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Permalink Reply by LP on December 10, 2012 at 16:45

Don't be too sure about that. There are those who are determined to kill natural gas at any cost. This article was published today. And they have charts too.

U.S. Natural Gas Capacity Must Peak Soon To Achieve Sustainable Pat...

By Climate Guest Blogger on Dec 10, 2012 at 4:40 pm

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/10/1296991/how-the-us-can-...

 

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Permalink Reply by Hopeful About Natural Gas on December 10, 2012 at 19:17

Wow. those are some cool looking charts. I don't know how much of the data is accurate as both of these pieces are from advocacy groups (which is fine with me as long as we recognize it)

The truth is usually somewhere in the muddy middle. We have too much natgas to ignore it - and we have too many citizens scared of fracking to ignore them. Meanwhile, renewables are too far expensive. Even if the price of natgas is raised to cover better extraction methods it will still be very cheap compared to alternatives.

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