Restraining Gas Exports (and Prices)

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All of this coming from a man who has a vested interest in natural gas exportation when in 2011 the largest money US export was fuel and natural gas and prices in the country were kinda high.

The Woof of AR 12:50PM February 01, 2012

This blog reminds me of a story my mother (God rest her soul) once told me.
I recall her telling me that, in the 60's, mom had notice a local peach orchard here in California that wasn't entirely picked clean after harvest time. She says she got up enough guts to stop and ask the farmer if she could pick some of those peaches to take home for canning.
The farmer, in an angry tone told her, "You go and pick as many peaches as you want! The government told me to leave every seventh row untouched as so to keep the prices of peaches high. The government is paying me for the unpicked peaches!"
So, she and my older brother picked several boxes. I also remember her telling me that those peaches were so big, she had to "quarter" them to fit into a wide mouth Mason jar.
This was in the 60's, folks. Something tells me this was also occurring in the 30's, and even in the 1800's!
....your's and my government is continuing to "stick it" to us citizens!
How do you like them apples???

Harry Reasoner of MA 10:48AM February 01, 2012

Natural Gas and Nuclear Are the Obvious Way For the Future
Wind-turbines and solar panels produce very little net energy when all the energy expended in mining the metals, processing the ore, many levels of transport, tons of concrete for foundations, miles of roads and trenching, cable, transmission towers/lines, transformer stations, hundreds of miles of fencing, heavy equipment and cranes, hundreds of maintenance and employee vehicles.
Of course, most solar panels and turbines are manufactured in China - so you know they're junk. Heck the Chinese won't even use them. They're smart enough to figure out the turbines are absurdly inefficient - but they're happy to supply the totems of Environmentalism for the Western World. They must be laughing while they're counting their yuans.
All that coupled with tens of thousands of acres destroyed, thousands of dead birds, and other animals driven away by the ghastly, futuristic, whirling metal monsters. At night the light pollution of these giant towers drown out the stars and diminish the grandeur of the universe.
The "Green Dream" is, at best, an expensive chimera, at worst, an otherworldly nightmare.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 8:59PM January 31, 2012

The US should benefit more from fuel produced here. Why with rising costs of fuel should we continue selling Oil and Gas. ll the while importing fuel here.

Bruce Thomas of NY 5:39PM January 31, 2012