The US was able to ramp up the shale / fracking oil boom and nearly double production in just seven years. It's a key that can be turned at any time if oil goes above a certain level. Exploration isn't an issue, they know where the oil is, and can tap into it at any time. Take for example the Spraberry/Wolfcamp field in Texas, it's almost entirely untouched, and is one of the world's largest oil fields.
Natural gas has a massive, perpetual domestic demand basis. That isn't going to change unless the price of natural gas goes up three or four fold from here. Coal plants are being shuttered, coal has gone from ~45% to ~30% of US energy production in a decade, while natural gas has become the #1 energy supplier in the US.
The US has essentially infinite natural gas, as far as consumption in the next hundred years is concerned. It's a non-issue in any direction.
Natural gas has a massive, perpetual domestic demand basis. That isn't going to change unless the price of natural gas goes up three or four fold from here. Coal plants are being shuttered, coal has gone from ~45% to ~30% of US energy production in a decade, while natural gas has become the #1 energy supplier in the US.
The US has essentially infinite natural gas, as far as consumption in the next hundred years is concerned. It's a non-issue in any direction.