These 2 Charts Show How the U.S. Shale Revolution Has Been a Game Changer

As late as the mid-2000s, prominent experts pontificated that the U.S. would remain a major importer of crude oil and natural gas. Domestic energy demand would continue to grow and U.S. oil and gas production would remain in secular decline, they argued.

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