every day drillers in North Dakota burn off enough gas to heat half a million homes
Oh that will end well. We should definitely let them drill in the arctic.
And note how it's not reducing the cost of gas, it's massively profitable because gas prices are so high. [1]
So all those "drill baby drill" chants, well there you have it. Prices as high as ever and destroy the environment as a bonus.
Let taxpayers pay to clean it up in a decade after they've burnt out the state, simply dissolve the corporation so there is no responsibility, just like the toxic ash piles the coal industry leaves behind.