In the past decade, the United States has suffered a housing implosion, a catastrophic financial crisis and the agonizingly slow growth of a jobless, low-wage recovery.

But not all news has been bad, as the Congressional Budget Office made plain this week with a new report on the fracking revolution. The report should remind members of the new Congress that they should ignore the dishonest environmental radicals and their false propaganda and help make the nation a net petroleum exporter again.