Every farm sucks as much power as about 800 houses, so a thousand farms taken out of demand is 800, 000 houses, a major benefit, all from domestically produced energy.

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Across the economy, US businesses are also starting to benefit from a flood of cheap, domestically-produced energy.

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The short-term benefits of the discovery were stated (if implicitly) in the piece: a large amount of energy produced domestically at affordable prices.

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