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Fracking helped America meet 83 percent of its energy needs in the first eight months this year, on course for the highest annual level since 1991, Energy Department data show. An intelligence advisory panel said last week the nation may achieve energy independence in as little as 10 years.  --  Source: Bloomberg.com via Don. 

Let's see: 83% of our energy needs ... and yet it will take another 10 years to achieve energy independence....what's up with that? I wonder if  you throw in "Canada" as a domestic source, would we be independent more soonly?

Also, this bit of trivia, posted earlier:

Today, according to Whiting Oil executive Blain Hoffmann, North Dakota leads the world in shale oil technology, and according to Kirkland, that technology has put North Dakota on the map.