Natural gas up 142% Yikes!!!!!

[fett]

It better be a mild winter [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] I used to live in Marin Co in Ca. Remember the Enron induced energy spike a few years ago. I lived in a slab built house with radiant heat run by a natgas boiler. I didn't heat my house 'cause I couldn't afford it. I talked to some neighbors that did and they were paying $300+ a month during winter. And that was in one of the most mild climates in the whole country. Today. How much? This is just awful. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[buzzsaww]

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hey welcome to my world, lol
natural gas in colorado has quadrupled over the past 4 years.

[hippietim]

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I had some Mexican food yesterday - I can help you out if you want.

[horns666]

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oh with Winter right around the corner....

How conveinant..

I'll be spending 500-600 a month now istead of my usual 250-350 a month..nice..

I know the REAL reason why too..but this tread will be yanked faster than you say..WTF...If I told ya.. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

so I'm out! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[YetAnotherOne]

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Everyone remember to thank your local environmental lobbyists and lawyers for the high natural gas prices.

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The Sierra Club and the Nader retinue have successfully pushed moratoriums for most new offshore drilling of the fuel, have fought to keep the most gas-rich federal lands off-limits to exploration, and have used lawsuits to tie up those pieces that are accessible. According to the American Public Gas Association, some 213 trillion cubic feet of natural gas is basically off-limits to production. That's a 10-year supply at current demand.



The enviros are also blocking an even quicker path to lower prices: importing more liquefied natural gas. Currently, less than 1% of gas consumed by the U.S. is LNG, in part because the U.S. has only four port facilities equipped to take it ashore. But many countries are eager to export LNG, and at prices significantly lower than those domestically.



The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has moved quickly to authorize new LNG ports, as the Natural Gas Act of 1978 allows it to do. But greens are trying to block many of the 32 proposed facilities by hyping safety risks, arguing that LNG barges and ports could be blown up by terrorists. No energy source is risk-free, but LNG is no more dangerous than many existing chemical or gas plants. It is carried in ships with double hulls and stored in double-walled, insulated tanks at monitored facilities. LNG isn't explosive in its liquid state, and as a gas it is only flammable in a narrow range of concentrations in the air.



Nonetheless, prodded by these fears and by environmentalists, the California Public Utility Commission has sued over FERC's right to authorize a proposed LNG terminal in the Port of Long Beach. The Sierra Club staged protests last month in New Orleans condemning proposed terminals on the Gulf Coast, and it has also fought LNG facilities in Maine and northern California. The energy bill that recently passed the House addresses some of the legal questions, more clearly spelling out FERC's power to authorize terminals.


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Someone also has to call out environmentalists on their hostility to all fossil fuels, or for that matter all energy production that isn't still a technological fantasy. They once wanted natural gas to replace coal, but now they want wind power to replace natural gas, or at least until the windmills start killing birds and bats and mar the view off Nantucket. And don't even mention nuclear power, which remains taboo though it doesn't emit the CO2 that enviros insist is ruining the planet.



All Americans are paying for this anti-energy nonsense, in higher heating bills and fewer jobs. The U.S. has the means to extract or import fuels in environmentally sound and cost-efficient ways. Someone in public life should start telling Americans who is raising their prices.


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Pretty much the same story with all hydrocarbon fuels.

[Reverend Timmy]

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There are natural gas wells all over my area.Capped,just sitting there.Makes no sense............

[horns666]

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oh...well now..look at all that excuse..that's really impressive..and I didn't even read it!!!

I think my "excuse" is much more accurate , concise and spot on balls..but NOT PC..

you figure it out.. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[YetAnotherOne]

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It's pretty simple Bill: supply and demand. Demand keeps rising while supply is squeezed via litigation against both domestic production and importation. Until more supply is available there is, unfortunately, nowhere for prices to go but up.

[horns666]

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I'll say this..

Human Pollution (parasites) have a HUGE appetite..and the government feeds this "appetite"..

appetites like this leaves HUGE holes..

and we the people...fill those holes ...straight out of our pockets.

THE END

[fett]

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[ QUOTE ]
hey welcome to my world, lol
natural gas in colorado has quadrupled over the past 4 years.

[/ QUOTE ] This is on top of that!!! Snuggle up [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Spaceace]

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I think It is Aliens those bastards are flying their saucers all over the joint and they just wont share........Or I could be drunk

[hammer84]

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People have been screaming about gas prices that last month. So the price falls 25 cents and every one is now happy [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] People I work with started carpooling, taikng the bus and tele commuting. As son as gas dropped below $3 they all went back to normal.

Wait till winter hits and everyone starts filling their propane tanks and burning NG. It will keep climbing till the 'squak' get to high, then they back it off a bit and everyone is again happy.

[fett]

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That ain't going to happen. Buy a big flock of sheep and ram tubes up their bums. They emit so must methane gas that it is a big problem in Austrailia [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]