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Why Is Congress Agnostic About Natural Gas?

Fritz, JC from CA, regards your thinking of how to promote NG,
Did you see Special edition in Wall Street Journal this week, must have been Tuesday, 8 Sept 09,
All promoting Nuclear energy in USA, It was a "small", maybe 5 pages, special edition, covered the whole message of promotion;
concept is perfect for NG, transform article to NG, your agruments for NG are far more compelling than the nuclear arguments,
when I return from traveling, currently in NY, I am going to contact the author of the nuclear article and challenge to write one on NG.
Best to you Fritz, keep up your excellent work and attitude.

Stay Away from U.S. Treasuries - Invest in Energy Stocks

A1234, you are right about the coming collapse of the Obama dollar, with Trillion $$/year borrowing, and FED buying up 30yr treasury's, sure the US dollar is expected to weaken alot in coming years.
Why not cut this extrodinary explosion in gov spending, infact, if the economy seems to be getting on track, why not cancel the "Stimulus", that would cut the deficit a cool Trillion over the next year or so.
Then, with NGV's and a strengthen dollar, at least relative to a collaspe, America's cost of energy will be lower, AND we will be buying our energy from ourselves, paying American salary's instead of OPEC's bank accounts,
And please dont forget where much of the $$ that funds ME terrorist organizations, PS, from American car drivers.
So, lets buy an American fuel, NG.

Stay Away from U.S. Treasuries - Invest in Energy Stocks

Mike F, You are sooo right on the point, as the Obama dollar collapses, oil will skyrocket, and imported oil will crush whats left of the American economy,
If however, we have moved towards NGV's which run on American NG, at least we will be paying ourselves for our transportation fuels.
Mike, I am completing agast at your opposition, clueless, senseless, are as mild as I can get. Having said that, if this is your strongest opposition, then stay at it, you are a hands down winner in this contest.

Four European Oil Company ADRs with Dividends Greater than 5%

when looking high yielding ADR's you must also quote the taxes withheld, even though they can be off-set on your US taxes. Also, how about divident growth, what rate of dividend growth do you expect for these oil co's?
thanks, nice article.

Making Natural Gas Transportation a Reality

ripskii, "advanced fast nuclear reactor", you would appear to have volunteered to provide such an article, you might also consider the American Solutions.com, N Gingrich's site as another forum of knowledgeable contacts.
I agreed completely, our Dept of Energy has really dropped the ball here, when over the past few decades, we could have been performing R&D on advanced nuclear power, we have not.
We will need decades of effort in nuclear and materials, but in the end, we can have effective nuclear power for America and we need it badly.
Looking forward to your article. thanks for posting.

Making Natural Gas Transportation a Reality

Michael F, I have quite enjoyed reading for information your articles over the past months, as well, appreciating your zeal for American prosperity. I concure that the present administration will not support your NGV concept. However, living in CA for over 50 years, I have an alternative.
It is the initiative process in CA. In CA, we are addicted to it as gov at many levels is horribly unresponsive to plane old American people. They are responsive to large blocks of voters and those who will support their campaigns with funds.
So, I say to go after a series of well thought out initiatives, say 5 or 10 and raise the funds to get them on the CA election ballot during the coming decade. If you begin now, you might get an initiative on the 2010 ballot, so you are looking at the decade, 2010 to 2020.
Thats a high bar, but CA leads the country, we used Prop 13 to starve gov for a decade or more, it worked for a while. Still does in some sense.
I know some influental people in politics who might have interest in your proposition, I will send them your article links and see what they say.
Best of all to you. stay with it.

Is There Enough Natural Gas?

Fritz, one last thought, have you contacted the NG pipeline co's, how do they fit into this construction? They might have thoughts about how to get NG around in the USA, and as well how to safely compress it for use in transportation vehicles. thanks again.

Is There Enough Natural Gas?

Mike Fritz, keep up the excellent work, I sense that you need a high power forum, than this investor focuses one.
Your biggest challenges are political, as the investor community will never set a foot into this plan with the current administration, which is soo overly negative on fossil fuels. These fuels are the life blood of America and will stay so for decades, but the overly negative talk, think last week when Al Gore had the Congressional "leadership" on their knees, what investor would risk capital to move to such a brilliant plan, as yours is.
Yes, Fritz, you are constructing a plan for America, which in the right political environment would invigorate the American economy for decades, but sadly sits on the wrong side of the current political fence.
If you want a political supporter, try Newt Gingrich and his American Solutions site for a starter. It is a conservative site so you will be thoroughly challenged. But Newt is very opened minded and a brilliant debator.
Best of luck Fritz, how can we all help?

H.R. 1835: Legislation for Natural Gas Transportation

This is great news Fritz, keep at it.

