By Aaron Task “Drill, baby, drill!”
John McCain may have lost the 2008 election, but his campaign mantra came true.
The past decade has been revolutionary for American energy. Thanks to hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest oil producer.
In 2020, the U.S. is expected to be a net exporter of energy for the first time since the early 1950s.
This is an “only in America” kind of story. U.S. companies, using technology developed here, leveraged the free market system to radically change America’s energy profile.
It’s hard to overstate how profound this change is – especially …read more