Natural Gas May Be Just the Solution for This Economy [View article]
You're absolutely right...send your opinion to your congressmen.
On Jul 20 08:51 AM Michael Fitzsimmons wrote:
> US produced natural gas is abundant, clean, and cheap. It is a testament > to failed US energy policy that a country that has 5% of the world's > population, uses 25% of the world's oil, and is importing 65-70% > of that oil does not switch to natural gas transportation. Natural > gas is the only US produced fuel capable of being scaled up to solve > the economic, environmental, and national security issues the US > faces due to its foreign oil addiction. The American people should > demand prudent energy policy from an American government which seems > more content following wrong-headed pentagon/petroleum strategy of > fighting oil wars to obtain access to oil as the country goes bankrupt > in the meantime. Oil is at the heart of a weakening US. Meanwhile, > we have all the natural gas we need right here. What we need is prudent > and pragmatic energy policy and for folks to stop lumping natural > gas in with oil and coal as a "fossil fuel". Natural gas is much > cleaner and cheaper than either of them when all costs are added > in (environemntal, health, military, subsidies). But, Congres is > bought off by oil and coal lobbies. So, here we sit...addicted to > foreign oil and coal. It is a ridiculous situation to be in entering > the era of peak oil. You'd think $145/barrel oil and $4.50/gallon > gasoline would have taught the American people something. It hasn't. > So, we'll see it again - sooner than most people think. Here is an > energy policy that could save this country: > > thefitzman.blogspot.co...
Natural Gas May Be Just the Solution for This Economy [View article]
On Jul 20 08:51 AM Michael Fitzsimmons wrote:
> US produced natural gas is abundant, clean, and cheap. It is a testament
> to failed US energy policy that a country that has 5% of the world's
> population, uses 25% of the world's oil, and is importing 65-70%
> of that oil does not switch to natural gas transportation. Natural
> gas is the only US produced fuel capable of being scaled up to solve
> the economic, environmental, and national security issues the US
> faces due to its foreign oil addiction. The American people should
> demand prudent energy policy from an American government which seems
> more content following wrong-headed pentagon/petroleum strategy of
> fighting oil wars to obtain access to oil as the country goes bankrupt
> in the meantime. Oil is at the heart of a weakening US. Meanwhile,
> we have all the natural gas we need right here. What we need is prudent
> and pragmatic energy policy and for folks to stop lumping natural
> gas in with oil and coal as a "fossil fuel". Natural gas is much
> cleaner and cheaper than either of them when all costs are added
> in (environemntal, health, military, subsidies). But, Congres is
> bought off by oil and coal lobbies. So, here we sit...addicted to
> foreign oil and coal. It is a ridiculous situation to be in entering
> the era of peak oil. You'd think $145/barrel oil and $4.50/gallon
> gasoline would have taught the American people something. It hasn't.
> So, we'll see it again - sooner than most people think. Here is an
> energy policy that could save this country:
>
> thefitzman.blogspot.co...
6 Natural Investments in Natural Gas [View article]