Natural Gas: The ‘Atomic Bomb' Of The Energy Debate

Midwest Energy News:

The growing role of natural gas in the U.S. energy mix continues to confound and divide renewable energy experts and investors. Is America’s abundant supply of shale gas a boon for the renewable industry, or undercutting it?

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Comments

[Linda Bertrand]

04:54 AM on 05/23/2012

I am always reading topics about energy gas like the one by Chris Crosby in http://chriscrosby.net/blog/2012/03/16/americas-gas-pains/ since this is changing our lives obviously, and this is something serious if it will not be solved.
Thanks for the information.

[intolleft]

09:47 AM on 04/20/2012

"With natural gas prices so low, it’s extremely difficult for renewable energy to compete on cost. "

They couldn't compete when natg was high without subsidies.

[realityCheckInTheMail]

12:57 PM on 04/20/2012

Well nat gas at $10mmbtu made wind power pretty competitive. It's problem at those prices was intermittancy, not price. Intermittancy is a big problem, but it's lessened in places that have less NIMBY opposition to high voltage long distance transmission lines (like TX).

Put another way, had gas stayed high and the subsidies disappeared, we'd be seeing a lot more of Boone's wind mills going up in TX.

[intolleft]

09:43 AM on 04/20/2012

Ten years ago the anti prosperity left claimed that more drilling for natg would not help.

[realityCheckInTheMail]

12:05 AM on 04/20/2012

http://1.usa.gov/IKL69X

Frack. Bo. Frack.

Sadly, I think Obama won't get much credit for being a "frack friendly" president, since he's going to be painted with the same brush as the idiotic eco-freaks that want to bankrupt the country.

[old soil guy]

06:11 PM on 04/19/2012

I haven't seen a drop in heating costs with natural gas. The price might be down but doubt the consumer is seeing much of it. Natural gas supply contracts are usually done for fairly long time frames so maybe the reduction will eventually show up in my power bill, but I doubt it. Anyone out there who's seen a big savings?

[Roosevelt Democrat]

09:03 PM on 04/19/2012

We see it in manufacturing. We are non-core and buy directly from the pipeline like the gas companies. Hired back 50 employees last month.

The Public Utilities Commission needs to put pressure on the natural gas companies.

[realityCheckInTheMail]

12:04 AM on 04/20/2012

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53892073-79/gas-natural-questar-customers.html.csp