NYC Residents Benefit Big from Marcellus-generated Electricity
If this doesn't beat all: New York has banned fracking as potentially unsafe to the health and welfare of its citizens--but its citizens, particularly in New York City, are benefiting from fracked shale gas (from Pennsylvania) in a huge way. Electricity prices for the five boroughs of NYC have plummeted because of the abundant, cheap and clean-burning natural gas from PA's Marcellus Shale, used in electric generating plants that serve Gotham. In fact, NYC's electric rates are now at parity or falling below the electric rates in Washington, DC!...
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