Doug Kanter wrote:

Good, now maybe someone can explain the predicted hike in natural gas
prices.


Market forces. Price here has nothing to do with demand, NG is
priced as a proportion of gas price, based on energy content. NG was
vented for many years at oil wellheads, as uneconomical to pipeline,
until pollution controls demanded that it be not discarded to the
atmosphere. Yes, all that cast off methane over the last 50 years or
so that is the real source of global warming! That dirty little
secret fact forced the oilcos to promote and sell it, with back room
legal protection from government action, 'cause we users demand to
burn it. Ureka! Huge market for free-to-oilco-castoffs. Where is
our class action suit? Webo knows.

They get it for free, needed only package it. They saw no real
useful demand until they made it available. Short sighted?

Who? Not the oil guys, eh?

Electric cars are coming. Electric shingles are coming. Salvation
is at hand. The heathen oil guys are panicking, too stupid to get
ahead of the curve, complacent, besotted in their unmanageable
wealth, as fossillized as their source of wealth.

Terry K