to prevent energy independence? Will they succeed in preventing free markets from determining how our energy needs are met? Our future hangs on the answer to those questions.

U.S. on verge of energy independence without green fuels