CEA’s recent report on the $40.2 billion in savings Ohio families and businesses have seen as a result of decreases in natural gas prices was discussed by Marcellus Drilling News.
If you add those two numbers together, the amount of money saved on energy (and therefore spent on other things), and the amount of money invested, it totals more than $100 billion of economic impact from shale in Ohio–in ten short years. Put another way, one-tenth of trillion dollars has been spent in Ohio because of shale.
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