pstarr wrote:High fuel costs have already caused us to scale back and the results have not been encouraging. Massive unemployment, debt, decreasing medical coverage, and increased political/military tension have risen with shortages of fuel and rising prices. Maybe we have not scaled back enough. What should we scale back next? Food? Heat? Clothing?mmasters wrote:I don't think we have to worry about it too much in our lifetime, there's a lot we can scale back on and if you include natural gas we have a few decades before things start to get really bad. Our kids will get the bottleneck.
SelfGov wrote:Natural Gas is a good investment
Lore wrote:The world's bottleneck is being able to afford the exploitation of expensive alternatives to the cheap energy they've leaned to expect, no matter what the flavor.
Lore wrote:Nat gas is only cheap now because we're not using enough of it.
Scottie wrote:Lore wrote:Nat gas is only cheap now because we're not using enough of it.
Natural gas consumption in the US for year ending 2011 was higher than at any time prior in the history of the country. We're not using enough of it?
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9140us2a.htm
ColossalContrarian wrote:Does anyone think UPS or FedEx would still be in business if they didn't switch?
Lore wrote:Scottie wrote:Lore wrote:Nat gas is only cheap now because we're not using enough of it.
Natural gas consumption in the US for year ending 2011 was higher than at any time prior in the history of the country. We're not using enough of it?
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9140us2a.htm
Not enough to raise the price above production.
Lore wrote: If and when, which is doubtful, that we try stuffing it into ICE vehicles you can then watch it take a rocket ride up.
Lore wrote:Right now we're still engaged in using it, as we have in the past, for increasing use as electrical generation, replacing coal, and heating in some places.
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