Well, it has certainly supplied lower energy costs to US manufacturers (and more marginally, to consumers), displacing coal and making certain energy-intensive industries more internationally competitive. So it seems they are being subsidised by the investors who are losing money on their gas wells? (And of course, by the incalculable environmental damage.)

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

But the stakes are so high, it is still a fight worth fighting.  Even as a rearguard action.  

--Gaianne  

The Fates are kind.