LNG Exports Are an Economic and National Security Asset. Don’t Limit Them

Nick Loris writes for The National Interest about LNG Exports and their importance to our national security.

If you ask the average person what the biggest technology breakthrough since the turn of the century has been, the smartphone is a safe bet for the most common answer. Recency bias could lead to some artificial intelligence (AI) responses. Unless you’re in the business or completely fixated with Landman, it’s unclear how many folks are saying the Shale Revolution. 

Yet, the development of smart drilling turned America into an energy powerhouse, lowered energy bills for families and businesses, and strengthened America’s geopolitical leverage by becoming the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter. Politics and policy have already gotten in the way of maximizing America’s energy advantage. We shouldn’t let it happen again. 

Read more in the National Interest here.