One question, where is the legislation to increase availability of NG in North America?
Do you think for a moment that the twin sisters from CA will vote for increased NG production in CA?
How much will Henry the socialist Waxman get behind increasing NG production in CA or anywhere in the USA?

Fritz, this is a part of a great story, the remaining part, and a necessity to our success, is increased production in the USA and Canada, the other part is nailing shut the Cap and Trade energy disaster.
Thankfully, with the recent global cooling trends, we may be able to head off the economic disaster called C & T.
Thanks Fritz, my emails to Congressman Campbell were just sent.

Why Is Oil Trading at $53 When Supply and Demand Is So Bearish?

Hey Fritz, what are your ideas about state initiatives?
In CA, we are initiative crazed, current one written by liberal Dems in state legislature with their allie Arney, raises state income tax to over 10%, sales taxes, even new taxes on tickets for the Sunday afternoon ball games, shameful.
But, initiatives only need signitures and then financial backing to be competitive. I think your material for NG fueled transportation systems is the place to start. As well, some form of drilling initiative for NG in CA with rebates to the people of CA, might have a chance. You might start with an initiative like ATT's, only sub state of CA, where you might mandate that 50% of all state vehicles be NG fueled over coming years.
I'm trying to dream about something good, given the essential collapse of our state and fed gov's.
stay with the NG theme, thanks.

Natural Gas: a Supply Shock in the Making

LNG fueled cars, buses and trucks;
-cleaner burning that gasoline or diesel,
-abundant in No. America, NA
-currently low priced in NA

LNG car technology is in place, does not require gov investment or subsidy, compared to Li Ion battery, where plenty can go wrong, investment costs continue, etc.

Seems like a low priced LNG car, burning a low priced fuel is a great thing for the American middle class, which is currently under massive financial distress.

Why cant we get;
a major push for LNG cars for the masses.
Where is Henry Ford when you need him, America needs a low priced car, $12,000, that auto workers can afford when making $20/hour.
Thats a business that puts America on the road to recovery.

How to Create a Balanced Investment in Energy

nice summary of energy investing, certaining energy based securities are lower valued than over the past few years, so I think that we are entering a period where value investors can purchase energy security's for the long term and current income.

Having said that, couple of other points;
1-BP is an UK company, as such, the after UK tax yield is not 8%, dont they give you a 25% hair cut, before paying the dividend?
2-WTI is a rolling forward futures contracts, aren't they current facing "cantango", that is a spot price under the next months? does not this lose money, every month, or at least in more months than ones with gains?

I any case, you are onto a good sector over the coming years, buying many times over the coming few years, buying otherwise solid co's, and buying on the worst news. Thats my plan. Thanks for posting.

Plug-In Natural Gas Hybrid Vehicles: A Game Changer

I see the reply's braking into;
-nearterm and practical, direct use of NG in IC engines, featuring economy, available in nearterm, abundant supply of fuel in our country (USA),
-longterm, more ideal, significant innovation, considerable opportunity for success and for failure, lower air pollution, if we get more NG and nuclear power plants.

To my point of view, in the current economic collapse, we should be putting emphasis on economy, security (using American fuels), and something that has little risk of getting to market quickly.
My money is on NG fueled IC engines, an effective distribution system (eg So Cal Gas?, and others across the country).

Plug-In Natural Gas Hybrid Vehicles: A Game Changer

to isaac the T, I also commented to fitz's post, that NG was a must, consider these aspects;
-how soon can Detroit begin to sell NG powered cars?
-what will a NG powered vehicle cost to buy?
-can we keep NG prices at reasonable levels, if the USA promotes gas exploration and drilling, hence abundance in our own country, and NG fuel purchases will not flow US $ into the Middle East.
Conversly, the hybrid concept has eventual positives, but
-how soon will Detroit begin selling NG/EE hybrids?
-What will they cost?
-What will be the cost of maintainence?
Answers to these 3 would seem to put a cooler note on the hybrid concept, at least for a decade, hence, I wrote for the simple, cheap and abundantly fueled with USA drilled NG powered car, this solution is right in our hands, we should take it.
thanks for your cleaver thoughts.

Time to Fill Up on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

in fact, it is at the rate of 19 lbs of CO2 per gallon of gasoline burned?
a gallon of water weighs 8#'s, i suppose gas has similar density, so one gallon of gas weighs lets say 10 #, and when burned in an internal combustion engine, that produces 19 #'s of CO2???
How could you possibly produce more CO2 by weight, than you consume in gasoline? dont forget, air is mostly N2 and some O2 and very little CO2 is naturally in air.
I question how you get these figure?
thanks for being accurate with your figures.