happycajun

Natural Gas: Clean Fuel with a Dirty Little Secret

Hey, you have forgotten to factor in all the demand for NG as fertilizer feedstock - anyone who has spent anytime around agriculture knows that planting the same old crops in the same old dirt consumes all the nutrients and won't grow squat. In order to meet all the ethanol targets, a whole bunch fertilizer is needed (aside from the variety being generated in Washington DC in subsidizing this thermodynamically challenged energy policy) and NG is the feedstock for much fertilizer manufacture.