The Flyover Nation: Energy's Role in a 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. 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"?