The importance of the US Energy Information Administration’s report on World Shale Gas Resources cannot be understated. Paradigm shifting, game changing, even mind-boggling doesn’t do justice to the revelations in this report. As I’ve said a number of times: Shale gas doesn’t change everything, it’s much more important than that. But there’s one little adjective here that succinctly describes world shale gas resources: Vast. Let’s go back to the thesaurus so we can let this soak in; the world’s energy reserves are now officially: vast [adjective]: huge, extensive, expansive, broad, wide, sweeping, boundless, immeasurable, limitless, infinite; enormous, immense, great, massive, colossal, tremendous, mighty, prodigious, gigantic, gargantuan, mammoth, monumental; giant, towering, mountainous, titanic, Brobdingnagian; informal jumbo, mega, monster, whopping, humongous, astronomical, ginormous. More here