Several decades ago, most pundits saw a world steadily running out of oil.

A decade ago, coal was still king.

Today, the world is saturated with oil as rapidly changing technologies have made it easier to produce "black gold" in areas previously too hard to drill, and America's vast reserves of natural gas have surpassed coal as the nation's primary generator of power.

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