It's a shame that the national debate on energy has turned into oil vs. solar and wind. The President's idea of energy policy is to go after oil speculators, as if they really control oil prices. They're no OPEC. Conveniently, it distracts from the failures of so many "green" energy companies, the biggest among them being Solyndra, and in an election year no less.
With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
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Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#22They are drilling in my backyard right now for natural gas.
Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#23Regardless of whether we have a 90 or 100 year supply of natural gas, it's just bloody foolish to waste it as an oil substitute for transportation. It won't solve the ultimate energy problem, it's a 50 year band-aid at best, and "Mr. Hydrogen economy" T. Boone Pickens is involved (so you ought to know something isn't quite right). CNG? You're betting on a loser.
On the flip side, it gives renewable energy 100 more years to finally develop a cost-effective solution.
No, if I've seen anything about civilization it's that a crisis averted is quickly forgotten. We'll have precisely the same 15 years to solve the problem, but we won't have the benefit of fuel for heat.
Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#24AFAIK, by the time we'd be able to convert our whole auto infrastructure to be based around natural gas, we'd only have a couple of decades left before it was just as gone as the oil. I've heard proponents boast that there's enough of the stuff to last us a hundred years at our current consumption — but isn't the whole idea to radically increase our consumption? We easily have room to double or triple it. If this cat…
Other countries might use the fracking process to produce more gas that you can import.
Re: With all this natural gas, who needs oil?
#25Natural gas is great, useful for generating electricity, heating, maybe powering cars, making plastic, etc. So why are we (the US) exporting it? It seems incredibly shortsighted. Once we've exhausted our domestic supply we'll be right back in the same mess we are currently in with oil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_ga...
Why not export it? If I have something to sell, I don't care if the guy who gives me the money lives across the street or across the border. Why would you discriminate one human against the other here?