(By Cassandra Sweet, The Wall Street Journal)
Energy-starved region pays up when harsh winters hit amid lack of pipelines to ferry gas from shale producers.
Natural gas is so abundant and cheap in much of the U.S. that producers want to send it overseas—except in New England, where gas is so hard to get that it is being imported from as far away as Yemen.
The U.S. shale boom that has produced a glut of gas–and helped lower many Americans’ home heating bills–has largely bypassed the energy-starved New England. Few pipelines are available to ferry gas from Pennsylvania and Ohio to…