text: The combination of these vast new discoveries of unconventional 
  natural gas and liquids provides America with a unique future path- 
  way toward greater energy independence, an industrial renaissance, 
  economic rejuvenation and greater national security. I remain fully con- 
  fident that the marketplace understands this and that over time the U.S. 
  will more fully embrace and utilize clean, affordable, abundant American 
  natural gas and increased domestic oil production as the best alterna- 
  tives to burning environmentally challenged coal and expensive and 
  dangerous foreign oil. 
  
  There is now a clear road ahead toward a more sustainable, afford- 
  able, dynamic and independent future if America embraces the remark- 
  able gift of energy abundance that Chesapeake has helped discover in 
  the U.S. You have my commitment, and the commitment of more than 