Economically sensible states including Texas,
Louisiana, and Pennsylvania are developing their enormous, non-traditional, "tight" natural gas reserves. In the process, they are transforming America's energy profile for the next half-century in the face of a federal government indifferent at best to this energy revolution.
Unfortunately, at the federal level, our government more closely resembles New York than Pennsylvania or Texas. Ken Salazar's Department of the Interior, Steven Chu's Department of Energy, and Barack Obama's White House are formulating policies not aimed at extracting every barrel of oil (or equivalent) in our country, but instead policies that seem to cry out, "No Energy Development Wanted!"