As I flipped through the TV channels during my youth, a catchy tune often beckoned me “to listen to a story ‘bout a man named Jed.” Jed and his fictional Clampett family got rich and moved to Beverly Hills, CA after selling the rights to drill for the Texas tea (crude oil) on their land. Yesterday’s yarns about petroleum parallel today’s narratives about natural gas. Natural gas has created billionaires in the Bayou and natural gas millionaires in Pennsylvania and other states with shale gas deposits.