<font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Because of improvements in technology, in particular <font size="4">hydraulic fracturing that gets light oil and gas from shale, the Paris based </font></span></font><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-weight:normal">International Energy Agency</span></font></span><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"> </font>says:<br>
<br>"</span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">B</font>y around 2020, the United States is projected to become the largest</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"> global oil producer overtaking Saudi Arabia <font size="4">[...]</font></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"> The result is a continued fall in US oil </span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">imports, to the extent that North America becomes a net oil exporter around 2030.<font size="4"><font size="4"> [...] The </font></font></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">United States, which currently imports around 20% of its total energy needs, becomes all</span> <span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">but self-sufficient in net terms – a dramatic reversal of the trend seen in most other energy- importing countries."<br>
</span></font><div class="" dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.4933px;font-family:sans-serif"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"></span><br></div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><font size="4">Fo<font size="4">r</font> more see:</font><br>
<br><a href="http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/English.pdf">http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/English.pdf</a><br><br><font size="4"> John K Clark</font><br><br><br><br>
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