[aposiopetic]

Until recently, it was assumed the days of oil-drilling booms in the middle of North America were over. But controversial practices, like mining the oil sands of Alberta and hydraulic fracturing, are changing that.

< snip >

Other energy companies have other pipelines planned, including TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

No bias on NPR at all...

[phoneman08]

So now we may be so blessed to have “gas as cheap as $3 a gallon”.

Wasn’t but a handful of years ago $3 a gallon gas was 24x7 headline news. We truly are like frogs in a pot.

[BRL]

No bias on NPR at all...

I swear these writers have to occasionally do a symbolic "Heil Hitler". These writers put in words like this to demonstrate their "fairmindedness" (actually loyalty to the cause - just like a Heil Hitler) to their other "fairminded" peers.