Ohio, Texas, Louisiana have significant major *accessible* gas deposits under them, according to T. Boone Pickens recently speaking to a congressional comittee. The resource extraction cost is well under present markets. This discovery is realatively new, about 5 years old.

AFAICS, it's a first come, first served situation, as long as the regulators will quit wringing hands and get out of the way.

Natural gas would be a good marriage with wind power, since it would always be there, to buffer the wind turbines, which may have intermittent and variable winds. Naturally, some one needs to build a distribution network, government or private, rights of way need to be facilitated by government.

Wind power will never be used up. So the turbines and their technology/infrastructure (General Electric makes them) are a very appropriate enduring gift to hand to the next generations, in case we aren't "there" ourselves.