Back when I was allowed to converse on clo's Further Freedom From Thought board, the leftist drones over there always scoffed about and denigrated any statements regarding the idea that the U.S. had huge untapped oil & gas reserves that were greater than those of Saudi Arabia. Well, as per usual, the FFFT chumps are proven to be liars, yet again ...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2016/11/17/usgs-largest-oil-deposit-ever-found-us-discovered-texas/94013292/

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence