A Push to Wrest More Oil From Land, but Most New Wells Are for Natural Gas
John McCain and friends are banking this issue to save them, but there is so much they don’t know (or more likely chose not to mention).
This is another. Most of the drilling is for gas, not petroleum.
A Push to Wrest More Oil From Land, but Most New Wells Are for Natural Gas. By Felicity Barranger. New York Times.
Regarding domestic discoveries of oil, those who think new petroleum discoveries in the U.S. will bring down the price of gasoline, they should read this article five times and post it on their wall.

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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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The drilling frenzy has arrived — again — in Pennsylvania, where state forest lands are among the new targets — for natural gas.
With the increased supply of nat. gas shouldnt the price go down instead of up as they predict for this winter?