The Flyover Nation

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This book offers a unique and timely discussion of the myriad of challenging issues facing the country’s troubled Heartland. Since the beginning of westward expansion into the Heartland’s vast regions, natural resource development has long played a meaningful and historic role in shaping many of its communities and geographic regions. Today, thanks to technological advancements over the last several decades, such as horizontal drilling and fracking, domestic oil and gas development offers one of the strongest prospects for the Heartland’s present and future prosperity as well as the nation’s re-emergence as a dominant player in the global energy economy. Because of geographical blessings and the uniqueness of our private ownership of minerals, the U.S. is now the world’s largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, two circumstances that are universally disrupting international geopolitical order. The earth has a finite supply of natural resources and a rapidly growing and over consuming population. As America positions itself for a very uncertain and constantly evolving global marketplace, will the Heartland become America’s “great connector” or “great divide”? 

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“Cowboys, farmers, roughnecks and truck drivers, some of the heroes of the U.S. Heartland, could be displaced by the Forth Industrial Revolution, the Internet of Things. and automation.  How do the challenges of a changing rural America, energy use and commerce intersect?  In this heavily researched book, J.C. Whorton looks at the trends and finds some answers. For these symbols of freedom and opportunity, the fallout could be huge.”

Leslie Haines, Executive editor at large, Oil and Gas Investor, Hart Publications

“It takes deep knowledge, study, and immersion to be able to present truths in an engaging manner akin to the liveliest fiction.  In J.C. Whorton’s The Flyover Nation: Energy’s Role in a Troubled Heartland, the reader discovers that the American Heartland has all this and more—Heartland energy is borderless with global implications.”

Dr. Dorothea H. El Mallakh, Executive Editor, The Journal of Energy and Development and Executive Director, The International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development

National Association of Royalty Owners (NARO) webcast November 2020.

Santa Fe Petroleum Council lecture and book signing October 2020.

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