![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e3a053f09a2972416ccd0c498fcb5f130b5f5240/0_0_8192_4918/master/8192.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=d0e45f95fc88b506750a3f370058bacc)
The US’s quiet rise to the world’s biggest fossil fuel state
To witness how the United States has become the world’s unchallenged oil and gas behemoth is to contemplate the scene from John Allaire’s home, situated on a small spit of coastal land on the fraying, pancake-flat western flank of Louisiana. Allaire’s …