Unconventional Fuels, Part I: Shale Gas Potential

Download or read book Unconventional Fuels, Part I: Shale Gas Potential written by Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hearing this morning is on, I believe, an important topic as we look at the full panoply of, as I like to say, energy tools that are in our energy toolbox as we look in the 21st Century to developing a comprehensive energy policy we hope will deal with the challenges that we face in this country-both at home and abroad. This relates to America's efforts to improve the quality of our air from a region-to-region standpoint, to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy, and to deal with the transition of all the various energy options that are out there as we try to build a robust renewable energy portfolio. At the same time, we need to take advantage of those more traditional energy resources, like oil and gas, that have been really the backbone of our economy in the 20th Century-and how we deal with using all of those efforts in a smart, common-sense way that is economically effective as America rebuilds its economy dealing with a needed comprehensive energy package.