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Natural Gas: Transforming Our Energy Future
February 9, 2010 | Journal of American Enterprise Institute

In an article on the Journal of American Enterprise Institute website, Max Schultz, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute argues that new methods for producing natural gas (horizontal fracking) and new methods to distribute the gas (LNG) are going to transform the use of energy worldwide.


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