The Dems may be holding up exploitation of oil shale elsewhere in the U.S., but not in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex where these billboards are common along the interstates–as energy companies seek to extract natural gas to run such as Austin’s electricity-producing turbines. That’s Tommy Lee Jones up there, although it doesn’t look much like him to me.
Mr. B.’s grandma was telling us the other day about how her neighbors are all talking about the money to be made if they allow the shale under their property to be drilled. But, as you might expect, it’s controversial. Some people are telling stories about natural gas pipelines built through yards. Hence the billboard campaign to encourage the sales. All I know for sure is if American resources aren’t exploited, the only choice will be to keep depending on foreign supplies, because the Democrat’s notion of wind and solar replacing oil and gas is a fantasy.
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