Energy self-sufficiency has been the holy grail of United States energy policy for decades and, according to experts, the US will soon be a net energy exporter. Indeed, it may have already happened.
The reason for this is that the process popularly known as “fracking” — more properly, hydraulic fracturing — is liberating natural gas and oil in such abundance that the US will soon be a net exporter of natural gas.
Two gas terminals in the southern US state of Lou…
