Screw Texas. New York has natural gas!

[aquart]

<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/08/17/2008-08-17_new_york_has_riches_down_under_in_marcel.html>

While searching for something completely different, I found this:

"We kid you not. It turns out the Empire State sits on top of a veritable gold mine of natural gas - enough, by some estimates, to supply the entire country's needs for two years.

It has been locked away for millennia in a geological formation known as the Marcellus shale, which was previously considered impractical for drilling. But advances in technology and sky-high gas prices have changed the economics.

Now, energy companies are fanning across a swath of upstate, from the Catskills to Lake Erie, snapping up drilling rights to millions of acres.

Some predict the sinking of thousands of wells over the next few years."

Protect NYC's watershed. And then go get me my gas!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I figured for sure you were talking about the politicans....