The Shale Oil Boom: Is America Trading One Crisis for Another?

This story was filed on January 13, 2013

(MintPress) – For nearly 60 years, the United States has had an unnatural addiction to petroleum. A component in nearly every manufactured good or industrial process in America – from energy production to fertilizers, plastics, cosmetics, medicine, industrial lubricants and even food preservatives – the loss of petroleum would assuredly seize the American economic engine […]read more

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